I was predicted ABB and rejected from all my choices last year for dentistry because of it. I actually got A*A*A... something is very wrong with our predictions system and i've been on the crappy end of it, most of the time they're glorified guesses designed to tick a box in an application rather than be a true reflection of what the applicant in question is truely capable of.
Bring on the new system if you ask me.
I hope for your every success . What happened to you last year is out of order.
I was predicted ABB and rejected from all my choices last year for dentistry because of it. I actually got A*A*A... something is very wrong with our predictions system and i've been on the crappy end of it, most of the time they're glorified guesses designed to tick a box in an application rather than be a true reflection of what the applicant in question is truely capable of.
I was predicted ABB and rejected from all my choices last year for dentistry because of it. I actually got A*A*A... something is very wrong with our predictions system and i've been on the crappy end of it, most of the time they're glorified guesses designed to tick a box in an application rather than be a true reflection of what the applicant in question is truely capable of.
Bring on the new system if you ask me.
I will give you rep tomorrow. It shows that you can still achieve the highest grades possible despite lower predictions. You proved your teachers wrong! Well done.
Is there any national table where you can find some stats like this?
On TSR if you look at the various uni applicants stalking pages, it seems like a significant percent get a couple of A*s or more (or at least predicted)
so is there any way of finding out what the national average is?
I can't remember where i read this, i think some paper published it, but in the old a levels, 30,000 people roughly used to get AAA or better. With the implementation of the A*, roughtly 3000 people get A*A*A* or better.
I can't remember where i read this, i think some paper published it, but in the old a levels, 30,000 people roughly used to get AAA or better. With the implementation of the A*, roughtly 3000 people get A*A*A* or better.
ahh thats more like it so thats about 4 or 5 in every thousandish
I can't remember where i read this, i think some paper published it, but in the old a levels, 30,000 people roughly used to get AAA or better. With the implementation of the A*, roughtly 3000 people get A*A*A* or better.
I cannot see any figures for this but I would suggest 3000 is on the light side. The reason is that 3120 got an A* in further maths. Virtually all of these will be sitting on A*A* from maths and further maths and most will be doing at least two other A levels. 12.8% of A level candidates score AAA or better.
Yes I am using probability to answer the question. Problem?
Because there are released public figures regarding this, then we can only speculate.
It's not like rolling a dice 3 times though, IRL people who get 1 A* are more likely to be in A* territory for their other subjects than candidates who got an E.
If we are generous and say 2000 get A*A*A*+, theres 650,000 applying to uni each year,
2000/650000 = 0.003 = 3 in every thousand
sounds about right
About 3000 people get an A* in further maths A level. These students almost certainly get A*s in maths, and of these I'd say 1/2 would get A*s in Physics/ Chemistry/Biology too if taken. So at the the very least there are 1500 further mathematicians with 3a*. I'd say 5000 is a more reasonable estimate overall.
Also roughly half the students at Oxbridge get 3 A*s or better every year, so that's more like 6000/2=3000. I'd think you'd probably get another 2000 in total at other British universities with 3a*s at lse, ucl, imperial, warwick, Bristol, and durham combined. So 5000/650000 = 0.769%
Can't find the actual answer to OP's question but...
The percentage of A-level students who achieved 3 or more A* or A grades was almost three times higher in independent schools compared to maintained schools (32.7 per cent compared to 11.0 per cent). The percentage achieving 3 or more A* or A grades in all FE colleges was 8.5 per cent, with a marked difference between sixth form colleges (10.2 per cent) and other FE colleges (4.9 per cent).