a level results in newspapers

just wondering are a level and as results published by some newspapers ive heard a few people say so if yes then which papers, when and can you view them online?

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Data

Original post by passionfruitx

just wondering are a level and as results published by some newspapers ive heard a few people say so if yes then which papers, when and can you view them online?

The broadsheets normally publish league tables of schools, ranking them by the % of A*-B they achieve, or the mean UCAS points per student, but they don't publish individual students' results. These league tables come out on the Friday after the results (as they rely on schools submitting their statistics on the Thursday).

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Ripper-Roo

yh some people are featured in local/national newspapers if they get "excellent" results.

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Original post by Ripper-Roo

yh some people are featured in local/national newspapers if they get "excellent" results.

That's because their school told the papers about them - the newspapers get all their information from the schools.

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Ripper-Roo

Original post by Data

That's because their school told the papers about them - the newspapers get all their information from the schools.

it's on the morning of results day so the schools knew the results a day even two days before students do.

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Data

Original post by Ripper-Roo

it's on the morning of results day so the schools knew the results a day even two days before students do.

The school gets the results on the Wednesday and no one is meant to see them except the head/deputy and exams officer until they can be generally released at 6am on the Thursday. Schools are asked to submit their results to newspapers by early afternoon on the Thursday (including any newsworthy items - triplets getting straight A*s, blind candidates getting A grades in Art etc) This info is used for the league tables that appear until the Friday, but you're right that a few stories do always appear in the papers on the Thursday - I assume it's schools that break the rules.