Faculties within the UAE have achieved report GCSE outcomes, with many pupils scoring straight nines.
Within the UK, general outcomes are anticipated to be decrease than they had been previously two years, when grades had been utterly based mostly on instructor assessments, however above the typical outcomes from 2019.
This 12 months was the primary time since 2019 that pupils sat GCSE exams, due to the disruption attributable to the Covid-19 pandemic.
UAE faculties reported increased averages than in previous years with some faculties saying pupils had carried out higher than ever.
Pupils at British College Al Khubairat in Abu Dhabi celebrated their greatest examination outcomes but. Of 127 pupils and 1,225 entries, 27 per cent acquired a grade 9 in contrast with 26 per cent in 2021, and 46 per cent had been graded 9-8 in contrast with 43 per cent final 12 months.
The college reported a 100 per cent cross fee and stated 62 per cent of grades had been between 9-7 equal to A* or A.
Headmaster Mark Leppard stated: “I’m virtually misplaced for phrases with pleasure for our 12 months 11 cohort, that they’ve surpassed the outcomes of earlier years.
“These grades present a steady enchancment, not solely over the Instructor Assessed Grades of the final two years, but in addition over our pre-Covid cohorts.”
At Brighton School Dubai pupils collectively achieved 26 per cent grade 9 and 50 per cent of grades had been 9 to eight (A*).
Brighton School Al Ain pupils continued to carry out at a excessive stage throughout all examinations this 12 months.
The college pupils celebrated glorious GCSE outcomes, with a fair increased share of grade 9s being awarded to pupils in contrast with the final time GCSE examinations had been taken in-person, in 2019.
On the Al Ain campus, virtually 60 per cent of entries had been awarded 7-9. Of those, 63 per cent had been from sciences and 77 per cent from humanities.
A complete of three,120 Gems pupils from 22 faculties within the UAE and Qatar sat almost 22,700 GCSEs and 42 per cent of pupils achieved grades between 7 and 9, or A and A*.
Jumeirah School Dubai had 55 pupils obtain grades between 8 (A*) and 9 and 73 per cent of all grades had been at between 7 and 9, with 89 per cent of pupils receiving no less than one grade of 8 or 9.
“Our pupils are surpassing the UK nationwide common and each single certainly one of them, no matter their grades, needs to be happy with their achievements,” stated Dino Varkey, group chief government officer of Gems Schooling.
The GCSE grading system in England moved from letters to numbers in 2018.
At Dubai British College Emirates Hills, 73 pupils sat GCSE exams and 40 per cent achieved a grade of A* this 12 months, in contrast with 38 per cent final 12 months.
Additionally, 64 per cent secured an A or A* in contrast with 58 per cent final 12 months.
The college recorded a 97 per cent cross fee.
“Immediately is a type of particular milestones the place they’re justly rewarded for his or her extraordinary efforts and might take pleasure in what they’ve achieved,” stated principal Sarah Reynolds.
“With 64 per cent of grades awarded at 9 to 7 or equal and a few pupils reaching grade 9 throughout their curriculum, these outcomes are distinctive.”
David Potts, head of secondary on the faculty, stated the outcomes this 12 months had been an extra enchancment on 2019 and “even on final 12 months when grades had been internally decided because of the pandemic”.
“Our pupils have demonstrated distinctive perseverance to take care of sturdy progress all through these previous two troublesome years they usually now have GCSE outcomes which is able to propel them in direction of extraordinary educational {and professional} futures filled with alternative and risk,” he stated.
Final 12 months, the variety of GCSE pupils awarded prime grades rose to a excessive after exams had been cancelled for a second 12 months in a row and pupils had been handed teacher-assessed outcomes.
Exams had been marked extra leniently this 12 months and pupils wanted fewer marks to attain a grade, whereas a pupil near the grade boundary was more likely to be marked as much as the upper one.
“The final three years have been extraordinarily difficult for all of us however particularly for our pupils, who’ve been working in direction of public examinations,” stated Matthew Burfield, vice chairman of schooling at Gems Schooling.
“We’re all conscious of the scenario confronted by college students in 2020 and 2021 who had been awarded grades based mostly on instructor and centre-assessed grades.
“In 2022, we realised that college students had been going again into the examination halls and this could be a frightening thought for all of them.
“Our IGCSE/GCSE outcomes, which have simply been revealed, present that every one the laborious work and willpower was worthwhile.
“To emerge from the scenario we confronted ― adjusting to distant studying, Covid restrictions, and the overwhelming influence that the pandemic had on households and employees ― with such an incredible set of outcomes, is basically particular.”
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Up to date: August 25, 2022, 9:08 AM