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gg234
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Confused with GCSE ranking tables

Post by gg234 »

I am really confused with the following two GCSE results table

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/0 ... e-results/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; (This one only included grammar schools)

http://www.londonpreprep.com/2018/08/gcse-results-2018/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; (This one includes private and grammar schools)

Rankings for grammar schools are so much variation between them.
scary mum
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Re: Confused with GCSE ranking tables

Post by scary mum »

Different grammar schools have different intakes. Some are very selective, others take 30% of the local children. It is bound to have an effect on results. Children who have shown themselves to be good at passing exams at 11 continue to be good at passing exams at 16 (& probably would be wherever they went to school).
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RobertBucks
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Re: Confused with GCSE ranking tables

Post by RobertBucks »

In Wycombe some of the secondary moderns did much better on progress 8 than RGS and JHGS..
Hornsey
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Re: Confused with GCSE ranking tables

Post by Hornsey »

RGS students took IGCSE English last summer. IGCSE is not counted in the league table so is missing from the calculation. They got very good GCSE results in the summer.
Anecdote
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Re: Confused with GCSE ranking tables

Post by Anecdote »

Really great to see many schools of different types doing so well in terms of the Progress 8 measure. Waddesdon, Cressex, Amersham, Holmer Green, St Michael's. Makes great reading.
Justinterested
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Re: Confused with GCSE ranking tables

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This forum has been very quiet without words from Guest 55 , Another Dad and also Amber !
This is a topic they would normally contribute to ??.
mad?
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Re: Confused with GCSE ranking tables

Post by mad? »

Anecdote wrote:Really great to see many schools of different types doing so well in terms of the Progress 8 measure. Waddesdon, Cressex, Amersham, Holmer Green, St Michael's. Makes great reading.
Yes it is, DC doing well and achieving their potential no matter what school they went to has to be the best outcome from all of this
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Eccentric
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Re: Confused with GCSE ranking tables

Post by Eccentric »

Justinterested wrote:This forum has been very quiet without words from Guest 55 , Another Dad and also Amber !
This is a topic they would normally contribute to ??.
Where are they? It is quiet without them.
BucksBornNBred
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Re: Confused with GCSE ranking tables

Post by BucksBornNBred »

Justinterested wrote:This forum has been very quiet without words from Guest 55 , Another Dad and also Amber !
This is a topic they would normally contribute to ??.
+1
BucksBornNBred
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Re: Confused with GCSE ranking tables

Post by BucksBornNBred »

Eccentric wrote:
Justinterested wrote:This forum has been very quiet without words from Guest 55 , Another Dad and also Amber !
This is a topic they would normally contribute to ??.
Where are they? It is quiet without them.
There seem to be a few regulars missing this year... I noticed JaneEyre isn't around either. Were there any UFO sitings at the back end of last year?
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