Subjects including Chemistry, Geology, English Literature, History and Psychology were among the 39 disciplines across the College’s campuses in Truro and Penzance in which students achieved a 100% pass rate.
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Lucy Poole has achieved her aim of going to Plymouth University to study primary teaching, specialising in PE after earning two A* grades, in English Literature and Advanced Psychology.
She said: “I have done much better than I expected”.
He said: “I was really surprised to find out that I got an A* in computing but, because that is what I want to go into, that was the best result to find”.
Rosie achieved four A* grades and one A in her A-Levels and is now setting her sights on studying biomedical engineering at Imperial College London.
According to the A-level results, b oys continue to out-perform girls – with 8.5% of male entries getting A*, compared with 7.7% for female – although this was down from 8.7% and 7.8% respectively, and meant the gap between the two sexes was cut to 0.8 percentage points from 0.9. “I am delighted that record numbers of young people in Cornwall are choosing A levels here and that the college has been able to support their ambitions and aspirations”.
There were also excellent results from students at Appleby, Kirkby Stephen and Penrith Queen Elizabeth grammar schools.
In addition there were 12,000 calls taken at Ucas – as well as tens of thousands more to individual universities – plus 1.2 million log-ins to the Ucas tracking site where students check to see if their place has been confirmed.
The admissions service Ucas said a record number of nearly 424,000 A-level students were placed in United Kingdom higher education – up 3% on last year – despite fears tuition of fees of £9,000 a year will rise.
Student Finlay Stafford, aged 18, of King Ecgbert, is off to study maths at Cambridge in September after achieving three A* grades and two As in maths, further maths, music, physics and chemistry respectively.
A remarkable 99% of A-Level students passed their exams.
“They are a reflection of the hard work and dedication of the students and staff”.
“I gave up one of my passions – football – to concentrate on my studies and thankfully it’s paid off”.
“I knew I had been accepted on the university course before I came to collect the results but it was still nice to see the results”.
Although we are celebrating A levels today, the same benefits inform the college’s vocational offer too and produce the same high levels of achievement.
“After the agonisingly long wait, I am so relieved to finally have those three letters I need and be done with A-Levels”, said the 18-year-old Dubai British School pupil. Students and teachers have already been warned that when introduced next year, the new grade 9 at GCSE will be harder to achieve than the current A* in a bid to differentiate between the brightest candidates.
“I’m feeling happy”, she said.
“I really enjoyed some the trips we went on”.
“We are extremely proud and pleased for all of them”. Girls collected a total of 218 A* and A grades between them, sitting a total of 349 A Levels.
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“We’ve got a results day party tonight and I’m looking forward to celebrating”.
