GCSE results are out and the grades reflect the outstanding effort pupils have put in to achieve this remarkable results. Although grades A* to C have risen to 69%, up from 68.8% in 2014, however, students attaining A* in their GCSEs is down by 0.1%.
An analysis based on official Department for Education figures suggest that leading state schools are now performing better in A-levels, compared to private schools. The analysis results showed that England's top 500 state schools were beating the best 500 private schools.
Tauheedul Islam Girls' High School, an Islamic comprehensive school in Blackburn, acquired outstanding results. 15% received A* and 45% were A* or A grade. There were two students who obtained 14 A* grades, while one received 11 A*s and three A grades. 89% achieved five or more GCSEs at A* to C grade.
The principal of the school, Hamid Patel said, “Everyone associated with the school and the trust is delighted with the achievements of our GCSE students- their results are outstanding. It's a testament to the hard work of teachers, parents and of course the students themselves, who have been working tirelessly to achieve such brilliant results.”
On the other hand, The Haberdashers' Aske's Boys' School, a private school based in Hertfordshire celebrated an incredible GCSE results, with 70% of all grades being an A*, and 99.3% being A*- B; a total of 92 boys acquired 10 A*/A grades.
The school's Headmaster, Peter Hamilton, proudly beams, “The boys have relished in every challenge that the School can offer them, both academic and extra-curricular. They should be rightly proud of their achievements this year and I look forward to welcoming every one of them back in September.”
Two such students who celebrated 10 A*s each are twins, Vishal and Vignesh Sriram, who attend the Private King Edward's School, Birmingham. The competitive brothers said that their “sibling rivalry” made them succeed.
Vignesh aspires to be an engineer, while Vishal wants to be a doctor. Vignesh said that they did not revise together as they “would have ended up playing games” instead.
While there seems to be a national decline in students opting for modern languages as a GCSE subject, The Haberdashers' Aske's Boys' School have had a number of students who successfully passed their GCSE in a modern language.
This year, there has been a remarkable rise in the number of students who have chosen ethnic minority languages than modern languages. These ethnic minority languages include, Urdu, Mandarin, Polish and Arabic. The overall number of students who sat exams for these languages were 33,043, a rise of 1,178 from last summer.
It is said that teachers and parents are encouraging pupils to take up one of these languages as a GCSE subject. Professor Alan Smithers, of the University of Buckingham said, “These exams are designed for those whom it is a second language, so those for whom it is their mother tongue are at a considerable advantage.”
While most 15-16 year olds are celebrating their GCSE success, an outstanding 10-year-old boy, who recently joined Mensa is also celebrating his remarkable grade.
Bhunit Santhiramoulesan, from Hertfordshire, obtained an A* in his maths GCSE. He said, “I'm good at maths and there wasn't much to do at my stage so I thought if I take a GCSE now it will give me a better chance in life.”
Malala Yousafzai's proud father tweets her GCSE results
Many students in Britain are celebrating their GCSE success. This also includes the Nobel Peace Prize Laureate, Malala Yousafzai (18).
Her father, Ziauddin Yousafzai was so proud of his daughter that he couldn't help but share her results via Twitter.
Maths GCSE: A*
Maths IGCSE: A*
Biology: A*
Chemistry: A*
Physics: A*
Religious Studies: A*
History: A
Geography A
English Language: A
English Literature: A
