All of La Mare De Carteret High students gain a qualification
DOZENS of excited students went back to La Mare De Carteret High to collect the dreaded brown envelopes containing their GCSE results, and most of them were pleased with what they found.
‘I needed to get a 7 in maths and I got it,’ said Holly King, who had sat a total of nine exams.
She is probably going to seek a job in accountancy. ‘Now I’m going on to sixth form to do business, maths and economics.’
National schools have reported that the GCSEs this year were harder than in the past. ‘They were definitely more difficult than the mocks,’ said Holly.
Cory Carre said that as well as perhaps being tougher, the added pressure of the final exams’ importance probably added to them feeling difficult. ‘I did about the same as I did in my mocks,’ he said. But he did better than expected in maths: ‘I got an 8’.
He passed the exams he needed and is heading to the RAF at the end of next month where he is to train as a regimental gunner.
‘I did really well,’ said Rosie Linane, who passed all 10 exams she sat and is now off to the Sixth Form Centre to study music, history and environmental science.
Her goal is to do music at university. ‘I’m taking part in ECSOC [Elizabeth College Summer Orchestral Course],’ she said, adding that she plays the viola and saxophone.
La Mare de Carteret head teacher Vicky Godley said that all of its students had gained a qualification this year.
She agreed that the GCSEs had become tougher in recent years, with many subjects returning to a linear structure, where there are exams at the end, rather than a large proportion of the result being made up from course work.
A total of 39.5% of pupils achieved five GCSEs at 9 to 4, the equivalent of A* to C, including English and maths.
This compares to 58% in 2018.
