Pass rate of 99.3% in first post-Covid A-levels
GUERNSEY’S first A-level cohort to take exams since the pandemic have achieved a 99.3% pass rate.
The year group suffered severe disruption with lockdowns during their studies. The last two year groups have had teacher-assessed grades, leading to 99.8% and 100% pass rates in 2020 and 2021.
The total number of A* to E grades and IB equivalents fell slightly this year, but were comparable with 2019, when the pass rate was 99.4%.
This year 31.8% of entries received an A or A* grade. In England the A-level A*-E pass rate for 2022 is 98.4%, while the proportion of A* and As is 35.9%.
Education, Sport & Culture president Andrea Dudley-Owen congratulated the post-16 students on their hard work.
‘They have faced the typical challenges all students face, on top of the disruption caused by the pandemic, and in the face of that they have shown tenacity and overcome those challenges,’ she said.
The exams will lead to great change for pupils, with some going off-island for university.
After receiving an A* in art, and an A in maths and physics, Elizabeth College student Timothy Neal, 18, was looking forward to continuing with his passion for painting.
For the next year he will be completing a foundation course in art in Middlesbrough. He said he was particularly excited to experience somewhere new after living in the island since the age of four.
His final art piece was completed using oil paints.
‘I made a large portrait of my dad – an oil painting,’ he said.
For his final week in Guernsey, he will be working on his entry for the Sovereign Art Competition.
‘I promised my teacher I would do it and it will be a final farewell to Guernsey.’
Blanchelande saw its first cohort of A-level results in a decade,
after reintroducing its sixth form in 2020.
Among the students was Jude Klement, who will be studying Scottish history and English literature at Glasgow University after getting straight As in English, geography and history.
‘I really didn’t know what to expect at all,’ he said. ‘I was very unsure of all my exams so I’m feeling pretty good.’
His proud father, Brett Klement, said he ‘could not give more accolades to the school and the staff who’ve done so much to make this happen’.
This year’s Sixth Form Centre cohort of 170 A-level students achieved 497 subject passes.
That included 27.4% of A-level grades at A*/A.
Grammar School and Sixth Form Centre principal Kieran James said: ‘We always knew 2022 would be a transition year between the 2021 results, when assessments were undertaken by schools, and 2019, the last year exams took place. This means that overall grades nationally will be about halfway between the two.
‘We’re thrilled that for our students, the proportion of A*/A grades is even higher than in 2019. This is testament to their hard work during the significant disruption caused by the pandemic.’
