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Friday, 01 June 2007
Girls' Division: 87% of Entries Graded A or B and 97.4% of
Entries Graded A, B or C
Bolton School Girls' Division has recorded its best ever A Level
results. In a year which saw a 100 percent pass rate, 87 percent of
all entries were graded A or B and a staggering 97.4 percent were
graded A, B or C: there were no E grades. Thirty four girls out of
104 got 3, 4 or 5 A grades and 61.3 percent of entries were graded
as As.
There were many notable personal achievements, none more so than
Sapphira Kaushal. Sapphira celebrated achieving 4 A grades in
Biology, Chemistry, Physics and English Literature despite only
entering the UK from India in January 2006 when she joined the
Lower Sixth. She quickly caught up and took her AS levels in June
with her peers. Her 4 As will allow her to study Medicine after a
gap year.
Both the students and staff are very happy in what is a record
breaking year. One girl, Lynne Sellers achieved 5 A grades and I
was delighted that the entire team of Head Girls - Jenny Davies,
Rose Robson, Natalie Caldwell and Natalie Rout - all got A
grades.
Mrs Gill Richards, Headmistress
Boys' Division: 100% Pass Rate
It has also been another record year for A Level results in the
Boys' Division. For the first time, every candidate passed in every
subject, to give a 100 percent pass rate at an average of 4.1
passes per candidate.
Over half of passes (56 per cent) were at grade A and 93 percent
were at grade C or better. No less than 43 candidates achieved 3
grade As or better. In 8 subjects, every pass was at A or B.
Two students achieved 5 grade As. Amarnath Marthi, who also
gained a Gold CREST award for his research into decay of white
blood cells in synovial fluid, will go to St John's College,
Cambridge to study medicine. Suneet Patel, a volunteer worker at
the Lads' and Girls' Club, will go on to study medicinal chemistry
at Manchester University.
Two other students achieved marks which placed them in the top 5
in the country: Ben Vickers in Electronics and Zainul Patel in
Product Design.
The results came as a pleasant surprise and it is nice to
achieve another record. The students and staff have clearly worked
very hard over the year to improve on their AS scores. The A2
results are well above expectation, so there should be a lot of
smiling faces today.
Mr Mervyn Brooker, Headmaster
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