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Bluecoat Aspley Academy is a Church of England secondary school and sixth form located in the Aspley area of Nottingham, England, dating back to 1706. [1] In 2007, the school had 1550 students aged six to eighteen, including 250 Sixth form students. [2]
The Sixth Form returns excellent exam results; in excess of 98% of students enter higher education at 18, and the school regularly appears in the Sunday Times Good Schools Guide. In 2008 the school had 4 students going onto courses of study at Oxbridge , the highest number for a state school in Bexley.
Most exam boards offer a range of qualifications, though not all boards offer every qualification in every subject. Schools and colleges have a completely free choice between the boards, depending on the qualification offered. Most schools use a mixture of boards for their GCSE qualifications, with a similar mixture existing at A Level.
Examination entrance is restricted by a minimal number of formal school going years and laboratory field work. The majority of candidates enter the exams via their respective schools, while candidates who have finished school education can also apply as a private candidate. The O/L examination is regarded as the qualification examination for ...
There were no GCSE examinations taken in the academic year 2016–2017. There were falling grades as part of a national trend in 2013 but since then grades at GCSE have recovered. [9] Beginning in the academic year 2017–2018, 155 new students are admitted each year (as opposed to the former 124), with the introduction of a 5th House, Elm.
OCR delivers GCSE and A-Level examinations in the United Kingdom whereas for other countries Cambridge Assessment operates the examination board Cambridge Assessment International Education. [4] An important distinction between the two is that OCR qualifications must comply with UK government regulations set by Ofqual while Cambridge ...
AQA Education, [1] trading as AQA (formerly the Assessment and Qualifications Alliance), is an awarding body in England, Wales and Northern Ireland.It compiles specifications and holds examinations in various subjects at GCSE, AS and A Level and offers vocational qualifications.
The extent of the switching away from the terminal exam only GCSE to the IGCSEs in public and private schools was revealed in answers to a parliamentary question posed by Labour MP Lucy Powell in November 2018. The option to choose to do so is no longer open to state schools since the introduction of the new GCSEs graded 1–9. [60] [61]