Exam Results

Many of our pupils start taking their GCSE examinations in Year 9 and some as early as Year 8. Where exams are taken early these are carefully considered for each individual child with subjects selected based on where we know the pupils can succeed.

This has many benefits: developing confidence and exam technique early, avoiding the cram of taking all the exams in Year 11 and enabling students to gain far more examination successes. It's not uncommon for even our less academic pupils to gain 9 or 10 GCSEs by the time they leave in Year 11. 

Take a look at our results below. We believe for a mixed ability school, these results are stunning and show that our approach of looking for the best way to educate the individual child reaps success.

GCSE Results

  • Magdalen Court School can offer ANY combination of subjects.
  • The results below reflect the choice of that year’s intake of pupils. 
  • We usually take a few GCSE's early to lessen the burden of work in Year 11.

 

Every child is different, but a fairly typical example would be:


National Curriculum Year

GCSE Exams taken

Number of GCSE's

Yr 8
  • Entry Level Maths
  

Yr 9
  • Expressive Arts
  • Statistics
  • Photography / Fine art / Graphics (completed in Yr 9 or Yr 10)
  • Single award Science

4

Yr 10
  • Double Award Science / Single Sciences completed in Yr 11
  • Health & Social Care / Computing
  • Maths (pupils who need support sit Foundation in Yr 10 &/or Higher in Yr 11)
  • Occasionally we have exceptional bright pupils start A-levels

3

Yr 11
  • English Language
  • English Literature
  • Geography / History
  • Spanish
  • Some pupils will start their A-levels &/or Cambridge Nationals

4

 

Exam Success 2017

GCSE Success 2016

  

These are the percentages of 9-4 (A* to C) gained in each subject

 

2012

2013

2014

2015

2016

2017

2018

5 or more GCSE’s

          

61

75

Maths

85

86

89

100

75

58

60

English Language

92

95

100

86

88

56

80

English Literature

100

92

100

83

63

67

100

Science

94

100

-

100

100

83

-

Additional Science

92

100

-

75

100

33

-

Biology

100

100

50

50

100

83

60

Chemistry

100

100

100

50

100

100

75

Physics

100

100

-

50

100

100

75

History

75

67

75

50

80

50

100

Statistics

100

83

-

86

100

100

100

Spanish

-

-

100

100

100

60

100

Health & Social Care

-

100

100

100

100

38

100

Expressive Arts

-

-

100

100

100

-

-

 

League Tables

It is important to note that league tables only measure the results in Years 10-11 and so do not wholly reflect the success of our students as those who took exams at a younger age are not included in the survey.

In addition to this, if a pupil gains a 'B' at GCSE in Year 9 but moves out of the area we lose his result. Also, more commonly, if we take in someone who has been struggling and who repeats Year 10 or Year 11 or takes a restricted number of GCSE's then our league table percentages appear to suffer significantly. As most parents don't move their children to us in Year 10 or 11 if they are achieving well in their current school this is a considerable factor.

DFE League Tables