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Northern Ireland Provisional GCE Results 2012. Record numbers of Northern Ireland students achieving A level grades Thursday 16 August 2012. Introduction and welcome. This morning’s briefing panel: Martin Quinn, Director of Corporate Services Anne Marie Duffy, Director of Qualifications
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Northern Ireland Provisional GCE Results 2012 Record numbers of Northern Ireland students achieving A level grades Thursday 16 August 2012
Introduction and welcome This morning’s briefing panel: Martin Quinn, Director of Corporate Services Anne Marie Duffy, Director of Qualifications Michael Crossan, Examinations Operations Business Manager
Context • Briefing on behalf of Joint Council for Qualifications (JCQ). • Provisional NI GCE results from all 5 JCQ awarding organisations: • AQA • CCEA • Edexcel • OCR • WJEC
Headlines • Record number of NI Students achieving A Level Grades • NI GCE performance in line with expectations • Growing popularity of STEM subjects
Format of Briefing • GCE A Level Provisional Results 2012 • Performance • Entries • Gender Comparisons • Subject Specific information • AS Results • Applied Results • Questions and answers
Gender Comparisons (2011 figures in brackets) • 7.1% of the grades achieved by Males are A* compared to 8.1% of the grades achieved by Females. • Females continue to out-perform Males consistently at all grades.
NI AS Levels 2011 - 2012 • There has been an increase of 1820 entries at AS • Performance at A has changed by 2.1%
NI Applied GCE A level Applied Single Award Applied Double Award
2012 Northern Ireland GCE Provisional Results Summary • Record number of NI Students achieving A Level Grades • NI GCE performance in line with expectations • Growing popularity of STEM subjects