Results Day: creative communicators

This year, a number of students combined creative and communicative flair.

Lulu Jones, for example, got A*s in both Photography and Communication & Culture (one of her A2 Photography pieces is shown above; more are on her Flickr photostream), as well as a B in English. She'll be heading to Liverpool in the Autumn to study Communication, Media & Popular Music – a niche course with only around 15 places, unique to Liverpool.

Since she has ambitions to work in broadcasting or music journalism, it sounds like the perfect course.

Meanwhile, Jodie Lewin combined A*s in Communication & Culture and Geography with an A in Art, and is off to read Sociology at the University of Bristol. Sasha Uss gained A grades in Art and History and an A* in Sociology, and has won a place on the highly competitive Art Foundation course at Oxford Brookes University.

Finally, Rory Matthews (whose A level photography work we've featured previously) achieved A*s in Photography and Computing and a B in History. He'll be studying the renowned Photography degree course at Falmouth. It's very rare for Falmouth to accept students without a foundation certificate, so the fact that Rory received an unconditional offer to join after his A levels is testament to the quality of his work.

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Results Day: Economists excel

The results achieved by this year's Economics students were truly outstanding: over half were awarded an A*. Bearing in mind the fact that the national average (across all subjects) is only 8% A*, this is a phenomenal achievement.

Many of these students are going on to study Economics or Economics-related courses at university: 10 of them have met their offers to study at either LSE or UCL – two of the UK's top universities for the subject area.


We caught up with one of these London-bound students, Kira Tritenko (photo above). Alongside her A* in Economics, she gained A* in Maths, A in Politics and B in Spanish, comfortably beating her AAA offer.

'I'm very glad about my results,' she said. 'I worked really hard to get them.' Next year, Kira will study Economics at LSE – which she's looking forward to immensely – but she'll miss her teachers at d'Overbroeck's.

'Economics at d'Overbroeck's is the best. The way the teachers explain things is absolutely amazing. The teachers go way beyond the syllabus, which really helps you enjoy the subject and do well.'

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Results Day: a passport to volcanology

Steph Buller (above) gained an A* in Geography, a B in Business Studies and a C in Classics, easily meeting her offer from Coventry University to study the intriguingly-entitled Natural Hazards course.

Natural Hazards involves the study of earthquakes, volcanoes and the like – and will include a fieldwork trip to Iceland to investigate the island's (by now notorious) volcanic activity.

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A level results: 27% A* grades

Once again, our Upper Sixth students have achieved an excellent set of A level results, with over a quarter of entries achieving the top grade of A*.

An impressive tally of 13 students gained three or more A*s – including two (Rachuta Ardkhean and George Liu) with no fewer than five A*s.

Meanwhile, a third of all students gained straight A/A* grades: a remarkable achievement.

There are plenty more highlights, and we'll be bringing you just a few of the results day stories over the course of the day. Meanwhile, here is our full results breakdown.

% passes A*-B: 81%
% passes A*/A: 59%
% passes A*: 27%
Average UCAS points per entry: 111.7