Thursday, August 14, 2008

A Level Results August 2008

The headline news is that candidate numbers for 'Media/Film/TV Studies' (shouldn't we be agitating to get rid of this grab-all category?) are up again, but that the rate of increase is falling.

Results were announced across the UK for:

45,766 AS students in 'Media, Film and TV Studies'
32,749 A2 students in 'Media, Film and TV Studies'

5,616 AS/A2 Comms students
1,577 Applied Media AS/A2 students

Total candidate numbers for AS and A2 in Media, Film and Comms Studies: 85,708.

That's roughly 4% of all A Level entries, possibly a slight fall as a % this year, even though Media AS entries increased by 3% and A Level by 2.7%.

'A' Grades for Media fell as a %, even though they rose in many other subjects (and the rise of 'A' Grades to 25% of all awards has been the major angle of news stories so far). Are the exam boards reacting to the pressure from those who claim the subject is 'soft'?

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