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PENDLETON COLLEGE A LEVEL STUDENTS GET 99% PASS RATE
 

Star date: 16th August 2019

PENDLETON SIXTH FORM COLLEGE CELEBRATES A LEVEL SUCCESS

Students and staff at Pendleton Sixth Form College are celebrating a 99% pass rate on A Level results announced yesterday, with a 100% pass rate in fifty individual subjects.

"It has been an exceptionally successful year in terms of high grades and value added performance" says Victoria Kielty, Head of Academic Studies at the Salford college.

Full details here...


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Pendleton Sixth Form College has achieved an overall pass rate of 99% on both A-level and Vocational courses, with a 100% pass rate in fifty individual subjects, and 72% of A-level students getting top grades.
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"We are delighted with the outstanding results our students have achieved" says  Victoria Kielty, Head of Academic Studies "It has been an exceptionally successful year in terms of high grades and value added performance."

Some of the results are truly outstanding...Former Walkden High School pupil, Rachel Campbell, achieved three A* grades in maths, further maths and physics, and is now be going to the University of Manchester to do maths.

"I am really pleased with my results and thankful to all of my teachers at Pendleton Sixth Form College for helping me get these wonderful grades" says Rachel.

Meanwhile, Toochukwu Mike Azorji, got two A* grades in biology and maths, and an A in chemistry. He now hopes study medicine at university. Former All Hallows High School pupil, Charlotte Ellaby, is now going to study economics at Kings College, London, after receiving an A* in law and three A grades in economics, maths and further maths..."I am really excited I got into the university of my choice and will continue to study the subject I love" she says.

Georgia Reeves secured her place studying cognitive neuroscience combined with psychology at the University of Manchester after receiving an A* in psychology and two As in biology and art and design... "It's overwhelming to find out I have received even better grades then I expected, and to finally know all my hard work has paid off" she says "The grades I achieved were thanks to the support of staff at Pendleton."

80% of students studying on Vocational courses also achieved high grades, with former Albion Academy pupil, Jessica Singh, getting a triple distinction star in applied science, the highest possible grade for those studying on a vocational course..."I feel very relieved after receiving my results" she says "and it just shows hard work really does pay off." Jessica now has a place at the University of Salford studying biomedical science and has dreams of becoming a surgeon.

Eve Rowan, who previously attended Walkden High School, also achieved a triple distinction star and will now go on to study at the prestigious Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA).


Enrolment for 2019 entry for this year's courses at Pendleton Sixth Form College starts on Thursday 22nd August. For more information call 0161 631 5000 or email enquiries@salfordcc.ac.uk.

fletcher wrote
at 08:51:12 on 19 August 2019
There is a deal of vague anecdotal material being provided, and the story of the dishonest pensioner is laughable as evidence. Yet the opinions of white, who seems to have a wealth of experience of all aspects of the examination system, are apparently ignored.
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bob the regular wrote
at 12:30:33 on 17 August 2019
I must admit Forty years might have a point here. Most kids today seem to have great problems with simple mental arithmatic. I know of one dishonest pensioner who illustrates this point almost daily. He always has a pocketful of small change. If he goes into a shop, and the bill comes to say eight pounds thirteen pence, he puts his hand in his pocket, produces a tenner and thiteen pence, and tells the shop assistant to give him three quid. The kids on the till always do. I told him he should be locked up, but he just laughs and says its an extra can of beer for him out of their stupidity.
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at 12:30:24 on 17 August 2019
I am in my mid sixties now and I went to Salford Grammar.The headmaster used to stand on the stage and read out the names of lads who had got into Oxford and Cambridge, I think he went there himself.I can think of the names of five lads I knew who went there. We are told that nowadays, these posh universities take more kids from working class areas than they used to. Well you cannot get a more working class area than Salford. So,if you compare the number of kids going to elite university from this year in Salford , and I mean just Salford not eccles or swinton or Worsley, with the number that went in 1969, then you will answer the row as to whether the education standards have improved in Salford. I do not think they have, but there again, I would say that wouldn't I as Christine Keeler once said.
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white wrote
at 09:40:23 on 17 August 2019
As expected we now have ‘forty years on’ demeaning the achievements of students. Well I have had experience of sitting O Levels and A levels, well over 50 years ago. Then teaching at those levels from 50 years ago, and then being a senior examiner at A Level. If he thinks standards have become easier, it’s clear he hasn’t a clue. Examinations at A Level these days put great emphasis on understanding and problem solving, whereas in his, and my day the great emphasis was on learning facts. The maths and science was in no way as complex as that taught today. With what I was taught then I wouldn’t have much chance of even a low grade pass on many of today’s papers.
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forty years on {when afar and asunder} wrote
at 18:27:37 on 16 August 2019
We heap praise on the one young lady who just got offered a place at Cambridge, and rightly so, it is a top achievement. But years ago, at SGS we used to send half a dozen to Oxford and Cambridge each year and so did De La Selle. A few girls from Broughton high,pendleton high and the Catholic high school on the crescent probably went as well. Teaching standards in Salford have gone down the bog in recent years. None of these A level maths kids would find the O level paper we took 50 years easy, hardly any would pass it, it was hard,just like our teachers.
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wrote
at 18:26:43 on 16 August 2019
Fablous guys
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Ann grundy wrote
at 18:26:38 on 16 August 2019
Well.done guys fablous results
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white wrote
at 12:51:05 on 16 August 2019
Before anyone starts to bemoan modern standards in examinations; To gain A or A* requires effort and application as well as aptitude. These students should be congratulated. This coming from an ex-teacher and A level examiner.
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