North London Collegiate School: comparable GCSE figures, 2021

Qualification only

No figure

GCSE top grades (A* or 9–8) · Comparable figure · our calculation

Grades were set by teachers. NLCS printed percentages without the number of grades, so we cannot combine its different qualifications. We don’t have NLCS’s whole-school lettered GCSE figure for 2021.

The original grades

A*–G: no full grade table in this record

9–1: 99.4. Subjects and grades

This year’s exams: A*–G GCSEs and 9–1 GCSEs.

We know because only the school’s own records show it. Grades in 2020 and 2021 were assessed by schools and teachers, so these figures are left out of comparisons unless you ask for them.

The comparison, the school’s headline and the original grades
Grade band	Comparable figure (our calculation)	The school’s figure (as the school published it)	Original grades
GCSE high grades (A*–A or 9–7)	No figureThe school’s own tables don’t give a comparable figure for this year. Grades in 2020 and 2021 were assessed by schools and teachers.	No combined figure from the school	GCSE 9–1: 9–7 100%
GCSE top grades (A* or 9–8)	No figureThe school’s own tables don’t give a comparable figure for this year. Grades in 2020 and 2021 were assessed by schools and teachers.	No combined figure from the school	GCSE 9–1: 9–8 99.4%
GCSE C/4 or better (A*–C or 9–4)	No figureThe school’s own tables don’t give a comparable figure for this year. Grades in 2020 and 2021 were assessed by schools and teachers.	No combined figure from the school	GCSE 9–1: 9–4
GCSE grade 9 (9–1 entries only)	No figureThe school’s own tables don’t give a comparable figure for this year. Grades in 2020 and 2021 were assessed by schools and teachers.	No combined figure from the school	GCSE 9–1: 9 95%

How the figure is calculated

The number of entries at or above the band, across every exam system, divided by all the entries. We never average two percentages.

The results used in the calculation

A*–G: no usable figures this year. Record details says why.
9–1: North London Collegiate School, GCSE/IGCSE 2021: 95% of entries at grade 9

Record details

Record ID harm:v1:nlcs:2021:gcse. Quote it if you report a problem.

As recorded

The record’s own wording, where this page puts it in plainer words.

High grades: reason: GCSE/IGCSE A*–G: The letter-graded Mandarin entries of 2021 are printed on the school’s own sheet but not held as a record, so no letter-grade figure is used; grade 9 is counted over the 9–1 entries alone.
High grades: reason codes: comparable figure not computable; assessment-regime exclusion
Top grades: reason: GCSE/IGCSE A*–G: The letter-graded Mandarin entries of 2021 are printed on the school’s own sheet but not held as a record, so no letter-grade figure is used; grade 9 is counted over the 9–1 entries alone.
Top grades: reason codes: comparable figure not computable; assessment-regime exclusion
C/4+: reason: GCSE/IGCSE A*–G: The letter-graded Mandarin entries of 2021 are printed on the school’s own sheet but not held as a record, so no letter-grade figure is used; grade 9 is counted over the 9–1 entries alone.
C/4+: reason codes: comparable figure not computable; assessment-regime exclusion
Grade 9: reason: No count of the entries graded 9–1 is held for this year, so a grade-9 figure could not say how many entries it covers.
Grade 9: reason codes: comparable figure not computable; assessment-regime exclusion
A*–G: why no figure: The letter-graded Mandarin entries of 2021 are printed on the school’s own sheet but not held as a record, so no letter-grade figure is used; grade 9 is counted over the 9–1 entries alone.
9–1: entries: unknown (no entry count printed)
Which exams were sat: evidence: 9-1: 1 school or ISC record (e.g. new:nlcs:2021:gcse-igcse:pdf-gcse-headline); 7 DfE rows (e.g. new:nlcs:2021:dfe-ks4-institution-entries-3430)
Which exams were sat: evidence: A*-G: letter-graded Mandarin in the school’s 2021 results (https://www.nlcs.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/2021-Results-for-marketing-and-evaluation1.pdf)
Which exams were sat: note: The school’s 2021 results document prints letter-graded Mandarin (22 A*) beside its 9–1 table.

Source references

SUP_8963B97545A4 · NLCS official examination results 2021

Method and version

Method: harm-v1 1.0.0
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Qualification mix: A*-G, 9-1 (school-records)

North London Collegiate School: exam results · How comparable figures work