Wycombe Abbey · 1990
A-level 1990 · Financial Times school survey · 1990 · A-level · A–E
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A-level entries as reported to the Financial Times; General Studies scope unverified
Type of result: Examination grade distribution.
The reported values
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- Published basis
- A-level entries as reported to the Financial Times; General Studies scope unverified
- % A · %
- 44
- Qualification
- A-level
- Note
- Financial Times telephone survey of school heads. Ranking is a separate reputational ranking: table order is not an A-grade ranking. Percentages are shares of examination grades, not pupil rates. General Studies inclusion is discussed as varying between schools; no per-school count or harmonised exclusion is supplied. The article explicitly discusses A-level examinations sat in 1990, calls St Paul's 1990 an unusually good examination year and compares Winchester/Eton 1990 examination grades. A* did not exist at A-level in1990; no A* value is recorded.
- Outcome type
- Examination grade distribution
- Population basis
- A-level entries as reported to the Financial Times; General Studies scope unverified
- Publication status
- Contemporary newspaper grade percentage verified; General Studies scope unresolved
- Grade scale
- A–E
- Year
- 1990
Publication note
Contemporary newspaper grade percentage verified; General Studies scope unresolved
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* · 1990.
Financial Times, The old order changes, 17–18 November 1990 · PDF page 25 of 46; Section II, printed page I; lower-right TOP INDEPENDENT SCHOOLS table
Checked 2026-09-09. Source excerpt: Percentage of A grades at A level; 5 Wycombe Abbey 44
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% A · research observation outside matched schoolwide scope; incompatible definitions; unknown population basis
Reported value: 44. 0 decimal places. Unit: percent.
Group counted: Unknown. Recorded total for this measure: Unknown / not recorded. Type of result: Grade awards. Grading system: A-level pre-2010 A–E.
A usable individual value still needs duplicate, publication-version and matched-year checks before it enters a comparison.
Original source code: P. Numerical classification: exact.
Research context, reference history and record codes
Financial Times telephone survey of school heads. Ranking is a separate reputational ranking: table order is not an A-grade ranking. Percentages are shares of examination grades, not pupil rates. General Studies inclusion is discussed as varying between schools; no per-school count or harmonised exclusion is supplied. The article explicitly discusses A-level examinations sat in 1990, calls St Paul's 1990 an unusually good examination year and compares Winchester/Eton 1990 examination grades. A* did not exist at A-level in1990; no A* value is recorded.
These references may support other years or fields in the same dataset. They do not replace the observation-specific checks above.
SIX_AUDIT_EACAD9863F43B63B· Financial Times, The old order changes, 17–18 November 1990 · Exact publication checked for the named qualification, year and source population
Original record identifier: research:wycombe:1990:six-school-ft-a-level. Source codes are retained for reproducibility.
- Evidence
- P
- Record Id
- research:wycombe:1990:six-school-ft-a-level
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