When a school revises its results: Eton 2024

Where the two tables differ

Laid side by side, the two tables differ in one subject only. In Music Technology a single grade has gone from A to A*, and the totals row has gone with it, so the re-signed table counts 362 A* grades. Every other difference is a trailing zero, which alters how a figure looks and nothing it says. Neither table says why the grade went up, and it would be easy, and wrong, to supply a reason, though one can admire an office that will sign a whole table again for one grade. The October file was still online when we checked on 22 September 2026, though Eton’s Exam Results page no longer linked to it, and both are listed below for anyone who would rather check than take our word.

The GCSE table was re-signed the same day

Eton re-signed its 2024 GCSE table on 22 November too, and there a second signature changed even less. One Classical Civilisation grade moved from 5 to 6 and not one cumulative band shifted, so none of the GCSE figures we show changed; the record logs both versions anyway, and anyone holding the 16 October table will find it accounted for rather than contradicted.

What we show, and what we keep

For a while this record followed the earlier table. Our correction C11 had taken the 16 October sheet to be the final one, which is rather what a signature invites one to think. Only in September 2026 did we find the November file, the one with “Final” in its name, and correction C30 then reversed C11 and says why. Both stay on the corrections page with their dates, as they should in a publication that asks every figure it meets for its date. The record page and the results table now mark the year “Revised by the school, 22 Nov 2024”, which tells you as much as the documents do and no more.

Same office, five weeks apart

Both tables are Eton’s own, signed by the same office five weeks apart, and the later replaces the earlier, so nobody has to choose between them. The school has chosen. A disagreement, where a results table and an annual report print different figures for one year and neither explains itself, has no later signature to defer to, and there we keep both, name the figure they differ on and leave that year out of the comparisons it affects until something explains it. Eton’s 2024 A* share is no such case: re-signed and settled, it counts in comparisons like any other year.

Meeting the older figure elsewhere

A 2024 A* share quoted from the 16 October table, in a newsletter or on another website, will read 38.6%. That is no misprint. Nor was whoever copied it being careless, since it matched Eton’s table until the school signed the table again. Every record page here names the document behind each figure and the date it carries, which is the surest way we have of telling a figure that is wrong from one that is merely early.

Where these figures come from

Each record gives the full definition, the documents it came from and what we checked.

1. Eton College, A level 2024: 38.7% of 935 entries graded A*

   Eton’s 2024 A-level results. Its revision log keeps both signed tables, their dates and what changed between them.

   Checked against the original: A*, A*–A, A*–B and pass. Not yet checked: entries.

2. Eton College, A level 2024: All published A-level subjects

   The re-signed table’s grade counts, grade by grade.

   Checked against the original: 10 figures, including A* count, A* and A*–A.

3. Eton College: GCSE and IGCSE results, 2024, 9-1

   Eton’s 2024 GCSE results, re-signed the same day. No band shown here changed.

   Checked against the original: top three bands. Not yet checked: entries, top band and top two bands.

• Eton’s two tables show what changed, and neither says why the grade was changed.
• A revision to one year’s table says nothing about any other year’s.