Brighton: Other qualifications and government tables, 2008

1. What it counts: Number of trigger students in actual year group 13 Where it’s from: Original publication Worth knowing: Source definition: Number of trigger students in actual year group 13. Original government accountability population and point basis; this is not a published A-level-only grade distribution. Point tariffs and inclusion rules change across years; no continuous grade trend or conversion is made.

1. What it counts: Average Level 3 point score per student Where it’s from: Original publication Worth knowing: Source definition: Average Level 3 point score per student. Original government accountability population and point basis; this is not a published A-level-only grade distribution. Point tariffs and inclusion rules change across years; no continuous grade trend or conversion is made.

1. What it counts: Average Level 3 point score per entry Where it’s from: Original publication Worth knowing: Source definition: Average Level 3 point score per entry. Original government accountability population and point basis; this is not a published A-level-only grade distribution. Point tariffs and inclusion rules change across years; no continuous grade trend or conversion is made.

1. What it counts: Average Level 3 QCA point score per student – 2008 Where it’s from: Original publication Worth knowing: Source definition: Average Level 3 QCA point score per student – 2008. Original government accountability population and point basis; this is not a published A-level-only grade distribution. Point tariffs and inclusion rules change across years; no continuous grade trend or conversion is made. The 2008 value is explicitly printed retrospectively in the 2009 table.

1. What it counts: Average Level 3 QCA point score per entry – 2008 Where it’s from: Original publication Worth knowing: Source definition: Average Level 3 QCA point score per entry – 2008. Original government accountability population and point basis; this is not a published A-level-only grade distribution. Point tariffs and inclusion rules change across years; no continuous grade trend or conversion is made. The 2008 value is explicitly printed retrospectively in the 2009 table.

Every row: What it counts: Average point score per student - 2008 Where it’s from: Original publication

1. Worth knowing: Source definition: Average point score per student - 2008. Original government accountability population and point basis; this is not a published A-level-only grade distribution. Point tariffs and inclusion rules change across years; no continuous grade trend or conversion is made. The 2008 value is explicitly printed retrospectively in the 2010 table.
2. Worth knowing: Source definition: Average point score per student - 2008. Original government accountability population and point basis; this is not a published A-level-only grade distribution. Point tariffs and inclusion rules change across years; no continuous grade trend or conversion is made. The 2008 value is explicitly printed retrospectively in the 2011 table.

1. What it counts: Average point score per entry - 2008 Where it’s from: Original publication Worth knowing: Source definition: Average point score per entry - 2008. Original government accountability population and point basis; this is not a published A-level-only grade distribution. Point tariffs and inclusion rules change across years; no continuous grade trend or conversion is made. The 2008 value is explicitly printed retrospectively in the 2010 table.

1. What it counts: Average point score per examination entry - 2008 Where it’s from: Original publication Worth knowing: Source definition: Average point score per examination entry - 2008. Original government accountability population and point basis; this is not a published A-level-only grade distribution. Point tariffs and inclusion rules change across years; no continuous grade trend or conversion is made. The 2008 value is explicitly printed retrospectively in the 2011 table.

1. What it counts: GCE ASlevel excl General Studies Total Subject entries: 79 Candidates: 76 Where it’s from: Original publication Worth knowing: ISC published school return. Candidate populations are separate from subject entries; overlapping group totals are not added. A missing school return, or an optional qualification section filled with zeros, does not tell us whether the school offered the qualification. The exact source header defines qualification scope; Applied/International qualifications are not silently excluded. General Studies and AS groups remain separate. No A* grade is invented for AS or pre-2010 GCE A-level. How the source defines it: GCE ASlevel excl General Studies Total

1. Where it’s from: Original publication Worth knowing: Lower Sixth AS results described as over 80%; exact count and denominator absent. How the source defines it: Published AS-level summary in 2007-08 annual, PDF page 5