MCS Oxford: Other qualifications and government tables, 2012

1. What it counts: Alevel inc Applied Alevel excl General Studies Total Subject entries: 465 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 zero-filled qualification block does not establish non-provision. 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: Alevel inc Applied Alevel excl General Studies Total

1. What it counts: Average point score per student Where it’s from: Original publication Worth knowing: Source definition: Average 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 point score per examination entry Where it’s from: Original publication Worth knowing: Source definition: Average point score per examination 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: Number of students at the end of Key Stage 5 study Where it’s from: Original publication Worth knowing: Source definition: Number of students at the end of Key Stage 5 study. 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: Number of A level students at the end of Key Stage 5 study Where it’s from: Original publication Worth knowing: Source definition: Number of A level students at the end of Key Stage 5 study. 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: Number of academic students at the end of Key Stage 5 study Where it’s from: Original publication Worth knowing: Source definition: Number of academic students at the end of Key Stage 5 study. 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 point score per A level student Where it’s from: Original publication Worth knowing: Source definition: Average point score per A level 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 point score per A level entry Where it’s from: Original publication Worth knowing: Source definition: Average point score per A level 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 point score per academic student Where it’s from: Original publication Worth knowing: Source definition: Average point score per academic 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 point score per academic entry Where it’s from: Original publication Worth knowing: Source definition: Average point score per academic 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: Percentage of Key Stage 5 students achieving at least 1 A level at A*-E (including equivalences) Where it’s from: Original publication Worth knowing: Source definition: Percentage of Key Stage 5 students achieving at least 1 A level at A*-E (including equivalences). 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: Percentage of Key Stage 5 students achieving 2 or more A levels at A*-E (including equivalences) Where it’s from: Original publication Worth knowing: Source definition: Percentage of Key Stage 5 students achieving 2 or more A levels at A*-E (including equivalences). 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: Percentage of Key Stage 5 students achieving 3 or more A levels at A*-E (including equivalences) Where it’s from: Original publication Worth knowing: Source definition: Percentage of Key Stage 5 students achieving 3 or more A levels at A*-E (including equivalences). 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: Percentage of Key Stage 5 students achieving at least 1 A level at A*-E Where it’s from: Original publication Worth knowing: Source definition: Percentage of Key Stage 5 students achieving at least 1 A level at A*-E . 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: Percentage of Key Stage 5 students achieving 2 or more A levels at A*-E Where it’s from: Original publication Worth knowing: Source definition: Percentage of Key Stage 5 students achieving 2 or more A levels at A*-E. 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: Percentage of Key Stage 5 students achieving 3 or more A levels at A*-E Where it’s from: Original publication Worth knowing: Source definition: Percentage of Key Stage 5 students achieving 3 or more A levels at A*-E . 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: Percentage of Key Stage 5 students achieving at least 1 A level at A*-E (including academic qualifications) Where it’s from: Original publication Worth knowing: Source definition: Percentage of Key Stage 5 students achieving at least 1 A level at A*-E (including academic qualifications). 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: Percentage of Key Stage 5 students achieving 2 or more A levels at A*-E (including academic qualifications) Where it’s from: Original publication Worth knowing: Source definition: Percentage of Key Stage 5 students achieving 2 or more A levels at A*-E (including academic qualifications). 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: Percentage of Key Stage 5 students achieving 3 or more A levels at A*-E (including academic qualifications) Where it’s from: Original publication Worth knowing: Source definition: Percentage of Key Stage 5 students achieving 3 or more A levels at A*-E (including academic qualifications). 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: Percentage of A level students achieving 3 A levels at AAB or higher in 'facilitating' subjects" Where it’s from: Original publication Worth knowing: Source definition: Percentage of A level students achieving 3 A levels at AAB or higher in 'facilitating' subjects". 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: Percentage of Key Stage 5 students achieving 3 A levels at AAB or higher in 'facilitating' subjects Where it’s from: Original publication Worth knowing: Source definition: Percentage of Key Stage 5 students achieving 3 A levels at AAB or higher in 'facilitating' subjects. 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: Percentage of A level students achieving 3 A levels at AAB or higher including at least 2 facilitating subjects Where it’s from: Original publication Worth knowing: Source definition: Percentage of A level students achieving 3 A levels at AAB or higher including at least 2 facilitating subjects. 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: Percentage of Key Stage 5 students achieving 3 A levels at AAB or higher including at least 2 facilitating subjects Where it’s from: Original publication Worth knowing: Source definition: Percentage of Key Stage 5 students achieving 3 A levels at AAB or higher including at least 2 facilitating subjects. 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.

Every row: Where it’s from: Original publication

1. Worth knowing: School-year AS population, distinct from government end-of-KS5 accountability AS population. How the source defines it: Lower Sixth AS A–B grade band
2. Worth knowing: Version differences and printed grade labels retained; no correction is inferred. This 2012 observation is explicitly printed retrospectively in the 2013 report. How the source defines it: Explicit previous-year result bands

1. What it counts: ASlevel inc Applied ASlevel excl General Studies Total Subject entries: 101 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 zero-filled qualification block does not establish non-provision. 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: ASlevel inc Applied ASlevel excl General Studies Total

1. What it counts: Separately printed candidate populations; qualification scope remains in each original field header 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 zero-filled qualification block does not establish non-provision. Candidate populations overlap; do not sum or use a whole-sixth-form count as a denominator for a qualification-only result. How the source defines it: Separately printed candidate populations; qualification scope remains in each original field header

Every row: Qualification, as the source names it: GCE AS level. Where it’s from: Original publication How the source defines it: Published original government qualification-specific subject counts.

1. Subject entries: 7 Worth knowing: This is the DfE-defined 2011–12 accountability population, which may differ from the school’s annual publication. Subject counts are not a school-wide pupil denominator. Supp means suppressed (five or fewer entered or passed); NA means the grade is unavailable. No suppressed count is reconstructed. No Result can include absence, incomplete units, disqualification or ungraded results and is not relabelled as a fail. Source-era qualification names are retained. AS metadata covers qualifications taken by pupils at the end of KS5, including earlier AS, not the current Year 12 AS cohort.
2. Subject entries: 14 Worth knowing: This is the DfE-defined 2011–12 accountability population, which may differ from the school’s annual publication. Subject counts are not a school-wide pupil denominator. Supp means suppressed (five or fewer entered or passed); NA means the grade is unavailable. No suppressed count is reconstructed. No Result can include absence, incomplete units, disqualification or ungraded results and is not relabelled as a fail. Source-era qualification names are retained. AS metadata covers qualifications taken by pupils at the end of KS5, including earlier AS, not the current Year 12 AS cohort.
3. Subject entries: 2 Worth knowing: This is the DfE-defined 2011–12 accountability population, which may differ from the school’s annual publication. Subject counts are not a school-wide pupil denominator. Supp means suppressed (five or fewer entered or passed); NA means the grade is unavailable. No suppressed count is reconstructed. No Result can include absence, incomplete units, disqualification or ungraded results and is not relabelled as a fail. Source-era qualification names are retained. AS metadata covers qualifications taken by pupils at the end of KS5, including earlier AS, not the current Year 12 AS cohort. Some source grades are suppressed or not applicable; see “Cells withheld (small numbers) or unavailable, as printed”.
4. Subject entries: 1 Worth knowing: This is the DfE-defined 2011–12 accountability population, which may differ from the school’s annual publication. Subject counts are not a school-wide pupil denominator. Supp means suppressed (five or fewer entered or passed); NA means the grade is unavailable. No suppressed count is reconstructed. No Result can include absence, incomplete units, disqualification or ungraded results and is not relabelled as a fail. Source-era qualification names are retained. AS metadata covers qualifications taken by pupils at the end of KS5, including earlier AS, not the current Year 12 AS cohort. Some source grades are suppressed or not applicable; see “Cells withheld (small numbers) or unavailable, as printed”.
5. Subject entries: 3 Worth knowing: This is the DfE-defined 2011–12 accountability population, which may differ from the school’s annual publication. Subject counts are not a school-wide pupil denominator. Supp means suppressed (five or fewer entered or passed); NA means the grade is unavailable. No suppressed count is reconstructed. No Result can include absence, incomplete units, disqualification or ungraded results and is not relabelled as a fail. Source-era qualification names are retained. AS metadata covers qualifications taken by pupils at the end of KS5, including earlier AS, not the current Year 12 AS cohort. Some source grades are suppressed or not applicable; see “Cells withheld (small numbers) or unavailable, as printed”.
6. Subject entries: 4 Worth knowing: This is the DfE-defined 2011–12 accountability population, which may differ from the school’s annual publication. Subject counts are not a school-wide pupil denominator. Supp means suppressed (five or fewer entered or passed); NA means the grade is unavailable. No suppressed count is reconstructed. No Result can include absence, incomplete units, disqualification or ungraded results and is not relabelled as a fail. Source-era qualification names are retained. AS metadata covers qualifications taken by pupils at the end of KS5, including earlier AS, not the current Year 12 AS cohort. Some source grades are suppressed or not applicable; see “Cells withheld (small numbers) or unavailable, as printed”.
7. Subject entries: 5 Worth knowing: This is the DfE-defined 2011–12 accountability population, which may differ from the school’s annual publication. Subject counts are not a school-wide pupil denominator. Supp means suppressed (five or fewer entered or passed); NA means the grade is unavailable. No suppressed count is reconstructed. No Result can include absence, incomplete units, disqualification or ungraded results and is not relabelled as a fail. Source-era qualification names are retained. AS metadata covers qualifications taken by pupils at the end of KS5, including earlier AS, not the current Year 12 AS cohort. Some source grades are suppressed or not applicable; see “Cells withheld (small numbers) or unavailable, as printed”.
8. Subject entries: 11 Worth knowing: This is the DfE-defined 2011–12 accountability population, which may differ from the school’s annual publication. Subject counts are not a school-wide pupil denominator. Supp means suppressed (five or fewer entered or passed); NA means the grade is unavailable. No suppressed count is reconstructed. No Result can include absence, incomplete units, disqualification or ungraded results and is not relabelled as a fail. Source-era qualification names are retained. AS metadata covers qualifications taken by pupils at the end of KS5, including earlier AS, not the current Year 12 AS cohort.
9. Subject entries: 6 Worth knowing: This is the DfE-defined 2011–12 accountability population, which may differ from the school’s annual publication. Subject counts are not a school-wide pupil denominator. Supp means suppressed (five or fewer entered or passed); NA means the grade is unavailable. No suppressed count is reconstructed. No Result can include absence, incomplete units, disqualification or ungraded results and is not relabelled as a fail. Source-era qualification names are retained. AS metadata covers qualifications taken by pupils at the end of KS5, including earlier AS, not the current Year 12 AS cohort.
10. Subject entries: 10 Worth knowing: This is the DfE-defined 2011–12 accountability population, which may differ from the school’s annual publication. Subject counts are not a school-wide pupil denominator. Supp means suppressed (five or fewer entered or passed); NA means the grade is unavailable. No suppressed count is reconstructed. No Result can include absence, incomplete units, disqualification or ungraded results and is not relabelled as a fail. Source-era qualification names are retained. AS metadata covers qualifications taken by pupils at the end of KS5, including earlier AS, not the current Year 12 AS cohort.