MCS Oxford: Other qualifications and government tables, 2016

1. What it counts: Alevel inc Applied and International Alevel excl General Studies Total Subject entries: 609 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: Alevel inc Applied and International Alevel excl General Studies Total

1. What it counts: ASlevel inc Applied and International ASlevel excl General Studies Total Subject entries: 136 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: ASlevel inc Applied and International 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 qualification section filled with zeros, does not tell us whether the school offered the qualification. 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. What it counts: 2016 government KS5 completion-cohort subject entries Where it’s from: Original publication

1. Subject entries: 10 Worth knowing: Original government underlying subject-results workbook. Source qualification: GCE AS level. 2016 means the year students completed advanced study, not necessarily the year of each examination. The original population includes up to three years of 16–18 study. Earlier AS awards remain included even if pupils later took A2; this is not the current Year12 AS cohort. Entry counts are qualification/subject results, not a school-wide pupil denominator. School headlines and these government cohorts can differ. No cross-source total, percentage or annual grade trend has been calculated. No result includes ungraded, absent, disqualified, incomplete and other no-result cases in the original metadata; it is not necessarily a failure.
2. Subject entries: 7 Worth knowing: Original government underlying subject-results workbook. Source qualification: GCE AS level. 2016 means the year students completed advanced study, not necessarily the year of each examination. The original population includes up to three years of 16–18 study. Earlier AS awards remain included even if pupils later took A2; this is not the current Year12 AS cohort. Entry counts are qualification/subject results, not a school-wide pupil denominator. School headlines and these government cohorts can differ. No cross-source total, percentage or annual grade trend has been calculated. No result includes ungraded, absent, disqualified, incomplete and other no-result cases in the original metadata; it is not necessarily a failure.
3. Subject entries: 11 Worth knowing: Original government underlying subject-results workbook. Source qualification: GCE AS level. 2016 means the year students completed advanced study, not necessarily the year of each examination. The original population includes up to three years of 16–18 study. Earlier AS awards remain included even if pupils later took A2; this is not the current Year12 AS cohort. Entry counts are qualification/subject results, not a school-wide pupil denominator. School headlines and these government cohorts can differ. No cross-source total, percentage or annual grade trend has been calculated. No result includes ungraded, absent, disqualified, incomplete and other no-result cases in the original metadata; it is not necessarily a failure.
4. Subject entries: 1 Worth knowing: Original government underlying subject-results workbook. Source qualification: GCE AS level. 2016 means the year students completed advanced study, not necessarily the year of each examination. The original population includes up to three years of 16–18 study. Earlier AS awards remain included even if pupils later took A2; this is not the current Year12 AS cohort. Entry counts are qualification/subject results, not a school-wide pupil denominator. School headlines and these government cohorts can differ. No cross-source total, percentage or annual grade trend has been calculated. All source Supp/NA or other unavailable cells remain unavailable; no small-group value is reconstructed from another total or source. No result includes ungraded, absent, disqualified, incomplete and other no-result cases in the original metadata; it is not necessarily a failure.
5. Subject entries: 16 Worth knowing: Original government underlying subject-results workbook. Source qualification: GCE AS level. 2016 means the year students completed advanced study, not necessarily the year of each examination. The original population includes up to three years of 16–18 study. Earlier AS awards remain included even if pupils later took A2; this is not the current Year12 AS cohort. Entry counts are qualification/subject results, not a school-wide pupil denominator. School headlines and these government cohorts can differ. No cross-source total, percentage or annual grade trend has been calculated. No result includes ungraded, absent, disqualified, incomplete and other no-result cases in the original metadata; it is not necessarily a failure.
6. Subject entries: 4 Worth knowing: Original government underlying subject-results workbook. Source qualification: GCE AS level. 2016 means the year students completed advanced study, not necessarily the year of each examination. The original population includes up to three years of 16–18 study. Earlier AS awards remain included even if pupils later took A2; this is not the current Year12 AS cohort. Entry counts are qualification/subject results, not a school-wide pupil denominator. School headlines and these government cohorts can differ. No cross-source total, percentage or annual grade trend has been calculated. All source Supp/NA or other unavailable cells remain unavailable; no small-group value is reconstructed from another total or source. No result includes ungraded, absent, disqualified, incomplete and other no-result cases in the original metadata; it is not necessarily a failure.
7. Subject entries: 8 Worth knowing: Original government underlying subject-results workbook. Source qualification: GCE AS level. 2016 means the year students completed advanced study, not necessarily the year of each examination. The original population includes up to three years of 16–18 study. Earlier AS awards remain included even if pupils later took A2; this is not the current Year12 AS cohort. Entry counts are qualification/subject results, not a school-wide pupil denominator. School headlines and these government cohorts can differ. No cross-source total, percentage or annual grade trend has been calculated. No result includes ungraded, absent, disqualified, incomplete and other no-result cases in the original metadata; it is not necessarily a failure.
8. Subject entries: 2 Worth knowing: Original government underlying subject-results workbook. Source qualification: GCE AS level. 2016 means the year students completed advanced study, not necessarily the year of each examination. The original population includes up to three years of 16–18 study. Earlier AS awards remain included even if pupils later took A2; this is not the current Year12 AS cohort. Entry counts are qualification/subject results, not a school-wide pupil denominator. School headlines and these government cohorts can differ. No cross-source total, percentage or annual grade trend has been calculated. All source Supp/NA or other unavailable cells remain unavailable; no small-group value is reconstructed from another total or source. No result includes ungraded, absent, disqualified, incomplete and other no-result cases in the original metadata; it is not necessarily a failure.
9. Subject entries: 5 Worth knowing: Original government underlying subject-results workbook. Source qualification: GCE AS level. 2016 means the year students completed advanced study, not necessarily the year of each examination. The original population includes up to three years of 16–18 study. Earlier AS awards remain included even if pupils later took A2; this is not the current Year12 AS cohort. Entry counts are qualification/subject results, not a school-wide pupil denominator. School headlines and these government cohorts can differ. No cross-source total, percentage or annual grade trend has been calculated. All source Supp/NA or other unavailable cells remain unavailable; no small-group value is reconstructed from another total or source. No result includes ungraded, absent, disqualified, incomplete and other no-result cases in the original metadata; it is not necessarily a failure.
10. Subject entries: 14 Worth knowing: Original government underlying subject-results workbook. Source qualification: GCE AS level. 2016 means the year students completed advanced study, not necessarily the year of each examination. The original population includes up to three years of 16–18 study. Earlier AS awards remain included even if pupils later took A2; this is not the current Year12 AS cohort. Entry counts are qualification/subject results, not a school-wide pupil denominator. School headlines and these government cohorts can differ. No cross-source total, percentage or annual grade trend has been calculated. No result includes ungraded, absent, disqualified, incomplete and other no-result cases in the original metadata; it is not necessarily a failure.