NLCS: Other qualifications and government tables, 2016

1. What it counts: Alevel inc Applied and International Alevel excl General Studies Total Subject entries: 216 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 and International Alevel excl General Studies Total

1. What it counts: ASlevel inc Applied and International ASlevel excl General Studies Total Subject entries: 81 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 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 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 entry and grade counts.

1. Subject entries: 2 Worth knowing: Original DfE accountability population, not automatically the school annual examination population. Entry counts are qualification/subject entries, not a school-wide pupil denominator. Suppression is retained; no small count reconstructed. No Result may include disqualification, absence, incomplete units or ungraded work and is not relabelled a fail. Source-era qualification names and each grade band remain separate. The 2016 cohort definition changes and includes up to three years of results; no discounting is applied to repeated similar qualifications. This cannot be treated as an annual examination-only series. AS includes earlier study of the pupils ending KS5, not the current Year 12 cohort. Some printed grades are unavailable or suppressed; see “Cells withheld (small numbers) or unavailable, as printed”.
2. Subject entries: 51 Worth knowing: Original DfE accountability population, not automatically the school annual examination population. Entry counts are qualification/subject entries, not a school-wide pupil denominator. Suppression is retained; no small count reconstructed. No Result may include disqualification, absence, incomplete units or ungraded work and is not relabelled a fail. Source-era qualification names and each grade band remain separate. The 2016 cohort definition changes and includes up to three years of results; no discounting is applied to repeated similar qualifications. This cannot be treated as an annual examination-only series. AS includes earlier study of the pupils ending KS5, not the current Year 12 cohort.
3. Subject entries: 9 Worth knowing: Original DfE accountability population, not automatically the school annual examination population. Entry counts are qualification/subject entries, not a school-wide pupil denominator. Suppression is retained; no small count reconstructed. No Result may include disqualification, absence, incomplete units or ungraded work and is not relabelled a fail. Source-era qualification names and each grade band remain separate. The 2016 cohort definition changes and includes up to three years of results; no discounting is applied to repeated similar qualifications. This cannot be treated as an annual examination-only series. AS includes earlier study of the pupils ending KS5, not the current Year 12 cohort.
4. Subject entries: 3 Worth knowing: Original DfE accountability population, not automatically the school annual examination population. Entry counts are qualification/subject entries, not a school-wide pupil denominator. Suppression is retained; no small count reconstructed. No Result may include disqualification, absence, incomplete units or ungraded work and is not relabelled a fail. Source-era qualification names and each grade band remain separate. The 2016 cohort definition changes and includes up to three years of results; no discounting is applied to repeated similar qualifications. This cannot be treated as an annual examination-only series. AS includes earlier study of the pupils ending KS5, not the current Year 12 cohort. Some printed grades are unavailable or suppressed; see “Cells withheld (small numbers) or unavailable, as printed”.
5. Subject entries: 6 Worth knowing: Original DfE accountability population, not automatically the school annual examination population. Entry counts are qualification/subject entries, not a school-wide pupil denominator. Suppression is retained; no small count reconstructed. No Result may include disqualification, absence, incomplete units or ungraded work and is not relabelled a fail. Source-era qualification names and each grade band remain separate. The 2016 cohort definition changes and includes up to three years of results; no discounting is applied to repeated similar qualifications. This cannot be treated as an annual examination-only series. AS includes earlier study of the pupils ending KS5, not the current Year 12 cohort.
6. Subject entries: 38 Worth knowing: Original DfE accountability population, not automatically the school annual examination population. Entry counts are qualification/subject entries, not a school-wide pupil denominator. Suppression is retained; no small count reconstructed. No Result may include disqualification, absence, incomplete units or ungraded work and is not relabelled a fail. Source-era qualification names and each grade band remain separate. The 2016 cohort definition changes and includes up to three years of results; no discounting is applied to repeated similar qualifications. This cannot be treated as an annual examination-only series. AS includes earlier study of the pupils ending KS5, not the current Year 12 cohort.
7. Also printed: U count 0. Subject entries: 102 Worth knowing: Original DfE accountability population, not automatically the school annual examination population. Entry counts are qualification/subject entries, not a school-wide pupil denominator. Suppression is retained; no small count reconstructed. No Result may include disqualification, absence, incomplete units or ungraded work and is not relabelled a fail. Source-era qualification names and each grade band remain separate. GCSE accountability eligibility changes across these years; only qualifications retained by that year’s performance-table rules are represented. An absent IGCSE row does not mean the school did not offer it.
8. Subject entries: 15 Worth knowing: Original DfE accountability population, not automatically the school annual examination population. Entry counts are qualification/subject entries, not a school-wide pupil denominator. Suppression is retained; no small count reconstructed. No Result may include disqualification, absence, incomplete units or ungraded work and is not relabelled a fail. Source-era qualification names and each grade band remain separate. The 2016 cohort definition changes and includes up to three years of results; no discounting is applied to repeated similar qualifications. This cannot be treated as an annual examination-only series. AS includes earlier study of the pupils ending KS5, not the current Year 12 cohort.
9. Subject entries: 4 Worth knowing: Original DfE accountability population, not automatically the school annual examination population. Entry counts are qualification/subject entries, not a school-wide pupil denominator. Suppression is retained; no small count reconstructed. No Result may include disqualification, absence, incomplete units or ungraded work and is not relabelled a fail. Source-era qualification names and each grade band remain separate. The 2016 cohort definition changes and includes up to three years of results; no discounting is applied to repeated similar qualifications. This cannot be treated as an annual examination-only series. AS includes earlier study of the pupils ending KS5, not the current Year 12 cohort. Some printed grades are unavailable or suppressed; see “Cells withheld (small numbers) or unavailable, as printed”.
10. Subject entries: 26 Worth knowing: Original DfE accountability population, not automatically the school annual examination population. Entry counts are qualification/subject entries, not a school-wide pupil denominator. Suppression is retained; no small count reconstructed. No Result may include disqualification, absence, incomplete units or ungraded work and is not relabelled a fail. Source-era qualification names and each grade band remain separate. The 2016 cohort definition changes and includes up to three years of results; no discounting is applied to repeated similar qualifications. This cannot be treated as an annual examination-only series. AS includes earlier study of the pupils ending KS5, not the current Year 12 cohort.
11. Subject entries: 10 Worth knowing: Original DfE accountability population, not automatically the school annual examination population. Entry counts are qualification/subject entries, not a school-wide pupil denominator. Suppression is retained; no small count reconstructed. No Result may include disqualification, absence, incomplete units or ungraded work and is not relabelled a fail. Source-era qualification names and each grade band remain separate. The 2016 cohort definition changes and includes up to three years of results; no discounting is applied to repeated similar qualifications. This cannot be treated as an annual examination-only series. AS includes earlier study of the pupils ending KS5, not the current Year 12 cohort.
12. Subject entries: 2 Worth knowing: Original DfE accountability population, not automatically the school annual examination population. Entry counts are qualification/subject entries, not a school-wide pupil denominator. Suppression is retained; no small count reconstructed. No Result may include disqualification, absence, incomplete units or ungraded work and is not relabelled a fail. Source-era qualification names and each grade band remain separate. GCSE accountability eligibility changes across these years; only qualifications retained by that year’s performance-table rules are represented. An absent IGCSE row does not mean the school did not offer it. Some printed grades are unavailable or suppressed; see “Cells withheld (small numbers) or unavailable, as printed”.
13. Subject entries: 131 Worth knowing: Original DfE accountability population, not automatically the school annual examination population. Entry counts are qualification/subject entries, not a school-wide pupil denominator. Suppression is retained; no small count reconstructed. No Result may include disqualification, absence, incomplete units or ungraded work and is not relabelled a fail. Source-era qualification names and each grade band remain separate. The 2016 cohort definition changes and includes up to three years of results; no discounting is applied to repeated similar qualifications. This cannot be treated as an annual examination-only series. AS includes earlier study of the pupils ending KS5, not the current Year 12 cohort.
14. Subject entries: 14 Worth knowing: Original DfE accountability population, not automatically the school annual examination population. Entry counts are qualification/subject entries, not a school-wide pupil denominator. Suppression is retained; no small count reconstructed. No Result may include disqualification, absence, incomplete units or ungraded work and is not relabelled a fail. Source-era qualification names and each grade band remain separate. The 2016 cohort definition changes and includes up to three years of results; no discounting is applied to repeated similar qualifications. This cannot be treated as an annual examination-only series. AS includes earlier study of the pupils ending KS5, not the current Year 12 cohort.
15. Subject entries: 5 Worth knowing: Original DfE accountability population, not automatically the school annual examination population. Entry counts are qualification/subject entries, not a school-wide pupil denominator. Suppression is retained; no small count reconstructed. No Result may include disqualification, absence, incomplete units or ungraded work and is not relabelled a fail. Source-era qualification names and each grade band remain separate. The 2016 cohort definition changes and includes up to three years of results; no discounting is applied to repeated similar qualifications. This cannot be treated as an annual examination-only series. AS includes earlier study of the pupils ending KS5, not the current Year 12 cohort. Some printed grades are unavailable or suppressed; see “Cells withheld (small numbers) or unavailable, as printed”.
16. Subject entries: 1 Worth knowing: Original DfE accountability population, not automatically the school annual examination population. Entry counts are qualification/subject entries, not a school-wide pupil denominator. Suppression is retained; no small count reconstructed. No Result may include disqualification, absence, incomplete units or ungraded work and is not relabelled a fail. Source-era qualification names and each grade band remain separate. The 2016 cohort definition changes and includes up to three years of results; no discounting is applied to repeated similar qualifications. This cannot be treated as an annual examination-only series. AS includes earlier study of the pupils ending KS5, not the current Year 12 cohort. Some printed grades are unavailable or suppressed; see “Cells withheld (small numbers) or unavailable, as printed”.

1. Qualification, as the source names it: Free standing Maths Qual Level 3. Subject entries: 52 Where it’s from: Original publication Worth knowing: Original DfE accountability population, not automatically the school annual examination population. Entry counts are qualification/subject entries, not a school-wide pupil denominator. Suppression is retained; no small count reconstructed. No Result may include disqualification, absence, incomplete units or ungraded work and is not relabelled a fail. Source-era qualification names and each grade band remain separate. GCSE accountability eligibility changes across these years; only qualifications retained by that year’s performance-table rules are represented. An absent IGCSE row does not mean the school did not offer it. Some printed grades are unavailable or suppressed; see “Cells withheld (small numbers) or unavailable, as printed”. How the source defines it: Published original government qualification-specific entry and grade counts.