NLCS: Other qualifications and government tables, 2017

1. What it counts: Alevel inc Applied and International Alevel excl General Studies Total Subject entries: 190 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: 11 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

1. Qualification, as the source names it: GCE AS level. What it counts: 2017 government KS4 completion-cohort subject entries Subject entries: 1 Where it’s from: Original publication Worth knowing: Original government underlying subject-results workbook. Source qualification: GCE AS level. Results concern the source-defined end-of-KS4 population and may include qualifications taken earlier. The qualifications counted in performance tables changed; this is not necessarily every school examination entry. 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. This publication supplies the subject entry total without individual grade rows; no absent grade has been filled with zero.

Every row: Qualification, as the source names it: GCE AS level. What it counts: 2017 government KS5 completion-cohort subject entries Where it’s from: Original publication

1. Worth knowing: Original government underlying subject-results workbook. Source qualification: GCE AS level. 2017 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. Fail/No results is the original combined category; it is not relabelled as grade U. The metadata uses both “under5” and “five or fewer” descriptions of suppression; the printed Supp cells are retained without choosing a hidden value.
2. Subject entries: 8 Worth knowing: Original government underlying subject-results workbook. Source qualification: GCE AS level. 2017 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. Fail/No results is the original combined category; it is not relabelled as grade U. The metadata uses both “under5” and “five or fewer” descriptions of suppression; the printed Supp cells are retained without choosing a hidden value.
3. Subject entries: 131 Worth knowing: Original government underlying subject-results workbook. Source qualification: GCE AS level. 2017 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. Fail/No results is the original combined category; it is not relabelled as grade U. The metadata uses both “under5” and “five or fewer” descriptions of suppression; the printed Supp cells are retained without choosing a hidden value.
4. Subject entries: 20 Worth knowing: Original government underlying subject-results workbook. Source qualification: GCE AS level. 2017 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. Fail/No results is the original combined category; it is not relabelled as grade U. The metadata uses both “under5” and “five or fewer” descriptions of suppression; the printed Supp cells are retained without choosing a hidden value.

1. Qualification, as the source names it: Free standing Maths Qual Level 3. What it counts: 2017 government KS4 completion-cohort subject entries Subject entries: 58 Where it’s from: Original publication Worth knowing: Original government underlying subject-results workbook. Source qualification: Free standing Maths Qual Level 3. Results concern the source-defined end-of-KS4 population and may include qualifications taken earlier. The qualifications counted in performance tables changed; this is not necessarily every school examination entry. 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.