NLCS: Pre-U, 2019

Every row: Qualification, as the source names it: Pre-U Principal Subject. What it counts: 2019 government KS5 completion-cohort subject entries Where it’s from: Original publication

1. Subject entries: 6 Worth knowing: Original government underlying subject-results workbook. Source qualification: Pre-U Principal Subject. 2019 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.
2. Worth knowing: Original government underlying subject-results workbook. Source qualification: Pre-U Principal Subject. 2019 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.
3. Subject entries: 21 Worth knowing: Original government underlying subject-results workbook. Source qualification: Pre-U Principal Subject. 2019 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: 12 Worth knowing: Original government underlying subject-results workbook. Source qualification: Pre-U Principal Subject. 2019 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.
5. Subject entries: 19 Worth knowing: Original government underlying subject-results workbook. Source qualification: Pre-U Principal Subject. 2019 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.
6. Subject entries: 16 Worth knowing: Original government underlying subject-results workbook. Source qualification: Pre-U Principal Subject. 2019 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.