Higher Grades for More Students at St Brendan's Catholic College

Saint Brendan’s College students have once again been very successful in the A Level results published today. Over 400 students were involved in more than 900 subject entries this summer. The pass rate of 96.4% is above the national average, as it was last year, and the proportion of students with passes at the higher grades [A – C] is 66.4%, which is the national average.

As usual there were exceptional achievements by individual students, for example, ten students each gained four passes at Grade A. Louise Hennessey was placed in the top five in the country for Law out of 6428 candidates. The media is reporting more students are gaining the higher grades and this seems to support that. Two brothers from Westbury on Trym, Nick Blundell, the elder, and David Blundell achieved four passes at A2 and five passes at AS, respectively. Bambang Farida, an overseas student from Singapore, passed three subjects at Grade A and one Grade B. During the first year of study he had no family around to help. In the second year, brother Hartono, joined him and added family responsibilities to Bambang’s workload!

Derek Bodey, Principal of the College, said, “We are delighted for our students. These results will enable almost all of them to proceed to the Higher Education course or employment for which they have applied. It’s always a joy for us to see so many smiling faces. All who work in education are aware that, shortly, the media will be declaring A Level examinations to be too easy, but today is about youngsters working hard too achieve their goals. We should allow them to enjoy their well earned successes”

Geoff Collard
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