Senior School Exam Results
CONGRATULATIONS STUDENTS!
High Levels of Attainment and Record A Level Results!
I’m delighted to report that the majority of pupils achieved high levels of attainment in 2010-11 and Sixth Formers achieved record A level results which were higher than the selective (grammar) and independent schools averages in the UK! This helps to strengthen our school’s official status as an ‘Outstanding’ and ‘High Performing School’. I thank staff and parents for their combined efforts and congratulate pupils and students upon their successes. Well done everyone!
High Attainment and Outstanding Progress
I’ve presented the attainment results for each key stage below, but please remember that very many pupils make outstanding progress in our school even though they might not reach the highest level of attainment. For example, a pupil who is predicted to obtain a grade E but achieves a grade B has made exemplary progress and better than a student who was predicted a grade B and obtains an A. The latter’s attainment is high but the former’s progress is best. We shall celebrate the achievements of pupils who made exemplary progress in a later edition of our weekly newsletter. I’m particularly proud of many of our students who have learning difficulties because so many of them made outstanding progress last year.
Here are our attainment results for 2011.
Key Stage 1 (age 7) Results - The expected standard of attainment at the end of Key Stage 1 is Level 2C. The table shows the percentage of pupils who achieved at or beyond each level compared to the national averages for the UK.
| Reading | <L1 | L1+ | L2C+ | L2B+ | L2A+ | L3+ |
| BSM | 0 | 100 | 98 | 97 | 83 | 54 |
| National | 3 | 97 | 85 | 742 | 50 | 26 |
| Difference | -3 | 3 | 13 | 23 | 33 | 28 |
| Writing | ||||||
| BSM | 0 | 100 | 88 | 68 | 68 | 31 |
| National | 4 | 96 | 81 | 61 | 32 | 13 |
| Difference | -4 | 4 | 17 | 27 | 36 | 18 |
| Maths | ||||||
| BSM | 0 | 100 | 100 | 100 | 83 | 46 |
| National | 2 | 98 | 90 | 74 | 47 | 20 |
| Difference | -2 | 2 | 10 | 26 | 36 | 26 |
Key Stage 2 (age 11) Results
The expected standard of attainment at the end of Key Stage 2 is Level 4. The table shows the percentage of pupils who achieved at or beyond each level compared to the national averages for the UK.
| English | <L3 | L3+ | L4+ | L5+ |
| BSM | 0 | 100 | 100 | 29 |
| National | 7 | 93 | 81 | 29 |
| Difference | -7 | 7 | 19 | 0 |
| Maths | <L3 | L3+ | L4+ | L5+ |
| BSM | 0 | 100 | 97 | 46 |
| National | 5 | 95 | 80 | 35 |
| Difference | -5 | 5 | 17 | 11 |
| Science | <L3 | L3+ | L4+ | L5+ |
| BSM | 0 | 100 | 99 | 76 |
| National | 3 | 97 | 85 | 35 |
| Difference | -3 | 3 | 14 | 19 |
Exemplary Key Stage 2 Attainment
The following pupils achieved exemplary levels of attainment at the end of Key Stage 2:
Maths
Jack Burke achieved 100% on his Mathematics paper.
Key Stage 3 (age 14) Results
The expected standard of attainment at the end of Key Stage 3 is half way between Level 5 and 6. Please note that students can only achieve Level 8 in maths. The table shows the percentage of pupils who achieved at or beyond each level compared to the national averages for the UK.
| English | <L4 | L4+ | L5+ | L6+ | L7+ | L8+ |
| BSM | 4 | 100 | 89 | 52 | 17 | N/A |
| National | 6 | 94 | 82 | 47 | 12 | N/A |
| Difference | -2 | 6 | 17 | 5 | 5 | N/A |
| Maths | ||||||
| BSM | 2 | 98 | 95 | 79 | 59 | 38 |
| National | 6 | 94 | 81 | 59 | 29 | 9 |
| Difference | -6 | 4 | 14 | 20 | 30 | 29 |
| Science | ||||||
| BSM | 0 | 100 | 93 | 73 | 30 | N/A |
| National | 5 | 95 | 83 | 51 | 17 | N/A |
| Difference | -5 | 5 | 10 | 22 | 13 | N/A |
Exemplary Key Stage 3 Attainment
The following pupils achieved exemplary levels of attainment at the end of Key Stage 3:
English - Level 8
HyeonKo, Alastair Reith and Georgia Mahoney.
Maths - Level 8
Hyeon Ko; Alastair Reith; Matt Butler; Aya Hanaey; Yousuf Ahmed; Boyana Pavlovic and Euan Guckian.
Science
Key Stage 4 (age 16) GCSE Results
The standard measure of GCSE performance is the percentage of students who gain five or more GCSEs graded A*-C including English and maths. This is shown below as 5A*-Ci. The percentage of A* and A grades is also a standard measure of attainment. Both measures for BSM are very high, which is a credit to many of our students and their teachers.
| GCSE % | A*C | 5A*-C | 5A*-Ci | A*/A |
| BSM | 79 | 79 | 79 | 47 |
| National | 53 | 50 | 50 | 23 |
| Difference | 16 | 29 | 29 | 24 |
Exemplary GCSE Attainment
The following students achieved exemplary levels of attainment at GCSE:
Joanna Achkhanian 9A*, 2A; Rastee Chaudhry 3A*, 4A, 3B; Alex Davenport7A*, 1A, 2B; Harriet Doyle9A*, 3A; Laura Dunbar8A*, 2A; Omar El-Sharawy7A*, 5A, 1C; Anouk Goosens 5A*, 1A, 4B; Ashwin Gopakumar 6A*, 3A; Anna Guckian3A*, 9A; Katie Howland 5A*, 6A, 1B; Camilla Irvine-Fortescue 3A*, 6A, 1B; Hanna Kozak-King 6A*, 5A; Aala Osman2A*, 8A, 2B; Amy Parsons 3A*, 4A, 3B; Patrick Pender 5A*, 5A; Ashhad Rizvi 4A*, 4A, 2B; Olivia Situmorang 4A*, 5A, 1B and Olivia Yates 5A*, 4A, 1B
Exemplary Attainment in GCSE Maths
100% of Year 11 students achieved C grades or above.
Fast Tracked GCSE Maths Students
A group of Year 10 students sat and passed their GCSE Maths examinations one year early and achieved high grades. This is exemplary attainment. They were:
Maths
Kieran Armstrong A*, Eseoghene Ewhro A*, Sophie Starke A*, Lauren Elliot A* Aastha Arora A*, JackStudman A*, Steynde Klerk A, AlishaBaird A, Edward Douglas A, Sara El-Atherah A, Daniel Brand A, Alex O'Hanlon A, Kieran Gray A, Callum Hutchinson A.
Exemplary Attainment in IGCSE Science
Six students entered for Triple Award Science and of these the following students achieved A* in all three science subjects:
Joanna Achkhanian and Omar el Sharawy, Ashad Rizvi achieved A* in Biology and Physics and A in Chemistry.
The majority of students were entered for Double Award Science and the following students achieved A*A*:
Rastee Choudry, Alex Davenport, Harriet Doyle, Laura Dunbar, Anouk Goosens, Hanna Kozak-King, Patrick Pender, Olivia Situmorang, Olivia Yates, Alice Withers.
GCE A Level
At GCE A Level (usually sat in Year 13) grades A to E are a pass. Their attainment results are:
| GCE A Level % | A-E | A* | A*/A | A&B |
| BSM | 100 | 15 | 36 | 65 |
| National | 98 | 9 | 30 | 54 |
| Difference | 2 | 6 | 6 | 13 |
Exemplary A Level Grade A* and Grade A*/A Attainment
The grade of A* was introduced for the first time this year and I’m very pleased to report that 23% of students’ grades were A* compared to 9% for all schools in the UK, 12.5% for selective (grammar) schools and 17.9% for independent schools. Additionally, 55% of students’ grades were A or above compared with 30% for all schools in the UK.
Comparisons With The UK - The following table shows how our 2011 results compare with schools in sectors in the UK:.
| National Comparison | |||||||
| % | A* | A | B | C | D | E | U |
| Comprehensives | 5.8 | 15.3 | 24.5 | 25.5 | 17.8 | 8.4 | 2.7 |
| Secondary Modern | 3.5 | 9.5 | 21.8 | 27.4 | 21.8 | 11.5 | 4.5 |
| FE/6th Form College | 5.5 | 14.7 | 24.8 | 26.0 | 17.7 | 8.4 | 2.9 |
| Selective/Grammar | 12.5 | 27.8 | 28.2 | 18.4 | 8.8 | 3.3 | 1.0 |
| Independent | 17.9 | 32.9 | 25.7 | 14.1 | 6.3 | 2.4 | 0.7 |
| All UK Schools | 8.1 | 18.9 | 25.2 | 23.2 | 15.2 | 7 | 2.4 |
| BSM | 15 | 21 | 28 | 20 | 10 | 6 | 0 |
Strings of A* and A Grades For Exemplary A Level Attainment
The following students achieved exemplary levels of attainment at A Level with many A* and A grades:
Alex Hall 4A*, Lydia Cockerham2A*, 2A, Won Ko 2A*, 2A, Georgie Smith 2A*, 1A, Maxine Whelan1A*, 3A, Ramdisa Agasi1A*, 3A and Lamyr Megnin1A*, 2A.
Fast Tracked A Level Maths Students Gain A* and A Grades
A group of Year 12 students sat and passed their A level maths examinations one year early and achieved A* and A grades. This is exemplary attainment. They were:
Saksham Dhawan A*, Danny Dunbar A, Theo Poulton A and Putri Sepriyani A
Year 13 A Level Maths Students Gain A* and A Grades
Alexander Hall A*, Kirsty Hulse A* Maxine Whelan A* Abdul Ghaffar A, Georgina Smith A, Nadia Hamzah A and Mutiara Mohd Noor A
Year 13 A Level Further Maths Students Gain A* and A Grades
Won Ko A*, RamdisaAgasi A, RayyanAl-Farsi A, Jae-Ho Kwak A and LamyrMegnin A.
Year 13 A Level Science Students Gain A Grades
Ramdisa Agazzi and Won Ko in Physics and Chemistry
Abdul Ghaffar Khan in Biology and Chemistry
Maxine Whelan in Biology
Lamyr Megnin in Chemistry
Lydia Cockeran and Nasser al Haddabi in Physics
Well Done Everyone!
Results Archive
HEAD OF SENIOR SCHOOL
The British School – Muscat's Senior School is a vibrant, multi-cultural community made up of students from currently thirty-eight different nationalities. Our staff and students are united by the medium of the English language in a caring, friendly and happy atmosphere which resonates throughout our school.
In recent years, the Senior School has grown considerably both in terms of the number of students on roll and the breadth of courses on offer to our students. However, by ensuring that class sizes are kept low, the quality of education we offer to our students is first class. Our public examination results are outstanding. In the 2009 - 2010 academic year, 90% of our Year 11 students attained 5 GCSEs graded A* to C. At 'A' Level, 70% of grades awarded to our students were A* to B.
Head of Senior School Nadia Megnin
