News / Last year’s exams
SHETLAND’S schools had another good year in 2011 at the exam table, according to figures being presented to Shetland Islands Council’s families and education committee on Wednesday.
A total of 619 students sat 3,433 exams last year with:
• 87 per cent of advanced higher students achieving grade C or better in at least one subject (up from 67 per cent in 2010);
• 80 per cent of higher level students achieving grade C or better in at least one subject (same as 2010);
• five per cent of higher candidates achieving at least one A grade (same as 2010);
• 60 per cent of standard grade candidates achieving a credit grade or better in at least one subject (58 per cent in 2010);
• 84 per cent of Intermediate 2 candidates achieving grade C or better in at least one subject (up to 2 per cent on 2010);
• a four per cent increase in people achieving at least one A grade at Internediate 2.
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