Cyprus A-level results mirror UK trends

By Melina Demetriou

FULL A-level results for Cyprus are expected to be posted on the British Council’s website (www.britishcouncil.org.cy) by today.

Individual candidates will receive their official results by mail on Monday or Tuesday, the British Council’s director assistant, Agnie Charitou said yesterday.

British Council officials said it was too early to provide overall pass rate statistics for Cyprus, but said they expected the figures to mirror trends in they UK, which have seen grades improving over the last year and girls doing better than boys.

This year’s most popular subjects among students in Cyprus were maths, accountancy, physics, chemistry, biology, statistics and economics, Charitou said.

Pupils can enquire about their result on: 02 672550.

Individual English schools had the results available for pupils from Thursday morning.

A representative from the Falcon School in Nicosia said 94,36 per cent of its pupils who sat for the exams passed, marking an increase of about two per cent from last year. The overall UK average this year was 89.1 per cent.

“We are very pleased with the results,” the spokesman said.

“Girls have indeed done a little better than boys, maybe by 3,5 per cent,” he added.

“Students did really well in maths, biology, history and French. The physics and geography papers were a bit difficult as they contained questions that had not been covered by the syllabus.”

The Falcon has already introduced the modular A-level pilot scheme, the representative said.

“Students can start taking exams in the sixth form so they have two years to prepare and finish their A-levels. In a way, it’s better for them like this.”

Other schools in Cyprus and the UK have also begun introducing the new modular A and AS-level programme, which will have to be in place across the board in the next two years, he said.

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