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A-level grades—A Matter of Degree?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 September 2016

Johnston Anderson
Johnston Anderson*
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, The University, Nottingham NG7 2RD
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A question which often seems to interest and intrigue schoolteachers is to what extent A-level grades provide good predictions of final degree classification. It has been suspected by many university mathematics departments that the answer is ‘not very much’, and that other factors play a considerable rôle. This note provides some evidence in favour of this contention. The table below indicates what happened to 589 students (see Note 1) who entered a particular university mathematics department over a period of five years, 1971-75, and who were therefore expected to graduate in the years 1974-78.

Type
Research Article
Information
The Mathematical Gazette , Volume 63 , Issue 423 , March 1979 , pp. 7 - 10
Copyright
Copyright © Mathematical Association 1979

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