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How CIE graded the A levels results? My personal view. 

This is only applicable for A2 students
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You may think who am I to have a view on this matter so I also received A2 predicted results and by talking with my friends and teachers about the result I came up with two things how cie graded the result and what the college impacted on it. 

Altough many of the students had a very bad week even some of my friends had bad results but my grade were really good. I got straight 'a' in As with over 90 uniform percentile marks on the 4 A levels I sit during O/N 19 session so I was expecting 4A* and that is what I got. And the subjects were Chemistry, Physics, Computer Science and Maths. 

So let's come directly to point. How did Cambridge really graded the students. 

1. The most important thing they viewed during awarding grades was Institutions past history mainly the past 2 years. How can I say that? our college has produced a world topper in CS and national topper in physics, chemistry in the June 19 session and there were a lot A* in A small sample size. Almost 15A* and 30As in the sample of 40 students. That's how we were benefitted, institutions with smaller sample size but high volume A* were given good grades. 

2. The another important thing especially for A2 students was the candidates AS level results. It was after the 1st point was justified. And then comes the ranking send by the teacher. 

      Let's Assume there are 50 students in college and they had a good history in results with over 20 A* the past session. So There are 3 students X, Y, Z. And let's take a example of a subject maths. X has achieved  'a', Y and Z has achieved 'b'. And teacher has predicted a grade above than they got like B to A. So in this small sample size and good history the teachers prediction will be awarded. 

  And let's assume another point of view. There are over 200 students in an institution and there oast history is same as the first college I mentioned above. But the sample size is big so the same X, Y, Z students will get a grade lowerd by 1 or even 2 and 3 steps. 

The grades that are lowered are mainly of Lower A and B students because their results are hardest to predict. Because a student who get B or Lower A in AS can get A* or even D in their A level result but The higher A and C, D, E students doesn't deviate from their As result. And that's what happened in this case too. 

Note : This is my personal belief you might not want agree with me. Comments are well appreciated.

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