{"id":869,"date":"2013-08-15T19:59:58","date_gmt":"2013-08-15T19:59:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.net-recruit.co.uk\/blog\/?p=616"},"modified":"2013-08-15T19:59:58","modified_gmt":"2013-08-15T19:59:58","slug":"a-level-results-2013-the-stats-you-need-to-know","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pp.dc86.work\/?p=869","title":{"rendered":"A Level results 2013 &#8211; the stats you need to know"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">As the day draws to a close and people begin to wind down for the evening, a large population of 18 year olds around the country will just be heading out to celebrate\u00a0or in some cases to drown their sorrows. Unless you&#8217;ve been hiding under a rock, you&#8217;ll be well aware that today was A-level results day in the UK. If you&#8217;re a fan of the social network twitter you will have noticed it was ablaze with tweets from students, colleges and even the odd <a title=\"Carol Vorderman tweets a-level students\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/carolvorders\/status\/367946772808994816\">celebrity well wisher<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Just incase you&#8217;ve missed todays events, here is a roundup of the key stats from the 2013 A Level results&#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The overall A*-E pass rate has risen ever so slightly by 0.1%, with 98.1% of students achieving at least an E grade compared with 98% last year.<\/li>\n<li>A record 385,910 students had accepted places by this morning<\/li>\n<li>A total of 26.3% of entries scored an A or A* this year, this is down from 26.6% in 2012 when the pass rate at both grades fell for the first time in more than 20 years.<\/li>\n<li>22% of A* grades were in south-east while only 3% were in north-east<\/li>\n<li>Biology, chemistry and physics accounted for 17.8% of all entries<\/li>\n<li>In contrast to the above, young people are still turning their backs on modern languages with both French and German entries down again this year &#8211; although Spanish bucked the trend.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the day draws to a close and people begin to wind down for the evening, a large population of 18 year olds around the country will just be heading out to celebrate\u00a0or in some cases to drown their sorrows. Unless you&#8217;ve been hiding under a rock, you&#8217;ll be well aware that today was A-level [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[89],"tags":[114,115],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pp.dc86.work\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/869"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pp.dc86.work\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pp.dc86.work\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pp.dc86.work\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pp.dc86.work\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=869"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pp.dc86.work\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/869\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pp.dc86.work\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pp.dc86.work\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pp.dc86.work\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}