Thick Brits?

Northern Ireland students are top of the class when it comes to A-Levels.

More A* and A grades were awarded to Northern Ireland candidates than in England and Wales, according to the Joint Council for Qualifications (JCQ).

The percentage of top grades in Northern Ireland was 31.9% — 5.4 percentage points higher than England and 7.3 percentage points higher than Wales.

And just 1.9% of entries here failed to get an A-Level pass.


Read more: http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/n...ip-in-best-grades-16199231.html#ixzz24NdeyAMX

Northern Ireland students have bucked the national trend of falling GCSE grades and instead have seen a slight improvement in their results.

Almost 32,000 pupils in Northern Ireland received their GCSE results on Thursday morning.

A* to C grades have gone up by a small margin to 75.6% compared to the national UK average which has fallen to 68.4%.

In Northern Ireland only 1% did not get any pass grade.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-19348742


Considering those from NI most likely to consider themselves Irish far outdo those that consider themselves British it seems that we have long ago lost our thick mantle

 

There are no A Levels or GCSE's in Scotland.

 

I never said there was.

 

That's alright then. As long as we're clear on that.

 

****! This needs sorting out, can't we get a petition going or something?

 

ciaran are you saying, and i hink i agree with you here, that irishmen who admit they are from ireland are clever?

medro - your thoughts.....

 

Thats right. Theres the cycling proficiency and 25 yard backstroke certificates and thats it. The swimming is optional.

 

Also, we're mostly too fat and lazy to do the cycling proficiency.

Or our bike has been nicked by a mink.

 

There's millions of second generation irish kids in mainland Britain so they're probably just bringing the grades down

 

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When did this shift occur? Or are you simply guessing?

 

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I still have my 10m badge stitched onto my swimming trunks <speedos>

 

Or bringing them up if you use common sense. Probably to do with the high percentage of Catholic schools here compared to Britain.

 

10 minutes of chokey. Part-timer, I've got the 4x800m badge.

 

Catholc school leavers have a 33% chance of earning the grades required to enter University compared with 17% of state school leavers. Nothing made up, it's been talkked about on our news and papers several times lately. It wasn't a shift anyway.

 

medro this is good news for you - why are you upset??

the school that you went to, that is your "local", and that your kids will go to is clearly a high performer

at last you being irish is paying off

 

Of course, you're all thick as pigshit compared to Scots. What's this taking 2 years to do your Uni entrance exams nonsense? Slackers, the lot of you.

 

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Who knew that being bummed by a priest improved your grades?