Strong A level results at Blundell’s

Blundell’s School is delighted to announce a strong set of provisional A level results.  In a year group of 87 pupils, 41% of the results gained were A*/A, 69% achieved A*/B grades and 87% gained A* - C grades.

Almost a quarter of the year group achieved three grade As or better at A level, with 25 pupils getting at least one A* or higher and 29 (a third) achieving grades of AAB or higher. The pass rate was 96%.

The four pupils who had been offered places at Oxford and Cambridge all met their offers: Ed Nash will read Medicine at Gonville and Caius, Cambridge; Run Zhao will read Mathematics at Churchill College, Cambridge; Ben Charles goes to Keble College, Oxford to read Law and James Perring to St Catherine’s, Oxford to read Medicine. Ed, Ben and James all live in Mid Devon.

Other popular university destinations are Durham, Imperial College, Warwick, Reading, Bristol, Leeds and Manchester. Three pupils will go on to take Medicine next year; in addition to James and Ed at Oxford and Cambridge, Frank Thornton Wood has secured a place at Imperial College, London to study the subject.

Blundell’s Head Nicola Huggett said “These are a very good set of A level results which demonstrate all the hard work put in by our Year 13 pupils.

"Alongside their academic studies they have also been involved in a wide range of top level sporting and musical commitments whilst helping the school as a whole to raise more than £20,000 for charity this year alone.

"To have achieved such strong examination results is all the more commendable.

"I am thrilled for them and also for their teachers who have supported the pupils so well  throughout their studies.”
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