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Dept for Education and Skills

Answer

Mr. Laws: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills what proportion of students taking (a) GCSE mathematics, (b) GCSE history, (c) GCSE English, (d) GCSE French and (e) GCSE physics received an (i) A grade, (ii) C grade and (iii) pass or better in each year from 1989 to 2004; and if he will make a statement. [192133] Mr. Miliband: The information requested is shown in the following table. Percentage of 15 year old pupils achieving GCSE/GNVQs at the following subjects and grades _________________________________________________________________________________________________. Maths History English Year1,2 A*/A C A*-G A*/A C A*-G A*/A C A*-G 1989 -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- 1990 -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- 1991 -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- 1992 7.8 22.5 94.0 11.5 19.9 94.9 8.3 26.0 98.3 1993 10.2 24.2 94.5 13.9 20.7 95.6 10.9 26.4 98.6 1994 10.2 20.2 95.3 14.5 20.4 95.6 11.2 25.8 97.0 1995 9.5 21.3 94.9 15.0 19.7 94.8 11.1 25.1 96.9 1996 10.1 21.3 95.5 16.5 19.5 96.0 11.6 24.8 97.3 1997 10.7 21.3 95.6 17.3 19.5 96.0 11.3 24.8 97.4 1998 11.1 20.2 95.0 19.6 18.9 96.5 12.3 25.6 99.0 1999 11.6 20.3 96.2 21.1 18.8 96.9 13.0 25.1 99.1 2000 11.9 21.0 96.8 22.8 18.4 97.3 14.0 24.9 98.9 2001 12.3 21.3 96.7 23.6 18.2 97.2 14.4 25.0 98.8 2002 13.3 21.3 96.9 24.2 18.3 96.8 14.5 24.7 98.6 2003 12.9 21.2 96.1 25.5 18.3 96.9 15.2 24.3 98.6 2004 13.2 22.3 96.5 26.2 18.0 97.1 15.6 25.1 98.0 French Physics A*/A C A*-G A*/A C A*-G 1989 -- -- -- -- -- -- 1990 -- -- -- -- -- -- 1991 -- -- -- -- -- -- 1992 12.4 14.5 96.0 16.1 25.2 98.0 1993 17.4 15.4 96.5 29.2 22.4 99.0 1994 17.8 16.0 97.1 35.2 22.7 99.4 1995 17.3 16.8 96.6 38.7 19.0 99.0 1996 17.9 16.9 97.0 39.2 17.1 99.3 1997 17.9 16.8 96.9 39.7 19.1 99.3 1998 17.0 18.3 98.5 43.2 19.9 99.4 1999 17.2 19.6 98.7 45.5 19.3 99.5 2000 17.0 20.2 98.6 45.5 18.9 99.6 2001 16.7 22.0 98.5 45.7 19.7 99.5 2002 16.9 21.9 98.5 46.8 19.6 99.5 2003 16.7 20.4 97.8 46.6 19.5 99.6 2004 17.1 20.8 97.9 48.2 19.1 99.7 _________________________________________________________________________________________________. 1 Figures from 1989 are not available 2 Figures for 1992 are based on the results of 15 year old pupils in maintained schools only.

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

425 c1156-8W; 192133

Session

2003-04

Subjects

Education Languages History France English language Qualifications Pupils Standards GCSE Physics GNVQs

Contains statistics

Yes

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