Wales Office: Billing
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Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many students sat A-levels in (a) mathematics, (b) further mathematics, (c) physics, (d) chemistry and (e) biology in (i) City of Chester constituency and (ii) Cheshire West and Chester council area in (A) 2009 and (B) 2013.
The requested information is provided in the following table.
GCE A level results1 of students aged 16 to 182 Years: 2008/09 and 2012/133 Coverage: City of Chester parliamentary constituency4 | |||||||
| Year | Number of students entered for: | ||||||
| Biological Sciences | Chemistry | Physics | Mathematics | Further Mathematics | ||
2008/09 | 70 | 51 | 51 | 101 | 11 | ||
2012/13 | 92 | 84 | 61 | 119 | 21 | ||
Source: Key Stage 5 attainment data 1. Includes A levels only. 2. Covers students aged 16, 17 or 18 at the start of the 2012/13 academic year, i.e. 31 August. 3. Figures for 2012/13 are revised and 2008/09 figures are final. 4. Covers all state-funded mainstream schools, academies, free schools, maintained special schools and FE Sector Colleges (excludes Independent Schools, pupil referral units and other Government department funded). Note: Where qualifications taken by a student are in the same subject area and similar in content, "discounting" rules have been applied to avoid double counting qualifications. Please see the "Technical Notes" in the Main text of the SFR available at: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/a-level-and-other-level-3-results-england-2012-to-2013-revised | |||||||