IB, A Level, BTEC & GCSE Results

ACADEMIC HIGHLIGHTS 2017

IB, A LEVEL, BTEC & GCSE

EXAMINATION RESULTS

IB, A Level, BTEC & GCSE Results

> In terms of academic achievement, 2017 was another outstanding year.

> At GCSE, 85% of all grades were at A* or A, our second highest performance ever. Over half of all

GCSE grades achieved were at A*.

> 22 pupils in the Upper Fifth Form achieved a clean sweep of A* grades. In total, 92 boys achieved all

A*/A grades in their GCSE examinations.

> In the Upper Sixth Form, results in the International Baccalaureate were outstanding. Our average

points total of 39.7 out of 45 is the best in the country for an all-boys school.

> 83% of all grades awarded in the IB were 6 or 7 (the highest possible). Milo Basak Whitbread and

Luke Hatteland-Dunn achieved the rare feat of gaining a perfect score of 45 out of 45. Over half of

the boys in the cohort scored 40 points or more.

> The A*-B rate for A Level was 88%. 44 pupils achieved straight A*/A grades. The A*-B rate for A Level

and the IB Diploma combined was 89%.

> There was tremendous success in gaining places at top universities, including 31 to Oxford,

Cambridge and London Universities combined. In all, over 70% of boys secured admission to their

first-choice university, mostly at Russell Group universities.

> ResultsintheExtendedProjectQualificationwereexcellent.Researchtopicsrangedwidelyfrom

‘To what extent is Obama’s America post-racial?’ to ‘The relationship between the political and the

personal in the life and works of Graham Greene’.

> 54 pupils in the Upper Fifth Form completed the challenging Additional Mathematics qualification,

with 42 obtaining the top grade.

IB, A Level, BTEC & GCSE Results

ACADEMIC HIGHLIGHTS 2017

BTEC National Diploma

> Seven boys completed the Level 3 Extended Diploma in Sport & Exercise Science in 2017, with Will

Ward achieving D*D*D* and Jumal Nelson achieving DDD.

> Six boys gained the Level 3 Extended Diploma (18 units) in Business, with four achieving D*D*D*

and the remainder with D*DD and D*D*D. Cameron Wilkins, Henry Burnett and James Culff

achieved the maximum points possible in every unit. One boy gained the Level 3 Diploma (12 units),

achieving D*D*, and a further five boys completed the Subsidiary Diploma (six units), achieving D*.

STEM Subjects: Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics

> Senior Mathematics Challenge: 8 gold, 31 silver and 30 bronze awards. Six pupils qualified for the

Senior Kangaroo paper, with four achieving a merit.

> Intermediate Mathematics Challenge: 17 gold, 38 silver and 28 bronze awards. 19 boys qualified

for further rounds, with Anant Gupta coming in the top 10 in the country and being awarded a

Distinction and medal for the Intermediate Maths Olympiad.

> Junior Mathematics Challenge: 21 gold, 33 silver and 41 bronze awards. Eight pupils qualified for

further rounds. Martin von Domselaar and Mikaeel Toosy achieved a merit in the Junior Olympiad

paper, and Kai Lam came in the top 50 for the second year in a row, achieving a Distinction along

with a silver medal and book prize.

> Hans Woyda Maths Competition for London Schools: Whitgift beat Trinity, Caterham and

Woldingham to win their group. They went on to defeat Dulwich, before losing to Hampton, the

eventual winners of the Southern knockout section.

> Sixth Form RSC Chemistry Olympiad: 2 gold, 2 silver and 6 bronze awards.

> Cambridge Chemistry Challenge: Shintaro Nishijo achieved a gold award and Cyrus Hung a bronze.

> Lower Fifth Form Biology Challenge: 8 gold, 24 silver and 18 bronze awards.

> Sixth Form Biology Olympiad: 1 gold (Mark Lord), 4 silver and 2 bronze awards.

> BritishPhysicsOlympiad:fiveboysachievedawardsincludingsilversforJunTakeuchiandArchieCoomber.

> Physics GCSE Challenge: Ben Peard achieved a gold award, Euan Pringle a silver and there were 22

bronze awards.

IB, A Level, BTEC & GCSE Results

ACADEMIC HIGHLIGHTS 2017

Languages highlights

> Four pupils have been accepted to read Modern Languages at Oxford.

> 27 students achieved A* grades in two languages and three students attained A* grades in three

languages.

> 38% of our Upper Sixth Formers gained an A Level (or equivalent qualification) in a modern

language.

> Rhys Crossman made it into the finals of the Nihongo-cup Japanese speech contest held at the

Japanese Embassy.

> Nathan Carême-Hans was awarded First Prize in the Secondary School category of the French Prix du jeune journaliste.

> Ilia Sadeghipour won the regional Spanish Spelling Bee competition for London.

> Michael Dohnji chose to write his IB extended essay on traditional Chinese culture entirely in

Mandarin Chinese, achieving a top grade.

> 67 Lower Sixth Form pupils entered the challenging UK Linguistics Olympiad. Five pupils attained

bronze awards, one pupil (Mana Bawa) attained a silver, and one pupil (Max Anderson) achieved the

prestigious gold award.

Other successes

> In his Theology and Philosophy GCSE, Ben Peard managed to score full marks on every one of his four

papers, a remarkable achievement in this subject.

> Debating goes from strength to strength. Fifth Formers Alex Carpenter and Issac Fung qualified for

the Finals Days of both the Oxford and Cambridge Schools Debating Competitions 2017.

IB, A Level, BTEC & GCSE Results

ACADEMIC HIGHLIGHTS 2017

The 209 Fifth Form candidates were entered for an average of 10.1 subjects per boy.

GRADE A* A B C OTHER

2017 CUMULATIVE % 51.0 85.2 98.0 99.7 100.0

3-YEAR AVERAGE % 51.4 84.5 97.3 99.7 100.0

2017 GCSE and IGCSE Level Results by Department

SUBJECTS Entries A* A B C Other A* – C % A*/A %

Arabic 1 0 0 1 0 0 100.0% 0.0%

Art & Design 12 4 2 5 1 0 100.0% 50.0%

Art & Design (Graphics) 14 7 2 3 2 0 100.0% 64.3%

Biology 166 122 28 12 1 3 98.2% 90.4%

Chemistry 164 110 32 17 5 0 100.0% 86.6%

Chinese 58 33 15 8 1 1 98.3% 82.8%

Classical Greek 6 6 0 0 0 0 100.0% 100.0%

Computer Science 39 20 16 3 0 0 100.0% 92.3%

DT (Product Design) 36 4 19 11 0 2 94.4% 63.9%

DT 20 8 10 2 0 0 100.0% 90.0%

Drama 15 4 8 3 0 0 100.0% 80.0%

Economics 68 57 10 1 0 0 100.0% 98.5%

English Language 209 114 79 15 1 0 100.0% 92.3%

English Literature 184 78 76 26 4 0 100.0% 83.7%

French 60 22 15 21 2 0 100.0% 61.7%

Geography 129 44 56 28 1 0 100.0% 77.5%

German 47 21 18 8 0 0 100.0% 83.0%

History 147 50 70 23 4 0 100.0% 81.6%

Italian 1 1 0 0 0 0 100.0% 100.0%

Japanese 27 8 10 8 1 0 100.0% 66.7%

Latin 15 14 1 0 0 0 100.0% 100.0%

Mathematics 208 128 68 10 2 0 100.0% 94.2%

Music 14 6 7 1 0 0 100.0% 92.9%

PE 67 27 38 2 0 0 100.0% 97.0%

Physics 164 103 44 12 4 1 99.4% 89.6%

Religious Studies (Philosophy/Ethics) 90 44 35 9 2 0 100.0% 87.8%

Science A (Double Award) 43 8 21 14 0 0 100.0% 67.4%

Science B (Double Award) 43 3 16 21 3 0 100.0% 44.2%

Spanish 71 35 27 7 2 0 100.0% 87.3%

TOTALS 2118 1081 723 271 36 7 99.7% 85.2%

Entries A B C Other

Additional Maths 54 42 6 3 3

Results include all re-marks

GCSE 2017

The 128 Sixth Form candidates were entered for an average of 3.1 subjects per pupil.

GRADE A* A B C OTHER

2017 CUMULATIVE % 16.6 57.8 87.7 97.7 100.0

3-YEAR AVERAGE % 24.4 64.1 89.6 97.9 100.0

2017 Advanced Level Results by Department

SUBJECTS Entries A* A B C Other Pass % A*-B %

Art (Photography) 1 0 1 0 0 0 100.0% 100.0%

Art (Graphics) 4 0 2 0 0 2 100.0% 50.0%

Biology 35 4 13 12 5 1 100.0% 82.9%

Business Studies 4 0 0 3 1 0 100.0% 75.0%

Chemistry 44 7 15 15 6 1 100.0% 84.1%

Chinese 2 0 2 0 0 0 100.0% 100.0%

Classical Civilisation 4 0 1 1 2 0 100.0% 50.0%

Computing 4 1 2 1 0 0 100.0% 100.0%

DT 4 0 0 2 2 0 100.0% 50.0%

Economics 26 5 12 6 2 1 100.0% 88.5%

English Literature 20 2 12 6 0 0 100.0% 100.0%

French 8 4 3 1 0 0 100.0% 100.0%

Further Mathematics 17 6 11 0 0 0 100.0% 100.0%

Geography 24 1 12 8 3 0 100.0% 87.5%

German 7 0 6 0 1 0 100.0% 85.7%

History 25 1 11 12 1 0 100.0% 96.0%

Japanese 1 0 0 1 0 0 100.0% 100.0%

Latin 1 0 1 0 0 0 100.0% 100.0%

Mathematics 74 25 23 22 4 0 100.0% 94.6%

Music 1 0 1 0 0 0 100.0% 100.0%

PE 4 0 0 2 2 0 100.0% 50.0%

Physics 35 5 14 8 6 2 100.0% 77.1%

Politics 18 0 7 8 3 0 100.0% 83.3%

Psychology 9 0 2 6 0 1 100.0% 88.9%

Religious Studies 10 0 7 2 0 1 100.0% 90.0%

Russian 1 0 1 0 0 0 100.0% 100.0%

Spanish 8 4 2 1 1 0 100.0% 87.5%

TOTALS 391 65 161 117 39 9 100.0% 87.7%

Results include all re-marks

A LEVEL 2017

Results include remarks up to 15 September 2017

INTERNATIONAL BACCALAUREATE 2017

The 30 Sixth Form candidates all passed the Diploma with an average score of 39.67 points.

The highest awarded total, achieved by two students, was 45 points.

GRADE 7 6 5 4 3 2

2017 CUMULATIVE % 44.44 83.33 96.67 99.44 100 –

2016 CUMULATIVE % 54.76 89.68 97.62 99.21 100 –

2015 CUMULATIVE % 33.49 76.41 93.86 98.58 99.52 100

2017 International Baccalaureate Results by Department

SUBJECTS Entries Grades Average Grade

7 6 5 4 3 2 Whitgift Worldwide

Subject Group 1

English A1 HL 11 8 2 1 0 0 0 6.64 4.79

English A1 SL 18 4 12 2 0 0 0 6.11 5.05

French A1 HL 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 7.00 5.28

Japanese A1 SL 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 7.00 6.16

Subject Group 2

Chinese - Mandarin B SL 6 1 3 2 0 0 0 5.83 5.97

English B SL 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 6.00 5.82

French B HL 2 1 1 0 0 0 0 6.50 5.18

French B SL 4 2 1 1 0 0 0 6.25 4.97

German B HL 2 1 0 0 1 0 0 5.50 5.85

German B SL 6 2 3 1 0 0 0 6.17 5.13

Japanese B SL 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 6.00 5.16

Latin SL 3 1 1 1 0 0 0 6.00 3.96

Spanish AB SL 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 7.00 5.00

Spanish B HL 2 1 1 0 0 0 0 6.50 5.38

Spanish B SL 4 1 3 0 0 0 0 6.25 5.08

Subject Group 3

Economics HL 6 4 2 0 0 0 0 6.67 5.16

Economics SL 5 4 1 0 0 0 0 6.80 4.73

Geography HL 2 0 1 1 0 0 0 5.50 5.22

Geography SL 2 2 0 0 0 0 0 7.00 4.80

History HL 7 4 2 1 0 0 0 6.43 4.73

Philosophy HL 4 4 0 0 0 0 0 7.00 4.87

Philosophy SL 4 3 1 0 0 0 0 6.75 4.73

Psychology HL 4 0 2 2 0 0 0 5.50 4.73

Psychology SL 4 0 3 1 0 0 0 5.75 4.35

Subject Group 4

Biology HL 8 1 6 1 0 0 0 6.00 4.32

Biology SL 5 1 4 0 0 0 0 6.20 4.20

Chemistry HL 23 8 6 8 1 0 0 5.91 4.49

Chemistry SL 2 2 0 0 0 0 0 7.00 3.96

Physics HL 7 4 2 1 0 0 0 6.43 4.65

Physics SL 4 3 1 0 0 0 0 6.75 4.08

Subject Group 5

Maths Studies SL 11 8 3 0 0 0 0 6.72 4.43

Mathematics HL 11 6 3 0 2 0 0 6.18 4.73

Mathematics SL 8 1 4 1 1 1 0 5.38 4.37