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Mr. Grist
asked the Secretary of State for Wales if he will list the number of entrants for the Welsh joint education committee's GCE O level in the 12 most popular subjects for 1976, 1977 and 1978,
| WJEC GCE O LEVEL RESULTS—SUMMER 1976 | ||||||||||
| Entries | Grade A | Grade B | Grade C | |||||||
| Number | Per cent. | Number | Per cent. | Number | Per cent. | |||||
| English Language | … | 20,822 | 2,301 | 11·1 | 5,032 | 24·2 | 5,934 | 28·5 | ||
| English Literature | … | 14,517 | 1,586 | 10·9 | 3,720 | 25·6 | 3,695 | 25·5 | ||
| Mathematics* | … | 10,653 | 1,194 | 11·2 | 2,631 | 24·7 | 2,755 | 25·9 | ||
| History | … | … | 9,390 | 1,097 | 11·7 | 2,223 | 23·7 | 1,885 | 20·1 | |
| Geography* | … | … | 8,061 | 837 | 10·4 | 2,029 | 25·2 | 1,418 | 17·6 | |
| Physics | … | … | 6,383 | 686 | 10·7 | 1,560 | 24·4 | 1,418 | 22·2 | |
| Biology* | … | … | 6,365 | 632 | 9·9 | 1,679 | 26·4 | 1,478 | 23·2 | |
| French | … | … | 5,772 | 684 | 11·9 | 1,369 | 23·7 | 1,378 | 23·9 | |
| Chemistry | … | … | 5,074 | 643 | 12·7 | 1,024 | 20·2 | 1,345 | 26·5 | |
| Art* | … | … | … | 3,857 | 378 | 9·8 | 781 | 20·2 | 1,132 | 29·3 |
| Scripture | … | … | 3,731 | 429 | 11·5 | 933 | 25·0 | 892 | 23·9 | |
| Human Biology | … | 3,341 | 281 | 8·4 | 861 | 25·8 | 601 | 18·0 | ||
| * Including entrants taking the Common Syllabus GCE/CSE examinations in these subject the figures would be:— | ||||||||||
| Mathematics | … | … | 15,178 | 1,291 | 8·5 | 3,035 | 20·0 | 3,515 | 23·2 | |
| Geography | … | … | 9,057 | 884 | 9·8 | 2,152 | 23·8 | 1,592 | 17·6 | |
| Biology | … | … | 9,420 | 821 | 8·7 | 2,231 | 23·7 | 2,053 | 21·8 | |
| Art | … | … | … | 6,848 | 828 | 12·1 | 1,282 | 18·7 | 1,581 | 23·1 |
| WJEC GCE O LEVEL RESULTS—SUMMER 1977 | ||||||||||
| Entries | Grade A | Grade B | Grade C | |||||||
| Number | Per cent. | Number | Per cent. | Number | Per cent. | |||||
| English Language | … | 21,251 | 2,318 | 10·9 | 5,219 | 24·6 | 5,921 | 27·9 | ||
| English Literature | … | 14,747 | 1,625 | 11·0 | 3,597 | 24·4 | 3,777 | 25·6 | ||
| History | … | … | 9,518 | 1,107 | 11·6 | 2,248 | 23·6 | 1,936 | 20·3 | |
| Mathematics* | … | 9,384 | 993 | 10·6 | 2,212 | 23·6 | 2,421 | 25·8 | ||
| Geography* | … | … | 6,775 | 629 | 9·3 | 1,740 | 25·7 | 1,287 | 19·0 | |
| Physics | … | … | 6,647 | 739 | 11·1 | 1,607 | 24·2 | 1,528 | 23·0 | |
| French | … | … | 5,756 | 678 | 11·8 | 1,421 | 24·7 | 1,304 | 22·7 | |
| Chemistry | … | … | 5,299 | 589 | 11·1 | 1,116 | 21·1 | 1,382 | 26·1 | |
| Biology* | … | … | 5,225 | 572 | 10·9 | 1,353 | 25·9 | 1,223 | 23·4 | |
| Scripture | … | … | 3,545 | 393 | 11·1 | 875 | 24·7 | 883 | 24·9 | |
| Cookery | … | … | 3,220 | 167 | 5·2 | 670 | 20·8 | 656 | 20·4 | |
| Art* | … | … | … | 3,126 | 369 | 11·8 | 725 | 23·2 | 903 | 28·9 |
| * Including entrants taking the Common Syllabus GCE/CSE examinations in these subject the figures would be:— | ||||||||||
| Mathematics | … | … | 18,551 | 1,258 | 6·8 | 2,807 | 15·1 | 3,783 | 20·4 | |
| Geography | … | … | 10,455 | 878 | 8·4 | 2,362 | 22·6 | 2,007 | 19·2 | |
| Biology | … | … | 10,468 | 868 | 8·3 | 2,179 | 20·8 | 2,212 | 21·1 | |
| Art | … | … | … | 7,821 | 1,006 | 12·9 | 1,536 | 19·6 | 1,769 | 22·6 |
| WJEC GCE O LEVEL RESULTS—SUMMER 1978 | |||||||||
| Entries | Grade A | Grade B | Grade C | ||||||
| Number | Per cent. | Number | Per cent. | Number | Per cent. | ||||
| English Language | … | 21,940 | 2,429 | 11·1 | 5,183 | 23·62 | 5,842 | 26·63 | |
| English Literature | … | 14,899 | 1,663 | 11·2 | 3,510 | 23·56 | 3,805 | 25·54 | |
| History | … | … | 9,702 | 1,135 | 11·7 | 1,991 | 20·52 | 2,196 | 22·63 |
| Mathematics* | … | 9,263 | 985 | 10·6 | 2,298 | 24·81 | 2,279 | 24·60 | |
| Physics | … | … | 7,332 | 751 | 10·2 | 1,759 | 23·99 | 1,832 | 24·99 |
| Chemistry | … | … | 5,897 | 741 | 12·6 | 1,325 | 22·47 | 1,370 | 23·23 |
| French | … | … | 5,704 | 574 | 10·1 | 1,488 | 26·09 | 1,299 | 22·77 |
| Geography* | … | … | 5,629 | 706 | 12·5 | 1,343 | 23·86 | 1,087 | 19·31 |
| Biology* | … | … | 4,941 | 566 | 11·5 | 1,255 | 25·40 | 1,155 | 23·38 |
| Scripture | … | … | 3,426 | 354 | 10·3 | 848 | 24·75 | 860 | 25·10 |
| Home Economics | … | 3,282 | 159 | 4·8 | 648 | 19·74 | 760 | 21·51 | |
| Human Biology | … | 2,969 | 232 | 7·8 | 537 | 18·09 | 648 | 21·83 | |
| * Including entrants taking the Common Syllabus GCE/CSE examinations in these subject the figures would be:— | |||||||||
| Mathematics | … | … | 20,379 | 1,293 | 6·3 | 2,886 | 14·16 | 3,972 | 19·49 |
| Geography | … | … | 11,439 | 1,065 | 9·3 | 2,320 | 20·28 | 2,082 | 18·20 |
| Biology | … | … | 11,538 | 959 | 8·3 | 2,259 | 19·58 | 2,422 | 20·99 |
separately, and the numbers and percentage who obtained grades A, B and C passes in each of these subjects.
Mr. Barry Jones
The information set out below is derived from the WJEC general reports relating to the summer examinations in 1976, 1977 and 1978.
Mr. Grist
asked the Secretary of State for Wales what was the number of entrants for Welsh joint education committee GCE O level in each modern language for the past two years, and the number
| WJEC O LEVEL RESULTS IN MODERN LANGUAGES | ||||||||
| 1977 Grade C or better | 1978 Grade C or better | |||||||
| Subject | Entries | Number | Percentage | Entries | Number | Percentage | ||
| French | … | … | 5,756 | 3,403 | 59·1 | 5,704 | 3,361 | 58·9 |
| Welsh* | … | … | 3,108 | 1,964 | 63·2 | 3,419 | 2,056 | 60·1 |
| German | … | … | 1,199 | 622 | 51·9 | 1,260 | 655 | 52·0 |
| (German† | … | … | 1,943 | 851 | 43·8 | 2,014 | 869 | 43·1) |
| Spanish | … | … | 335 | 182 | 54·3 | 306 | 175 | 57·2 |
| Italian | … | … | 77 | 61 | 79·2 | 118 | 79 | 66·9 |
| Russian | … | … | 34 | 22 | 64·7 | 42 | 26 | 64·9 |
| Others | … | … | 38 | 25 | 65·8 | 37 | 24 | 64·9 |
| * The figures are for the Welsh papers 02 and 03 combined. | ||||||||
| † Including entrants taking the Common Syllabus GCE/CSE Examination. | ||||||||