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Section One

Use of English

Answers:

According to the A-level results, more students are choosing to study tradi-

tional fields like maths and science in hopes of increasing their job pros-

pects. Employers and universities have expressed the need for applicants

with skills in these areas, and students are taking note. Maths, the sciences

and economics all saw an increase in the number of A-levels taken. However,

these increases meant a decrease in other areas, such as PE, the arts and

foreign languages. Spanish was the only foreign language to see a modest

increase.

Besides an increased interest in maths and science, the A-level results also

showed that the number of high-scoring students has decreased. Gender

differences were also noted in score distribution with boys attaining more of

the top scores, but girls attaining higher scores overall. Subject choice could

also be divided by gender with more boys choosing the sciences and more

girls choosing English.

While many students celebrated their test results, hackers attempted to dis-

rupt access to the results by trying to crash the website.

1) Biggest;

2) highest;

3) overall;

4) up from;

5) nearly;

6) rose by;

7) extremely.

1) recommendation 2) believe 3) incredibly/disappointing 4) because/

movement 5) argument 6) their/choice 7) practise/supple 8) comfortable/

afford/ourselves 9) What/watching 10) benefit/languages 11) psychology/

useful.

4. TITLE

: A-levels: More school pupils opting for science and maths to boost

job prospects

AUTHOR

: Mark Ellis

NEWSPAPER

: Mirror Online

DATE

: August 15th, 2013

SUBJECT:

Analysis of A-level exam results

THESIS

: More students are choosing to study math and science in order to

improve future job prospects.

EVIDENCE

• There were 24,000 more students taking the science A-levels and 19,000