GCSE Achievement

Examination results provide a good indication of how well an academy is serving its students. In 2022, NUAST’s Year 11 students performed very well in their GCSE examinations:

61% Maths and English grade 5 or above
76% Maths and English grades 9–4
86% Science grades 4+
27% Science grades 7+

At NUAST, we believe that examination success allows our students to make the very most of their lives and student achievement is at the heart of everything we do.

With a combined grade 5+ English and Mathematics figure of 61%, NUAST is amongst the highest performing schools in the city.

Results in the academy’s specialist areas were also very impressive, with the Science GCSE subjects achieving an 86% grades 9–4 pass rate and maths achieving very nearly 30% of grades at 7 and above.

Other highlights in what has been a hugely successful year included our Spanish students averaging an entire grade above their targets and our electronic engineers securing a 42% rate of grades at 7 or above

At NUAST, we believe that examination success allows our students to make the very most of their lives and student achievement is at the heart of everything we do.

A Level Achievement

For the third year in a row, students at NUAST have delivered outstanding A-Level and Level 3 qualification results:

31% of entries were graded A*–A grade
81% of entries were graded A*–C grade
99% pass rate at A-Level
Average Technical Subject grade was Distinction* (equivalent to A* at A-Level)

Our average outcome at A-Level is grade B and 25% of our students achieved grades AAB including two facilitating subjects.

Students studying vocational courses in Engineering and Applied Science have achieved remarkable results with the average grade being Distinction*. 80% of students have achieved a Distinction or Distinction* in all of their BTEC qualifications, with these grades being equivalent to an A or A* grade respectively.

73% of our students have managed to get their first choice university course or apprenticeship placement. Top destinations include:

Chemistry at University of Oxford
Economics at LSE
Medicine at University of Nottingham
Biology at St Andrews
Red Bull F1 team Degree apprenticeship 
Airbus degree apprenticeship
Physics at University of Edinburgh
Physics at Imperial
Apprenticeship at Caterpillar