Dear Katharine,
At my school this year, I had 2 non-native Chinese speakers who took the
GCSE and they both achieved A*.
hope this helps.
xiaoming.
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From: "Katharine Carruthers" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Saturday, September 10, 2005 5:09 PM
Subject: This year's Mandarin GCSE grades
Dear All
I would like to try, through the email forum, to build up a picture of
this year's Mandarin Chinese GCSE grades achieved by non native
students. The aim of this exercise is to build up an overall picture
across the country, so that we can say to schools still too worried
about poor performance in Mandarin Chinese GCSE to enter candidates and
to timetable Chinese as a main subject:
Either ' Look at this year's results. It shows the situation is
improving.'
Or 'Look at this year's results. It shows that the GCSE results are
still an issue which needs to be resolved'.
Could I ask schools that have had non native students take the exam this
year send in the results to me, so that I can build a picture of results
across the forum. I'll let you know how it looks - should emphasize that
I'll give the overall picture out to the forum, not the performance of
individual groups of pupils, as I know there are a lot of factors
involved in influencing the performance of individual groups.
Will look forward to hearing from you.
Best wishes
Katharine Carruthers
Chinese Network Coordinator
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Katharine Carruthers
Brooke House
Ashdon Road, Saffron Walden
Essex, CB10 2AA
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