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From the Rector Request a Prospectus Getting to Hutchesons’

Academic Success in 2010

Outstanding achievements

Pupils in S4, S5 and S6 performed oustandingly well in the SQA and A level exams in 2010, with pass rates and A grades well above average.

  • The S5 pupils achieved an average of 4.5 Higher passes each.
  • A total of 71% of S5 pupils (99 pupils) achieved at least five Higher passes.
  • 28% of the total year group (46 pupils) achieved at least five Grade A passes
  • 43% of the year group (70 pupils) achieved at least four Grade A passes.
  • 10 pupils passed all six Highers at Grade A.

Outstripping National Trends

Several departments at Hutchesons' significantly outstripped national standards in 'A' grades and pass rates for Higher. In Economics, French, German, Music, more than 70% of candidates achieved 'A' grades.

  • In French, 92% of pupils sitting the Higher exam (24 pupils) achieved A grades
  • In Music, each of the nine Advanced Higher candidates achieved an A grade and in Art, each of the seven AH candidates received an A grade.

Academic Excellence

Ten pupils achieved 6 As, and two of them - Alastair MacMahon and Deep Sarode - all at A band 1.

Ten pupils in S6 achieved three A grades in Advanced Higher and A level, and Gregor Hogan and Sidharth Sharma both achieved four A grades. Eight pupils received the new A* grade at A level.

Seven pupils are going on to Cambridge and Oxford: Matilda Greig(History) and Jack McLeod (Classics) at Cambridge; Gregor Hogan (Law with French Law), Matthew Lindsay (Law), Katie Paul (Medicine), Katherine Sloane (Law) and Graeme Wallace (Philosophy, Politics and Economics) at Oxford.

Focus on Highers

Many pupils at Hutchesons' proceed directly to Highers without sitting Standard Grade exams. In an increasing number of subjects, pupils sit Intermediate 2 exams. This enables them to explore the subject more broadly and to closely focus on the Higher exams, the results of which affect university entrance.

Promising Futures

Hutchesons' Grammar School has an outstanding record in placing pupils in universities throughout Scotland and the UK, including Oxford and Cambridge. In addition, many pupils spend a 'gap' year before proceeding to university. Around 40 pupils have gained university places to study Law or Medicine following sixth year.