By Eric King-
Nando’s has offered a free 1/4 chicken or one of it’s appetizers to all who received their A level results today. All that is required of students is a copy of their A level results and their I.D. But the too good to be true offer has a small catch to it. A level students wanting to benefit from the offer of a free delicious chicken must first spend £7 on a meal.
The offer is a good gesture on face value, but one has to first do the mathematics of all the people who would pay £7 pound for a meal against the chicken they will receive in return. A level students from all over the country got their results today, conflicting reports as to whether the number of A grades had gone up or down overall. Top grades were claimed to be on the up in the Isles, but results in general were said to be unchanged, according to Michael Turner , director general of the joint council for communications.
Girls typically performed better than boys, with 79% of them getting between A star to C in comparison with 75% for boys. So whilst the number of outstanding grades have dropped, there were still many boys and girls who did very well in this years A levels. A variation in A level assessments in recent years has been party due to a merging of G.C.S.E results and summer assessments. A technique known as comparative outcomes adopted by exam regulator ofqual in 2011, now ties A level results to the same years group results in the previous G.C.S.E results, two years earlier in a somewhat strange method deemed to achieve some kind of justice to the collective standard on which their A level development was built.
This questions the full legitimacy of the evaluation of A level results; except we just say that the examiner s know best.
However, a 2% drop in the number of school-leavers has led to record numbers of university places offered through the customary application process of clearing clearing, the post-results application process. In the midst of all this, appears to be a market strategy by Nando bosses to promote their already popular restaurant brand by tapping into the pockets of A level students-both happy and unhappy one’s. This means students with disastrous grades who do not fancy being left out of a free bite of chicken , may have to wait to get into Nando’s to discover they must first pay for a meal to get a free chicken, which may not feel so free considering the fact they have already paid for a meal.
However, Nando may achieve assembling delighted A level students who may want to chat and reminisce over the last two years, in the process likely ordering an extra meal to continue passing the time before they head up to some bar in the nice weather for a few drinks .
The applications administrator Ucas said 424,000 students had been placed in UK higher education as of midnight – up 3% on the same time last year, and the highest number recorded on A-level results day. They include 201,000 British 18-year-olds, up 2% on 2015 despite the fall in the the school-leaver population. A level students who fell slightly below their expected or predicted grades find themselves in the happy position of being accommodated by many Universities, keen to fill in the gap of the drop in expected performance overall.