What were the A Level grades awarded in 1978?
I am not sure exactly what you mean, but I took them in 1968 and my sister in 1973 – and basically the range of grades were exactly the same as they are now; A-E were passes. there was a small band just below an E pass, called either an N or an O level pass (in other words if you took up an A level subject like economics for which you did not have an O level already, and if you just failed, you could count it is an extra O level pass. By the way, O levels were the exam many took aged 16 before GCSE’s were around. The O level grades varied much more than A levels in the grades awarded. some boards gave grades from 1 to 9 (but 8 and 9 were fails), others graded them by letters, and some had grades of A,C and E but no grades B or D Some exams (like additional Maths, were a sort of intermediate between O and A levels and many of us took it in our lower 6th year.
