Professor Ciar?n ? h?gartaigh:

-----at the top end. An A* would be 192 points, an A would be 173 and a B would be 154. I will provide a little background to that. The students commented on it in the previous session. A great deal of work was done on the percentages achieving those outcomes, North and South. There are more students participating in the South than in the North, so there had to be some calibration in that regard. An AS level or extended project also had to be accommodated. We could review this in a few years’ time, but it is an important step in the right direction, particularly in terms of making mobility from North to South easier. Previously, it was almost impossible for a student from the North to get the maximum here. Students can now get up to 601 points, depending on what they get in their A levels. The appendix of our submission has those details.