The Manchester Grammar School is celebrating another year of outstanding examination results for its sixth form pupils.
More than a third of all grades (36%) were at the coveted A* level, a record for MGS; 71% of all grades were A* or A, and 91% of grades were A*, A or B.
There were many exceptional individual performances – 19 pupils were awarded A* grades in all their subjects, six of these pupils achieved four A* grades, a tremendous achievement. 76 boys achieved a clean sweep of A* and A grades.
The School’s High Master, Dr Martin Boulton, said, “This year’s results are exceptional and I am absolutely delighted that the talent, hard work and dedication of our boys has been rewarded.
“For more than a third of all A-level grades to be A*s, and 91% of all grades at A*-B level, is fantastic, and once again places The Manchester Grammar School in a very select number of schools nationally.”
A young medic from Burnage is heading to Oxford after an outstanding performance in his A-level examination results.
Mharab Choudhury, 18, performed superbly and achieved 2A*s and 1A and is now off to Magdalen College, Oxford, to study medicine.
Mharab is one of more than 200 boys currently studying at MGS who are on bursaries. His brother, Mahid, now 22, also studied at MGS and also received a bursary, and Mharab is now following in his brother’s footsteps.
A young rugby star from The Manchester Grammar School is Oxford-bound after a superb performance in his A-level examination results.
Charlie Pozniak, 18, of Didsbury, achieved 2As and a Distinction Two (D2) and has an open offer to study History at Oxford this autumn.
Along with his A-level results in politics and Russian, Charlie also sat a Cambridge Pre-University examination in history.
Charlie has also been playing rugby for the best part of 10 years, and this past season captained the Sale Sharks Under-18 Academy Team.
Charlie said: “I’m naturally delighted with my results. It’s been nine years of hard work that’s finally come together and I’m really looking forward to the next three years at Oxford.
Limeng Zhu, 18, and Cletos Iacovides, 17, both from Didsbury, achieved a remarkable clean sweep as both were award 4A*s.
Tom Appleby, 18, also from Didsbury, achieved 2A*s and a Distinction Two and has an offer to study Italian and Spanish at Pembroke College, Oxford, while Adib Badhri, 18, from Wythenshawe, also achieved 2A*s and a Distinction Two and has an offer to study modern and medieval languages at Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge.
In Stockport, Alex Jones, 18, from Bramhall, achieved a clean sweep as he was awarded 4A*s.
Josh Hindley, 18, from Cheadle Hulme, achieved 3A*s and a Distinction Two, while football ace Cameron McEwan, 18, from Stockport, is the highest scorer in MGS’s history, scoring more than 50 goals in his first season at MGS, and also performed outstandingly off the football field and was awarded 2A*s, 1A and 1B.
Kamran Sharifi, 18, from Wilmslow, was awarded 2A*s, 1A and a Distinction One and is now off to study Philosophy and Linguistics at St Hilda’s College, Oxford.
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