It said that AS levels offered a “strong measure” of how well students were likely to perform at A level.
From next year, AS and A levels will be treated as separate and distinct qualifications, and A levels will revert to being traditional two-year qualifications with an end-of-course examination. Since 2000, the AS levels have been treated as the first half of an A level, with the grades in both examinations combined to give a final mark.
However, Michael Gove, when education secretary, took the decision to “toughen up” the qualifications by bringing back testing at the end of the two-year course.
Now admissions officers at Cambridge have challenged the decision, claiming AS levels are a “robust indicator of student progress”.
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