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Dear University of Sheffield,

Under the freedom of information act i would like to request statistics on the GCSE grades of dentistry applicants in 2020 and 2021.
1) what were the average GCSE grades of an applicant for dentistry?

2) what were the lowest GCSE grades of an applicant who was made an offer for dentistry? and how many applicants was this?

Yours faithfully,

Ibrahim

Freedom Of Information, University of Sheffield

Dear Ibrahim
Thank you for your request for information from the University of
Sheffield. We apologise for the delay in providing you with a response.
 
In relation to the information provided for your first question,
colleagues advised that the figure disclosed includes applicants with at
least eight GCSEs in the grade range 9-4/A*-C and uses only their best
eight if they had more. All alphabetical grades have been converted to the
numeric range (A*=9, A=7, B=6, C=4). For the average, the mode has been
used (i.e. the most frequently appearing set).

1. What were the average GCSE grades of an applicant for dentistry?

2020: 99999999
2021: 99999999

2. What were the lowest GCSE grades of an applicant who was made an offer
for dentistry? How many applicants was this?

The University holds this information, however, we judge it to be exempt
from disclosure under section 40(2) of the Act. Section 40(2) exempts
information that constitutes the personal data of another individual from
disclosure where disclosure would contravene data protection principles.
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On Fri, 6 May 2022 at 20:34, Ibrahim <[3][FOI #859731 email]> wrote:

Dear University of Sheffield,

Under the freedom of information act i would like to request statistics
on the GCSE grades of dentistry applicants in 2020 and 2021.
1) what were the average GCSE grades of an applicant for dentistry?

2) what were the lowest GCSE grades of an applicant who was made an
offer for dentistry? and how many applicants was this?

Yours faithfully,

Ibrahim

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