Comment by gambiting

So my sister went to an extremely prestigious private school in the UK(basically Eton-level) and they had an easier way around it - they basically wouldn't let students sit exams they knew they would do poorly in, so the school wouldn't lose its great ratings. So my sister wasn't allowed to take maths or chemistry in her A-level years because the school didn't think she was good enough in those subjects to score and A or higher on the exam. So in her final year she only had literally a handful of subjects which weren't a danger to the school's academic rating.