To show you're a serious student now, take a few business classes before applying to school and get top grades.

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It suggests that the proportion of schools planning to make languages optional from 14 rises to 44% among schools where less than half the pupils get five top GCSE grades.

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In the year-long figures for 1999, only one company - the Isle of Wight Island Line - managed to get into category A by scoring top grades in both punctuality and reliability.

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Even those with low numbers of grade AAB students will get involved in the bidding war for those with top grades - because they will be seen as a kite mark of an institution's success, he added.

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Moreover, candidates on the cusp will get less lucrative offers from Google than candidates from elite schools with the top grades that Google targets.

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Star professors palm their pupils off on graduate students and then give them top grades to keep them happy (one survey found that 91% of Harvard graduates get honours compared with just 51% at Yale).

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