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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