Figure 1
From: Even one star at A level could be "too little, too late" for medical student selection
Solid black bars show observed distribution of A level points from best three A level grades, scored as A = 10, B = 18, C = 6, D = 4, E = 2 for a) all UCAS applicants, b) all medical school applicants and c) all medical school entrants. Yellow bars show fitted results of a censored normal distribution. The yellow bar at 30 points (AAA) can be decomposed into the red bars for the fitted, uncensored normal distribution, scored as 12 = A* and 14 = A**. The ordinates of medical school applicants and entrants are on the same scale to allow comparison.