A pass in an Advanced Subsidiary GCE double award in Applied subjects ed.

[Antaeus]

Добрый день, уважаемые коллеги!
Помогите, пожалуйста, с переводом начала текста из Свидетельства об общем образовании (Великобриатния):
A pass in an Advanced Subsidiary GCE double award in Applied subjects is indicated by one of the nine double grades AA(aa), AB(ab), BB(bb), BC(bc), CC(cc), CD(cd), DD(dd), DE(de), EE(ee) of which grade AA(aa) is the highest and grade EE(ee) the lowest.

Непонятно словосочетание double award.
Спасибо!

[Antaeus]

A pass in an Advanced GCE with Advanced Subsidiary GCE (additional) subject is indicated...
И еще одно непонятное предложение из той же области.

[johnstephenson]

That's quite complicated to explain, but I'll do my best.

* GCE = General Certificate of Education = a syllabus of courses and exams in English & Welsh secondary schools.
* In England & Wales, schoolchildren study at secondary school for five years, at the end of which they take so-called GCSE exams. (These GCSE exams don't concern us here).
* If they choose to stay at school for a further two years, they can take so-called GCE Advanced Level exams ("A levels" for short). Schoolchildren study for these exams between the ages of about 16-18 years, ie in their 6th and 7th years at secondary school. So A level courses usually last two years.
* With A levels, you sit an exam in each subject, eg Geography, Physics, French etc, and so can end up with A level exam passes in (say) two subjects, but fail in one other subject.
* The grades awarded (by the examiners) are A*, A, B, C, D and E, where A* is the highest and E the lowest.
* If you pass an A level exam in (say) Biology, you are said to have "an A level in Biology".

* The way in which A level courses are arranged and exams set and marked, is quite complex.
* However, some A level courses are split into two parts with an exam at the end of each part, the first exam being taken at the end of the first year (at age 17), and the second exam being taken at the end of the second year (at age 18).
* The first part of such a course (Year 6) is known as the Advanced (Subsidiary) level or "AS level"; the second part (Year 7) is known as the Advanced (Part 2) level or "A2 level".
* Once a student has taken the AS level exam in a particular subject and passed it, he/she can choose to either:
   – leave school with an AS level in that subject, or
   – stay at school for another year to get a full A level in the subject.
* A level exams which are taken in two stages like this (an AS level and then an A2 level, a year later) are known as 'double-award' A levels, where 'award' = the mark (grade) awarded to a student after sitting an exam.
* If the student gets (say) a grade B at AS level (ie, at the end of year one) and a grade C at A2 level (at the end of year two), he/she is said to have gained a double-award A level with an overall grade of BC.

Hopefully this explains what a double-award A level, and the references in your passage to AA, AB, BB etc, all mean. As for the Russian for it, I've no idea. 'с двухчастной отметкой'???

[Antaeus]

Большое спасибо! Попробую разобраться.