The proportion of students attaining a 2.1 has also increased.
Statewide, the proportion of students passing rose 1.9 points, to 47.2percentt.
Yet the proportion of students in private schools has been falling nationwide.
Last year, the proportion of students who took separate sciences rose, but less sharply.
One of the metrics is the proportion of students a university turns away, which encourages selectivity.
The proportion of students from state schools, now 42%, has hardly changed since 1970.
Grades, perhaps; or the proportion of students getting a high-school diploma.
Although the pass rate has stayed the same, the proportion of students getting the top marks has fallen by 0.3%.
But this is still much lower than the proportion of students doing so, which stood at 9.5% in 2012-13.
It means that the proportion of students awarded top grades is unlikely to increase greatly from 2011 levels.
The proportion of students gaining A* grades fell from 6.3%to6%6% (the UK average is 7.9%).
