TWO Commonweal School students realised they shared more than just a friendship when they achieved identical A-level results in the same subjects.

Best mates Olivier Fischer and Jack Davis both took maths, further maths, physics and computing and sailed through with 1A* and three A grades each. These were the highest results in their school.

Jack will head to University of Bath to study maths while Olivier is off to Manchester University to study computer science.

“I didn’t expect to do as well I did, I had a few grades that went against me but luckily I did well enough in other exams to get me through,” said Jack, 18 from Rodbourne.

Jack said there has always been some friendly rivalry between the two friends who met in sixth form.

“We got the same results at AS and we’ve always been pretty similar, it’s almost become a competition between us," he said.

"We weren't that surprised that we've got the same grades.”

Olivier, 18, from Old Town said he had turned his grades around.

“I wasn’t considered very clever when I was younger. It wasn’t until I started studying science that I started doing well,” he said.

“These exams have changed everything. I feel really proud, it’s nice to have done so well.”

It was day of smiles, tears and jumping for joy as Commonweal sixth form students celebrated 72 per cent achieving A-level grades at A* to B and 100 per cent taking home A* to E grades.

Maisie Martin, 18, from Old Town, was another delighted sixth form student celebrating impressive results.

She ripped open her brown envelope to reveal an A* in environmental studies and B grades in chemistry and biology, putting her on the path to a biology degree at the University of Reading.

“I felt quite relaxed at first. About the results but more and more nervous today, I was a bit disappointed with the biology result but the environmental studies grade more than made up for it,” she said.

Fellow student Natalie Bradbury from Park North was over the moon as she received two Bs and a C in drama, English and anthropology.

“I’m really proud of myself, every results day I’ve always been cried shedloads of tears and I’ve been really upset," she said.

"When I called home, I screamed so loud my dad thought I was being stabbed."

She will now study criminology at Bath Spa University.

Head teacher Keith Defter said: “We are delighted with the achievement of our students and particularly the number of students achieving the highest grades.”