Mikehotel152,
I can't help but feel you under estimate the difficulty of 'todays' A levels. It's so frustrating that the media make it out as if they are literally a piece of p*ss. The grade boundaries are still done in relation to the average student and so anyone who does well does well because they got a good mark compared to the average mark. No average 15/16 year old would be able to get a good grade in an A level exam, and usually they would be doing GCSEs at that age. So provided the article is reliable, he certainly isn't of average intellect.
Regardless of that, of course exam results have absolutely no bearing on how good a pilot you are.