This has probably been asked before, but

[dingit]

Do the staff know the gcse results before the students? Dds friend has been asked to go in half an hour early!

[TheReturnoftheSmartArse]

Perhaps she'll be on tv opening her results?! I always wonder every year, how they manage to pick students who get good resuls and look delighted as they open their envelopes "live". I've never seen one looking gutted and busting into tears!

[littlemisswise]

The staff must know. When DS1 got his 2 years ago there was a handwritten letter from the head teacher in the envelope that could only have been written once she knew the results.

[dingit]

Maybe. I know she is very clever. They are only getting a few this year, as they are only year 9. Last year some year 11s opened them live on sky news!

[cricketballs]

schools have the results today but we are not allowed to give any indication to students/parents etc of them. We get them a day early to allow schools to print them off/put in envelopes etc and to begin analysis

[TheFantasticFixit]

Ha. I was on tv for my a level results. I opened them, and started crying with absolute relief that I had bloody passed my English lit/Lang as my mum was ready to kill me if I hadn't.

ITV news showed me crying with the VoiceOver saying: "and of course, some students failed to achieve their desired results"

Cue bloody millions of concerned phone calls from family and friends who thought I had well and truly fucked it up!

[GraduallyGoingInsane]

There was a poor girl on TV a few years back who opened her A Levels live. She was with 3 or 4 of her friends and they all started screaming and shouting 'yay, yay' and telling the presenter excitedly where they were off to uni. Then the end girl started re-reading her results, looked sad and said something like 'oh actually, I'm not going to be going to Sheffield. I needed a B and I've got a C' and the camera quickly moved away.

I've told my DDs that there is no way they should ever open theirs on camera unless they know what's in them!

[dingit]

Argh! Panicking now as dd was predicted good grades! Tell me I m being silly!