Countdown to GCSE results day

A series of module results here for a Y10 DD. She has been consistently near top of year in all school exams and assessments across the board since Y7, but in modules in Jan she crashed out a teenie bit. She worked v hard for the Summer ones, but doesn't seem confident. I think the early modules were too soon and have knocked her confidence - and that is really bad in an exam situation.
Fingers crossed it is all OK and she can get it back!

Waiting with tepidation. Just hope that he has passed some. If he has not got the grades he wants he will have to select different subjects and then I am not sure mwhat the point is....
So hard.
But too early to say- will feedback with you all sometime tomorrow pm.
[insert BITING FINGERNAILS emoticon]

Good luck to all our DC's tomorrow and to all of you mums, fingers crossed they get everything they worked and hoped for.

I'm getting nervous now. Dd2 is nervous about not getting into 6th Form. She's an A student but hasn't been applying herself this year. We're hoping for Bs. Fingers crossed it will be enough.

Good luck everyone. See you tomorrow!

Dd had a similar call. The woman I spoke to said that she had been chosen by the headteacher Dd wasn't here so I asked if this was good news but the Woman said that she wasn't allowed to say any more. She clearly knew dd's results.
Whilst I am feeling quite encouraged by the call I don't necessarily think that they have simply called in the best results. There may be alsorts of factors involved.
Good luck to your Ds

The schools got the results today but are unable to share them until tomorrow even with staff. I popped into work today but they are top secret.
DS has gone to a friends tonight with a promise to ring me as soon as he finds out his results. Guess where his phone is? That's right sitting on the table. DD has a headache after dance not sure whether stress or exhaustion so an early night for her.
Good luck everyone.

Does anyone know if the schools have access to results by now? Some kids at DS's school have been asked to open their results on live radio! Some are thinking that they have chosen the ones with the best results! DS not chosen!! Really wouldn't like that anyway though!

Totally agree with FAscinatingCreature. I did A level Maths in 1984 and struggle with DS's GCSE papers now!

I forgot to sat, fingers crossed for my dd and everyone else's dc who are getting results tomorrow.

Please lets not turn this into a dumbing down debate. There is nothing more disheartening for our dc than people sneering at their achievements and devaluing their results. Lets keep that discussion for another time and support our children through tomorrow. After all they didn't design the system.

Yes. It's crazy isn't it?

Umm ,does that mean if you get 41% marks in the exam then you get a B ?

( back in my day my headmistress - Elsie G. - told me that it "would be a waste of the entrance fee " for me to take O level Maths ,so numbers aren't my strong point ! )

Cricketballs: I sympathise - DS sat 25 papers this Summer as his school didn't even let them sit modular exams - apart from coursework it was ALL down to these!

Edexcel maths boundaries are

A* 81%

A 60%

B 41%

C 24%

Hope that helps. Those low Bs may really struggle with AS.

O level, it was 70%+ for an A 60-70% was a B.

Those grade boundaries say it all really don't they? A 29% band for an A. Bonkers. No wonder Cs are treated as practically a fail. Do you know the boundaries for lower grades?

and although he is in top sets, he is not a high flyer so it could go either way. He is starting to worry tonight, so to keep things normal I have had a good moan about the state of his bedroom

we have none in the bag as ds's school wouldn't let anyone in top sets to sit their exams on early entry therefore everything rests on tomorrow.........

DS announced the grade boundaries have been published today!

His Maths board is 88% A*, 59% A, 50% B ! Seems a huge range for an A?

I am pale with worry, and yet he is cool as white wine spritzer, he predicted out of 12 subjects, 9 A one is in the bag (maths he did last year and got A*),but we still have Chemistry, Physics, Statistics and History to reckoned with, he has to get A for these to get in to his preferred 6th form, we don't have a plan B, champs. will be on ice tonight to congratulate or commiserate

Yellowstone, I think variation according to school is itself variable. That is, on the ADSS database, there will be flags, but plainly some colleges ignore them, and others act on them. That's why I'd always urge anyone to try for Oxbridge if their dcs like the idea. You can't predict it. Or guarantee it. A lot depends on what you are teaching or applying for, of course.

I am anxious too... unlike dd1 who wants to do well but cant be arsed to do more than bare minimum...sigh...

duchesse MN is fab for creeping out parents about grammars with the no-chance-without-a-£100pw-tutor etc. Don't do the same for Oxford and Cambridge! Plenty of bright students get in despite an A Level in a non-traditional or soft subject and GCSE choices are pretty meh once the bases are covered.

sieglinde what I see at Oxford is quite a variation in GCSE grades. I understood there to be a lot of fine tuning according to a candidate's school. Even at our school it's not been the straight GCSE A* crew who've invariably got in: some do, some don't and some get in with a handful.

I have to say duchesse I'd never stress about GCSE options and only moderately with A's.