THREAD FOR THE 'GUTTED' ON GCSE RESULTS DAY.

I know LineRunner, and I really do hate those obsessed, controlling parents.

DD has always been a cruiser when it comes to school work, always able to pull off good marks, so I never had to worry about her school work. But the signs were there that cruising wasn't working anymore.

I don't think you can force a child to put more effort in, nor do I think DD would have, especially in year 10, when looking back, I think she had some depression.

I do think we need to have some stricter rules about computer time, bed time, have a designated study area (not sitting in bed) and proper study timetables. It's going to be a busy year next year. AS levels, GCSEs and SATs :)

Voldermort This will never do. We will rise again! Without becoming obsessed interfering harridans...

I see it like this. I turn up to stuff at school. I buy books and pens and pencils and paper. I discuss the books and coursework and Issues Of The Day. I take an interest. But I cannot do the work for them.

linerunner it was only two years ago we were over the moon that ds1 scraped L4 sats, 3 years ago that he learnt to write a sentence. How on earth are we supposed to support him through GCSEs.

After putting on the proud face for DD all day, I'm starting to feel a bit guttered. I know she has done enough for next year, but...

Just knowing how much better she could have done if she had applied herself. I'm starting to think I should have pushed her more, been stricter, demanded seeing her work blah blah blah. I feel that maybe I've let her down much more than she has let me down. :-(

My DD did well (Y10) but she is being hard on herself as she didn't get the string of A/A* she was hoping for and expecting.

I suppose the one good thing about taking some modules in Y10 is that it will mean less exams and therefore less pressure in Y11 - although I'm sure that my DD would say that, for this year, the end does not justify the means.

She's just had a disastrous trip to the hairdressers as well .

You can tell I'm on the Bick's Fuzz, can't you??

lentil Well that does sound promising. Report back! And happilyconfused I think DD has plans other than Oxford! She's got into College though to do her 'thing' and I'm still on the Bick's Fizz. All alone in the house as the DCs are both away this week ... weird.

I agree with Voldermort that my younger DS now has to go through all this and won't now what's hit him. At least it's linear for him.

LineRunner Gonna give them a shout tomorrow, reckon worst case scenario he would have to start a lower level (he's doing mechanics) as he apparently interviewed very well & passed all their aptitude tests. I bloody hope so anyway!

I can't believe DS1 is starting on this road in September. He's only going into year 9! Poor thing isn't going to know what's hit him.

Nothing wrong with roadsweepers, roads will always need sweeping! Have a

lentil well good luck with the College enrollement. Are you getting onto it today/tomorrow? It does sound hopeful.

Its official - he will be a roadsweeper. DS has got enough for college but I top uni will be out of the questions blow the cake now onto alcohol

LineRunner, I just Googled the btec & as far as I can tell it's worth D-G. Meh. Hopefully that will still be enough!

DS Year 10 mixed bag here too but not the As in additional maths he expected

Hes saying I will retake XYZ and I feel sad at the thought of all the pressure that will mean

I think the accelerated learning thing is crap and it should be like in our day 2 years work and exams at 16 not 15 years old

Actually feeling down at how I would have been thrilled with his results but he isnt and how given the harsh , competitive world we live in I cant just say forget it

lentil I hope so - I only got DD's ICT certificate today and I had to google it to see what it was 'worth'!

Is the BTech a Level 2 as well?

Thanks LineRunner, that's what I thought but wasn't sure. So that's him into college then, yay! He can retake maths & English while he's there.

A lot of 16 yr olds just aren't at a stage where exams are important to them, or they just hate school! Not the end of the world, education is free until they're 19.

DD1 had a bit of a shock. In Easter mocks her predicted grades were A/A*. She got As in maths and history, B's in ICT and Art and a C in product design.

The big shock was art. She got 98 for the coursework and 55 for the exam. The school is asking for all candidates to be remarked. Apparently no one got an A/A* grade. She was upset, art is her 'thing'

Luckily she's just finished Y10 so this doesn't have a bearing on college places etc.

lentil, my DD has a pass in ICT (OCR Level 2 National First Award) and I believe that's the equivalent of one GCSE at grade C.

(BTech Pass should also be a C, shouldn't it?)

And good on you for pointing out that plenty of people get degrees who didn't do well on the O levels/GCSEs first time round.

Does anyone know what grade a pass in ICT & btec are equivalent to?

Other than that, D, D, E, E, G & U! Ah well... I left school with 2 Ds & now I have a degree.

He needs 4 Ds to get into college.

Mixed bag here, too - but (as said on the other thread) just delighted that DD passed maths with a C.

The fact that she won't have to re-take Bloody Maths is fantastic.

Just scraped into college - c's all round let's hope she starts working now!

A mixed bag for my yr10 DD. Her yr10 GCSE option -that she can't resit she was a mark of a bloody C grade she compared her scores with her friend who did get a C grade I will check grade boundaries later on. She bombed the two English Lang papers with E grades in both but since they didn't do all the CA's they will stand as not cashed in - DD was getting B's and C's in those. She won't be able to resit English Language till June next year. The English was expected.

On the plus side DD got another B grade for Maths unit 2, a C grade for the English lit Unit 1r and a B grade in Physics unit 1.

Went and got DD's results earlier, she got a C for Chemistry and a D for Physics ( have looked up grade boundaries and she missed a C by one point) so overall ok.

However she's really disappointed as she got a U for English and so am I. She's in year 10 so can resit but I was hoping she wouldn't need to, all her controlled assessments are B's or high C's.

another Y10 here - think the worst so far? D in English, and - wait for it - G in maths!! oh well, she is quite resigned to it...

Module results only here, some OK, but too many Es & Fs .

Also just been told a BTEC sport result, of 'Grade 1 pass 80'. Is that good or bad, I have no idea as I wasn't even expecting this one