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SQA results support thread

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AgentProvocateur · 26/07/2013 08:19

Anyone else's DC waiting for results on 6 Aug? I've one doing Advanced Highers (but already has unconditional place) and one doing Highers, who hasn't applied, but may apply through clearing if the results are good enough.

Neither has signed up for email/text results, so they'll be waiting until 3pm for the postie!

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mrsjay · 06/08/2013 09:24

Mrsjay, I'll be waiting till about 3pm, when our post arrives. Rubbish, isn't it?

Yip although our post is due 11ish

mrsjay · 06/08/2013 09:24

you are right once dd1 did her Highers the Standard grades didnt matter at all it is funny that eh, as it really is Highers colleges and Unis look for if they have stayed on at school, I think most kids do stay on nowadays dont they, I know only of one or two who have left in 4th year

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AgentProvocateur · 06/08/2013 09:22

Thank you, chocoluvva

Mrsjay, I'll be waiting till about 3pm, when our post arrives. Rubbish, isn't it?

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chocoluvva · 06/08/2013 09:19

Aww - it's rubbish when you feel like that mrsjay. Hope it goes well and if it doesn't theres still time to do well. It doesn't really matter how the subjects that she isn't planning to continue with have gone anyway IYSWIM. Well,in the long run - once she has some highers her standard grades won't seem to matter.

mrsjay · 06/08/2013 09:05

oh good for her choccaluvva I am actually getting a bit anxious now I was fine about it DD was hyper last night so i was calming her down but eek I have knots in my stomach

chocoluvva · 06/08/2013 09:03

Meant to wish Agent good luck for her 'under performer'.

chocoluvva · 06/08/2013 09:02

Good morning!

Well done CormoranStrikeand 2rebecca's DCs.

1983 was O-grades. (And applying to college/uni was much more straightforward).

DD woke us at 3am: AAAC. I'm delighted and relieved. Hope DH doesn't start muttering about 'dumbing down' etc. He better not- he was no help with the higher maths as he's forgotten it all even though he did a year of maths at uni!

CormoranStrike · 06/08/2013 08:47

Well done Rebecca's boy

mrsjay · 06/08/2013 08:17

how does the kids that have been on the news today manage to get their envelope so early out postman doesnt come till after 10

mrsjay · 06/08/2013 08:16

rebecca well done him

2rebecca · 06/08/2013 08:15

I went to school in England, moved here 20 years ago.
He got 4As and a B so is really pleased, knew he'd struggle to get an A in German.
Hope everyone else's results went well. off to work now.

mrsjay · 06/08/2013 08:09

wouldve been ogrades did we have Olevels here

CormoranStrike · 06/08/2013 08:05

I cannot remember if I did ogrades or o'levels. Sat them in either 83 or 84.

When I did my highers I had it all a bit upside down, rather than get this and you get to uni, I set myself a minimum and said if you do this well you can give up on studying - and I did, for a while at least.

mrsjay · 06/08/2013 08:02

I was the last year of Ogrades and it was going to be the new sparkly standard grades now dd age is the last to do standard grades I feel ancient

2rebecca · 06/08/2013 08:00

My mum had to nag me to open my o level envelope. I was in bed and didn't want to face the reality of knowing and have mum hovering over me but she wasn't going to go away.

mrsjay · 06/08/2013 07:55

oh strike out fail

mrsjay · 06/08/2013 07:54

. I don't remember being this bothered waiting for my own O Grades all those years ago

I wasnt that fussed but I was rubbish at school I left at 16 and was probably at work the day my results came in , i only got 2

mrsjay · 06/08/2013 07:53

I did indeed and even ended up in a related industry

a newsagent

congrats to your daughter you must be chuffed

CormoranStrike · 06/08/2013 07:46

Thanks, hope everyone else gets the results they wish for.

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AgentProvocateur · 06/08/2013 07:45

Well done to your DD, Cormoran!

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2rebecca · 06/08/2013 07:38

My son's not heard, the text came at 8.30 last year. He said he didn't need to sign up again this year as he'd done it last year, hope he's right.
He got nagged into doing it by me last year as I knew we'd be away that week.

Jacaqueen · 06/08/2013 07:33

Good luck everyone. Well done to your daughter Cormoran. Fingers crossed for the rest of us. Well the rest of them I suppose that should be. I don't remember being this bothered waiting for my own O Grades all those years ago.

CormoranStrike · 06/08/2013 06:49

Ps it came in at half three, though we only just checked.

CormoranStrike · 06/08/2013 06:46

DD did great!

She got four credits at a 2, one general at three, and a B and a C in her int 2s.

For a girl who didn't know if she had passed anything I am

She had passed her maths int 2 in maths last year, so a good solid set of results.

CormoranStrike · 05/08/2013 23:20

Either that or a road-sweeper

Thanks to your DD, I will tell mine.

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