Countdown to exam results. Anyone else feeling anxious?

good luck all, ds is only 12 so few years to go for next one

Russians, Nit and ravenAK I have a Rowan, a Giles and a Lawrie but DD2 is slightly more entitled.

Personally cannot sleep and feel sick and this is just for the children I teach. One of my groups I had taught since Year 7 and they were awesome (strangely this is not how many of their parents described them but hey I didn't have to live with them!?!). I will be gutted if English is hit the same as last year.

Roll on Wednesday when I will be in work at the crack of dawn!

I'm waiting as well - have found 6 bottles of if anybody needs a spare.

DD1 is going shopping tomorrow in London to buy some clothes for 6th form and is already working out how to get round the dress code! We already know she has a B in Maths so that's one down.

She has also told me that I have to drop her off and I can go into the local coffee shop with the other mums to wait for her and her friends to walk down to meet us. I was a bit at this in case of problems but she assures me there won't be any and if there are she can deal with them. Oh well will see what she thinks on Thursday. Our school doesn't open till 10 when others in the area open at 9 so will be a nail-biting morning

Can I join the panic wait?

Ds's GCSE results on Thursday. I thought he was being incredibly laid back forgetting it was this week, saying he probably couldn't be bothered to collect the results etc. He admitted today it's actually because he's so nervous he actually doesn't ever want to find out the results. that makes two of us then

Russians & Nit - I am the proud mother of Peter, Esther & Lawrie-with-a-definite-touch-of-the-Gintys....

Waiting here, too. I have been avoiding this thread as it makes my stomach lurch every time I look at it. Dd should do fine but I am worried she may not do as well as she could have because of the boundary changes etc. She worked very hard though and we have made sure she knows that we are proud of her for that.

Well done to everyone's dc's who got what they wanted in their A/S and A Levels and I hope things get sorted for those who didn't. Reading your posts makes me thing that GCSE results are really just a warm-up for what is to come in the next couple of years for us!

3 sets? Scary!

Stressful DD here as well. Not sure how she did thanks Gove, but just want to know now.

Waiting for results on Thursday here too - annoying cos ds1 did mostly IGCSEs so the school already has the results of those but for logistical reasons all the results are handed out together

I'm a lot more anxious than ds - he's v bright but lazy and spent the first two terms of Y11 messing about, only finally knuckling down after Easter which I fear may well have been too little, too late...

Of course if he doesn't get the string of A*s and As he feels are his right it won't be his fault - oh no, the teachers, exam boards and above all me and DH will all be to blame ....

Tension riding in our house now,Thursday is getting close quickly now, but in a strange way still seems so long to wait.

Waiting for results on Thursday here, but only Maths and Eng Lit as DS1 did them as Y10 early entries.

He is stressing me with a daily count down though! Am not looking forward to the next few years of 3 DC to go through GCSEs and A levels. (or whatever DS2 aged 10 actually sits at the end of Y11)

Does anyone have a link to the Daily Mail article please? I looked for in on their website, but can't find it. Thanks.

... She got her eight.

Wow - some brilliant A and AS results posted. Congratulations to all those who got what they wanted/needed. Hope things work out too for those that didn't.

Yes Mumslife read that article too. Seemed to say science papers were more difficult rather than boundary movement. DD definitely found the Physics difficult which usually is her best subject.

Just want it to be over now, mood swings galore going from 'Ive smashed them all' one day to 'I think I've god Ds the next'. Running out of ideas to distract her now.

As always, good luck to everyone else still waiting.

Ah, Dd1 also has Ginty's hair. I see Esther in her because she's quiet and shy and fragile with a great voice. She can't be Nick because she isn't sporty. I think her best friend is Miranda though. And hopefully I drilled in the 'avoid traps for heffalumps' info sufficiently.

Since they both have curly hair perhaps they are both Ann. Who passed her exams, IIRC, admittedly unspectacularly.

Russians then at least you know that whatever she gets, it shouldn't affect her chances of becoming a jobbing gardener too much...

Dd has Ginty's hair, but I hope not her morals, and definitely not her horsewomanship...

twisty, did your DS tell the admissions office why he was having to turn down their place? I am sure that Imperial needs to know this sort of thing if they are in any way to be inclusive and attract the best brains. Furthermore, they might have a hardship fund your DS could access.

Also waiting now for DS's GCSE results now we have got the A levels out of the way.

DD1 is Esther, I think.

Nit - at least we don't have the worries the Merricks did. But neither the money, so, swings, roundabouts......

My biggest fear has aways been to unwittingly turn into Meg Hopkins's parents. :(

Me too

Still waiting here too! It's hard!