Is there a hand holding thread for Y11 parents and GCSE results yet?

Thanks Leeds2. Think I'll save it for tomorrow night. I don't think I could stop at one and I need to drive in him 8am tomorrow!

What happened with English and History in 2012? I keep seeing reference to it, but don't know what it is.

And dare I ask what subjects are known for being volatile? I can only imagine they are the ones DD chose!!

I think I would've been hysterical, Dunlurking. Glad everything turned out fine! Glass of wine tonight?!

Oooh another one thinking your ds is going to have a nice morning tomorrow Bacon. Fingers crossed for him and you.

I had a massive meltdown this morning. Ds very upset with me now
He was supposed to catch the train to meet dd and I in a nearby city after a sleepover with his friends. He didn't turn up. His phone was on voicemail only, no replies to texts. I called the friend and found he had left there 2 hours previously. Dd's suggestion was that the train was delayed because someone had thrown themselves in front of it (which happened to a train we were on once). Well you can imagine what I started thinking - with his GCSE results out tomorrow! In the end he managed to email his friend from the public library and ask him to let us know where he was as his phone wasn't working. But he hasn't forgiven me for thinking he might have done something like that.

I am not looking forward to tomorrow and nor is Ds. He keeps telling me that as of tomorrow his 'life is over!' B's and C's, B's and C's...that will keep him going Ok.

The grade boundaries are only half of it. There's sometimes strange marking to factor in as well, with whole subjects being affected, as with English and History in 2012. Sometimes it's just a particular exam board, but certain subjects are notoriously volatile.

I'm anticipating poorer than expected results for DS and reduced stats nationally. In the vague hope that I might have a pleasant surprise!

Joining in and marking my place!!! Tomorrow is a big headache away!!

I think DD is getting hers by text/email. Not sure at what time though.

Ohh let us know bacon!

My DD is a bundle of nerves, Im trying to play it cool but my stomach is in knots.

DD has OCD, anxiety and Asperger's, she revivsed so very hard I hope she gets the grades she wants. She's worried about people being disappointed in her. No matter how much we tell her that we won't be, it doesn't seem to go in.

She is being dropped down at 8, but I have to stay in the car . She is going to open them away from everyone and then come to tell me.

We're in NI and her school doesn't have a 6th form so we have to try to get her an interview and place tomorrow . Why in earth they do it this way is beyond me.

She has applied to 2 grammar schools and tech is her standby in case she hasn't enough points for A levels.

How we are going to be in 3 places at once I haven't a clue.

Bacon suggest you call back so we you know the reason. If he to appear on TV he probably wants to wear his coolest gear

Yes Dumbledoresgirl. All the SMT and the numbercrunchers will know the results today. Teachers can log onto the exam websites from 6 am tomorrow to see how their school have done. We have anxious GCSE days every year as DH is HOD of Geography and is always on early checking the results before he goes in to see the students to find out how they have done. Extra anxious though this year as DT's get their results tomorrow! He will know some of their exam results before they do but is sworn to secrecy.

Thanks, eatyourveg. I had been imagining worse than that!

Isn't it weird to think people who know our children well already know how they have done? I wish I could find out early!

Leeds2 I've looked at the grade boundaries for ds's subjects and they are generally only 1 or 2 points away from last years though one subject and I can't remember which, was about 4 marks out meaning he had to score 4 extra raw marks to get over the threshold

will go back and look at them again later and report back as to which board/subject it was

Bacon - it definitely sounds like one of those opening live on TV sort of things - good luck to your ds and to all the dc

Does anyone who knows about these sort of things know if the grade boundaries have indeed changed significantly this year?

Also expect it is because your son has done extremely well, Bacon. If it was something bad, they wouldn't leave you on tenterhooks. Good Luck to him!

Bacon, that happened last year, it's because he's done well! ( press photos)

I hope so! If he was entered for some GCSEs a year early, then it is unlikely to be anything bad!

Bacon Got a feeling it will be good news for you....surely they would have the decency to warn you otherwise. I wouldn't sleep if my Ds was told that!

Bacon the only reason will be because he's done incredibly well and needs to wave his envelope at the local or national press. They don't call kids in early at our school if they've top performers but I know they do at others. Anyhow, all schools will have their results in and counted by now!

Oh Bacon that's really unfair of the school to ask you that and not tell you why. A bit like if you get a call from the surgery and it turns out to be something really minor, but you've been panicking for hours!

It may be a really GOOD reason - perhaps he's done fantastically well!

Bacon is your son able? If he is it might be for a press photo. My DD1 had to go in early for that and I nearly had kittens!

Thanks Ellen I hope so too!

All sorts of terrible scenarios are going through my head........

Cross post, Bacon. Hope it's some admin type reason.

Thanks everyone. I have the feeling DS might 'fancy' the girl who's having the party and she's got wind of this. Unfortunately, she doesn't think of him in that way and has uninvited him in a panic. I'm going to take him for a curry with cider... having found out from MN that he can have a drink with a meal from 16 yo in a restaurant.

He did his 'ice bucket challenge' today and that's cheered us all up no end.

Just had a phonecall from DS's school asking him to come in half an hour before,the allotted results collection time.

Why would this be?

I asked the secretary if everything was ok, she said yes. I wish I'd asked WHY they wanted him to come in early now.

In a Year 10 exam he forgot to complete one third of,the paper.......blimey! I don't think I'll sleep tonight.

DS2 is distinctly uninterested in looking at the grade boundaries. I have just rushed into his room, laptop in hand, to try and get him to look at them, but he told me in no uncertain terms that he really didn't want to look right now, we will find out the grades tomorrow. He then told his friend on Skype that I was 'freaking out because the grade boundaries have been published'. I am not freaking out, I'm not even nervous really, just very excited. But then I am the kind of parent who counts off the days until reports or parents evenings.

No need for me to go in with my son, and he would kill me if I cramped his style so; the school is only 5 mins walk from our house. I just hope ds thinks to come back and tell me the results as he is off out to lunch with friends afterwards.