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

I will have had fifteen consecutive years of summer results (often multiple, as this year with six sets of results), by 2020.

I have a Year 9 DC as well, doing GCSEs in 2016 so am completely confused about what he will be doing AS/A2-wise

Our y11s will be the last to do AS and A levels in the current format, I think they still aren't sure about AS levels as standard after that.

Years and years of results here anyway. Second year of GCSE as DS1 took 2 early last year, so 2 more years with him. DD started her 4 years next year (assuming AS for now)then DS2. That's nine years of August results!

I am in two minds about BTEC too. DS will be taking a BTEC too (pending Thursday's results, fingers crossed). His college do A levels but have stopped allowing the students to do an A level alongside a BTEC.

The subjects he would want to take at A level would be mostly essay based and he is much better at hands on stuff. He already has a particular Uni course in mind - plenty of time to change his mind though.

This is my seventh August waiting for exam results - only 2 more years to go

HamEggChipsandBeans I second what you say about BTEC Ds3 is due to start one and has been ordering prospectuses already which I initially thought was way too early. He hasn't found anywhere yet that doesn't take BTEC but has come across a fair few that don't take the particular pathway he has chosen. The college he is going to don't do A levels so he can't timetable an extra one in- its an agricultural college where all the courses are outdoor vocational ones so he'd have to move to another college (would be the one I work at so not a good idea) or stay on at school (his worst nightmare) or move to another school.

Makes me wonder if it is better to do a related course that you like but are not overly enthused about but at a tier 1 uni or a fantastic course right up your street but at a tier 3 place.

Got to get through Thursday first though. Ds convinced he has failed 2 but hoping for a decent mix of grades for the other 8

Just worked out I have at least 8 years of the kids doing exams and revision. Trying to work out exactly how many fishfingers I will be buying over that time to make the never-ending fish finger sandwiches. In algebra form it could possibly be a maths GCSE question (six marks of course).

ds will get his igcse results on Thursday with the rest. Starting to panic a bit over possible misnumbering of answers on first RS paper worth 25%.

AS level's didn't exist back then and in any case DD1 took 18months TTC and DD2 three months, so it was difficult to plan.

I'm just not looking forward to the nicest bit of each year being dominated by exams, for so long. DD2 is going to be horrible without DD's calming influence.

Thanks. I don't know what boards DD did, but it was nothing like CIE! I think she did mainly Edexcel and AQA.

CIE IGCSE results have been officially released but DS1 doesn't know the result of his one IGCSE, as all his other exams were GCSEs and the school is releasing them all together next Thursday.

I read on the Student Room website that the CIE IGCSE grade boundaries would be public today but have not found anything, despite extensive googling!

DS did igce French and Italian with CIE (?) board, and got them Tues I think.

Have the IGCSE results already come out for some boards? DD did IGCSE maths and science, but none mentioned collecting those results now!

DD getting nervous now. Predicted mainly A and B grades but struggled with Science and Maths and thinks she will be lucky to get Cs. She needs Bs in her chosen A-level subjects which, fingers crossed, she should get, although she did say the some of the papers were much harder than she expected. We have no plan B. I'm far more nervous for her than I ever was for my own results. Fingers and toes crossed for everyone!

Also I have this for the next 5 years as well.

Whoever invented AS levels? Do not have DCs three years apart.

Totally worried here. DD1 is getting her GCSE results next week. She's already taken 2 GCSE's a year early and got one grade DOWN than was predicted in each one so she wasn't happy. Have a horrible feeling that this may be the same next week with the remaining ones but she needs minimum "B's" in her chosen A level subjects in order to get into her sixth form of choice and whilst they were predicting "A's" we have no confidence! We also have no plan "B"!

Horrid time but we are all doing our best to ignore it and pretend we are not thinking about it! Best of luck to all your DC's.

Yes, I'm ridiculously proud of my very hard working dyslexic DD whatever she gets.

I know a pile of As don't always equate to hard work. I felt rather embarrassed when people I didn't know congratulated me on mine (small very gossipy town). There was a lot of luck in the questions I got, good genes and exam technique, but not a vast amount of work.

Cervix I know exactly what you mean. I will feel the same but I will still be proud of DS.

Thanks. She did maths, 2 english and double science. If she passes any it will be a miracle, not because she isn't bright but because her aspergers and anxiety makes it impossible for her to prove it in an exam.

And I am jealous of everyone whose children will be flapping 10 A*s. And that's not nice or right as I am so proud of her for doing what she can.

Marking place. DS needs 5 Cs for the course he wants to do. He has 2 already but a combination of Dyslexia, short term memory problems and a very painful herniated disc has meant this has been very difficult for him. He is such a cheerful soul though.

The time seems to be passing so slowly! DD got English Language & English Lit IGCSE results on Wednesday and that seems like a lifetime ago now.

Hands Cervix a large for each night between now and next Thursday.

Dd is getting her year 11 GCSE results Thursday and ds1 is getting the results of the GCSEs he did in year 10.

Everyone is getting very nervous.

Dd has an unconditional offer to sixth form so she is hoping she gets the grades she wants it do the a levels she wants.

Please can I join in?
DS1 getting gcses next week.
Didn't realise some of his were igcses, so bemused when he called us earlier this week to say he had got his results for those (French and Italian). He was miffed that we fell off our chairs in surprise that he got A*s (He is totally a science person, so we were not expecting that).
Today he mentioned casually that he logged onto his school portal and has got an A in Maths AS. We did not realise that he had even taken it - apparently quite a few do at his school at the same time as gcses.
We do ask him every day about his day, what he has done at school etc, but he usually mumbles - not much... so just wondering what other surprises are in store. We do know he will be logging on to the school portal next Thursday to get his main results.
And then staying at the same school for A levels.
Good luck everyone!!!

Terrified.

wish there was an award for celebrating her just making it in to sit them.