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

51 a
19 u
42 b
16 a

Overall C, but 2nd mark is totally , even given she's dyslexic. She bounced out of that paper really happy they seem to taken off marks for SPAG and given no marks at all for content. Far far harsher than school mark.

I make it three ums off an A Littleham.

littleham is it WJEC unit 2 that's low (writing I think?) DD2 got an awful grade for that and one the English teachers says a lot of her classes marks were much lower than the other units and they were thinking of sending them all back.

Thanks Molio! In listed order (same as yours)-

54 a*
27 e
57 a*
19 a*

Littleham my Y10 DS has just done English with WJEC and I've got the mark sheet here - if you want to write her marks for each unit then I can work out how far off the A boundary she is.

I'm not sure how far off an A she is at the moment. The board is WJEC and she got 46 points (a B) if that means anything to anyone....

She thought it went a bit worse (but that not that much worse). The teacher is asking for the script back. She didn't use all the time in that exam, so perhaps that pulled her down. It just seems such a wide gap, compared to the other three parts!

Did she think that particular unit went badly littleham or have any comments about it? Was it an exam or controlled assessment? I'd definitely try and investigate further - could you get a copy of the script back if it was an exam and let a teacher look at it? I would think it would be very unusual for an A* candidate to get an E on a single random unit, unless maybe only half of it had been completed or something.

Exex, am beginning to wonder where you live or whether Ds' school and your school are identical twins.

Exex, am beginning to wonder where you live or whether Ds' school and your school are identical twins.

Exex, am beginning to wonder where you live or whether Ds' school and your school are identical twins.

Yes they will.

That sounds very odd, Littleham. I think I would get it remarked. Do you know how far off the A she is?

Can anyone confirm that this year's GCSE students, i.e. those starting Year 12 in September, will be doing AS levels?

umm....could any teachers give me some advice. My dd3 is in a very average large comprehensive. She was entered a year early (Year 10) for English GCSE and is one of the youngest in the year group.

For the four English units she got A, A, A* and E !! This brought her overall English grade to a B. She doesn't want to re-sit in year 11 & does not want to do English A Level. Should she re-sit and should we get the one unit re-marked (as it seems to be such a major difference)?

Also, will it make a difference with future university applications (probably languages)?

exexpat - my DD's school sussed out the 'unis only interested in A levels taken in Year 13' thing. They used to get kids to sit A level maths in Year 12 and further maths A level in Year 13. Now they do AS Maths and AS Further Maths in Year 12, then A level maths and A level further maths in Year 13. Same amount of study but better result for UCAS form. However, with AS levels having only one more year to run this will no longer be relevant.

Exexpat interesting - at my DS school everyone does Maths GCSE in Y11, and the top sets also take AS maths at that time. We were not aware of that (DS forgot to tell us ) , and so were surprised last week when DS casually told us he had got his AS result (A), and then the A* this week for GCSE.

DS (and the whole top maths set at his school) did maths a year early, which made a lot of sense - all good mathematicians, finding it easy and probably getting bored if they'd waited until the end of year 11 to take the GCSE. All but one sailed through with A*, then went on to do the further/additional maths qualification this year as a bridge to A-level maths/further maths in the 6th form.

They used to get them to do AS maths in year 11, then do maths A-level in year 12 and further maths in year 13, but that has changed now as apparently universities will only accept A-levels taken in year 13.

DS also did French a year early (along with the whole of the top set), which made less sense in my view, since he'd only started it in year 7 and wasn't that good (in my opinion) - still managed an A* but that was with a modular GCSE which allowed a lot of rote-learning of things for the oral etc.

I really don't see the point in getting anyone to do a GCSE early unless they are expected to get top grades.

Catherine that is my view too and also that they should do 8 = 10 all at once and no more so they keep lots of times for music, sports, other hobbies or just staring into the distance and thinking.
Mine will do ten next year all in one go at age 16 (9 if they drop 3 sciences down to two).

Perhaps I'm missing something but I don't understand this push for reams of gcses? I suppose having a lot may help top uni applications but the majority of GCSE students really need the top 5 with a couple extra to underpin don't they? Certainly I've never been held back for my "average" results. The pressure just seems out of kilter to the advantages (that sentence makes no sense sorry! )

DS very academic indie school no-one takes GSCE early, unless, occasionally a native speaker of a language takes it as an extra. School prefers to give DC the chance to mature, go on beyond the syllabus, and allow time for other activities -eg sport, drama etc.

Yup, dd took 3 early but now has to start 2 new subjects as well as the rest ....
Triple science, English, RE, Geography, PE, German, are there 2 Englishes still? And also start on Business studies and bloody Further Maths!!

So I don't really understand what taking 3 early achieved as she has a year to study 2 totally new ones and then taken 10/11 ..... Well, 9 months

This thread makes me realise why I am glad my children are not allowed to take GCSEs a year early however brilliant or top of the class they are. Better and perhaps more impressive to take them all at once in one sitting having had 2 years of the proper course.

Nerf, for drama nationwide was that the overall grade that's stayed the same? DS still got an A despite his D on the written exam as he had one mark off 100% on the performance modules, and a couple of friends are in the same boat, so maybe really harsh exam marking was the only way to prevent a raft of A* grades in drama this year.

He got A and A in English, so as Legallady* said above, presumably he can string a sentence together.

QOD thanks for that!

Good to read some of the recent posts re disappointments.

Despite DS's amazing results, he's on a downer, saying that he needs more A* to!get into the top universities!

Reading this thread and having been on the Student Room I know this is not the case.

Well done everyone!

Now the really hard work starts..........A levels!

Oakmaiden it did usually mean that but we would be given the actual grade (remember mark and grade are not the same) and the predicted grade andif there were two grades (not marks) between the two then we would always have a close look. Also, if the original marker was proving to be a bit severe then we would definitely look hard.
The difference would be if a whole school was being remarked in which case grade boundaries would be looked at first. There was a very complex system and if the remarker genuinely felt a candidate deserved an higher grade they would get it. However someone always has to be one mark either side of the boundary and we would never say that because someone missed a grade by one mark we'd find the mark. That occasionally happened on the C/D border but hardly ever elsewhere.