2015 Yr 12 support thread

Our wifi had its intermittently wobbly so I could no log on !!! - and did not want to get DS up to sort it out - vision of driving to McDonalds to get wifi.
Luckily managed to find a cable to connect and login - the results look good except that I know DS was fretting about UMS scores would determine his uni choices, not the actual grades - so still ne to wait for him to get up and tell us.
The best score is on the subject he was intending to drop for A2..
Good luck to everyone who has to wait or go in - drive safely

We have DD's results -not stellar but ok. She is not over the moon but she thinks they are fair and knows she has a lot of work to do next year.

Good luck everyone.

,dun, also up. . DS asleep. Good luck on the drive. I have the results and they are worse than DS feared. What he feared in one subject, down in another. A bummer. Hope it goes well for yours.

we can't collect them til 10 o clock. they give out the A2 s at 9 am

Am I first up? Leaving in an hour t drive in to collect ds results as he is away. He texted me late last night after checking the GBs saying "I'm not going to get any As" (needs 3) so have spent night feeling sick at thought that I have to see these results first then tell him by text.

When I checked GB I thought they looked OK in my ignorance but apparently they have gone up not down in his 2 most important subjects.

Good luck to all your dcs.

Ah bugger - there goes my careful avoidance of the specifics of grade boundaries! Should have avoided the thread till tomorrow!

85% - the poor kids :(

D's quietly confident but I don't know if that is a good thing.setting yourself up for disappointment I fear.I am a bag of nerves as have seen you need 85% raw score for an A with AQA

Battered, the history GBs have put the wind up DS too.

Did you know that some dutch universities teach in English, that their tuition fees are only £2000 v £9000 here, that if you gave done well in GCSEs you are pretty qualified already, and that you work hard but are eminently employable after? And much harder to send your washing home...

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We have had tears after finally looking at grade boundaries . Glad she looked though as she is now more prepared mentally. DD wants to study English at uni and had been confident at least with this subject, history is the unknown. OCR showing 54 out of 60 and 36 out of 40 for an A in English, hence the tears and complete reevaluation of her choices but at least she is no longer walking in with high expectation. Oh and now she is getting the bus as doesn't want me waiting in car! Let's see if that's still the case at 9am :)

MrsU, of course I won't get it confirmed until 6 am but he told me what he did and in maths it's quite easy to know what you did or didn't do right. I then went on to TSR for each if the maths papers and they have some wizard there who seems to get the grade boundaries right within a pp. So I confirmed the TSR GBs with the ones released today. Heigh ho, displacement activity we go. Tis shit.

History is more dubious.

Good luck everyone.

All very nervous here; I've looked at the grade boundaries but DS refused to. I'm really worried about the maths but trying not to show it - he's even more worried about the maths and showing it rather a lot!

He can look them up on the college website at 9 am. I'm absolutely dreading it.

Good luck to everyone.

Late to the thread as only just discovered it, but good luck to all DCs tomorrow. My DD is really nervous and is refusing to talk about it. She had a quick look at grade boundaries earlier and is now even more worried. I'm not expecting great results as she has struggled a bit, despite getting great GCSE results, and if she has done badly, it won't be through not trying as she worked her socks off. Am taking her to school tomorrow fully armed with tissues!

DS looked at grade boundaries in his subjects and was reassured. He could get the results on line at 6am but says not to wake him....

Dd firmly said she's not looking at grade boundaries, I hope she doesn't.
Capewrath - hope it's not as bad as you think.

Capewrath

How do you know? How you can tell already?
I am completely confused by the boundaries/UMS etc, tho I suspect as DS was doing Physics today he may have been revisiting the paper.

Life shit here. Grade boundaries have just shown what I knew/ suspected already from The Student Room. 6 am tomorrow. Retakes being prepared for,, plus gap year.

What's so agonising is nit actually how he does, but his inner confidence and resilience. Over the longer term it will be ok but is not now.

We are on holiday which as it turns out was a stupid plan but these were the only two consecutive weeks when DD1 didn't have a residential, so... She can't get her results till 1pm at the earliest when she and apparently lots of others will be phoning in to the school ALL AT THE SAME TIME. It's going to be a nightmare. They say they are only there from 1-2 but surely if the single phone is ringing off the hook then they won't operate a guillotine at 2pm? I think it's rubbish - the whole morning tomorrow will be about sitting round looking at the clock, because DH is refusing to go out anywhere to 'keep DD1 company' (she wants us all to go out so he really is being mad). Ah well.

I have been so calm so far and have been through this before with DD1 so can't believe I am a bag of nerves today!
This is me too - sympathy to all - at least we have this thread - would be far worse without!
Got home form work to see DS doing Physics at the kitchen table Didn't ask why, but am guessing he has discussed grade boundaries with friends as he also seemed to be typing stuff into his phone from time to time...

Needmoresleep, we are at least in the right country, but DS similarly has no clue how to access his results tomorrow.

It also seems to be a surprise to him that the AS results will determine whether he's allowed to carry on to A2, despite three out of four subject teachers mentioning this at parents' evening.

Hey ho.

DD foolishly looked at the grade boundaries for her papers and is now really worried. Have to admit I'm a bag of nerves too. We're off to the theatre tonight so that will hopefully provide a welcome distraction.

Good luck to all the DC. See you on the other side!

Wish I hadn't taken today off work. Wandering from room to room, just can't focus on anything as feel sick about tomorrow! DD out with friends but due home soon. We had intended to spend the day shopping together but neither of us felt like it, she is having flashbacks of wrong answers and missed questions. Her exams were in a very short time period so she didn't seem to be able to catch her breath and lost confidence after one bad paper.

I have been so calm so far and have been through this before with DD1 so can't believe I am a bag of nerves today! She just texted to say mark schemes are up but not to look as she doesn't want to know, wouldn't know where to start anyway!

Years ago it seemed as though AS results were mostly lower than even brighter kids expected but it didn't matter so much as they could pull it back in year 13. Now with unis possibly still giving places with one or even two slipped grades, year 12 results seem much more important as they won't get the offers in the first place without the right predictions. I can tell I am stressed when I ramble!

Good luck to all DCs, and hopefully some good news to share in the morning :)

DD1 is not in a good way now. I know she worked hard and she knows she worked hard but she is now convinced she bombed out in everything. And I know only too well that if she did get in a tizz during an exam it will have cost her. Sigh.

I could have written that about my dd

Fingers crossed everyone ....