Finishing Year 13 / Exam Results support thread (number 6!)

Welcome EscaMac! I think we all worry about the outcome on results day, regardless of predicted grades/past performance!

Hi All, new to MN...thought as seen as there are only 7 days until UCAS receive or DC's exam results and only another 7 until chaos ensues I would join and hopefully see that I wasn't the only mother worrying for her DC. DD gained great GCSE results and became completely complacent for AS...gained an amazing DDDU in The three sciences and Geography. After dropping one science she re-sat all her AS exams along with A2's...madness. She has been extremely focused this year. No other option than to pull her finger out and has fortunately has gained a conditional place at university. They obviously ignored the low predicted grades and focused on her personal statement and interview. However, I am now over thinking about the grades from last year and worrying that history will repeat itself. Anyone else in the same boat? ????

Medicinal Chemistry comes up quite often too

I've not been too worried about Results Day I'm kind of telling myself DS has not achieved his grades, so that if it happens, I will be prepared. Obviously I want him to do well, but I honestly have no idea how he's done
I checked the other day and his firm is in Clearing, insurance isn't. Fingers crossed he's managed to scrape AAB...

Eatyourveg - she wants to do medicine so that won't be in clearing. However I had a quick look today & there seem to be plenty of Biology type courses around.

Me too Decorhate I have to keep blocking it out of my mind.

decorate if you really are freaking out, ucas still have the clearing vacancies up until midnight so have a look on there to see if your dc's course appears, it can be reassuring if it appears to still have vacancies as it may indicate they would look more favourably on a dropped grade - if its not there, try looking for the insurance or one of the original 5, a plan B is always worth having as you don't want your dc having to face making a split decision on results day. Remember 9 times out of 10 it all works out fine.

Please tell me I am not the only parent secretly freaking out now in case it all goes horribly wrong?! Only 16 days to go or something.

DS moving camps today - 12 hrs on a coach!!
Encouraging news re Clearing, seimum!

hellsbells - there was a bit in the paper today about how there should be lots of choice in clearing this year and unis are going to be offering inducements to candidates, apparently! Hope it's true.

And hopefully won't be needed.

Hello everyone - hope you are all enjoying the summer.
Horsemad - I am sure your son will be fine and have a great holiday!
DD1 has kept herself very busy with holidays and working, and is currently away with her music group. We then have a week's family holiday. She is going to have a week at home then before results day ....and I think that will be a very long week. I am already dreading it. She is convinced she has missed her grades - I am hoping that her firm will still accept her if it is 1 or 2 grades dropped. I suspect they will take her 1 grade dropped but not 2 - but I have my fingers crossed. We went to have a look at her insurance choice again last week as DD2 was visiting it, and DD1 would be fine there too but again we could be relying on them accepting her with grades below the offer. She has announced she doesn't care where she goes as long as it is for her chosen course - which is the same accredited degree whichever uni you do it at......I just wish she had said that ages ago and then her insurance choice could have been one with a lower offer!!!

Blimey, did anyone see BBC news yesterday reporting of a shark attack on a surfer in South Africa?
DS is going diving whilst there... He'll be about 800 miles away from where it happened, but them sharks can swim long distances, can't they?!!

We have a local charity shop that has the upstairs set out like a book shop with wall to wall shelves but I was thinking of dividing it all between a few charity shops. I don't want them thrown out so thanks for the tip Leeds2

Very nearly finished and took 7 bin bags of rubbish to the tip

DD does not need any toiletries for the next couple of years mumslife

Please don't take 5 bin bags of teen books to the same charity shop on one day! One to five different shops, or five to the same over five weeks. If you take them all at once, you run the risk of them throwing some away. speak from bitter experience

Glad that some of you are enjoying tidier rooms though!

The main thing DD hoards is books...under her bed, piled up on her bookshelves, on top of her wardrobe and under her desk. We have currently 5 bin bags to donate to charity
She is keeping all her classics and favorites but has decided to get rid of most of her teen fiction. The dust is horrendous

mumslife I have taken your lead and started on DDs big bedroom sort out today. It seems an epic task as she discovers lots of forgotten stuff from under the bed and at the back of her wardrobe. She is thankfully being very ruthless and is taking particular pleasure in throwing out all her school work.

Thanks Decorate and Mumslife. I'm trying not to think about Clearing, but it might come down to that...

Muffin - sorry to hear about your FIL.

DD keeps having dreams about results day. Dream results have ranged from ABB to CCD.

Meanwhile our summer holiday plans have had to be drastically revised because FIL is very ill in hospital. We don't know if he will pull through.

So now we are at home when we expected to be in Italy. Weird limbo-ish feeling.

Horsemad, I think if a course is in clearing and someone has an offer for the course but is worried they won't meet the offer, there is perhaps a chance they will accept lower grades as they are not full. Alternatively if it's a subject that someone has offers for elsewhere & they don't get the grades for the offer, it may be somewhere they could get in to do their subject instead