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

miffy at your DD throwing all her work away already. I was in DSs room earlier and was thinking about all the paper that is on his floor and wondered if I should just bundle it all into a box and put it in the garage until 13th August. His plan B is also a gap year and re-sit anything he needs to, although after a wobble he had about something else this morning, i'm not banking on him going through with going to Uni even if he gets his grades . I can honestly see him backing out -deferring-- the night before he is due to go

Just got home and found DS's yearbook which arrived today. Awww, that has really made me feel sad. Seven years, it's gone so quickly.

We was told to ring the uni up if she was having a remark, or few marks off grade, in which case they will hold her place till 30th of august for remark result. Although we have heard of many instances at dd school where if they were a few ums off, the school rung the uni, which they did in the end took them in after being rejected. I think uni only know the grade but don't know the overall ums they got.
DD plan B, might end up with gap year and resits. But girl has already thrown away all her A2 work apart from maths, thinks she counting on her chickens before they've hatched

DD said OCR Physics was an OK paper, but didn't go too well for her. Possibly less mathematical, more memory.
Think she's just glad its all over.

Littleham - it was a healthcare course.
Plan B is clearing followed by a gap year. Some good friends are taking gap years so she may tag along with them - after working for a few months first.

Thanks molio that sounds hopeful then. DS is doing Maths but he was stressing about something non-exam related before he went in to college this morning, so I'm just hoping it hasn't affected his performance in the exam .
He's got General Studies this afternoon then just one more exam on Monday. Am of all those whose DCs have finished already.

Plan B haha. No. Not beyond pleading with his insurance and going into clearing. I did just suggest sheep shearing in Scotland to DS, for no particular reason.

DS has said that OCR was straightforward enough bigbluebus, and he's not doing it alongside maths or further maths, so not the sort to find it straightforward if the boffins didn't!

Anyone heard how the Physics paper went this morning? Sent a text to DS but he hasn't replied and he has another exam at 1.00pm

Hi Littleham, a friend's daughter, did a degree in marine biology, and took a year out of it after 2 years to get some work experience in New Zealand. I got the impression that it's something anyone can just do. She organised it herself I think. Maybe it's worth asking her insurance how possible and easy that would be, to help reassure her?

littleham will York take equivelant say if she can get A* in history make up for a dropped grade. I wonder if internship abroad in the summer months when your dd is in 2nd year of uni might work? I know my nephew did one in Japan for 6 weeks, however my sister had to pay for flights and accomdation, the work was paid but not very much.
Hopefully fingers crossed your dd will achieve her grades. I've read that because government has removed student caps, uni may be more lenient and flexible with grades. I hope so. But I know what you mean now exams are nearly over for us, and results day looming, its nerve racking, for us, dd will go straight to clearing if she doesn't get her firm as she didn't put a insurance as she just wasn't excited going to the others she had applied for, we think she should do a gap year since shes so unsure. Does everybody else have plan B if plan A goes belly up??

I hope the exams are going well today.
Littleham - friend's DD got into York last year (insurance choice) and she had dropped a couple of grades (1 of those was biology) so hopefully your DD will be fine.

Thanks Littleham for the new thread. Hope the Physics paper now underway goes well for all concerned.

MrsB hope the school deals with the RS exam issue swiftly and efficiently.

DD has General Studies this afternoon - has down loaded some papers to see what they look like but her revision focus is on Geography tomorrow pm.

After that it will be a beer festival Fri and party Sat and she says a lie in on Monday. Monday DS starts year 10 mocks for 2 weeks!

MrsB that's seriously slack on the school's part, not in any way an oh these things happen sort of thing. The school now has a duty to act to try to limit damage. It's obviously particularly bad given your DD's situation.

Physics here this morning and geography tomorrow. I really hope they don't pull any stunts on today's paper - I think DS is very conscious they might, not that that will help.

Atia - I am awaiting a response from the school today. It is such a good school and dd loves it so a shame to end with something like this.

Atiao My thoughts exactly, said earlier thats the type of stuff we are likely to fill this thread with.

Just a two hour dreaded Physics paper, and that's it.

this thread should be entitled partying exploits of a bunch of eighteen year olds free from A levels - lol!

MrsB what a bizarre mix-up :( Hope the school are suitably apologetic. I mentioned that my dd1's school hadn't noticed that half the texts had changed for her Classical Civ retake - she (and the other girl in the same position) ended up being withdrawn from it, and the school sent us a very grovelling letter and one of the things it said was that the head of 6th form was going to write to their firm and insurance universities to explain what had happened, as they felt the girls were possibly at a disadvantage. Perhaps this could be something your school could do re this paper, as well as applying for special circumstances leniency.

Wonder whether we will still be on thread #6 by the time 13th August rolls around .... :)

Wish we could fast-forward to results day!
I don't think my dd will know what to do today without any revision to do. (Hopefully job hunting will start soon)

Marking my place, DD did the IB so results day 6th July. It is getting close now.

Thanks for the new thread Littleham

Physics here tomorrow, then two Further Maths next week and then it's OVER!
Or just beginning I am already not sleeping very well and Clearing is constantly on my mind...

DD finished yesterday and was utterly miserable today. I vaguely remember feeling the same - all that adrenalin suddenly leaves you and you plummet. Hope the others are celebrating and feeling more cheerful!

AQA Physics tomorrow morning, then that's it!
I am taking all the DCs to a concert on Friday to celebrate ('Space Spectacular' at the Albert Hall - including all the Star Wars themes they used to play in junior band)
DS has spotted a job on offer at a local café, hope he gets it (or finds something else to do over the summer).

Mrs B - I hope your DD's RS mix up is sorted and she is compensated in some way