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Year 11 support thread - keep on keeping on!

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AtiaoftheJulii · 09/06/2017 06:36

Just getting this ready!

Following on from www.mumsnet.com/Talk/secondary/2936097-Yr-11-support-thread-the-scaffolding-is-holding-up-well

Good luck to those with exams today 🍀

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TheFrendo · 23/08/2017 15:05

Those are really low.

ifonly4 · 23/08/2017 14:52

DD says The Student Room have removed the leaked Edexcel grades. However, a friend made a note of them.

4 - 41
5 - 68
6 - 96
7 - 124
8 - 57
9 - 190

Obviously out of 240.

Quadratilla · 23/08/2017 14:31

JufusMum I should jolly hope so. I can't bear it when things are leaked. I worded it badly, I meant to imply that it was just the Edexcel Maths ones leaked. Blush

JufusMum · 23/08/2017 14:29

oh, and Edexcel Maths Higher grade boundaries are lower than Kim Kardashian's standards!

JufusMum · 23/08/2017 14:28

Its only Edexcel that are leaked. OCR and AQA remain tight lipped.

Quadratilla · 23/08/2017 14:23

Grade boundaries are out. DD has seen the Edexcel Maths ones on The Student Room - presumably leaked by a teacher/ teacher's child who has access to them today. Not sure it's entirely healthy to look though Hmm

Teddygirlonce · 23/08/2017 08:08

DS has gone into lock-down about the results now - won't discuss how he thinks he did at all.

However apparently he will be up at the crack of dawn tomorrow scrutinising the grade boundaries.

He is planning on meeting some of his friends on the bus and going in with them. He doesn't want us there. He will be knocking on the school door at 8.55am, knowing him.

bengalcat · 22/08/2017 15:27

Getting excited now - don't know why as they're not my results - will be happy with whatever kid has as I know she did her best

booellesmum · 22/08/2017 13:48

T- 2 days

keepondreaming · 21/08/2017 15:57

T -3 days...

bengalcat · 21/08/2017 15:41

Yes add maths is out - our school has released

errorofjudgement · 20/08/2017 09:18

It's getting awfully close.
We have friends whose DC had their A2 and AS results this week, with mixed results, it's definitely added to the pressure DD is feeling.
Roll on Thursday!

Witchend · 17/08/2017 23:39

According to my dd, Additional Maths is out with the A-levels, but her school won't send them until the rest of the GCSEs. I'm sure when I did it, they came out with the GCSEs.

However the grade boundaries are way up from what she says. From around (can't remember the exact numbers) 61% for an A, 53% for a B last year, it's 74% for an A, 63% for a B this year. So from hoping for an A, but confident of a B she's now on hoping she has a B and hasn't dropped further. Sad

LIZS · 17/08/2017 20:25

Are Additional Maths results out already? Another in dd's year whose elder sibling was collecting A levels today seems to have their result Confused

booellesmum · 17/08/2017 14:17

Ifonly4 -
That's crazy asking for a 7 in maths.
DD is at a superselective grammar. They need 7 to do Maths A-level but only 5 in Maths if taking other subjects.
I think your school is asking a lot and may rethink once results are out?

Laniakea · 17/08/2017 12:01

had a dry run for next week (anxiety starting here!) - dd got a really high A in her AS level so she'll be doing the A2 creative writing as an extra next year :)

ifonly4 · 15/08/2017 14:54

That horrendous maths exam has come back to haunt us here, so much so DD has almost changed her mind over one of her options. Her new Sixth Form required A grades in order to do a subject at A level. However, you need a minimum of a 7 in Maths to do a science subject. As many others, DD struggled with the maths paper but she's just admitted she messed things up she knew. So she now talking about Eng Lit. She'd much prefer to do biology which would be better for her second career choice but Eng Lit would be okay for both career choices, so maybe it won't be the end of the world.

The holidays are going well here though, we've had a holiday and a short break. DD has seen a fair amount of friends, not just her usual main set of friends so that's food and we've had what seems like endless trips to get stuff as she'll be moving away for Sixth Form. DD is about to go away again, and has her results and birthday coming up, so it's going really quick.

RaskolnikovsGarret · 14/08/2017 00:37

Actually I think I was unfair to refer to people as complacent. I just don't think DD would ever be confident / laid back enough to assume her results would be ok enough to wait to go back to school to find them out.

Woody67 · 13/08/2017 22:59

We are on holiday on results day so DS has authorised someone to collect his results and will call them if he wants to. He is fairly confident but a bit worried that he might not get a B equivalent at Maths (6). He would have done last year, Maths is a strong subject for him but due to the changes, it's now a bit of an unknown quantity.

RaskolnikovsGarret · 11/08/2017 15:29

Hello all

DD has had a busy few weeks - two weeks' work experience, and then a week's concert tour round Eastern Europe. She has also met lots of friends, and messed around with her cousins, which she has really enjoyed.

We are now on holiday - a busy one flying round, so zero time to dwell on results. She's loving her time off, which is great. I've never seen anyone work so hard continuously for 7 months, so she definitely deserves a break.

Results in school at 9am. Her sister and I will go with her, but very few of her friends are going in. Most are happy to wait until they return to school to find out. Seems bizarre to me! They need a minimum of 6 As, and A stars for certain A level subjects, to stay on at school, so it feels a bit complacent to me not to go in! But whatever works for them.

Dinner booked in the evening for us, plus grandparents and cousins etc. regardless of how she does. She wants to cancel if she gets much less than perfect grades, but we are insisting that she go ahead - I know she will do well enough, and she has done her best, which is all that matters.

5am flight tomorrow, so will log off now. Hope your DCs keep calm unil the big day!

DrMadelineMaxwell · 11/08/2017 01:13

No backup 6th form here either. No chance of taking A levels in her school, so it's move to another school (she didn't like any of them), or go to the new, custom built Sixth Form college. They require 6 GCSEs at C or above. She's already got 3 under her belt. (A, A, B) and is predicted As and As for the rest.

She veers between wanting a lift (but stay in the car, Mum) to get her results, or saying that she'll walk. She also says she'll go in, get her results and go home to open them, hopefully avoiding her friends. She's always struggled a bit with friendships, although she has made several friends. She doesn't put the time into seeing them as she can't be doing with any fall outs between people, so keeps herself out of the loop a bit. But then feels a bit left out. She can't WAIT to see the back of a certain few kids who have really leaned on her support but not given very much back in return.

I'm just nervous about any fall out if she doesn't live up to her own exacting standards. She worked bloody hard all year. But there were tears in her eyes when she only got an A instead of an A* in numeracy. And full on floods of tears when she got a B in Eng lit.

On top of that, I didn't twig that Welsh Bacc (a separate subject) is compulsory. So when she chose 4 A level options for her provisional application, it means 5 inc the Welsh Bacc. Which was viewed as 'ambitious' when she went for the A lev college induction day.

She wanted to do Eng, Eng lit, Psychology and History. She desperately wants to write for a living (or have a job that uses writing if she can't write books) and thinks she really needs Eng and Eng lit. She's interested in Psychology. So thinks that it's History that will have to go. But until recently, History teacher was her backup plan. I don't envy her the choice.

pointythings · 09/08/2017 14:00

We don't have a backup 6th form, but the 6th form has backup options in case DD doesn't meet her targets - she can change to more vocational courses if it has all gone wrong. It's pretty unlikely that it has in real terms. The academic stream just demands a minimum B in whatever subject you want to do, except for History which also demands a 6 in English language. Which seems fair enough.

gazzalw · 09/08/2017 11:58

Agree with all the above @tiggytape - we live in very different times!

tiggytape · 09/08/2017 10:26

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gazzalw · 09/08/2017 10:02

@tiggytape I reckon it's the schools and league table positions that add the extra pressure. And competitive 'helicopter' parenting seems to have become a thing that it never was in the past - parents' identities/sense of worth seem to be so much more caught up in their children's achievements these days (generally speaking) - there seems to be no room for being average?