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Year 10 exam results- sense of perspective please

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Swarskid2184 · 13/06/2017 22:12

My DD has always been academically able and at the end of year 9 was predicted 9's for all of her GCSE's. I was concerned at the time that was unrealistic.

So fast forward to now. DD has spent all of her time when at home in year 10 sat on the sofa, on line browsing on phone and iPad. No revision and no prep for year 10 formal exams. Her argument is that she works hard at school.

So, her aim is to study medicine - planning on doing A levels in Biology, Chemistry, maths and either history or music.

Just got her exam results, she got:

English: 6
Maths: 6-
Biology: 6
Chemistry: 4
Physics: 4
French: 5
Geography: 7
History: 7
Music: 6-
RE: 3+

She is also doing further maths- but didn't do an exam in that.

So... should I be worried? Slightly odd that she is doing best in subjects she is not planning (or possibly considering as an AS in the case of history )??

Views please.

Her best friend has 7's and 8's across the board- and DD has always been in a similar situation to her.
Thanks

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Swarskid2184 · 13/06/2017 22:19

Wolfe- yes I did. She does her homework, and gets an 'E' (exceptional) for all homework- but did literally no revision. Don't know if I am being harsh as we get letters from school commending her for hard work- but i don't know think that this is sustainable into next year without some focused study...

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C0untDucku1a · 13/06/2017 22:18

Did Her friend do badly in chemistry?

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Swarskid2184 · 13/06/2017 22:16

Assume was teachers marking. Completely get the being 15 thing, but think that she has just assumed that she will always do well without working hard. She thinks these results are fine and that she knew she had done badly in chemistry as paper was on stuff they hadn't learnt....but she did literally no revision!!

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Wolfiefan · 13/06/2017 22:14

She does no HW at all? Did you not challenge the "I work at school so that's enough" attitude before the exams?!

noblegiraffe · 13/06/2017 22:14

Kids don't get to study medicine by sitting on their arses all day. She can probably kiss that ambition goodbye if she isn't planning on pulling her finger out pretty sharpish.

What does she think of her results?

Calyrical · 13/06/2017 22:13

They are fair for this stage. I understand your concerns though Flowers. did her teachers mark them?