GCSE Results Day 2017

Dieting wow they do expect a lot at your daughter's school, given it's state albeit selective. Good preparation though I think makes a massive difference, as does being taught how to study effectively. I helped my son with this as he thought just reading and copying out notes was enough .

I'm hoping the grade boundaries with English and maths will be kind this year. I really think they don't want to see too much grade slippage in English and maths -having introduced it so hastily- as it the first year of presentation (Mr Gove's vanity project).

Hope your daughter gets what she needs. Is there a decent college nearby as back up?

Hi Phaedra - sorry your DS has faced similar. You are right about how complicated it is. He is having acupuncture which has made a huge difference to the migraines but then when they were abating, got himself into a rabbit caught in headlights frame of mind about going back to school. He was stressed about the attention he would get. He WASNT stressed about the exams but said if he went back he would become stressed.

I'm so pleased he is seeing a psychologist. She is working on strategies for him going back to school and dealing with the migraines.

I hope your DS is OK and gets the results he wants.

@Livingdiisgracefully she's at a state grammar not private, I think they were well prepared at school but didn't see her doing as much private study as was recommended, so am feeling nervous for her.
Am hoping the maths 6 doesn't trip her up, not her favourite subject!

Teddy - To be fair, I wouldn't say The StudentRoom is just for nerds. It's just that particular thread that was all about grades. The site is full of tons of very useful, very good information for any student ranging university applications, personal statements, how enjoyable a uni is, from a student's point of view, current affairs etc. Any student would do well to pop in there at least once or twice just to look around.

MadHair - Hope you get well soon and hope your DD gets the right grades so there's something to celebrate.

I've not really posted about DS2 as I did about DS1 at this time, partly because I feel his situation is a bit different and am not sure if others would understand, but I now see CiderwithBuda has a similar situation with her DS. DS2 has had a lot of time off through headaches and migraines, though fortunately we now seem to have found a medication which had helped a lot.

Cider, Regarding the mental health angle, it can be a difficult one to pick apart as actually one's wellbeing takes a dip the day or so before a migraine anyway. It can look to outsiders as if the sufferer is stressed and that has caused the migraine, whilst the oncoming migraine has actually caused the mood swing, irritability etc. Though stress is of course a common migraine trigger! There is also the factor that prolonged time spent suffering, being isolated from your peers and not being able to do what you want to do can be depressing! And some medications for migraines can affect mood, just to add to the mix!

Good luck to your, and everybody's, DC tomorrow.

Oh dear Madhairday. to you and good luck to your dd. Hope you're home soon, and recovered.

That should say thankfully dh will be there, obviously she will be!

I feel dreadful as I'm not going to be able to be with DD in the morning as I've been admitted to hospital thankfully she will be there but I so wanted to be there for her.

Thinking of all the dcs, especially today and over night!

I still don't understand UMS or raw marks so I may be making no sense

I've been lurking but not posting, and getting a lot of comfort from other posts.My dd has been very stressed all summer and has had nightmares this week. She's worked so hard, far more than ds did, but won't achieve his grades because of her mild dyslexia. Can't wait for tomorrow to be over. Wishing all your dcs the best, and a large or for us all tomorrow when it is over.

Will you chuck me off the thread if I mention grade boundaries? According to dd there are some Edexcel grade boundaries floating about on twitter. All I can remember is that the 7 in Maths was 124 to 157 raw marks (I think the whole thing is out of 240. Does that make any sense to anyone? I know lots of people need a 7 for sixth form Maths/sciences, as does dd. She's gone to work now (thank goodness she won't be moping round the house all day), so I can't ask her for the links or more details.

@DietingAgain sounds like DS - only difference being that he's not even voiced the notion that he may end up as his fall-back sixth form option. Not sure whether that's total denial kicking in or that he's quietly more confident than he's admitting to.

DS tells me that The Student Room is the home of the super-nerds who are over invested in their studies.

Should have been (?) not (!), lol

Having to get 4As sounds a massive pressure but probably a private school (!) so hopefully they've been really well prepared, so should be okay.

My son has to get 5 A-Cs including English Language and at least a 7 in maths, which he wants to do for A level. I was quite firm with him about working hard before the exams but now the results are due, it'll be all about supporting him if anything goes wrong. Pretty sure he'll have done enough as he (appeared to) put a lot of effort in.

Holding hands with all nervous parents!

Feeling sick to my stomach with all this bad press. DD was forced to sit AQA English Lit a year early in year 10 aged just 14. She had a massive panic attack in paper 1 and had to be removed for ten mins. She said paper 2 was better.
Seeing what she has been writing it is 100% better than anything I ever wrote and I got an A in 1992.
Poor kid just wants to scrape a 4 so she doesn't have to resit, but she failed the mock (got a 3). The entire cohort failed the mock.
I sent her paper to my friend who is an English teacher and she said she would have graded it a 7???
Completely unknown quantities and a real mess.

DD needs 4 A's and at least 6 in maths and English to stay on at her schools sixth form and is quite stressed at the thought of leaving her much loved school.
If she's has to go to her second choice she will also have to give up her part time job as the distance means she wouldn't get back in time.

Don't fret. Is anyone thinking about new apprenticeships.

See some local to Hertfordshire

www.herts.ac.uk/apply/degree-apprenticeships/what-is-a-degree-apprenticeship/degree-apprenticeship-vacancies/_recache

My DD has done IGCSEs but will be getting numbers for maths and English. Interested that some of you doing IGCSEs will be getting letters still. I thought they all had to change.

Morning all! On holiday so having results emailed to us tomorrow - DD needs 5 Bs 6 in Eng and 5 for maths for chosen sixth form.... not guaranteed to achieve that even though she worked really hard. can't bear to see her little face if it doesn't work out. I'm immensely proud of her regardless. 🌺

No backup plan here. DD didn't like any of the other 6th form places that were reached in a reasonable journey's time, just the newly built custom 6th form college a few miles away (that provides free buses, yay).

They require 5 GCSEs at C and above, but Bs in the subjects she wants to take. And B in English if she wants to do Psychology.

She already has an A* in maths, an A in numeracy and a B in eng lit. So I think she's going to do alright. I'm more worried that she'll be disappointed if she doesn't live up to her expectations. All the business for the last few years of predicted grades and target grades mean that she was devastated by her B.

She's waiting for results in the 3 sciences, english language, further maths (that she didn't have a choice in taking), history as well as RS and Welsh, which were both compulsory and were 'short course' subjects. Whatever that means.

She plans to rush in there first thing, grab her results, leave and either open them in the car ["I need a getaway driver, Mum!"] or to open them in her room. If she does well enough she might meet a friend later in the day. I've got her a "We're proud of you" huge Millie's cookie as a silly gift as we are, no matter what grades she'll get. But all her controlled assessments going into the exams meant she was already on a good standing.

Excuse typos...nerves

Dd has just reminded me of the crazy geography paper she did.

She answered the three topics they'd revised. Had spare time so thought she'd have a stab at another topic which they hadn't learned.....she only had to do three!

I'm worried that if they mark three only they might not mark the right three.

@ifonly4 It's my birthday on results day, a milestone one too. My wee ds is worried about it for that reason.

Have no clue how it's going to go. H
e felt they all went well on the day but I think I'd rather him had say he sturggled a bit as it appears the strugglers do well. Roll on 24th...hopefully will be a double celebration.

Hastings, and good luck to them!

We don't even have a back up plan
We need at least 4As to progress to year 12!