GCSEs 2018 (15) The Reckoning

This is how I think results day will go... DD will leave it til last minute to go to school and collect results. DD will eventually come home and a full on ordeal to prise results out of her. I honestly can’t call her results, she has been so up and down and gave nothing away during her exams. Most concerned about English as her mock result was Not sure what DD/we will do if she doesn’t get grades required for 6th form as she shot any other alternatives down. No plan b

The schools don't get supplied the marks in a user friendly format, just by subject, so can't easily convert them by student with a nifty computer program. It's really a case of sifting through loads of data per subject to find your DC's marks. I think it's on a PDF type format so you can't harvest the marks automatically, you'd have to enter them individually. And each exam board's format is different.

The old GCSEs included UMS with each grade straight from the board by student, so it was much easier to turn around over night to give to each student.

I wrote GOT! It looks like 'got' not 'not in my phone.......

sorry I meant give out all marks not grades

Yes I was just going to say mmzz I expect schools don't give out all grades immediately to limit the remark queries and disappointment for those close to next grade up.

I think there will be one of three scenarios for me on results day.
a) very sad and frustrated that he hasn't got required grades in his first choice A level subjects or passed English. But telling him and (myself) that he worked hard, it doesn't matter etc and reminding myself of all the things we love about the school even though they could be better academically,
b) a bit sad that his results aren't as he deserves across the board but happy that he got English and that a level grades and we can move on and look forward to the next stage
c) over the moon as he finally got what he deserves and/or a 9 in maths

Could be any of those but most likely b) which certainly isn't a bad position to be in

eh - I definitely saw NOT

cubscout assume you meat GOT great mock results rather than NOT

Email between 6am and 6.30am on results day for DS so I may be one of the early posters!

Just grades. However, if a grade is lower than expected we can go in at 10am to see actual mark/decide whether remark required/chat to teacher etc. Other than that they have been told that teachers will let them know their actual marks when the go back into 6th Form. anyone leaving has to go in to collect results and I suspect they will get their marks. Only about 30 leaving to go to other 6th forms.

DS obviously doesn't plan on needing any remarks as he is off on the bus to Reading at 9.30!

Ds wants to go into school on his own but I will drive and sit quietly outside until I know he is happy/ok/no total disasters. I feel sick thinking about it th but he worked hard all year, got great mock results (2x9 7x8 2x7) so if he achieved that we will both be v happy. They are growing up so fast, it's particularly noticeable after the GCSE period.

mmzz Scenario 1- DC gets 1 mark below the next grade up and feels utterly distraught with a 7 not an 8. It's still a brilliant grade and it makes absolutely no difference to their life, but it ruins what should be a great day. Marks are irrelevant, especially if your DC goes to a school where they can't afford to quibble with re - marks and checking.

Scenario 2 - mark very close to tight grade boundaries. Parent quibbles, school gets it checked & DC actually drops a grade.

mmzz that's what will probably happen at the school I work in. This is the first year that actual results aren't given for the majority of the GCSEs as that's the new system. The old ones had the UMS marks for each paper given out. There aren't UMS anymore and the raw scores aren't provided but the school gets given them. It's in an awkward format, though. By subject not by student so tricky to look up quickly. Most parents, those slightly less invested won't care that much but those that do mind do have the right to see them.

I think my day will go, wake up DS3, get to school for 10, results available 10-12. He might let me go in with him. With DS1 I stayed outside the gate with a lot of other parents. DS2 needed me with him.

Hopefully 7s and/or 8s in maths, chem, computing, physics, 6s in both Englishes, history, music, biology, B in Chinese. Would be a bonus to get a 9 in maths, but not really expecting it. Off to preferred sixth form to sign up.

Otherwise he'll stay on at current sixth form where, rather bizarrely he needs an 8 in maths to do FM, only a 7 needed at preferred sixth form which has a much better reputation.

Results are available from 9am to 11 am for DD1 and she's going to collect them. We live about 10min from school on foot, so I'm thinking that I will kick her out of bed at a reasonable hour so she can go and get them, and I will delay going to work until she's texted to say what she got. Then I can leg it down there if there's been a disaster.

There's no risk that she won't get into the sixth form. She's staying put and is one of their top students so I'm certain they'll hang on to her even if things went wrong. But she does need a 7 in physics and an 8 in maths for her preferred options. So if she's missed either of those she may need some back up with asking teachers the right questions about what to do next.

Of course she might blow a hole in these plans by choosing to saunter along at 10:59 with her mates and leave me stewing in the office like she did when she got her RS in year 10.

Lovely to see you Sostenueto
It's probably up to the school - they will show you if there's an issue about a result because they'll be able to tell if it's close to the grade boundary. Otherwise they might be a bit reluctant on results day!

Lovely to see u all.

Thanks all. Can we ask school for marks just out of curiosity then?

Yes, the marks won't be on the results sheet for students but the school will have them.

When I said it lists marks as well as grades, that's what happened two years ago for DS1. It may have changed. The school certainly knows the marks, because they are needed for decisions about remarking.

With DDs we got the actual marks later. School had them but just issued grades on the day and we had to ask for detailed marks. I heard somewhere that they don't issue marks now with new GCSE's but that may be completely wrong.

Sostenueto yes, it lists the mark as well as the grade.

Year 12 (16): Wait, there's more?!
Perfect.

Do u get the marks the DC got as well as the grades when they get their results? Does anyone know please?

We will be going g with dgd to results day and leave it to her whether she goes in alone and opens results, or if she wants to open with friends or open outside or in car with us. As long as she gets the grade for English language we will then have to go back in to register for 6th form there or go with tail between legs back home to local 6th form college to register there. We would like that 9 for geography but most likely 7s and 8 s in the majority. Actually as long as she get grades to get in her 6th form, and grades needed for A level subjects that is all that matters.

Year 12 (16): Wait, there's more?! is my suggestion for the next thread and why I'm not a writer

And all this talk of results is making me anxious again - DD and I have almost forgotten about that part of the process... Guess I'd better find out from school how we will find out results, given that going in on the days is not an option now we live 6000 miles away....