Gcses 2019 support thread 5

Dd2 was surprised to get her igcse English results today, were expecting them tomorrow. A slightly disappointing 6 in Eng Lang but a fabulous 9 in English Lit (her A level choice).

An A in AS Sociology and a D in FSMQ maths - she’s very happy (and so am I!). She absolutely bombed the maths to the point of having to discuss with her teacher if she should do the exam so to go from a U to a D we’re very pleased, and Sociology the exams were at awful times (first exam day and with biology on the same day) and she was sure that she’d messed up an essay!
Good luck everyone!

Will the schools have the results already? Or is it the day before?

We only live three or four minutes from the school so I may possibly be over-thinking! The week after I'll be sending her off to make her final choices for A levels by herself, which feels a bit weird to not be involved in the discussions.

I'm going to drop Ds off and loiter in the car park while he picks up his results. Apparently there's a chance I may have to pay money if he's close to grade boundaries for re-marks? Is that right? First time doing this so not sure. Also want to be on hand if it's gone completely pear shaped and he doesn't get the grades for college 😱

God I wish it was next Friday already 😩

Parents no allowed to go in at ds1s school.

Everard .. the nerves are starting to grow aren’t they? This waiting and not knowing is so hard
if your Dd wants your support on the morning of results (but isn’t sure about you going in as well) then maybe wait outside in car? Or at local cafe? That way, you are about and can get to her fast if she needs you.
Some parents do go into dds school on results morning . It has lots of pastoral care, home contact and parent interaction (parent coffee mornings etc) so this is not considered odd at her school. But, saying that , even if it wasn’t, I’d be there if Dd wanted me to be.
I am at work that morning, but dh is about and on standby if needs be.
Good luck to your Dd, I will keep everything crossed that all our dc are happy with their slips of paper next Thursday

Feels a bit weird today with A level results coming out, that's ours are both close and still a really long time away!

Anyone going to school with DCs to collect results? I'm not sure about the protocol here. DD thinks she's done worse than everyone is expecting in some of her subjects so is feeling very apprehensive about what people are going to say at school.

Thank you!
Realised earlier that I had no clue :)

DS 2 years ago received a print out with the grade. Dds school gives out the separate sheet with your actual % score as well but Dss think it creates more competition so refuse to do it.

DS1 four years ago got his on A4 printed sheets. Each subject also had his mark breakdown for different papers as well as the overall grade. We looked up grade boundaries when he got home. I'm assuming DS2 will have the same information even though the grading system is now numerical.

Um.
Possibly daft question alert! :)
Will gcse students get their grades on a printed slip (like I did) or is it a bit more high tech these days?
I think mine was printed by matrix dot printer!!! :)

Ah.
The a level boundaries have been leaked

I think they felt it caused too much stress for the students?

@Tabbystar maybe they will give them out the day before . These were just cie board.

Why have they stopped giving out GCSE grade boundaries the day before? I feel as though I'm missing something to do with the "obviously"!

Ah

So they still give out the a level boundaries the day before?

Yes - I wasn't cheered by the french igcse boundaries - it is the subject DS feels least punchy on (appropriately so - his french is fairly pants) and the boundaries vaguely suggest to me that he could get a.m grade lower than he is predicting.

We will see ......

@Hoo Alevel grade boundaries have been released today but the igcse were released just before the results.

@Arthurthecat I can’t tell you how relieved we were for English lit boundary. Oddly the German boundary was much higher @ 90%. I was just looking at the released A level grade boundaries ahead of DSs results tomorrow and the German is also higher this year! Thankfully he didn’t take it!

I think they used to release them the day before?
Obv have stopped that now

hoooo No, not yet. It's only this first released CIE bunch, and they only came out just before they released their results.

Have any other grade boundaries been released?

Yeah, really odd, I really don't know why the English Dept decided to be the last to stick with the A-E grades, when the Biology Dept changed to 9-1. It means DD will have a load of 9-1's and one A-E. Oh well.

Thanks Arewedone, I had found the Lit, so it was the Lang that was confusing, but in the end DD found the number for the spec, so we could be sure it was the right one (which is the one you found).

Interestingly on both the Eng and the Bio, the grade boundaries for a top grade are 10% less than they were led to believe, and used to grade their mocks, and set their expected grade .

Ds1 is being very grumpy at times, which is out of character.

I'm just trying to leave him to it....not helped by well meaning family/friends exclaiming "ooooh, not long now!" 🙄