Gcses 2019 support thread 5

MaudBailey - I know the waiting is so hard! My dd was ill during her exams and didn't manage to sit all of them, she has been very down about It all as she can only remember sitting 2 of the papers. Lately she has slowly started to open up and say she's scared because she has no idea how's she done as she can't remember and wants to stay for sixth form. She has brightened up as the first three days timetable has appeared on her app so she can to talk to friends about it. I too have done the full "Look, it absolutely fine, whatever happens, you did amazingly well to sit any and if you didn't make sixth form, we can discuss next week. Just focus on being well and you can do it at Levels" thing... it's so hard just want to skip straight to next Thursday

Poor ds has been having anxiety dreams about next Thursday! I've tried to stay off the subject but he keeps 'casually' dropping it into conversation, bless him. So I ended up doing the full 'Look, it's absolutely ok, whatever happens, exams aren't everything, we love you whatever, life goes on, you'll still be happy' thing....aaaargh.

The constant low-level stress. The not-knowing. I cannot WAIT until it's over.

Sosour - for some subjects schools can choose this year to have IGCSEs marked abc or 123, based on the same syllabus.

@Sososour - seems so re the A-G, also didn’t know this until Arthersslave raised it!
Dd was talking about an AQA thresholds leak yesterday and seems to think grade boundaries lower than last year, but no idea where she has that info from! No use to her as her next lot are all Edexcel!
Now waiting for DS Alevels tomorrow

Gosh Are what a brilliant effort (which obviously paid off)
Well done to your Dd
Are igcses a mixture of A-g and 9-1s then?

Thanks hoo x was a big surprise:)

are oh that's amazing! So pleased for your dd (and you!) X

@ArthursSlave I’ve found these if it helps

Thank you so much everyone. We were so worried about English as she really disliked the set text for literature and only listened to the audio which is why we checked the grade boundaries first to prepare for opening the results! Huge surprise so v happy!

Congratulations @Arewedone dd - that’s brilliant news’

Arewedone Congratulations - that's great.

DD did English A-E syllabus and Biology 9-1. The English I can't find (!), but the biology grade boundaries for a 9 look really low, fingers crossed :-)

FAB Awed!

Ds1 I think did english and history with that board, but his school aren't releasing. Will go and pointlessly pore over grade boundaries ..... :-)

Thanks hoo!!
So happy for Dd 3x9’s we looked at the grade boundaries before logging on and were slightly apprehensive as German grade boundaries were high! But thankfully English boundaries not so!
Absolutely thrilled for her. Need to wait for the rest next week along with everyone else !!

Good luck! X

Yay congrats hoo, it’s starting to feel very much like the start of a new chapter!
Only 2 hours left for the first lot of results here, Dd now feeling angsty. I’m feeling surprisingly calm

Ds got his slot today...4pm!

Dd was asked at her 6th form interview what uni’s she was thinking of, luckily she had a couple in mind she could mention but she certainly hasn’t researched it that much (although her fathers idea was ‘X uni is always advertising, why not apply there as it must be easy to get in to - and no he never went to uni...)

Interesting that there are so many possible historians on here :)

Ds is a history fan too.

His 6th form is on the same campus as a well regarded uni...needs very high grades though.

All the talk of specific unis making me nervous- dd knows what she wants to study but isn’t researching universities yet

My DD doesn't know what she wants to study, or that she even wants to go to uni. I think there's lots of time this year to work that out based on how she gets on with A levels, and advice from staff who have experience in supporting kids through this. In fact she still doesn't know which A levels she wants to do!

We’re away at the moment - 6 hours behind the UK so we’ll be up at 3am as one of her friends has been given permission to collect AS Sociology (A level choice) and the dreaded FSMQ maths (another A level choice)........hoping it doesn’t put a dampener on the holiday.......then back on the Wednesday ready for decision Thursday!!!

Strike through failure

No real work starting here either other than a couple of copies of the economist read! 24 hours for our first results I confess to going back to look at last years grade boundaries —too many times—

hoooo dd seems to have told me countless times that she will start on that maths homework booklet tomorrow

All the talk of specific unis making me nervous- dd knows what she wants to study but isn’t researching universities yet (I didn’t know most did at this point )
Very limited time for celebration(/consolation) as dd also rushing off to get the train to reading after having collected results- really hoping she’ll be celebrating and not drowning her sorrows