GCSE 2019 support thread 6

Yes bellystuffer, I ended up in the pub at 5 with some friends who felt the same!

Had a knackering day, DD got one A*, 5 A's, 3 B's and 3 C's so she's happy and we spent the entire afternoon registering at college 😴. I'm so pleased for her but have mixed feelings too, feel deflated after the stress of getting through the exams (she needed a huge lot of hand holding due to MH and tbh I feel like I went through the whole thing too). Anyone else just feel done in now?

Is anyone thinking of going for a remark in Art? Dd got a 6 which she was a little disappointed with as it's an A level choice. She was 2 marks off a 7 EDEXL board. She can still do it at her sixth form but as others have said it's a confidence thing. She got 7's and 8's in everything else so very chuffed.

Well i am feeling better now that he is home and we have had a chat.
I was worried that he would not get into 6th form with the 4 in English.
But i think his better maths and science grades have evened it out .

Lots of issues with the AQA English.
It was the first thing he said to me .
Lots of his friends way below expected.
??Maybe a school thing?
We looked up the grades and boundries ..
3 marks off the next grade for Art and 2 for buisness studies.
We are leaving them ad they are .
He's done now and can nust focus on 3 subjects he wants/likes instead of a whole load he hated!

pinkpeanut we are having two of ds's re-marked because he is within 1 or 2 marks of the upper grade. If they're that close even a re-mark that actually brings them down a bit won't take them into the grade below they currently have, iyswim. I'd go for it.

Pinkpeanut, if she’s one mark off the higher grade it’s pretty unlikely (but not impossible) that it would go down. It might stay the same but I’d be tempted to remark.

There seems to be a bit of confusion around the double science grading. You just get a grade for all the 6 papers of 2 numbers. It’s worth 2 GCSEs. It’s not ‘one grade is paper 1, the other paper 2.’
Because it’s worth 2 GCSEs the grading is given as 2 numbers which are graded more finely than the other GCSEs. Top grade is 9-9, next 9-8, then 8-8, 8-7, 7-7, 7-6, 6-6, 6-5, 5-5, 5-4, 4-4, 4-3, 3-3, 3-2, 2-2, 2-1, 1-1, U. The higher number is always first, you can’t get 6-7, it would be 7-6. You can’t get 6-4 or 9-7, the numbers are always the same or consecutive. Some print outs may have 66 instead of 6-6 etc. It’s ‘six six’ not ‘sixty-six.’

It’s like the BTecs, where you can get MMM or DDM etc if you are doing an extended diploma which is worth 3 A levels.

I couldn't be more proud and chuffed for my students who came to college having to retake English Lang, some through the routes of independent living and functional skills, others who had three or more attempts at the whilst at college because of its compulsory status.

Well 15 more young people (amongst others), who were perhaps disadvantaged because of different disabilities, will get their letters tomorrow saying they've got another important qualification to their credit.

I fought for the concessions they're entitled to and some SLT commented that there were more kids with concessions than without (not true).

The one thing these particular group of successful students have in common is they kept trying, gave it their best and quietly (sometimes) believed in themselves.

'Well done folks! You have flown higher.'

Has anyone got any experience in getting papers remarked ? DD was 1 Mark of tne next grade up and has been advised to get a remark , she is terrified her grade might go down !
She doesn’t need the next grade but it would be a massive confidence boost to her if she got it as it is in English and she struggles with dyslexia.
Not sure what to do .

Ds2 did better in English than predicted- he was expecting 5 and 6, and got 6 and 7 🤷

Am really pleased for him though- he got
6,7,7,8,9,9,9,9,9. Bless him 😁 We are going out for steak tonight...

One of my sons friends was predicted a 9 in lit and got a 3?????

It’s interesting around the English AQA my daughter was predicted 4 lit & 5 for language - she got a 6-6 we are chuffed for her. But a lot of her friends who where predicted higher marks all got anything from 5-7 - some of them predicted 9’s.

Hi - that is an interesting article about the english language marking. I came on to ask whether we should pay for a remark for DD for her English english GCSE. She got a 6. Her English lit grade is a 9.

Her other GCSE grades are 8s and 9s except for her modern foreign language where she got a 6 and that really was a subject she struggled with.

Based on her mock, classroom performance and past papers and questions given by teachers, she was predicted an 8 in English language GCSE. There were no English teachers available to speak to at school this morning and her English teacher left this summer.

Just found out DS was one mark away from a 9 (the only GCSE he did as year 10 stil). Going to request a remark. He’s done amazingly well but of course is now disappointed. Hate these 9’s

@webjunkie it is totally confusing. Which is why these support threads are so important we can ask the questions!

@juniperoakpark thank you! That makes some sense. The result was a bit of a shock tbh so we have asked for the actual mark and paper through the school. I just couldn’t understand why I couldn’t see it on the paperwork 😄

@Arewedone aw thanks, we are over the moon. My son has been working at this since year 10. He is a grafter and showed that with hard work and a lot of past paper question practise you can increase your grade.

@webjunkie some exam boards don't put the UMS (what their mark was) on the exam results paper, so Ds doesn't know what he got for AQA English Lit and I am desperate to know where he landed on that one. Your school will be able to tell you.

@ArthurtheCatsHumanSlave similar here, 2 marks away from a 9 in Religious Studies so thinking to go for a re-mark, school have emphasised to all parents that grades could go down but I think we will take the gamble looking at the grade boundaries.
Juniper- big congrats, do remember your posts. You must be elated!
@whiteroseredrose it’s allowed here :) We are all proud of our Dc’s achievements it’s been such a slog !

Can anyone help me understand these results? My son (year 10) got his English Literature results today but only a grade not a mark. How do you all know the mark?

some controversy over english:

www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2019/06/28/examiners-lefthorrified-byflaws-englishgcse-marking/

My DS has done ok, he got all 4's and 5's.

He seems happy enough with that but I feel a little frustrated. He is a very intelligent lad but kind of lost his motivation for school over the last year or so. He did pretty much no revision and wasn't bothered by the exams whatsoever, I think he knew he could get through with minimum effort tbh.

He already has a place at AFC Harrogate for March 2020 so the results don't really matter I just feel disappointed that he didnt reach his potential

Congratulations to everyone, children and parents/carers. For me this support thread going through GCSEs has been a lifesaver.

I have name changed several times throughout but my child was the one that kept throwing up before the exams. He had revised and put the effort in, just nervous. He was aiming for a minimum of 7s across the board.

Well he did amazingly

5 x 9s which include his A level choice subjects
3 x 8s
1 x 7 in English Lit

He is incredibly pleased and we are relieved it is all finally over and beyond proud of him.

Well done to all happy with their marks. Commiserations to those disappointed, but there will be another route round to get where they want to be.
Dd's results were much better than I was expecting, 1x9, 5x8, 5x7 and 1x6 and she was initially pleased and relieved. However, she has since discovered that her friend got 6x9 and 5x8, is on the school's twitter page etc so we have had many tears and feeling like her results aren't good enough! It's so hard, there's so much pressure on them...