GCSE 2019 support thread 6

Thank you for your kind words Bimkom although looking at everyone’s results on here his definitely appear poor. Hopefully it’ll be a wake up call for him. I’m wondering if A levels are the right option but I guess in the absence of another plan they will do.

Oh myrtleWilson - were the results she was disappointed in, in her A Level subjects?

I’m sorry, Frith I hope today isn’t too stressful for him. It’s hard when results are everywhere, but there’s many many routes to where you want to be and I hope your DS finds one.

Well done to everyone who got what they wanted or needed today. Every single one of our dc are absolute ⭐️ with all they have to juggle in this day and age.

Congratulations Orangecake123's little sister. Shame she is comparing herself to the others in her school. We are about to encounter this, one advantage I guess to a comp is that there is a much wider range.
Congratulations also TabbyStar - especially given the very difficult circumstances!

So proud of my dd she’s done so well.

9 in English literature and film studies
8 in English language
7 in Maths, Geography, Computer science
76 in science
6 in French

She’s now signed up for sixth form, thank god its over.
Hope everyone gets what they want and need.

Oh Arthur those wretched nines, they have put so much pressure on everybody. Those are a really good set of results. Can you tell her that even Oxford is treating 8s and 9s the same (at least currently) and only seem to care how many 8/9s they have. I am pretty sure they are doing that for all the league tables as well - so in terms of her school, she has contributed 7 entries to the top grade, so the teachers should be really happy with that and not feel let down at all!

Squeak - must be hard navigating results with twins. Fingers crossed for the eng lit

Hi. Are you supposed to get your marks and grades as we only got one sheet with grades

@ArthurtheCatsHumanSlave

That sounds very much like me with my A-Levels years ago - I got into Oxford, was supposed to get 4 As and got 4 Bs. 35 years later it still hurts although obviously I have a better perspective on it now.

I would just say - everyone around her will be telling her how brilliantly she's done (which she has) but from my experience that doesn't help. I always remember my mother was the only one to empathise and allow me to feel what I felt. I never got on that well with my mother but that really stands out.

I know how desperately you will want to make her feel better, but from one who knows, empathy and time are the only things that really make it better.

Twins here One got
1 9's
3 8's
2 7's
3 6's
other got
2 9's
3 8's
2 7's
1 6's
1 5's

Both very pleased but the 5 is in Eng Lit which he really wanted to do for A level, he's been accepted onto the course but he's not sure - we're getting it remarked.

Excellent results for DD bearing in mind the complete meltdown during exams, one 6 and the rest 7s, 8s and 9s. Just got back from school. She's off out with her friends and I don't quite know what to do with myself now!

Mixed results here - she's good for her a-levels but some results have upset her - appears not just to be her either. Am not bothered about the results themselves but exactly what I didn't want to happen has - she's upset and her confidence is on the floor

My little sister got:
1x 8 - biology
6x7s
3x6 = maths, english lit and geography
1x5 = computer science

She's not happy though and comparing herself to others in her class (she did go to a selective private school).

Well done to everyone. Dd did much better than she ever thought she would. She has changed her A Level choices as a result.

Difficult to explain how DD feels. She is devastated, her results are good, and she acknowledges this, but she feels she could have done better. In old money she has 7A*, 2A, 1B. Her actual results are:
2 A* - Eng Lang, Eng Lit
8's - Maths, History, Class Civ, Chemistry, Drama
7's - Biology, German
6 - Physics

She has no 9's, and that's the problem. She feels she has failed. It is so sad, she mostly feels she has let her teachers down. We might pursue the physics as that is the outlier, she got an 8 in mocks and all her tests were 80%+, so something went badly wrong.

Her school has written to her to congratulate her on matching or exceeding her predicted, but she still feels down.

She didn't go to school for the photo's.

DD much better than I expected and much better than mocks
I'm so happy and relieved
Off to sixth form
Some great results on here

Congratulations pointythings _Understand that feeling about the Maths. For us it was the English language. We were desperately hoping against hope for a 7, so where they 8 came from, we just don't know.

So sorry it hasn't worked out for you, Frith.

Happy times here - DD2 got the 9 in Lang that she wanted, 8 in History and French, 7 in Biology, Chemistry, Geography, Maths and Lit, 6 in Drama and Physics. Much better than anticipated, the 7 in Maths completely floored her.

Congratulations also to GloriaSmud DD2, if I recall upthread you were really worried, so great that it turned out so well for her.

Congratulations to your DS whojamaflip it is such a relief to get where you had hoped to go (I think he wouldn't have had to resit the English Lang in any case, given his English Lit score, but still, much better to have passed outright).
And congratulations to KittyMcKitty DS on getting into his sixth form - those are a pretty stunning set of results if he really didn't revise much!

Frith2013 so sorry- hope he (and you) are ok and he’s getting some good advice from school.

DD2s results- 1x8, 6x6s, 1x5 and 2x4s. She's done brilliantly and much better than she thought she would!

I'm really sorry Frith2013 - what are the options now? Has he taken it really badly?

Ds has got into 6th form which is brilliant. He has under performed but it’s probably reflective of how much work he put in (and how much decent revision as opposed to gazing at a revision guide). History was a disappointment and Eng Lit very low for him but overall it’s got him to next stage.

1 x 9 Geography
1 x 8 Eng Lang
4 x 7 Maths, Chemistry, Physics, DT
4 x 6 Eng Lit, Biology, French, History.

Congratulations to all dc. Am in awe of these amazing children achieving all these 9’s!!

So the boy is off to Agriculture College - 5s and 6s across the board apart from English Lang which was a 4 ( thank god he doesn't have to resit which was his biggest worry) but managed a 6 in eng lit - he was all wtf

Well done to all - some very relieved dc today and good luck to those still waiting