GCSE 2019 support thread 6

Dd has just left ..

What a brilliant thread! - wish I had found this months ago!
2 hours to go.......DD still asleep.......but was distraught last night. Months of poor sleeping and chronic stress eczema - will be glad to get this over with! She's had a tough ride through secondary, has been bullied and left out frequently, and has had a lot of pressure put on her by her teachers and headteacher to achieve top grades (which she is capable of but has no confidence in herself).
Just hoping today ends with a happy face and not a sobbing wreck

Good morning, I am here. Very nervous. Dd is still asleep....
I am not going to torture myself with grade boundaries.
It will be touch and go whether dd will be allowed to do biology at her preferred college (and enrolment is not until next Wednesday so it's wait and see).
This afternoon is enrolment for her 2nd choice college - we have decided that if they let her do biology she will enrol, and then if 1st choice college accept her too we will cancel 2nd choice....

Results can be collected from school from 11. She is walking up with her best friend whilst best friend's mum (who is my closest friend too) and I nervously drink coffee....

Binkom - well done. Dd will be happy with 5s and 6s....

Wibble…..

Congratulations @grasswillbeGreener, amazing results for your DD!

Ds's email is due at 9am so am busy packing DS2 off to orchestra camp and then will debate waking the big one. Actually, given how grumpy he is on waking perhaps not - he might refuse to show me! Actually, I know the password to his Comouter .... but then he really wouldn't talk to me ever again!

Have just let off steam by compiling a spreadsheet of grade boundaries as percentages for the relevant grades for each subject (five different boards, madly) - not sure why as his email will give only grades and no mark information at all!

Grass greener - wow, so very well done. Shows real discipline which in teens is not common, as well as ability

Grass- fantastic results well done to your Dd. I’m sitting in the car outside, school insist they won’t hand out until 9am so Dd waiting

Would be really happy with 5's!

That was meant to be encouraging! I teach and I know how hard it is to get a 4 x

bizzy A clean sweep of 5s is an achievement! Is high C low B borderline. Not to be sniffed at.

And @Grass - wow! Congratulations to your daughter - that is amazing.

10.30! Seems like extra torture

Yes. But I suppose after so many weeks another couple of hours makes no difference. The other school here said 9.30 though so half the town's 16 year olds will be going round clutching their results while the other half are still waiting anxiously...

Morning .
Wow these results ate amazing !!!.
I think at the moment we will be happy with a clean sweep og 5's.

Results are 9-10 at school then 6th form enrollment this afternoon .

Oh crikey !! Thank goodness i started typing about enrollment !!

He needs his passport....off to get it now !

Wow grass! Gosh that’s fantastic.. well done to her.
Hard work paying off there

congratulations GrasswillbeGreener's DD - fantastic result. One in 732 kids countrywide, apparently.

@Historygeek05
Thank you.

I was feeling slightly guilty last night as I am away on a course and not home till tomorrow morning. Results on line.

Just found out she's managed the clean sweep - all 9s (or equivalent). We knew it was plausible but I don't think she believed it was actually possible. Some of the marks are up and she's discovered that for sciences in particular she cleared the grade boundaries by a long way (IGCSEs mostly). Those teachers will be disappointed ... she's planning History/English/Maths ...

We're so proud of her, because she did work very steadily to ensure this. History was the biggest "worry" because the grade boundaries and marking criteria seemed quite close and "chancy" - 7 in her mocks - but it's always been her favoured subject. All the work on exam technique has paid off. She's looking forward to getting her teeth into A level work I think.

I really hope that the news for you all represents fantastic achievement for your children in the same way ours does.

10.30! Seems like extra torture. I thought 9.00 was bad enough. I looked at the grade boundaries briefly but realised I had no idea what I was looking it so closed that page swiftly.

Just woken DD2. She looks like crap and basically asking if she can go into school in her pyjamas!

Well done Binksmom and Monty!
Dd has just got up, I’ve loooked at the grade boundaries, I have no idea how to interpret them, and why are there so many histories?

Relaxing - I think the paper codes you need are 11 (medicine) 2Q (superpower relations and Henry VIII) and 31 (Weimar/Nazi Germany).

Wow Bimkom that's fab. Congratulations.

Looking at grade boundaries DS should be ok with science, might even get 6-6. Hoping for 7s and 8s for the other subjects.

Wish we didn't have to wait until 10.30!

Well, just spent the last hour trawling through grades, comparing grade boundaries etc. for the subject I teach. Tougher grade boundaries in my subject this year.
Haven't had time to look at other subjects!
Have Eng Lit /maths boundaries changed?
Feeling sick with nerves for DD...
Fingers crossed for later...

Well done binkom the "dreaded 6th form" will be very pleased to have him.

Not even looking at grade boundaries here...

School opens at 10am. Last night DD veering towards opening at school rather than original plan of coming home...

My son sat edexcel history code 1H10FQ
What option should I be referring to when looking at grade boundaries please?

qualifications.pearson.com/content/dam/pdf/Support/Grade-boundaries/GCSE/1906-GCSE-9--1-subject-grade-boundaries.pdf

Just checking in! Well done Binkom's ds - amazing results.
Dd goes in at 10am...am ignoring grade boundaries - they don't help and will just make me panic!
Good luck everyone xx