GCSE 2022 Results - the moment of reckoning!

@EngHOD thank you for the response. right, i will contact his teacher- we've never troubled the school before so i feel justified! i'm perfectly reconciled to the fact that- given both are 4s, these are likely correct but i'll check anyway. believe it or not he's been predicted 8s in all subjects since year 7 but that's utter bollocks and teachers have always raised an eyebrow when they've seen these predictions. it's a big, city comp and he's a quiet kid (born in august)- i just feel it's been a bit crap up to press. i hope 6th form works out for him- his history form will consist of 6 other pupils so i have high hopes. thank you again :)

SPEAKING FROM EXPERIENCE:

My DD went to a v competitive grammar where you had to get a 7 in a subject to continue at A Level. She got a 6 in one of her chosen 3. School said she couldn't do it at A Level, so she had to pick another subject - chose English Literature (where she had done exceptionally well at GCSE but hadn't really previously considered).

When we got a breakdown of the paper/section scores for her level 6 subject, one of them had been recorded as 0. Ordered a remark and it was a complete clerical/admin error and she was immediately bumped up to a 7 as her marks in that part hadn't been counted so could switch. However, by then she was enjoying English so much she opted to stick with it.

She's now just finished her first year studying English Literature at an RG uni and is happy as a pig in shit.

So - don't be afraid to challenge grades if you think they're wrong, even if you're not a couple of marks away from boundaries. And don't be afraid to follow a different path than the one you thought they would. I could kiss the person who recorded that 0!!!

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And we've similar for statistics raw score of 111 but grade 5. Should he have been sitting the higher paper?

You are right foundation tier is capped at a 5.
Who knows which choice is better? If school thought he might panic with a harder paper, and with harder content to learn, then a safe 5 is better than bombing out and failing which can happen easily enough.

My Dd is fairly devastated as well. She got mostly 8 and some 7s but had been predicted 9s all the way through school. The hard truth is that she didn't revise nearly as much as she should have done.
She was 1 mark off a 9 in history and 1 mark off an 8 in English Lang so am trying to find out how we ask for a remark, the schools website is rubbish for details. She has what she needs for A levels but is now convinced she shouldn't do maths a level having got a 7 in it.

My son sat foundation maths and got 199 and a grade 5, but it looks like he could only get a max grade of 5? Would he have done better if he'd been placed on the higher paper?

My son was really disappointed with his English Lit grade the most, as well. It’s by far his strongest subject and he was predicted 8s for Lit and Lang and the teacher said just before them he could definitely achieve 9’s. He got 9s in both his mocks. Now he has a 9 for his GCSE English Language but a 6 for Literature.

He has the grades he needs for the college and subjects he wants to do…. Is it worth asking for a review if it doesn’t matter really…? He’s absolutely baffled as he came out convinced he had smashed that one!

@GingerPushkin definitely disappointing that he has received lower grades than in his mocks. First thing to do is to check with the school what marks he received in all papers. I would suggest that considering he got the same grade in both Lang and Lit, those probably do reflect how he performed rather than any issue with grading/ examiner error but it’s worth checking the spread of marks across papers for any outliers.

What did the school predict?

@MumofSpud god that sounds like i'm making it about me- i'm just disappointed as would have been good to have the boost of a good english grade but he's probably less bothered than me. he did call wordsworth a "pussy" while we were attempting one of his poems, so i guess english really isn't his thing, ha!

Of course they are ,they are my sons will sit his GCSE,s next year I would be delighted with grade fours and fives ,they are enough to go onto the next stage .

@EngHOD Is it better to keep trying with Eng Lang or switch to Functional Skills? (DD has EHCP which might permit more flexibility. For what it's worth I think she can pass the GCSE when well enough. Are the FS exams any shorter?)

@MumofSpud thank you so much- i feel better knowing he probably won't need to resit and can forget all about poetry and shakespeare. i have to say, i can't believe he received 4s given how much coaching i gave him- good job you're the teacher and not me :)

Just go on the relevant exam board website
Although I have just done this and DD scrapped into a 6 in English Lit by 1 point!!

Not for the faint hearted!!

Where do we find the marks and grade boundaries?

Well I am literally speechless - thought my DS was going to fail English and he got a grade 7!!

SO so proud of him!

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Hi
4 is definitely a pass - a low pass but a pass nonetheless
Most / all jobs ask for a pass in Maths and English so 4 is fine
Whether it will stay like this in the future (years away) is another matter
I had to redo my Maths this year - to be able to do my teaching qualification and got a 4 - job done!

Well my dd who had convinced herself that she’d failed all her exams ended up getting
2 x 9’s
2 x 7’s
2 x 6’s
2 x 5s

I’m so happy for her but I’m also happy that she’s the most laid back kid and didn’t put endless amounts of pressure on herself. A few of the kids in her year were crying in the hall over the fact they didn’t get 9’s across the board and the pair of us (in our heads) we’re thinking for gods sake really.

Well done to all our DC, whether they got the grades they were hoping to or not, they've all done so well in such trying circumstances.

DS is pretty disappointed as his results are quite a bit lower than his mocks. He got 4s for English, 5 for computer science and 6s for everything else. He had 7's for maths and sciences and an 8 for geography in his mocks so he really thought he'd get similar. I'm absolutely over the moon though. He's struggled with his mental health this year in addition to his SEN so I'm just so very proud.

DS has only received a sheet with his results, no raw scores although he was one off a grade 5 for language so school have submitted a review for that.

Would level 2 functional skills in English be an option for your DD
Possibly. But if she had sat maths & English just before lockdown she'd probably have passed them. She's just not fully better yet. It is difficult knowing what to do for the best.

Well done to all our kids. Out of 7 subjects - One distinction and a mix of 4/5's here despite moderate additional needs. We are very proud today. Teendivided, so sorry to hear your daughter is devestated. It's so unfair to insist kids resit maths and English GCSE. Would level 2 functional skills in English be an option for your DD..

@MrsAvocet I will want the breakdown of marks, and then to discuss with them whether resitting in November is worth it. She is 'better' now than in May/June. I also want to discuss with them again re having a scribe. The answer before was 'she can't have a scribe because she doesn't use a scribe'. I know there are pros and cons to it but I think it would help her stamina.

She did a L1 course last year and is doing a related L1 course this year, we're just fed up of English & maths.

@EngHOD hi there- would be very interested in your thoughts on english results. my son has "gained" 4s in lit and lang- i thought he'd get higher! he received 5s and 6s in mocks having done bugger all in his school career; after those results i fucking hothoused him in the 2 months prior to the exams- so i don't understand!! i know hothousing not brilliant way to do things but means to an end. he's not doing english at A level- but he's going to need 5s anyway for jobs etc. he did AQA- i can't understand it- i'm feeling a bit wobbly. thanks for any info.

In Wales here and just finishing Y10 so we only have a handful of results so far, but my DS has done far better than we'd expected. He got a C and a B for his English lit written paper and his Shakespeare controlled assessment, respectively (not sure how that will shake down into the final result, though), an A for physics and an A-equivalent grade for this year's part of the Welsh Bacc, and Bs for maths numeracy (which we were massively worried about), chemistry and biology. He was convinced he'd bombed physics, which is his favourite subject, so he's over the moon with that one, and the three sciences contribute 40% of his final grade, so it's nice to have them in the bag. I had rather rashly promised him a flying lesson if he got all As and Bs in his sciences, so I need to sort that out now!!