GCSE 2022 Results - the moment of reckoning!

It is a bit early but best of luck everyone.

The wait is awful! DS is very nervous and doesn't think he'll be able to sleep tonight. He's most worried about English and it could go either way.
DS school doesn't open the doors until 10am and then I can imagine the organising of 300 students will take a while. I'll be waiting anxiously at home.

Thanks for this thread and best wishes to everyone for tomorrow. DS was so confident after each exam but nerves are getting to him today and is convincing himself he has failed Maths. What a tough time these kids have had! I thought last year with my DD doing her GCSEs was stressful but this years cohort in my opinion have had a harder time.

I'm sitting on the fence about DD's results. I had a feeling about DC1's (proved correct!) but not getting any such vibes for DD.

But on a lovely note, a feather landed on my lap yesterday which I took as a positive omen .

Arrgh. I've just realised there's a major road closure on our route to school in the morning. It's a 20 mile trip normally but the diversion will add about another 5 or 6 miles. Not the end of the world but an extra stress I could do without. Still, at least I realised now, as it would have been even worse to arrive at the road closed sign and get a shock.
DS is working tomorrow so wants to be at school as soon as the doors open at 9am and then get to work asap. He's reasonably confident that he will have got what he needs for his A levels but is hoping he will have done better than the minimum he needs, especially in his favourite subjects. He's fairly bright and did put the work in so I am hoping there won't be any nasty surprises as he doesn't have a plan B. I'm kind of regretting that now. I know that in reality the chances of him not getting into 6th form are very small but these are such strange times... Ah well, we'll know in 11 hours!
Good luck to everyone.

Ah, OK. So it must have been 6am nationally in previous years. We definitely got up that early to access DS's in 2019. Wonder why they changed - ie the national embargo was changed.

The exam boards have changed the rules. They used to be released at 6am, it’s now 8am. This is a national rule that can’t be broken.

@TheMoth I'm exactly the same

Our SLT have had the results today but most have stayed off site so there's been no indication of results

We'll get them at 8am (I can't get in that early because of childcare) students can pick them up from 9.30

I've got 164 students so I'll try to spy through the ones who I think are borderline but the majority I'll find out as they open their envelope

I really am bothered - I've worked harder this year than ever before and lots of my students have so much resting on this 1 grade

I teach re-sits in FE and there are so many university places with conditional offers which will be taken away if they don't pass.

I hate the bit where you walk in and try to read the expressions on slt's faces. Which dept is in for a year of shit?

DD just went to bed after a huuuuge chat where she basically described the next ten years, and therefore the rest of her life, not going her way if she doesn't get all the 8s and 9s that she wants 😫

I'll be standing with all the 16 year olds at 8am tomorrow am - child is 600 miles away on holiday!

The plan is to grab the envelope and then try to phone and let them know as I open them.

Good luck everyone!

My DD has been in floods of tears tonight convinced that she's failed maths and English and probably Spanish too. It's so hard to know what to say.

She's starting a new school for sixth form and is dreading having to do resits. I feel sick to my stomach for her.

And now I've just seen the headline that pupils need to 'prepare for disappointment'.

I wasn't remotely bothered about my own but I'm stressed to hell for DD's!!!

Good luck to everyone in the same boat tomorrow 🤞🏻

Dd is in a terrible stress at the moment. She's taking her older brother with her to collect them as he is Mr super calm! We are pretty certain she has done really well but it's still such a nerve racking time isn't it

I was in school today. SLT (which usually includes me) met at 11 to look at results. Teaching staff won’t know until tomorrow morning.

Thanks for answers!

I worked at a school on the IT systems so it used to be my job to publish/upload all the results.
the school will already have had the results today but it's a limited number of people who have access - in our school it was the head, deputy head, exams officer and me. Teachers would find out at the same time as results were published.
and results were only published to the pupils portal not parents.
Glad I'm not doing that job this year, I can concentrate on my own DD!

Thank you. Most of ours were AQA so I'll bookmark that page!

Depends how early the teachers get there and whether they've been able to access them all on the system (you could tell, every year, when all the teachers logged into AQA, cos it crashed).

My school used to print them all out for us, so i used to be surreptitiously highlighting my kids, whilst being on hand to talk to them and working out dept percentages. Then I'd be comparing with maths and trying to find out the national average for my subject, whilst also trying to see what the school down the road got!

Every year I tell myself I'm over results. But I'm really not. And I ride the roller coaster. Then I think of all the individual kids and what I want each of them to get. And I hope no one's done anything really stupid and not admitted to it.

New English FE teacher here. I had a small class of GCSE students last academic year. I have everything crossed for them for tomorrow morning 🫣

The individual exam boards will each have a page where they put grade boundaries and provisional statistics from about 9:30am.
E.g.
www.aqa.org.uk/exams-administration/results-days/grade-boundaries

The exams embargo is in place until 8:00am tomorrow, so pupils cannot have their results made available earlier.

Nothing to do with staff not being bothered, as they were made available to centres at 0:01am THIS morning.

I just googled this lol! Apparently yes the subject teachers/SLT will know in the morning before the results are published to the kids

Yes the teachers will know. Schools get the results the day before.

One thing that has been intriguing me is when do the school and teachers get to know the results? When we turn up tomorrow and the teachers are there (we have been told they will be on hand for questions), will they know his results before he opens his envelope?

Can I join too? DD has just said she is scared we will be disappointed if she hasn’t done well. She’s had such a tough time of it, poor thing. I have told her her results do not define her and I’m not bothered what they are. We will deal with them whatever.
She’s busy packing for Leeds Festival which is helping at the moment. The smell of fake tan is beginning to pervade the air 😂😂😂