Y11 2025-26 Results Day and Next Steps

DD has 4.5hrs a week per subject. She cant do enrichments as clashes with FM. Not heard anything about EPQs
They have been told they need an A in first assessment to continue with FM.

Mine has 4x65 minutes per subject, plus a 65 min EPQ session, a 65 min futures/career session and a 65 minute compulsory do something enriching. Need not be sport but could be. Yesterday he had one session at 9 and one at 3 so left to go for a swim!

Mine seems to have 4 hours a week per subject and 8 hours of supervised study . Doing 4 subjects but must drop one in October . He’s only been back 2 days but has already changed his mind about which one he will drop !
Two games afternoon sessions too which for him has always been a life saver to decompress .

7 x 45 min lessons here so 5.25 hours a week per subject. I think anything between 4-6 seems typical.

@XelaM 4-5 is the norm everywhere here and from all I’ve read

Yes, married-married. 26 years and counting. He did the same subject as me and I used all his notes. Still paying 😂

Sadly (or not) DS isn't interested in Oxbridge so we can't send our child back to them.

Double post.

How many hours per week of lessons do your kids have per subject? Apparently, my daughter has 6 hours per subject per week, which seems more than I've previously read on here. Seems quite intense. She's also signed up to do a pre-vet course at her college (no idea what it entails) so that's additional lessons twice per week. Seems she won't have much free study time at all. She's also trying to do Russian A-level in a year 🤪 Maybe too much.

Married-married, rather than college married, @MoggetsCollar? That's very sweet, how lovely. I hope @OranginacanonlybedrunkinFrance's near-swoon had a similar happy ending.

Oh for sure I agree. Hence not wanting her to do 4 alevels.

She’s set on 2/4 to continue with but the third she’s completely torn.

@makemineadecaf epq is very self directed. Our high school has kids doing it instead of a gsce. So might be only an hour class but needs lots self directed hours…

Do you know how close she was to the next grade?

According to good ole chat gpt, my dd would have to lose around 25 marks on a remark so I feel reasonably confident that won't happen and the worst case is that she stays the same

I am actually married to my college dad 😂

No, not yet. Have been trying to decide whether the risk of mark going down is worth it. Did your DC’s school or teacher give any recommendation before you went for the remark?

@duckfordinner That's great news for your DC, how long did it take from requesting it?

@Cluelessnewbe have you requested a remark?

We have requested DD's today so will wait to hear back.

He genuinely didn't believe me that university isn't like that any more, so I dragged him to the open day to see for himself. He's spent the day muttering about declining standards, absurd outfits and so on and so forth. Now he doesn't believe me that every university is like this. I did say that if he wants to wear a suit every day, no one is going to stop him.

Next stops: Imperial and Warwick, where I'm sure he'll be similarly horrified. I've gently suggested a degree apprenticeship in a corporate workspace where suits are normal.

@makemineadecafdoes your school publish the stats of the grades last year’s cohort got in the different subjects. DD is doing 4 including FM and switched one of her other subjects last week. She’s now doing something generally seen to be a facilitating subject rather than a core subject but she loves it, there is actually a coursework element which will slightly reduce the pressure come exams and 85% of the pupils got A/A star in this subject last year and the year before whereas it was only 60% percent in the other subject.
@NotDarkGothicMamai almost swooned on meeting my College father and could scarcely form a sentence! He also gave me all of his essay plans from
the first year which were hugely helpful when I was feeling horribly out of my depth in the first term

Because EPQ is over and done by end of year 12 leaving just the three alevels to focus on in y13. EPQ is also only 90mins of tutor time a week compared to 5 hours of alevel lesson time.

Haha my brother went to Cambridge (and still has super close friends from there) and he doesn't even drink, so not all are crazy party kids 😂 though he most definitely does not wear suits!

The deadline for remark applications here is the 22nd September. I'm not sure whether that's just the internal school deadline though.

I'm accompanying DS round the Cambridge college open day today. He can't believe that none of the students are wearing suits. I can't overstate how horrified he was by the idea of party nights in the college basement. It only got worse when our guide told us about college families and getting "college married". I've taken him to the library to recover before finding one of the older colleges for comparison.

This. Why does she need the EPQ? Just keep the 4 A-levels and drop the EPQ.

@makemineadecaf what subjects is she doing? Mine has the same problem. For her it's a self-imposed deadline as school will let her do 4, but it's 20 hours of teaching + 20 hours of homework which she reckons is too much. Also nearly everyone else is doing 3 other than the FM folk.
She's doing Maths, German, English Lit and History, she got 9s in all bar Maths where she was 6 marks off, so capable of doing any of them. And they all go pretty well together. She doesn't really know what she wants to do at uni and is enjoying all of them so far. I've just said, it's early days, let's review in a couple of weeks when you've had a bit more work in each.

ETA - she may be leaning towards dropping Maths as it is the only one she knows she's not going to do at Uni.

In other news, English Lan paper 1 review came back with no change so have requested paper 2.
And apparently, the school has requested a review of the art marking as the whole cohort was downgraded by 2 grades from the teacher assessed work.

@makemineadecaf would she consider dropping EPQ? That would release more study time for the As?

Hugely discouraged to do 4 at her school as she’s also doing an EPQ. But that would definitely make the decision process easier!

Can she not keep all 4?