To think that the reward in exams is the exam grade and does not require a cash payout?

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Friends are rewarding their 'A' level stage kids with £100 for each A grade, £50 for B and £20 for C.

GCSEs are being rewarded with £50 for A*, £20 for A, £10 for B

School summer exams are being rewarded with £10 for each subject scored over 60%.

I feel slightly guilty for not rewarding my kids the same way their peers are, but I feel that the exam grade is the reward for the hardwork not cash. AIBU?

My other DC won't get many A*s if any at all, but for them the reward will be based on what they are likely to achieve/capable of, could be just getting C's or higher in everything for example.

I don't see why the concept of a reward has to be limited to A* grades, it won't be in this house!

Yes, ours is rewarded for meeting expected predictions - in order to meet them they had to do the expected work.

This one mostly did the expected work but they will get less for the subjects they didn't put the work in for - so for one subject they really should have spent less time whining about the teacher and more time practising the subject

Also the money isn't money for them, it's money for driving lessons which are £45 an hour.

And the reward is part of a much bigger encouragement package - we have spent years getting this one to a place where she could pass exams and supplemented her learning with 10 hours of private tuition a week.

We have put a lot of effort into encouraging intrinsic motivation but when you've got heavy influences telling them education is for dickheads and trying to get them pregnant to get a flat you've really got to use every armour at your disposal - money was only one weapon.

You are right OP, but I think sometimes kids aren't mature enough to realise what good grades actually mean. It took me until 2nd year Uni for it to click that the only person who lost out by me not working hard to achieve my full potential was me.

I got ok grades at school, but my parents knew I could do better. They offered a financial incentive to better my prelim grades and it worked for me.