Scottish Highers/ Standard Grades..... anyone else awaiting results

[oldmum42]

Other Scottish MN out there awaiting the results? They are due in the post on Thursday 5th (or by text/email notification at 2.30pm tomorrow if your kids have signed up for that).

DS2 awaits his Standard Grade results - holding breath to see if he has the required credit grades for the 5 Higher subjects he stared before the summer hols (he's dyslexic and has worked really really hard this year).

DS1 awaits his Higher results, and this is the biggy for him - his Uni application process begins the minute he has the results - firstly, course choice will be determined by the results (he needs a minimum of 4A & 1B ), then the whole circus starts..... 2 entrance exams to sit, interviews, visits, 2nd interviews etc, months of it.

It was a lot easier in my day....... so many hoops to jump through now.

Hi op - good luck for tomorrow.

I am very envious that Scotland gets its results 2 weeks before England. What subject is your DS hoping to study - he's looking for really high grades!

Medicine if he get the grades - but that's just the start, very complex Uni application process
for med (and dentistry, vetmed), as there are simply too many qualified kids going for too few places.

Prob DH and I are more nervous than DS, but isn't that always the way! DS has his back-up plan (Physics with electronics) and that AABB (Highers)(ABB, A level).

I heard it was the 18th aug for the A levels? My friends DC is in private school here in Scotland - and they do A levels and the IB.

Is your DC awaiting A level results?

DS1 could have his within the hour..... he signed up for email notification which is supposed to happen today at about 2.30pm.

I hate the waiting. At least once he knows, he/we can start planning the next steps....

Yes, DS gets his AS results on the 18th.
Unfortunately we are on holiday then, so he'll have to phone the school.

Is there any news?

DS1 got the grades! A's in Chem, Phys, D&T, Computing, Maths, & Eng!!!!!

Now the circus really begins.

DS2 is still waiting for email from the exam board (DS1 opted to get his by text).

Certificates in the post tomorrow!

I wish your DS well for his AS on the 18th .

Ds1 gets his Standard grade results tomorrow - he thought it was today, and I was sooo relieved that the waiting was about to be over.

His are coming by post, so I shall be sitting here tomorrow, gazing up the road, willing the postman to arrive.

oldmum42 WOW fantastic results! Congratulations

The Scottish results come out earlier partly as it is just one Exam authority and partly cos the exams themselves are earlier.

I founf out this afternoon that my 2 "tutees" (both mums of young children who had dropped out of school before they sat any exams) got A's in their Higher Geography. Very proud of them.

Congrats to those who received their Scottish Higher results today.
I have just checked our school website and the AS/A2 results come out on Thursday 19th and not 18th as some people mentioned above. I presume the AS and A2 results come out on the same day? Please correct me if I am wrong or maybe your school has an early notification system? Good luck for the AS results.

If anyone else is still waiting for email exam results (Scotland)-The SQA posted on thestudentroom forum about the email notifications they sent this afternoon (for SG, H, & AH), some are "stuck" at the server, have been sent by SQA but are in a Q at the server.....explains why only on of my DS has his results! The other may have to wait for the postman tomorrow......

oldmum42 where is he hoping to do medicine?

Seb1, he can't really make that choice till he gets his UKCAT results (sits it mid Sept), as different Medschools use it in different ways, but his fav 3 at the moment are Edinburgh, St Andrews and oxford (which requires yet another entrance exam), with Dundee and Aberdeen vying for the 4th space on his UCAS form.

Do you also have a DC applying to medschool?

oldmum - just out of interest, my dh is a student tutor for medical students doing their GP block and says go for Aberdeen or Dundee! Not the "old" uni's, but really, really good doctors are coming out of them these days (he studied at Edinburgh and says its still quite an old-fashioned course in comparison!) hth!

No, just wondered, my two DNs went to medschool in Glasgow and seem to have enjoyed it.

He's not yet visited Glasgow - he seems to love each one that he visits, and they are all a wee bit different to each other, with different "feels". I want him to look round a few more.
Some are 6years, some 5 (it seems to be moving toward 6 years as the norm).

But really, it's about who will have him - not really his choice. It's tougher by the year to get a place (and places have been cut in med).

DH did med at Aberdeen, and loved it (but that was 20 years ago), but they have a new medschool their now (DS visits it later this month).

How recently were you DN's at Glasgow? How did they enjoy Glasgow itself, (socially, accommodation etc, as well as the Uni/hosp), if you don't mind me asking? All info gratefully received!

DN1 finished 2 years ago & DN2 finished this year, they seemed to have had a great time.

Don't know about other med schools but Glasgow seems to have a lot more girls than boys.

Hi Weegie, My DH loved Aberdeen, did med their, worked their for a while and is now a GP in Dundee! They probably know each other (the internet is a small place sometimes )!!! Actually, DS visited Dundee Uni last month and had a really good tour, was well impressed with the tutors he spoke to, and the fact Ninewells is the "biggest teaching hospital in Europe" (I think that's what he said). Certainly the interview process Dundee uses (10 mini interviews with different tutors)sounds far fairer for the "shy" than the scary single interview used by most places.

Have certainly heard Edinburgh has a very high opinion of it standing in the world!
As do St Andrews and Oxford (which DS freely admits he wants to go to, not because is any better, it's not but, "just because it's Oxford").

My DT girls got their results today by text. Very happy , one got 8 ones and the other 7 ones and 1 two. Both are moderately dyslexic so have done very well.Am happy its the last set of Standard Grades as have been through this four times already with all the other kids. Only Highers next year....I preferred the olden days awaiting the postman though. Wont quite believe results till paper copy arrives.

Seb, I think ALL medschools are about 60% girls now! DS1 has no problem with that .

Seenitallbefore - that's great, DS2 is also dyslexic and he's worked really hard to bring his grades up (and in some exams he got to use a computer), so we are HOPING for credit results like your DT's...... just makes it hard doesn't it, when they can't get things down on paper even though verbally they are (points to sky) way up there! Congrats to them both!

Congratulations to all of your DCs/tutees - fantastic results. Oldmum, my cousin is at Edinburgh in the middle of med school and loving it and her brother did medicine at Aberdeen and also loved it. He spent a while at Raigmore after that and is now in Oz - I think there's a further qualification that he can get there more quickly than he would reach the same level in the UK. Plus, well, it's Oz, and the weather is no doubt better than in Inverness .

Midnightexpress - well it depends on where in OZ, some bits are probably as wet as Inverness, but certainly a few degrees warmer!

oldmum42 thanks for your good wishes. Hope your DS gets what he deserves. They do have to work so hard to combat their dyslexia dont they? But i think it will stand them in good stead at uni(hopefully) . Sometimes I see kids swan though school achieving great grades who then struggle to really work hard at university. Our kids have never had the luxury of not working hard! PS two of my older DCs have been at St Andrews (one graduated and one there now) Both have loved every minute there-though both say the medics have to work harder than everyone else. VEry sciency (?) course. Mine both Maths not Medicine-just hear from their friends.

Where's the postman?? I'm sitting here trying not to bite my nails up to my elbows. Ds1 seems much calmer than me.

Whew - he finally arrived, and ds1 got 1s in English, French, German, Geography, Maths, Chemistry and Physics, and a 2 in Craft and design. I'm so proud of him.

great results. Well done to him!