Son refuses to pick up GCSE results

[Dumbledoresgirl]

Does anyone know if I might be allowed to pick them up for him? He is only 14 so technically I imagine I have some right to know his results?

Perhaps he will once everyone starts talking about their results? We are in Scotland and DD reused to take up the option to have hers a day early. By the time the postman finally made it to us after lunch the next day she was beside herself. Feel for you.

My son's results aren't being posted. If he doesn't pick them up today, he will be given them at school when term starts again.

I know that is only next week, but I really want to know how he has done and share in the celebration.

Teenagers are such a pain sometimes!

Does it matter?

Is knowing now, rather than when he gets back to school, going to make any difference to courses he will take next year?

i took a couple of my GCSEs early, and didn't bother gettng the results until I went back to school in September. Knowing would have made not a jot of difference, and so i waited.

Oh no, silverfrog, it doesn't matter one jot. It is nothing to do with him, I freely admit it. Just me wanting to know alongside everyone else.

If I can't persuade him to go, I'll get over it.

I do feel for you, but at least there isn't he added pressure that he is narrowing down options by not collecting...

Is he feeling under pressure? maybe he is worried he didn't do as well as he could have/school thought he could have/you thought he could have?

ds1 took some early and they didn't give out the results to any non Y11s till the start of term.

When I was 16 I carried my O level results around in my pocket for a week then gave them to my mother as I got on a ferry to France. Did the same with my A levels though I think Someone opened them on about day 3.

Now going through the process with ds1 and I don't know how my nerves will last if in half an hour when we get to school, he puts the envelope in his pocket and carries on as if its nothing significant. His choice though, just as it was mine 30 years ago

Yes, I have managed to get out of him that he is worried about the results and also worried about going to school to get the results because he doesn't know if he is expected to wear his uniform! He has some strange ideas sometimes!

I was resigned to having to wait till next week, but then a stroke of luck: his friend's brother rang up my ds2 and I got ds2 to ask friend's brother if friend is going for his results. He said he wasn't but five minutes later rang up and said he would (I am presuming his mother worked on him!) so he is now coming round to call for ds1 and they are going together. Fingers crossed for both of them.

Oh and eatyourveg, it must run in families as your story reminded me that I refused to get my A level retake results. I went off to my summer job and when I got home for lunch, my mother had picked the results up for me. It was not like her to step in like that so the strain must have been too much for her. Best of luck to your ds1 too. I hope he doesn't sit on the envelope for 6 weeks.

oooh good luck Dumbledoresgirl

OK, in the end, I went with him as friend didn't turn up in time.

He got A* in Maths (half a GCSE) and A in Science (not sure how much of the GCSE this is or what it contributes to as he is doing Triple Science as from next week).

Also got a list of 1s and 2s for English Functional Skills exam - I don't understand that bit at all and neither did any of the students I asked so I will have to check with the school once term starts.

Not bad for a boy who was 13 when he took most of these exams (14 on the day of the Maths paper).

well done Dumbledore's ds

hope he is feeling happier now

Thanks.

Right now, he seems more interested in the scores he is getting in the computer games he is playing with various friends. I get the impression my wanting to know his exam results was a bit of an imposition on his playing time!

But I am sure he is feeling relief inside.

well done to your DS, very pleased that he got such excellent results.