Class of '18 results day

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You know the drill though, that one needs to be used up first lowers glasses to give (behave Chocolate!)

Some of us already have btech results, some have unconditionals, but it's a nervous time for most. Lots of

Thanks cricketballs that makes a lot of sense. I'd forgotten that DS2 was the last year to do his old style BTEC with 100% coursework. TBH, he might have been better off doing an exam as he's not that good at working over a long period, better at short bursts.

May I send all of you and your dcs, very best wishes for tomorrow . I am in a rather different situation - tomorrow's results will be the first results for a tuition group he has brought through from the second year gcse to a level results. I know how hard he has worked to do the very best for his students and how desperately he wants 'his' students to succeed. He will be in school tomorrow, watching his students open their results and will see their faces when they realise that they all ( yes, all) have exceeded their target grades and will be off to their first choice university. When the results came through today, his face was like this 😁 . I truly hope that all your dcs have the same expression on their faces.

I’ve left it very late . . . But can I join you? Longtime lurker but I’ve never posted before. Like the rest of you I’m finding the wait for DS’s results excruciating. He needs AAA for his firm (Oxford) and ABB for his insurance (Edinburgh). He has a deferred place so we don’t have to do the ucas scurry-around tomorrow, but I’m still really anxious.

He (and DH) are really calm about it and I feel like I’m making a fuss unnecessarily. He thought the exams went well and has been predicted 3 A*, with 100% achieved in all the components done so far (AS for one subject, coursework for the other two). But of course the coursework can go down, and he might have misjudged how it went and, and . . . Basically I am haunted by the different possibilities, all of which feel as if they are existing simultaneously (hence my username).

Hi Kitty, best of luck to your DS, I hope everything goes well for him!

DS is on some sort of new spec BTEC: over the 2 years he has had 4 externally marked exams, out of 11 units. It seems rather unfair, tbh.

DS has mates who have been re-submitting course work up til 2 weeks ago! The external moderators have come down heavily on DS's course, that I do know (private email spotted by DS...)

I just want this to be over for him. Yes, he's got his uni place (all being well!); He's been the best student in the group of 7. One other knows he got DDD thus has a £1500 scholarship. DS has consistently done 'better' than this student.

All the course tutor would tell DS is that 'He mustn't worry'.
DS really, really wants that scholarship. But won't know til tomorrow, now, as, once again, the cowboy Tech have Messed Up.

How hard does it need to be?

Thank you - and for you!

eastername how amazing! Thank you for sharing that. Well done, all!

SO - given that BTEC boy should have (legally!) got his results today- but, once again, his Tech effed up- when does UCAS go on line tomorrow? Seeing as that is now our default. Unless the uni send a 'welcome' email, first.

From 8am officially. Often slightly earlier. Good luck, Blushah

I've had a bubble bath and a g&t. Don't tell my consultant. He'd have the horrors at me for drinking.

Lobster so sorry to read about your poor DD - not what she needed right now! Fantasy lovely to hear from you again. Sorry to hear your DD's health issues are still causing her problems though. Kitten get better quickly!

I've been keeping myself very busy today just doing crappy small jobs (anything to keep semi-sane!) DD is mega nervous & dreading going in tomorrow. Friends have forwarded the leaked Edexcel boundaries, but she's not looking. God I can't stand this suspense, goodness knows what she's feeling! DD announced she'll be getting up at 6.30 tomorrow - not that either of us will be sleeping well anyway

Eastername how lovely - a ray of sunshine on here reading that! Thanks to the posters just popping in to wish us all well - it means a lot right now

I'm also wishing you all well! I've popped in a couple of times to read up nostalgically and see if I could offer any undergrad advice tips - 2 years ago I was where your kids are now, and I can still physically remember how I felt whenever results day comes around for another group of kids. Very very best of luck to all of them and to all of you trying to stay sane!

eastername that’s so lovely, what lucky students to have such a dedicated teacher 😊

I'm confused. The course that DD has an offer for at Nottingham is on condition that she achieves AAB. It is in clearing at BBC

Does that mean if she misses a grade she doesn't get in while someone else gets in on BBC? Or does she get in if she gets BBC or higher?

Although she doesn't plan on going to university until next year, I would still like to understand how this works.

Lonicera, I rather think it means she should get in with BBC.

Lonicera As far as I remember it, if she misses a grade but she still wants to go there, she calls up the uni and asks them to take her on a lower offer, just as the kids going through Clearing will be doing. She has the same opportunity to plead with them as kids through Clearing do, they make look on her more favourably as she already had an offer, but ultimately it depends how many spaces are on her course.

She may find that the Ucas tracker goes to confirmed even if she were to drop grades. If not she could call the Uni and ask them to reconsider. Is her insurance choice offer lower?

A lot of displacement activity today. DD2 made brownies to take into school tomorrow morning. DH made Kashmiri butter chicken. I went into work and stared out of the window pretending to be thinking about work things.

Track is now down according to DD2.

gnome I did the same today (I think we are in the same line of business too?) DH has put some random Netflix thing on and I am pretending to watch (actually mumsnetting and drinking wine)

DS is distracting himself by shouting at his PS4

Hello. Have been following the thread and have finally given into the wobbles. DD announced a couple of days ago that she doesn't think she has done well (like they do). I've looked at clearing just in case but the course that she has chosen is still showing the same grades as her offer. Am I looking in the right place or is this a thing? Good luck to all your DC tomorrow

Displacement cooking's been happening in our house too today. Less than 3 hours (I think) till STEP results ping through; DS feels STEP didn't go so well. I'm not sure we'll sleep tonight but fingers crossed for tomorrow everybody.

LIZS she doesn't have an insurance. She applied for medicine, and was unsuccessful. The only offer she has is from Nottingham for a medical related degree. She accepted the offer, but wants to take a year out and look at other universities as this particular degree is based in Derby, and she really wanted to be on the Nottingham campus.

She has also changed her mind about what she wants to do.

Track is down now Gnome

Feeling a bit emotional now...as DS has an unconditional offer and already has his accommodation allocation we decided it would be a good idea to go online and book a time slot for his arrival. It is now very real that he will be going. There was even the name of one of his new flat mates there. I am now stressing as this appears to be a Chinese or Malaysian name...no problem, except I read lots of threads last year about DC who had been put into flats where all of the others were Chinese, and who were desperately unhappy as the other flatmates only spoke in Chinese to each other. DS is ASD and I desperately need him to be in a flat where he is encouraged to socialise with his flatmates, so now of course I am panicking that this will happen to him...all because of one name. Please tell me I'm being ridiculous

Welcome marymoocow. Some of the universities this evening are showing list of clearing grades they will accept. Some aren't showing them yet and some like Oxford and UCL (my daughter's firm) don't participate in Clearing.

I've been baking all afternoon too.

marymoo
Dd is wondering the same. Her course is in clearing with the same grades as her condition