Waiting for GCSE results and starting y12.

[makemineadecaf]

Come and join me! Dd1 and I are on the countdown until results day. She is going to stay at her school for alevels.

Yep on the countdown. 16 year old managed to get a HR apprenticeship at the council. 300 applications in total. Hugely proud of him. Starting salary of £24k. He is predicted a 7 in English and a 5 in maths. Rest will be 4s no doubt.

Oh that’s cool! Instead of alevels? Hope they enjoy it!

Yes. He has no interest in A-Levels or Uni. He just wants to earn money straight away and be on a professional pathway.

He was actually up against quite a few 18 year olds who have completed A-Levels for this apprenticeship, so we were absolutely buzzing for him. He personally felt A-Levels was just wasting time but they were going to be his back up option whilst he applied for apprenticeships.

Thanks for the thread @makemineadecaf

DD is hoping to get the results she needs to do A levels, but she's got an offer to do legal services T levels at college if not. She has been EBSA since year 8. She went into school shadowing year 12's after her GCSE's and loved it. Kids who actually want to learn and not messing about ruining things for everyone else.

DD celebrates her birthday next month as well, so lots of big milestones for us - turning 16 and results within a few days of each other.

Ah interesting to hear of other pathways. Dd very much wants to do the traditional route of “academic” subjects for a law degree.

fingers crossed for them all - 20 days!!

Also playing the waiting game here.

DS is very academic and has the potential to hit a good number of 9's. He is keen to do 4 A-Levels and needs his average grade to be over 7.5 I think so fingers are crossed for him, no idea if he revised enough to achieve that but he has a great memory so you never know

On tenterhooks here. DS1 is autistic and struggled with the long exam season and really not sure what grades he will end up with as a result - we have 3 offers and a plan D in mind depending on the results but he really wants to stay at his school so nerves are high here now, never mind in 19 days time! Weird as we can’t really prepare for the autumn as all the options are kind of different :(.
Any destressing tips (for me) welcome. He’s got no sense of time and is only stressed when someone reminds him about results day (so that’s not happening, obviously!).