A level Results - 18 days - anxiety rising....anyone else??

[Poppledopple]

Maybe because it is August tomorrow - but seems to have come round quickly. Had a nice break not thinking about anything since last exam and after full on year choosing, applying, getting rejected, getting offers etc....

Might as well switch off and try and get distracted for the next 18 days....as either way it will be v busy few days/weeks after results to get started on next phase of his life.

PFB -- any old hands out there want to give me a slap?

poppledopple DS thinks you need your AS module grades to help in negotiations with universities for clearing or to talk to your firm or insurance if you have just missed grades etc. For maths and FM they can shuffle the modules from AS or A2 around to maximise your overall A2 result, I believe.

In any event, it looked like a useful list to share.

I think it was a very useful list, EllenJane. I wish all schools were as helpful! I will pass it on to DD's boyfriend.

It does sound like DS's school is prepared to help advise the DC in their negotiations with universities and UCAS. It may be that in many cases schools aren't as helpful so taking those items to school may not be necessary, but they will still be a useful list to have prepared, in any case.

My DS said today that he thinks schools should euthanise students who don't get their grades for university. I deduce he is stressed.

If it gets any worse I may have to resort to house cleaning.

We have cunningly laid on mandatory major garden works - think tree cutting, wood chipping, and fire management - in order to make ds work like a dog all day and thus, so the parental logic goes, he'll be a tired little boy able to go to sleep on weds night without too big a tantrum

My brother is taling DD out for the day. He walked the legs of her the day before gcse results and she slept like a baby from 10 o'clock

DDs college is actively discouraging them from going in.

She's decided she will switch her phone off on Wednesday night so that nobody can message her when they get their results
then she'll log into track when she wakes up

and we agreed that under NO circumstances will her grades get posted on social media ANYWHERE as its just so depressing either way round for absolutely everybody.

Ucas officially is online at 8am - last year it actually was live about 7.30am. It is not allowed to post results until after 6am I believe.
I am away with work for 2 days and have met up with my sister and shared a bottle of prosecco so feeling mellow . I will be home late tomorrow night and have booked Thursday off. DH has been off today and has kept DD2 busy fixing the car, cutting the grass etc! DD1 has instructions for tomorrow to keep DD2 busy and help her get packed for V-Fest.

We're playing 'avoid the subject' in our house. So glad both me and DD are at work all day tomorrow. Don't fancy the twiddling thumbs scenario. She did badly in her AS levels. Has a low offer from a 'low tier uni' (or whatever they're called!), but she could genuinely get anything from a C (we wish) to a U (nooooooo!!). The uncertainty is awful. Probably worse for the high achievers though, who've really set their heart on something. Good luck all.

We cannot avoid it because we have GCSE results the following week so need to keep both of them calm !

TalkinPeace we have GCSE results next week as well. I just can't think about them yet, have to get DS1 sorted before I start worrying about DS2.

coconutty too right they do
its cringe making
if nothing else for those who miss their grades the success of others is splurged all over their FB wall
for those who exceed predictions its just bragging
and for those who worked bloody hard to get their C's, the lists of A* are just unpleasant.

Oh yes, coconutty, but usually only the very high achieving results. I did post about DS1 getting into his chosen sixth form for GCSEs as I was so proud and as a divorced mum whose parents are dead, I had no one else to share the news with. I didn't detail his results, though, or specify which sixth form. If friends' DC hadn't done very well that would have been rubbing their faces in it, I thought.

I'll (hopefully) put something about DS1 getting into university this time!

Hey, we can post results on here, though, can't we? Anonymous enough and supportive rather than boastful as it is?

I think last year I posted something about being very relieved that dd1 had got her grades for her firm university choice.

Oh I think anonymous online cheering or sobbing is fair enough. I think we'll need the understanding and mutual support, whichever way it goes. Because even if all of our DCs gets the right grades (which of course they will) and everything is rosy, that means they're up and off soon, which is a whole new thing to fret about :o.

Dd is in a panic about her results, but cheerfully let me know today that she will be going to an A'level congratulations and commiserations party on Thursday night.

Is it the parents who post results or kids? I am dreading the texts from nosy relatives who I know will be secretly delighted if it all goes tits up....likely we will be too busy to respond to their whilst we are knee deep in clearing!!!!

Anyone think that they will sleep tomorrow night?

Dd gave me several hugs before I went to bed (and after she worked out the entire clearing contact list).

Now she gets into a more realistic feeling that she might be in clearing...

Me, another sleepless night.

I can't sleep 😴💤💤😔

Nope. Me neither...!

Same!! But there in lies another story, still results related though....!!

Some grade boundaries are out btw.

Really??!!!