Hi, can I join? Feeling jittery at the moment because DS1 is sitting his MAT test for maths right now and was feeling so grouchy this morning that he was talking about walking out of it if there was something he couldn't do. That is just not him.
He hasn't submitted his UCAS application yet. Those who have submitted, when did the schools finalise what your DC's predicted grades were? Did you get anything in writing to help decide what universities to apply for? We've had nothing in writing, just 'Currently Working At Grades' in school reports which are reportedly a snapshot of their performance that term, don't refer to predicted results at all and which don't agree with what some of his teachers have verbally told him they would predict for him.
He has a new teacher this year in his third subject who is dishing out whole class detentions and has reduced his CWAG for this half term to a B. The report was issued at the end of the last day before half term, so he has no idea until next week whether this means his predicted grade has dropped, whether it's an error like his understated maths grade was and, if it has dropped and it isn't an error, whether he has time to pull it back up to an A before UCAS submission. This happened just as his maths teachers managed to get his maths grades corrected in the system, so just when it should have been all systems go, we have a week of limbo.
Consequently, he's been in a state of simmering rage since getting his report. Normally he gets everything out of his system at ju-jitsu, but he's skipped two of his last three classes to do homework set by the new teacher. Add to that his conflicted feelings about the universities we've visited and I feel like I'm watching a pressure cooker with the heat turned right up.
Sorry, that was long. Venting my own strain while trying to be calm and collected dealing with his.