Help me understand these year end results please. Y12

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Target As
Current prediction: As3
Mock grade: A

these are for 2 subjects

no idea what they will use for university

there is also a subject with

target: As
current prediction: A1
Mock: As

I think you need to ask the school as they differ. My DCs’ school, as another example, gave PGs as Aa, Ab and Ac depending on how secure the grade was - Aa being secure, Ac most likely to wobble to a B.

The s and the figures in your examples might mean similar but only the school can tell you.

Thank you; have messaged the school; hopefully will get a response next week

This is a guess, but As might mean A star, A1 a high A, and As3 a low A star.

I think you may be right

Any school that predicts to that level I’d probably take with a pinch of salt and just focus on whether it’s an A or A star…

It’s annoying when schools don’t put a key with complicated grade systems. It would make life a lot easier! Ours just put the actual predicted grade (eg b, a, whatever) alongside the mock result. Far simpler!

I'm guessing it's automated - when I used Go 4 Schools for instance, mark books would have raw marks from mocks inputted and it would automatically calculate the grade which then got sent to parents/used by us to figure out intervention. For GCSE it would be 8- (just into a grade 8), 8 (in the middle of a grade 8), 8+ (top end). It's obviously not fool proof as grade boundaries change but gave an indication of how secure the grade was and whether to work on shoring up a grade 8 with a student or try to push them on to a 9.

OP - your school's system sounds like it could be similar but definitely worth checking with them/get your DC to ask one of their teachers today, they all ought to know.

Whatever system is used, why not tell parents what the info means? Very poor in my view. Huge numbers of predictions are wrong anyway. Dc usually know where they stand in class!

Also note if you sit AS papers for a mock at the end of Y12, you cannot get an A* as the highest grade a AS level is A.