Results Day 2016 for Nats/Highers/Advanced Highers

[Groovee]

Just thought I would start this thread as the results day will be here before we know it as the summer is flying past!

Dd has already seen next year's timetable and has 4 exams in 5 days!

Dd thinks that as she is near the beginning of the alphabet, that she will get hers hours before her friends!

I actually think DS2 will get similar results to DH and I, 5 A's and 2 B's, although one the B's is Maths and he found it a bit of a stinker. If he does get a B for Maths it will cost me as I offered his tutor ( one of DS1's cleverer friends) a bonus if he achieved a B!

Hope her theory is correct then Groovee or she could be up all night! We will have to wait for Mr Postie :( Thinking of asking to work at home but that's more because it's DS2 birthday so I either don't get to see him open his pressies or he gets up for 7am or he waits until I get home from work. Added advantage that I'd be able to pounce on DS1 when he opens the envelope!

It's going to be an expensive day regardless I think for us. If DS1 gets what I think he thinks he will get, we will be £350 down. If he gets my guestimate then it'll be about £220-230 I think.

Hoping for a mixture of As and Bs for DD's National 5s. Will be glad when the wait is over!

DD seems fairly confident, she has mentioned going out for dinner with friends Tuesday... but when I said that the 'How to Pass Higher...' books are on offer at Waterstones she said let's wait till after the exam results.

I am planning to work from home on Tuesday morning. Hope DD wakes me if she gets a text in the early hours!

I'm another one panicking slightly about how much we'll be out of pocket! Just reminded DH. He said are the results this week?

Just popping in to pass round the Valium hand hold

DD is awaiting Higher results for a course that needs everything in one sitting. So it's a bit stressful here.

Someone has put dd on a 7am start at work on Tuesday. She'll possibly sleep through them coming in.

Good for her getting a decent summer job grovee

Last year the email and text came into us in the early hours of the morning

DD was fast asleep, guess who was up to answer the pinging phone ?

Dd sat 3 AHs and one Nat 5 (crashed Mandarin). I'm confident she'll get 4 As but she said the exams were tricky and she thinks 4 Bs. Last year in her Highers she thought she would get 2 As and 3 Bs and she actually got 5 As so I'm hoping she's just being under confident again.

It's my very last year of waiting for school exam results with my DC and I'm desperate for it to be over!

Hope everyone gets what they are hoping for.

Dotdot this is my first year of probably 4 in a row, with double anxiety for the next 2. I just hope they do equally well. Must be tough for those with twins I think.

I've had 4 in a row WankersHacks, my Ds was one year ahead at school so he finished last year. He failed spectacularly last year due to lack of effort, getting only one C in one Higher exam and failing the others (he had passed 3 the year before) so results day was a strange one with him being upset and Dd being delighted with her 5 As. I'm too old for all this excitement!

Same as me then dotdot, one year apart. Just bought all the new study guides for DS2s nat5s since they were on offer. That must have been so hard for you last year. It's my nightmare scenario :(

Kr1stina my friend employed her at her hotel in Feb for weddings and dinner dances. But asked if she would like to work more in the holidays with all the tourists. She and her group of friends have been very lucky with getting jobs x

That's great groovee, DD has had a few days here and there, maybe 12 days in total over the summer . Nothing regular .

I think it's really good for them,to see how hard many people in scotland have to work for minimum wage. DD was like

" the others are all going into town for a coffee , but that's £3 on the train and £5 in costa for a coffee/ cake, it takes me MORE THAN AN HOUR to earn that !!!! "

Followed by " I can get these jeans I want in primark for that "

#welcometo the real world

dotdot that sounds very stressful

From DD1's Standard Grades in 2013 to DD4's Advanced Highers in 2021 I will have had consistently had an SQA candidate. No wonder my roots need regular attention and I order wine in bulk!

DD2, who's Highers we're waiting for has worked hard but lacks confidence and had a really crap supply teacher for English. She's convincing no one with her self preservation " nae bo'urrt" patter.

3 Highers with 2 B's might make some conditionals possible next year.

Tis spoiling the last few weeks of freedom

Ha lidl , you made the mistake of having your kids so close together . We have spread ours out so we get some years off for good behaviour

I know the 4 under 6 was "fun" the 12 to 18 years will finish me. Interestingly none of them want small families but none of them want them close together.

They say us down a few years back and asked us to have 2 more - they could enjoy them now

My two are 13 months apart - we didn't have any more after that. If fact DH had the snip before DS2s first birthday. I sometimes think it would have been nice to have a third, then I give myself a shake and take the rose tinted glasses off. :o

But I take my hat off to lidl is that 4 teenage girls you'll have soon?

Yep, feels like 4 already as DD4 is Feb birthday and at high school already. Like you DH was snipped before she hit her first birthday. Dr laughed at our referral as we'd conceived and delivered another DD in the time it took for our paperwork to go through.

We were fast tracked! Had our wobbles when DMIL died but realised how fortunate we'd been and quit whilst ahead!

Obviously not much a queue when we asked for it then lidl. Apparently I was supposed to go to the appointment too but DH said, if we we were able to both be here then I wouldn't have needed to come to see you :)

Hmmmm... seems rewards will be plentiful...we haven't mentioned anything like that to DD... would anyone mind sharing their rewards or ideas for Tuesday/results.

Steppen, we will be going out for dinner but that will be DS2s choice of venue as it's his birthday. We probably would have gone out for exam results anyway I think.

It was DH that set up our incentive scheme, I don't really think that DS1 needed it, it's more for DS2 next year as he is more motivated by money.

As far as I remember, it was £50 per A, £20 for a B, £10 for a C and nothing for a fail.

Our scheme was put in place to encourage studying I should have said. Luckily in our case we think our 2 are equally bright so are both capable of similar results, it wouldn't necessarily work in other households.

We don't pay for results here , our kids are fortunate to go to a very good school, there are many kids queueing up for a place there. So we don't pay them for attendinh school or doing well, as it's a privilege and they are the ones who benefit from it , not us .

We do celebrate exams results in the same way we celebrate birthdays etc - all go out as a family or have a special meal .

And we support them in their education as much as we are able , through school and university . I've been saving their child benefit since they were born to fund them through university .

Rewards are tricky territory for us. DD1 was naturally academic and vv hard working. DD2 is a grafter but less "a natural scholar'. So like for like is impossible. So far Nando 's for dinner and Pandora treat has been hinted at (by DD2) .