Results Day 2016 for Nats/Highers/Advanced Highers

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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!

I'm with you tbh Kr1stina. I'd thought about and decided they didn't really need it but DH wanted to and I have to remember sometimes that they are his children too.

I usually go with " no uterus no opinion " . Unless it's about football or motor racing, when I always agree with him [ grin]

Lost of DDs friends get paid for results BTW , I know we are the odd ones out around here

And on a practical note, we have some with SN, some lazy and bright and some grafters, so it's very hard to be fair and recognise equal effort

I didn't get any time off this summer, I have been coaching RS1 for testing to join the armed forces, he needed to relearn lots of maths he had forgotten etc. He passed the first test last week, I was so relieved, I almost don't care about DS2's results!

We are lucky in that I know they both have ability that is fairly even (though over different subjects) so the fair way is to reward for results.

I've no idea what is happening in other houses in terms of their classmates and they've been told not to talk about it at school etc as it isn't anyone's business. We didn't want them either being disappointed or crowing in comparison with others.

I am sure there will be a range that goes from nothing to a lot more than we are giving.

We have a similar reward scheme to Wankers, also implemented by DH and also to encourage studying. It worked as got DD thinking about the end results back in January. DH also said DD gives him £50 for each one she fails.... Hopefully joking!

We only have DD. Agree it would be a bit more complicated with siblings (and expensive!).

Will (hopefully) have a celebratory family meal too.

Congratulations wigglybeezer boy

Yes, congratulations to your DS Wiggly , does he have many stages still to go?

Congratulations WigglyDS ..👑
I just mentioned rewards to DH and his response ,predictably,was that "she gets enough" in this house !😁he thinks she's spoilt as it is. Thank you so much for your replies. Interesting variation . Still not sure what I'll do .

Dd is working Tuesday breakfast shift, then dh is on call, dd is working her second job as there is a football match. She's working Wednesday breakfast too. So we're doing dinner on Friday to celebrate. Money is too tight to offer a financial reward sadly X

My dad's incentive scheme for ds (ie his grandson) is £10 per A, nothing for a B and ds has to pay him £20 per C. Dad was joking tonight that he was looking forward to be paid but he's not really. He texted ds before the Nat 5s to get his agreement to the schedule.

Ds is getting worried a) about his English (thinks he'll "only" get a B), b) his French, which he now thinks he's failed and c) his Maths, after he'd made such a big thing about how easy he found it.

I think dh has offered him £20 per A but he might have commuted that to a new tower PC (ds apparently wants a PC to supplement his XBox One which to be fair, he saved up for himself as there is a particular game he wants to play with friends). His birthday is coming up too, so that had to be factored in too.

I've been trying to encourage him to go to Open Days at Unis around Scotland this year (S5) as it might help inspire him and/or give him ideas about other subjects he might study. He's resisting as he says he knows which Uni he wants to go (Edinburgh, with Glasgow 2nd choice) and was astounded when I said he needs to have more than 2 choices on his form

Dh and I - with the support of the school - may have to pull rank on him and force him to go to a range of Open Days.

Steppenwolfe - that's what dh normally says to (and about) ds - that he's spoilt, gets too much without doing anything for it etc, etc - yet he is so inconsistent and goes and offers financial incentives without telling me. (I think the difference is it's not spoiling if it's his idea but it is spoiling if I get ds anything, which includes dh's favourite sweets in the shopping ).

I originally suggested a financial incentive for one of ds' exams - or to get something else he really wanted - in an effort to motivate him for French, which he just wasn't putting the work into (perfectly capable of it but didn't like the teacher ) but dh said no

Maybe that's why I agreed to ds' joke to me of a giant Toblerone per A (dh is very possessive of any Toblerones or Maltesers I buy ). Fortunately Lidl had them on offer for £2.99 and "BOGOF" - so I bought a supply and a few extra which may have disappeared

I think the PC might be bigger outlay than the money per exam. DS1s was over a grand just for the parts when we built it a year past Christmas. He now apparently needs a new graphic card at £300! That said, DS2 is reasonably happy with his £400 2nd hand one but he doesn't play the graphics hungry games that DS1 plays and seems to be happy with one screen and not 3.

YY to money on computer things not " counting " .

DH has just bought a new hard disk for the " family " desktop as it was struggling with Minecraft. And it already has three screens , supposedly for work

Dreamt that dd hadn't been put in for nat5 maths but module maths! Was awful.

DS1 was distraught last results day. Although he had an A for English and got 6 N5's, something went far wrong with one subject - his favourite and best - and we were desperate for school to start in a fortnight to get it sorted out.

Then my dad died on the first day of session. None of us even remembered about that result for a week until the letter came in for school about seeking our permission for a remark.

Talk about a short sharp lesson on what actually matters and putting things in perspective. I'm on edge this August but the results are not the cause. DS has worked hard and whatever he gets, we'll deal with.

PS he got his paper remarked and went from a D to a B, so continued with his Higher course.

Ds1 has to pass things like an interview, medical and fitness test, which should all be fine. He was in the first N5 cohort and did not do well, he does not have great concentration but refused to accept that he needed to work harder than others to make up for it, he ended up with two N5s, not enough for anything he might be interested in. The navy however, will take you as an apprentice, pay you and put you in for GCSEs ( DS hopes to get maths to go with his English n5). I will have everything crossed until he finishes training! DS 2 always works diligently but does have ASD and can sometimes get in a muddle, in the Geography n5 he missed out a question involving doing a drawing because he hadn't brought a pencil, didn't occur to him to ask for one or to use a pen!

Aww Wiggly your DS2 missed out a Q because he didn't have a pencil... and I thought my (slightly, but officially) ASD was 'bad' just for complaining after the exam that he didn't know the time as the invigilator kept standing in front of the clock. Mind you, he wrote the time of his music performance incorrectly and was out of school on the day of the exam. (The school managed to reschedule it)

Prettybird at the toblerones. Sounds like my household.

I'm quite ashamed to say I bribed DD with £1000 for an A in H English, £500 for a B in English and £500 if she got a B in Maths; those were her most difficult subjects.

DS has no financial rewards on offer. He agrees that the reward is getting good results. We'll see. I'll probably buy him a very expensive instrument next year as he's now thinking of auditioning to do music when he leaves school. It's extremely competitive though.

Good luck everyone.

To be fair on ds, dh took him round to a good wee local computing shop and a tower PC (minus monitor) to the spec that ds wants would only be £340.

However, the game that ds plays is 4 years old and dh and the guy in the shop are trying to get him to think of future-proofing it. What happens if the "next" game they get into requires a higher RAM (or whatever other bits of the spec that games require to work well)?

Ds has some savings which can go towards it too.

I think the most important bit of future proofing re the PC from my very amateur pov. is to make sure that whatever he buys has a decent power supply in excess of what he needs and a decent Motherboard with spare slots - those are the most hassle to change. You can easily add more memory/upgrade the graphics etc as long as you have appropriate slots etc.

Again, to be fair on him, it's why he wants a tower as it's more flexible. But building a new PC to just meet his current requirements doesn't seem sensible. Requirements only ever go up.

Exactly (re PC) DS1 and I did a lot of research and bought all the individual parts to his spec . Even with bargain hunting it was about £1100-£1200. His isn't out of date at all really and the graphic card still sells 2nd hand for about £160, it's just that he is finding it a big "laggy" since he added the 3rd screen. I think he intending to crossfire two cards. I learned all I needed to know from PC building forums - folks on there are really helpful. We saved ourselves a bit of cash by building it ourselves and learned a lot in the process.

DS1 was able to pick the tower that he wanted to match with his bedroom - that was very important to him.

DS2 bought an existing gaming set up from a guy who was moving to Oz, it's not as good as DS1s existing set up but he bought it with a view to upgrading bits as he went along. That was over a year ago and he hasn't felt the need to upgrade - he plays a lot of historical older games as that's his thing. DS1 plays stuff with friends and has added some expensive peripherals such as £100 headphones. The £1100 to £1200 didn't include a screen or keyboard or mouse or camera or anything!

He paid half the cost and the rest was his Christmas together with some bits and pieces such as a little tool kit etc.

Dd1 is getting Nat5 results tomorrow. No financial incentives here. We will be going out for a meal and if very good a trip to Krispy Kreme as well. Then there may be a big tub of ice cream if she does well in French (lactose intolerance so a rare treat).
She is expecting at least 4 A's and the rest at B although she has doubts about French.