Results Day 2018

[Groovee]

Hi everyone

Thought that as the 7th is fast approaching, it would be worth doing a thread to for the day and the build up.

Dd needs a B in anything to get into Uni and ds is getting his Nat5 results. Will be a tense morning.

[KarenW]

Hi SSD, contact the school,, as they will have received the banding if not the actual marks, then will advise of the potential likelihood of an appeal.. only seems to be remarks these days, unless medical reasons with evidence on the day of the exam.My son sat Chemistry Higher with extreme concussion, no appeal was allowed. Good luck with your quest!!

[Yogafailure]

@ssd there are no appeals now but the school can ask for the paper to be remarked. You can no longer appeal on the prelim mark etc. My DS1 got French and history N5 papers marked in 2015 and had his history changed from a D to a B but they didn't change his French mark. There is always the risk that the mark can be lowered on remarking as well as being raised.

[user1487194234]

You need to contact the school as I think they have the final say on whether there can be a request for a clerical check /marking review
Some schools insist on a 2 grades difference
Anecdotally English is probably more worth a remark than say maths as it is more subjective
Also the closer they are to the higher band the less chance there is of going up, as it will already have been closely scrutinised

[HuckfromScandal]

@ssd. Exactly the same in this house
Fully expected an A for English, backed up by prelim and teacher expectation. He worked his socks off
He is gutted with the B.

He did get 3 a’s and 2 b’s and I am delighted for him. But will support him in his quest to get the b looked at again.

And now I can breathe!

[WickedGoodDoge]

DS was most unimpressed to be woken at 11:30 this morning by his granny phoning him to find out how he did. He got 8 A’s for his Nat5s. I’m gobsmacked that he got an A in Spanish. He had started Mandarin in S1 but it was a disaster so he switched to Spanish halfway through S2. He hates languages so between that and missinga year and a half of Spanish, I was hoping he would just about scrape a B. I’m gobsmacked by the A.

[Groovee]

Interestingly Dd says everyone who didn't meet their conditions have been given a place in her group as quite a few are stunned

[Sparkygal]

Ds didn't do as well as he hoped in his national 5s.
1 C and 4 Ds (and 1 non award which he expected). What happens now?
Will he need to resit all the D awards before highers? What about the C - can he still take the higher?
Bit of an unhappy chap here.

[Groovee]

Quite a few going to Dundee reading through the thread. Wonder if our children will meet there. Dd has a room in Westpark. Being her she went for the double bed 😂.

[WaxOnFeckOff]

Sparkly, speak to school. They should know how close he was and also his chances of doing the higher successfully. Not unknown for a d at nat 5 to result in a pass at higher. Plus people will be doing crash highers with no experience at nat 5.

[Groovee]

@Sparkygal he'll need to speak to the school. Ds's school has a slot for them to go in and see the head of the senior school about it all.

[flopsyandjim]

Dn passed n5s but don't know what grades yet

[Chocolatedeficitdisorder]

1 C and 4 Ds (and 1 non award which he expected). What happens now?
Will he need to resit all the D awards before highers? What about the C - can he still take the higher?

I imagine that the school won't be keen on letting him progress to Higher subjects this year. I know that the school I work in wouldn't allow anyone into the Higher class with less than a B, a C if they really believed in a student's ability in the subject.

Your Ds hasn't shown that he is ready for working at Higher level and will probably be advised to resit all those he sat this year to consolidate his learning. Can he maybe pick up another subject to replace the one he got an NA in?

Remember, he still has 6th year to get his Highers, or there's always routes through college to get where he wants to be. My Ds didn't have what he needed for his 1st choice course at Uni so he did 2 years at college and got into 2nd year for his dream course. Tell your Ds to cheer up, all is not lost.

[Sparkygal]

Thank you, school isn't open until they go back so he will talk to them then.

He is keen to carry on with 1 higher, resit the D's and swap out the no award one for another subject.

Lots of positive stroking today and letting him know it's not the end of the world. Many people I know failed exams at school and have done very well for themselves in the end, just hard for him to see that today.

I am proud that he has made a huge improvement from his prelims.

[prettybird]

Da got 2 As and a C. The As are in the subjects he cares about: the AH Maths and the crash Higher Modern Studies (only the latter being relevant for his degree), so he's happy. He's not bothered by the C in AH Physics.

Given that he could have suffered from Unconditionalitis, he's done really well.

[prettybird]

Ds, not "Da"

[SheSparkles]

5 As and a B for ds-he’s delighted, as are we. We’re now skint as he had a monetary incentive dependent on the grades 😁

[HotGingerPudding]

Good to read everyone's news about results and securing uni places. Thankfully my daughter's email arrived almost on the dot of eight so we were spared any prolonged agony this morning. She got 5 As at Higher and so is delighted that her last year at school should be a less pressured one. Who'd be a teenager!

[Sturmundcalm]

DD got all As - Adv H maths, physics and history; higher spanish. Think she was slightly bemused by the maths because according to her calculations after the exam she should have been getting a C...

Anyone know whether it's worth her asking the uni about skipping first year? Her view is that because it's not a direct match (i.e. she's not doing maths and physics) they won't do it but I'm sure the online text for this course was similar to most in that if you had Adv Hs/A-levels you could do direct entry into 2nd year.

Don't want to push her to do that if she doesn't want to but equally seems daft not to at least have a chat.

[prettybird]

Personally, I wouldn't advise it. Uni is also about getting used to a different way of learning as well as enjoying being a student Plus also if she were to go direct into 2nd year, friendship groups will already be established.

I have English friends whose kids came up to Scotland to do Science subjects after having done A levels and still chose to do 1st year in order to have a good foundation.

[Sturmundcalm]

that would have been my view but when we went to the St Andrew's open day apparently 30-50% of their intake go straight into second year! it's Strathclyde she's going to so am assuming they probably have a higher proportion of kids going into first year. just wondered cause she needs to finalise some of her course options now and was talking about actually speaking to someone first rather than just filling in online.

[Yogafailure]

DS1 is planning to go into 3rd year next year along with most of his college group. It's ideal for him as he was in no way ready for uni at barely 18 but now between excelling in college/passing his driving test first time/getting a part time job he's a different lad.

I think I need to leave this thread. Every child is a potential brain surgeon and everyone seems to waltz into uni at 18 without a backwards glance.

[WaxOnFeckOff]

DS was offered conditional options to go directly into 2nd year by both Strathclyde and HW but didn't go for it. Not sure he would have met those anyway (or whether they were truly conditional) but his AHs were more directly related to his courses as were pretty much all his Highers.

He is very quiet so starting with everyone else is important plus it should give him an easier first year as hopefully the material is a bit familiar.

[WaxOnFeckOff]

Yoga, not at all, DS2 has managed 3 highers 1a, 1b, 1c) and his nat 5 resit. This time last year ( nat 5s sat - 2 outright fails, 1 D, 2 Cs, 1b and 1 A) Uni wasn't even on the horizon, now he's doing another 2 Highers and 1 AH in s6 so hoping to have enough to get into a reasonable course in non top notch uni or college.

I think they all mature at different times and are not all good at showing what they know at school and in school exams.

Well done to your DS, much less chance of a drop out from him doing it this way too. If we had more local options available, I'd be more inclined to direct DS2 down the college and then uni route and still might though it will mean travel.

[WaxOnFeckOff]

Oh and congrats to all those who came on later with results :)

[IHaveBrilloHair]

Dd has finally told me, 3C's and a fail so not good news here.