How good do nat5 need to be for child to go on to do highers?

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We are at beginning of nat5 year with my first child.

I think all Highers are designed to be crashed if you are bright and hard hard working enough. I did Biology and Art and Design and got As in both, DH went to a private school where only the less able pupils did the O grades (obv that was a long time ago but since the opportunity to crash Highers hasn't gone his experience is still relevant) so he only has a O grade in latin, he just did the Higher in the rest of his subject, although he did study those for longer than I did for the subjects I crashed.

FWIW, although they don't talk about crashing, it's perfectly possible in England to do an A level in a subject without studying it at GCSE as long as you have good grades. If there's no overlap in topics and no expectation of prior knowledge it should be fine.

I’ve looked at the timetable. She has four periods of Maths and one of Applications of Maths with a different teacher. She seems to find she’s more confident in that class. I’ll find out more. Thanks for the help.

Just reposting on this ahead of results week. Our school will not let you progress to higher unless you have a B pass at Nat5. This is really stressing me out - does anyone know if I can fight against this, with a C pass (English and Apps).?

My DCs school (low performing) would have allowed you to take a higher with a Nat 5 C pass. You could look at the progression rates for the school or the general ones on SQA website to gauge chances of a pass. Some of my DCs friends did Maths and English Hs over 2 years.

We have a school like this local to us. It has an amazing academic name whereby placing requests are extremely high but in reality the academic name is only because they allow the more able students to sit the exams to ensure it’s all A and B grades.

so unless your child is clever the school isn’t interested and will do everything in their power to stop your child sitting exams.

That sounds familiar! So if the kids get a C - they can't progress to Higher = have to select a random Nat 5 they have no interest in - and also our school doesn't allow re-sits unless in exceptional circumstances ie/ if they need a specific grade for Uni. So where does that leave them?!

I wish they offered Higher over 2 years at our school but they don't :(

Same with our school. although they recommend a B at Nat5 they will take a C and let you do highers.

It's a low performing school in a very deprived area. The teachers have said in some subjects eg history highers can be easier as you can focus on specific topics. Obvs this is not the case in other subjects such as maths