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Here we go! It's GCSE results week!

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MaureenMLove · 20/08/2012 20:47

Are you ready? What's everyone got planned for Thursday? I'm going to my school to check on results, then wait for DD to call me from her school, with her news.

It's going to be an emotional day! Possibly not personally with DD, not expecting any top results, but she does already has Maths and English in the bag. She had what she needs to move forward and that's all that matters.

I have another 120 kids at my school and one or two who I care very much about. Can't wait to be there for them.

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Kez100 · 21/08/2012 17:42

We are on holiday - not quite as active as we'd like because, innthe first night, I fell down two steps and have broken a toe! Still, it is still away and keeping my daughters mind off of Thursday. We are not far from home, so will drive back to collect the results, before returning for our final two nights here (unless she has poor results and then I suppose there will be dialogues to have).

SecretSquirrels · 21/08/2012 17:52

I'll be at work so can't take him up to school. He keeps joking that I will have to wait until I get home in the afternoon to find out how he did.
DS was quite confidant after the exams and wondered what the fuss was about. This last week he has admitted to becoming more and more nervous and he now has sympathy with his friends.
If all goes well I think we will all go out for a meal on Thursday evening.

Champneys · 21/08/2012 17:58

well I have prepared myself mentally for the results from hell.

DS's school is a boarding school (he is a day pupil). They can phone or email in for their results.

He said he will phone from his bedroom. BUT I know he will improve those results by the time he comes out to tell me!

The email option he says he would do from his own email address then tell me.

I have said email from my email address and I will await the reply!

knittedslippersx3 · 21/08/2012 18:55

Yep, I'm here! Starting to feel nervous now although i don't think it's really sunk in that this is actually it yet. Dd is going in with friends so I will be sat by the phone, she doesn't seem too stressed and feels that she's done enough. I'm sure she has 'done enough' but if she had done some bloody revision I'm sure she could have achieved more than 'enough'. Ah well, what's done is done. Good luck everyone, hope they all get what they need. See you Thursday!

BringBack1996 · 21/08/2012 19:27

DS 'only' needs 6 GCSEs to get into his sixth form, but two of the subjects he wants to do are quite over subscribed so will need at least an A to get to do them.

Are anyone else's DC getting cold feet about their option choices for next year? DS just can't make up his mind as to what he wants to take for his fourth A level!

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MaureenMLove · 22/08/2012 11:42

Tick, tock, tick, tock!

In less than 24 hours, our children will know their fate! Good or not so good, it's not the end of the world. There's still plenty of time to put it right.

DD is suspiciously quiet! Bad news for her, if it's not a great result. Dad is far more strict than me and she will be sat in a car, with him for 6 hours on Friday! Grin

Good luck to all the kids and parents, and not forgetting the teachers that are no doubt as nervous as th rest of us!

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EmpireStateofMind · 22/08/2012 12:03

I have just caught up with the new thread after having to search for the old one. Thanks Maureen for sorting it out. It seems ages since we were all going through the trauma of GCSEs together.

DD seems calm but is obviously concerned. It is her first day of term tomorrow so she is looking forward to seeing everyone and that is keeping her mind off the results.

Good luck to everyone for tomorrow!

lubeybooby · 22/08/2012 12:08

DD is awaiting results from the modules done so far.

She worked so hard and absolutely did her best and she knows I won't be disappointed no matter what the outcome because I saw the work she put in. We are both still nervous though because she deserves to be seeing A's and B's but has in the past just missed them by a mark or two on mock papers etc...

She's going down with her friends tomorrow and they are allowed in to check results from 10am.

Champneys · 22/08/2012 12:12

DS has disappeared out after saying he and his friend have only 24 hours to live Hmm Grin

MrsCobbit · 22/08/2012 12:20

Not hopeful here - what's the possibility of the school allowing DS1 to repeat Maths in sixth form?

Champneys · 22/08/2012 12:22

oh they will allow him to do that. No school wants a pupil to leave without maths and english and if he is staying on, they will put him in for a retake. Failing that you can always do it as an external candidate at another school. Contact a local private school, ask if they take private candidates. You give them his candidate number and they do the rest. There will be a charge. But I would have thought it highly unlikely that you need to do this.

boschy · 22/08/2012 12:23

we are only waiting for maths and english (DD1 going into Y11) but I have just had an email from our head (she's a mate) saying they were downloading the results now.... oh god the tension!

obv she wont tell me; DD1 is predicting a C or praps a B for english and 2 Fs for maths... hope she's right about the first and wrong about the second.

good luck and fingers crossed to everyone for tomorrow!

BeingFluffy · 22/08/2012 12:28

The grade boundaries for most boards are out - links are on the Student Room site. Sorry can't link - on lunch break at work. Had a quick look - OCR history boundaries are on low side which is good as DD messed up paper, but the A* for Edexcel maths seems a bit high (164/200). AQA science boundaries also look on the low side..
Good luck for tomorrow everyone!

MrsCobbit · 22/08/2012 12:33

Thanks Champneys - fingers crossed it won't come to it - but I think we need to be prepared!

BringBack1996 · 22/08/2012 12:36

Also had a look - AQA physics seems higher than normal but the other two sciences quite low. Maths unit 3 is very high, as is the Eng Lang coursework.

Champneys · 22/08/2012 12:43

I daren't look. pmsl

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MaureenMLove · 22/08/2012 13:08

Liking the science levels, thanks! Grin And also thank god, I caved in and agreed to her doing Foundation Maths and not giving the Higher a go! She got her 'safe C' in March! Also got a C for English Language in March, so all good so far!

It would be really nice if she got a B in something, but she an average kid and will probably get C's across the board - I HOPE! Grin

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MaureenMLove · 22/08/2012 13:10

BTW, love Champneys DS attitude! Grin A sense of humour will take you far in this life!

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cardibach · 22/08/2012 14:05

I can't find the grade boundaries :(
May be too nervous to use a computer! DD is at work at the moment, serving coffee to tourists and selling wetsuits at the beach shop - it'll take her mind of it all. She has arranged for a younger friend to come over for hte evening, stay over and go with her to results tomorrow so that she doesn't disappear in to a puff of stressed smoke. I will get the results emailed to me first thing (if you remember, I teacdh at her school) but I haven't told her that and I will exercise superhuman strength in not looking before we go - it wouldn't be fair to her otherwise.
19 hours to go!

MrsCobbit · 22/08/2012 14:26

Just seen the Edexcel Maths boundaries - think he's buggered! OCR History might come good though, and the OCR Chemistry boundaries may yet save him!www.thestudentroom.co.uk/showthread.php?t=2067721&page=16&page=16

happilyconfused · 22/08/2012 15:18

My DS has also gone out and staying at a friends tonight before tomorrow's dreadful time. I am prepared for the worst and practicing my 'ah well just so long as you get good AS results it will be fine' look which is not good at the moment.

poor bastard is going to end up working in a supermarket Sad

Champneys · 22/08/2012 15:23

happilyconfused - our ds's seem to know something by doing this disappearing act! They won't rush back tomorrow either!!!

BackforGood · 22/08/2012 15:35

Just checking in.
Some of these 6th form 'offers' are incredibly high! ds "only" has to get 5 GCSEs A*-C, including Bs in subjects he wants to study. Well, I know he already has Eng Lit and Eng Lang (taken in Yr10) and MAths (completed in March), so I'd like to hope he can get 2 from the array of others he took - bit of a worry if he doesn't, as he'd already got various modules banked away for a lot of them. It's not quite the same pressure it once was, is it ?

ds has already told me about the party at his friends house on Thursday evening, to celebrate / drown sorrows!