Here we go! It's GCSE results week!

[MaureenMLove]

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.

mysteryfairy - I would think that Yr10 results are the least of their worries tomorrow tbh.

Put yourself in the shoes of those Yr11 students. They are the important students tomorrow, just as your DS will be this time next year and you wouldn't want him to have to wait or fight through Yr10s at his big moment.

It's stories like that on the TES about discrepancies between jan/june results that make me feel that early entry should not be allowed. If it's true, I'll be so upset for DS.

DS has just walked in and stated. I will get you an A tomorrow mum. I am not sure what subject, but I will get one

Bless his little cloud cuckoo land attitude. If he knows he is likely to have got an A, one would presume he knows which subject this is in!

I told you he is a charmer, see I have already forgiven him for not doing a jot of work at home .

I actually have DS1 in y11 at a different school so double stress tomorrow! DS2's results include maths and English language and there is no option at his school to resit in y11 so they are still pretty key results as required for pretty much any job or future course. I actually feel more concerned for him than for DS1 as he is a poor and immature student who hasn't been well served by being put in for so many exams early. If we don't get results tomorrow not sure how he will cope with waiting another fortnight!

I just want to warn you all to not freak out if English grades are lower than expected tomorrow. AQA boundaries have shot up, lots of teachers panicking on TES forums and twitter.

Gosh, that's unusual for a school not to offer re-sits in Maths and English! Surely, from the schools point of view, they want to be able to say that every child leaves with at least Maths and English GCSEs.

Well, I hope that your school set up, can allow him to collect tomorrow then.

cinnamon - is this an AQA issue only with the english or all boards?

Is it The Crucible paper?

@maureen Any child who has an exam result due tomorrow is important, I think you'll find.

I've had another look on the AQA website and it seems you need around 90/160 for a C. This is compared to 86/160 last year. That's just for two of the modules students can do, though.

And that was English Language, which is really the important one.

Champneys - I think it's all boards. DD's board WJEC hasn't given out they're grade boundaries but I'm not holding my breath. DD is a C/D candidate but yr10.

As far as I'm aware it's only english, and it's the controlled assessments rather than the exams.

Have a read here: community.tes.co.uk/forums/t/597792.aspx?PageIndex=1

One year ten result to await here....

*There not they're - I do have an O level English language honest!

I think a lot of the problems are with the controlled assessment grade boundaries. Can't even remember which board dd did, but it sounds as if it's AQA at least and probably all of the affected.

guardian article

I wont sleep well hearing this.

It's a grammar school and since they started offering the subjects in y10 there hasn't been anyone fail apparently so when I asked at parents evening how they would accommodate him they didn't know!

MordionAgenos - apologies. Of course they are. I was rather thinking that quite a lot of yr10 results, will be module results, not full GCSEs. Of course, it goes without saying that anyone expecting full GCSE results tomorrow, are important.

Aaaaaaargh

Gaaaaaaaahhhh

Well after reading all of this, I don't think I'll be getting much sleep tonight!

My DS2 (who is camping in Northumberland with his elder brother and some friends) says he will just have to do better at AS. And we haven't even had the resutls yet.

He needs to have A grades in Maths, English Lang and Physics to study maths, further maths, economics and physics at A level.

Are the IGCSE results in already?

At DDs school, the yr11's collect their results at 10am and the yr10's at 11am. Good luck everyone for tomorrow.

Oh great! Well tomorrow it looks like we have to start the long discussion on what to do if DS hasn't got the magic C in English. Which sounds even less likely

Time for bed for me. Need to be up for school!

Good luck everyone. I'll see you all on the other side.....