What on earth does this mean?

[TequilaMockinBird]

DD has just finished Year9. This morning I got a letter from the school with a 'candidate statement of results'. No instructions or covering letter or anything.

It has 4 things listed - English Level 2 reading, English Level 2 writing, English level 2 speaking and English Level 2. Then there is a Grd1 column with 'P' against all 4 subjects and a total 23 points at the bottom.

What on earth does this mean? Can anyone help?

Did your DD do Functional Skills in English? My DD did that in yr9 and if i remember her results slip read something like that.

Yes sounds like Functional Skills and a pass to me. Which exam board is it? Well done to your DD though - Functional Skills qualifications were designed to ensure a good standard of english/maths or ICT that would be useful in the 'real world'. (You'd be suprised how many A*-C grade GCSE candidates still have terrible problems with 'the basics').

I'm not sure if she did Functional Skills and she doesn't know either

The exam board is AQA. I did think hope it was P for Pass but it was the 23 marks total that threw me. 23 marks out of 4 exams doesn't sound good?

Really annoys me when schools send out information like this with no accompanying explanation. HOw many other parents are also scratching their heads about this, I wonder? Although my dd has also just finished Y9 but I haven't received anything like this.

Yes, it annoys me too clam. Especially in school holidays so when you ring to ask, you only get an answering machine!

DD has spoken to some of her mates who haven't received anything today so now I'm even more confused!

I think the 23 'marks' are actually the 23 AAT points that schools get (for league tables etc. when a learner achieves a L2 functional skills qualification.

Nothing like clear information for parents hey?!

Ah, I see. Thank you MrsCog, that makes more sense re the 23 marks.

Sorry to be harsh, but rather than blaming the school, why not question the fact that your child has taken external exams last term, in exam conditions (probably in the school hall/gym), without telling you! By 13/14 they should be able to communicate with you about what goes on at school and know when they are sitting external exams!

Of course I knew she was sitting exams.

I just don't understand the results! I had thought they'd come as A, B, C or 5a, 6b etc, not 'P'!

And also, trinity, Y9 take loads of exams, all of which are under exam conditions and probably in the hall/gym. It's not unreasonable that an extra, unaccounted-for paper could have slipped in under the radar. Doesn't make her a bad parent or her dd a ditz.