Countdown to exam results. Anyone else feeling anxious?

[jellybrain]

Waiting for DS1's Gcses results on 22nd of August. He did really well last year but, all the talk of moving grade boundaries has got me worried. Fingers are very tightly crossed for maths as this is the subject he struggles with most.

Actually you may have to go to the student room website forum to find sorry.

www.thestudentroom.co.uk/showthread.php?t=2312321&page=4&page=4

Not that anyone else is interested. Better to wait for Thurs then...

Edexcel boundaries here www.edexcel.com/iwantto/Documents/GCSE%20Composite%201306%20v2.pdf

Not sure if earlier pister looking at modular or linear for Maths, but linear looking slightly lower than Jan.

Apologies, that should have said March, not Jan.

Not looking - I wont understand and it will just make me feel worse...

I've had a look at the grade boundaries, and its all a mystery to me oh well can't change anything now.

I hate the waiting for GCSE results. It always feels more of an unknown than the A Levels. Good luck to all your DCs tomorrow and I hope everyone gets the right grades!

Good luck to everyone waiting for results tomorrow. Been through it twice, so know how hard it is. x

The grade boundaries confused me too! Just have to wait until tomorrow. Good luck everyone!

oh great...

DD1 can collect hers between 9 and 10. We're taking her, but waiting in the car park! Whatever she gets she couldn't have studied/tried harder. It's disgraceful that exam acheivement is a political football.

Think AQA and OCR boundaries are out now on
www.thestudentroom.co.uk/showthread.php?t=2312321&page=15&x=12&y=11
Seem to correlate anyway with what is being said (in this house anyway). Higher boundaries = oh that was easier, lower = yes that was hard. So doesn't really help with tomorrow.

I am trying to block it all out. I resat my maths GCSE as I need it for Uni. It went well so I am optimistic. I would be a nervous wreck though if I had more than one to wait for.
DD1 got hers the last two years and I was really nervous
When she got her AS results last week I was more nervous then she was

Yes the article on the beeb this morning doesn't fully tally with certainly the subjects my daughter took. The incredibly nasty edexcel geography unit 1 paper has a very low threshold compared to the same paper last year :) Maths is her weakest subject and so I double entered her with the edexcel certificate (igcse for state schools) - grade thresholds are the lowest they've ever been and OCR modular with easier papers (so dd felt) and lower thresholds - so fingers crossed! AQA English Lang/lit seem to have similar thresholds to last year...so I'm quietly hopeful that results might be as predicted for her. Though not counting chickens...

Anyone up for a padded cell again? Crates of stacks of gallons of and oceans of for any as wants it

DC4 got sufficient A levels, DC3 just mucked about with GCSE's so I am not hopeful but trying hard to remain positive I don't think he's fooled.

Lots of love and hugs to all that needs them out there today

Oops got my DC's the wrong way round

:( basildon :(

Boschy & Heronsfly I'm with you in the numpty corner when it comes to grade boundaries and TBH I don't know that it'll help now.

Lets just hope !

Knowledge of grade boundaries is only relevant if you know what marks your DC got. I certainly don't know that (not even for the ISAs - Dd1 is adamant that they were given a grade not a score) So there's no point in me getting het up about them.

Although having said that it's interesting to see thT the French paper that apparently had some of DD1's 'really properly good at french' friends in tears has a markedly lower grade boundary than the following one which people thought was fine. French is possibly Dd1s weakest subject even in good conditions, so she wouldn't have had any expectations of that anyway. But I guess it bodes well for her close friends who are fab at French ordinarily that the nightmare paper probably won't skew their results.

Just read an article on BBC website about Headteachers warning grades in English,Maths and Science may not be great for people who were expected to get a C.

I'm actually properly nervous for DD now. With all the messing about due to English grades last year,I really hope she has come out with a decent result from the retake...but I'm beginning to doubt that now. Science was not her strong point,even though she was top set, and I've a feeling that her grades there are going to be lower than expected. Really hoping Music,French and History are ok,because that is what she wants to do at A level,and they have to have a B to do that.

I feel so that my daughter's year at school seems to have been on the receiving end of so much government interference,one way or another ,since primary school. I'm fed up with it. And now they want to ruin their chances again.

Just read an article on BBC website about Headteachers warning grades in English,Maths and Science may not be great for people who were expected to get a C.

I'm actually properly nervous for DD now. With all the messing about due to English grades last year,I really hope she has come out with a decent result from the retake...but I'm beginning to doubt that now. Science was not her strong point,even though she was top set, and I've a feeling that her grades there are going to be lower than expected. Really hoping Music,French and History are ok,because that is what she wants to do at A level,and they have to have a B to do that.

I feel so that my daughter's year at school seems to have been on the receiving end of so much government interference,one way or another ,since primary school. I'm fed up with it. And now they want to ruin their chances again.

OOPs...how did that happen????????????

Anxious here, and I'm the teacher not the parent! I always get itchy this time of year hoping my class did as well as I hope they should. I'll be the worried looking teacher going into school as early as I can tomorrow to check the results