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Countdown to exam results. Anyone else feeling anxious?

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jellybrain · 30/07/2013 11:11

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.

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hoochymama1 · 21/08/2013 12:10

Just scared myself silly looking at grade boundaries Shock I know nothing about them, but DD has just told me that they are only really useful for resits, as then you know by how many marks you missed out on Hmm and whether it's worth having another go..

tapdancingmum · 21/08/2013 12:41

I don't think DD1 was worried until this mornings news Sad Now she is googling like mad.

Oh well will just have to wait until tomorrow. Shock

creamteas · 21/08/2013 13:15

DD sat English Language in Jan, but they only released raw marks not UMS, stating that the grage boundaries would be set in the Summer.

But on the AQA spreadsheet, there is only one listing for the paper. Does anyone know if that means both papers had the same boundary, or is the Jan just not there?

lilibet · 21/08/2013 13:25

I spent all the other night having dreams about Ds2's results. I'm in much more of a state over him than I was with the other two.

And this thread hasn't helped ...

He needs 3 B's and 3 C's to do A levels at a local college.

We're going in at 8.30 in the morning, the local radio station is going to be there and I've made him promise not to open them on air. Imagine sitting in the car and hearing that!

chicaguapa · 21/08/2013 13:27

DH goes into his school on GCSE results day. It used to be a happy day at his old school, a cause for celebration, but this will be the first one at the new school. It's quite different there and the teachers all just go in for a kicking from the parents whose DC didn't get the results they were predicted, which apparently is going to be worse this year anyway. Hmm

circular · 21/08/2013 13:37

Russians That sounds about right for the French if its Edexcel. Dd found the listening paper awful, but thinks the grade boundaries look quite low.

Not understanding the AQA Eng Lit boundaries at all - is it UMS or RAW marks they are showing?

Does anyone know if you still get UMS for a u in a paper?. Ie. if 11/85= 72/160 UMS = e, Would anything below 11 get zero UMS?

RussiansOnTheSpree · 21/08/2013 13:56

Circular - no, it's AQA that DD1 did. And the boundary for A* is ludicrously low if it was a fair paper. But it wasn't (allegedly. I have no way of telling - they teach French so differently these days to my day (lost in the mists of antiquity) that it might as well be Klingon or Dothraki. DD1 would probably have done better in an exam on either of those languages to be honest. Me too. ). The grade boundaries for the other paper seem much more what you'd expect to see and again that tallies with how all the good at French kids felt about the exam.

RussiansOnTheSpree · 21/08/2013 13:59

Circular - I had a brief look at the OCR music boundaries and I thought they looked fair enough but there are people on the student room saying they are disastrously high - did your DD do OCR? Or a different one? I know you told me before but I forgot. Blush mind you I still maintain it's ridiculous worrying because who actually genuinely knows what marks they got for exams sat this summer? Nobody. It can only be surmise.

TheOriginalSteamingNit · 21/08/2013 14:00

Apparently links are going up on facebook all over the place about these grade boundaries...

As you say, Russians - it's only useful if you know what mark your child got, so am not thinking too hard.

RussiansOnTheSpree · 21/08/2013 14:05

In retrospect I really wish I'd not had this week as holiday. I'm not helping Dd1 being around, that's for sure, and it's doing my head in. Also I have shitloads of work to do!

littlemisswise · 21/08/2013 14:06

DS2 is not overly stressed today, so I don't think I'll talk to him about grade boundaries etc unless he asks.

He can pick his results up from 9am tomorrow, he wants me to go with him but I have to promise not to cry!

circular · 21/08/2013 14:27

Russians DD is Edexcel Music, she thinks boundaries look OK. She does know her raw marks for the composition and performance, though. Hence has gauged what she needs for the paper.

teenagetantrums · 21/08/2013 15:05

my DD is not stressed I am though, she is not very academic and to be honest did not work for exams, she a place in college to do the course she wants and I think if she fails English and maths she will still be able to do it but will have to do the foundation level first which will mean 3 years at 6 form, we have to go to college tommorw after exam result to register and she wants me to go, so I will be at school when she opens results..that should be fun 90 hysterical teenagers..

cory · 21/08/2013 15:37

Exam results, what exam results?

jellybeans · 21/08/2013 16:08

I am so nervous for DD :(

Caoilainn · 21/08/2013 17:08

Am so worried about tomorrow. I have been banned from even talking about it, DS says that there is no point in thinking about it until it is time.Hmm
I have enough Wine and Cake for today and tomorrow, so prepared to celebrate or commiserate as appropriate! Wink Grin

DS already has a B in Maths but is a c/d student in English at best and had a disastrous science controlled assessment so thinking it will be resits in both Sad

Ilovegeorgeclooney · 21/08/2013 17:51

In English January/June have same grade boundaries.

mindgone · 21/08/2013 17:56

Hoochymama1 and all others offering Cake and Wine and Biscuit andBrew, am right there with you all! My butterflies are now getting nervous! Think a silly movie is called for tonight, Starsky and Hutch helped last week, was very silly! DH has been going round saying "do it!" In a boomy voice all week! Luckily DS's friends had seen the film, and didn't just think he'd lost the plot!! [big grin]

lilibet · 21/08/2013 18:54

Picked ds2 up from town, I think realistically he isn't going to get the three B's he needs becasue he was a borderline B/C in English.

We need a fingers crossed emoticon.

Opening the Wine

Dh has jsut found our food planning diary in the freezer

closes the Wine

Inncogneetow · 21/08/2013 19:31

Ilovegeorgeclooney: the english grade boundaries are not being published until 6am tomorrow. The ones that have been released are the UMS figures, which are always the same.

But what we need to know is the raw data figures. ie on the exam paper how many marks equates to a C, B and so on...

Bati · 21/08/2013 19:48

Can I join you all, ds gets his gcse results tomorrow. He wants to do A level further maths and has been told he needs A* in maths to be able to do it
My dd1 still has a yr to go but has sat igcse maths and gcse core science this yr, however school have said exam results will be given 1st day back to those children going into yr11 so she still has 2 weeks to wait
I feel more nervous for my kids results than I ever did my own

Horsemad · 21/08/2013 20:01

I won't find out DS1's results until about 10.30 as I have to be at a hospital appt, so DH is taking him to collect them.
I'm hoping one of them texts me or I'll be wondering how he's done!

No idea how the exams went - his stock answer after every one was 'fine'... Hmm He needs Bs in his A level choices so am hopeful he'll do it, but who knows!

Ilovegeorgeclooney · 21/08/2013 20:03

oops sorry, I thought they were on general release

SauvignonBlanche · 21/08/2013 20:05

I'm feeling sick!
DS is very calm.

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