When did you find out GCSE predicted grades?

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lljkk · 22/12/2013 19:27

I imagine every school is different, but just wondering when I might expect to hear something official. Half way thru or end of yr10, maybe? Cheers.

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Kez100 · 22/12/2013 20:24

All our year 10 and 11 reports came with predicted grades.

However, in the case of our school they were not at all aspirational and left me with the opinion the teachers were, perhaps, held to account on the grades and so felt reluctant to change them.

My daughter's predicted were all E and D grades. She did work hard but ended up with all C grades (and one D, missing C by 2%) and a distinction in ICT, where she was predicted a pass.

Now I have my sons doing just the same. He is predicted a Grade C in Additional Science in year 11 (but he has already got a B in Core Science GCSE in year 10! A in Physics exam, high B's in Chemistry and Biology exams)

TeenAndTween · 22/12/2013 20:28

DD, year 10, got her first set of predictions in her report this week.
They will be revised every term until GCSEs. If she meets her predictions we will be delighted, but I fear some of them are over optimistic.

WynkenBlynkenandNod · 22/12/2013 20:30

DD, year 10, got them on her report a couple of weeks ago. There's predicted and target grades on there.

TalkinPeace · 22/12/2013 22:43

they are part of the monitoring so every term
BUT
they are a prediction that is weighted to have the impact needed
so lazy kids might get predicted harshly ....
and now DD has had her mocks its all up in the air again before June

bigTillyMintspie · 23/12/2013 09:43

DD is in Y10. We get target grades and current grades every term, but I don't think I have seen any predicted grades. They have exams after Christmas, so maybe they will be done then?

FieryChipotle · 23/12/2013 09:59

Students should know their FFT predicted grades at the very start of the year. (A grade generated using SATs data etc) and then a report should come out around now with a working grade. I suggest you email school if DC is not forthcoming but they should know roughly what grade they are in most subjects as it all had to be so explicit these days!

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lljkk · 23/12/2013 10:57

Thanks for replies; Harshness about DS's lazy attitude sounds like a good thing to me!
I didn't realise FFT was so universal. DS has no KS2 SATs data, so presumably KS3 SATs will have to substitute?

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AlaskaNebraska · 23/12/2013 10:57

you should know them all the time really. A good teacher will have a target that the kid is aiming for

AlaskaNebraska · 23/12/2013 10:58

DO take ffts with a huge pinch of salt though, I have had kids predicted Ds ( eng second language) who get A*

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