Is there a hand holding thread for Y11 parents and GCSE results yet?

[fatowl]

DD is waiting on GCSE results next Thursday.

She is bouncing around being a teen on Summer holidays (she is off in Ireland for a week with her friend's family)

I am beginning to feel a bit sick.

She is hoping to stay at school and do A-levels, but now the results are getting closer I'm a bit concerned we don't have a back up plan.

How are the rest of you doing?

umm....could any teachers give me some advice. My dd3 is in a very average large comprehensive. She was entered a year early (Year 10) for English GCSE and is one of the youngest in the year group.

For the four English units she got A, A, A* and E !! This brought her overall English grade to a B. She doesn't want to re-sit in year 11 & does not want to do English A Level. Should she re-sit and should we get the one unit re-marked (as it seems to be such a major difference)?

Also, will it make a difference with future university applications (probably languages)?

That sounds very odd, Littleham. I think I would get it remarked. Do you know how far off the A she is?

Can anyone confirm that this year's GCSE students, i.e. those starting Year 12 in September, will be doing AS levels?

Yes they will.

Exex, am beginning to wonder where you live or whether Ds' school and your school are identical twins.

Exex, am beginning to wonder where you live or whether Ds' school and your school are identical twins.

Exex, am beginning to wonder where you live or whether Ds' school and your school are identical twins.

Did she think that particular unit went badly littleham or have any comments about it? Was it an exam or controlled assessment? I'd definitely try and investigate further - could you get a copy of the script back if it was an exam and let a teacher look at it? I would think it would be very unusual for an A* candidate to get an E on a single random unit, unless maybe only half of it had been completed or something.

She thought it went a bit worse (but that not that much worse). The teacher is asking for the script back. She didn't use all the time in that exam, so perhaps that pulled her down. It just seems such a wide gap, compared to the other three parts!

I'm not sure how far off an A she is at the moment. The board is WJEC and she got 46 points (a B) if that means anything to anyone....

Littleham my Y10 DS has just done English with WJEC and I've got the mark sheet here - if you want to write her marks for each unit then I can work out how far off the A boundary she is.

Thanks Molio! In listed order (same as yours)-

54 a*
27 e
57 a*
19 a*

littleham is it WJEC unit 2 that's low (writing I think?) DD2 got an awful grade for that and one the English teachers says a lot of her classes marks were much lower than the other units and they were thinking of sending them all back.

I make it three ums off an A Littleham.

51 a
19 u
42 b
16 a

Overall C, but 2nd mark is totally , even given she's dyslexic. She bounced out of that paper really happy they seem to taken off marks for SPAG and given no marks at all for content. Far far harsher than school mark.

Glad it is not just us then! It just seemed really weird.

Maybe it doesn't matter long term as she wants to do languages and maths at A level.

Thanks molio - three marks off - that is so close!

Sorry to hear that your dd is upset Elephants. Blimming Michael Gove who re-sat his driving test SEVEN times

We've got an odd unit 1, just to mix it up a bit :)

As they said - volatile. Or was that just the marking

Actually, since she got her C she isn't very upset.

I am because I'm a dyslexic with an A for English from WJEC (from a million years ago) and they seem to have moved the goal posts so harshly.

There's all this talk of grade inflation and yet theirs no consistency at all.

On one hand she gets 100% and 98 % for Chemistry and biology, utterly impossible on our essay based three hour exams, then a u for an English paper she understood perfectly, even if her spelling is vile.

It just seems effort is randomly rewarded and that's not right.

ancientbuchanan - not sure about the schools (Bristol?) as I know quite a few schools do the same with maths & French (nephew in another part of the country did the same two a year early), but I wonder if our DSs are long-lost twins...

DS1 has just realised he missed an A* by one UMS for his ICT GCSE. Trouble is he got max UMS on the exam so he could only get the coursework remarked, and I think that was marked in house?

Ellen coursework can only be re-marked if the school puts the whole cohort in, is my understanding.

Ah, thanks, Molio. Oh well, 1st world problem.

Exex, not the same school so yes they must be.

Clearly there will be a mix up of identity at university where they are reading Economics, when they both fall in love with two Balkan or Ruritanian princesses who have arrived for the season and a ball, then save two Balkan states from the possibility of invasion by an evil foreign neighbour, are rewarded by being given all the oil and gas rights as well as the respective princesses and live happily ever after.

See you at the double wedding, then!