Finishing Year 13 / Exam Results support thread (number 6!)

[Littleham]

Thread continued for results day! Fingers crossed everyone.

Thanks Littleham for the new thread. Hope the Physics paper now underway goes well for all concerned.

MrsB hope the school deals with the RS exam issue swiftly and efficiently.

DD has General Studies this afternoon - has down loaded some papers to see what they look like but her revision focus is on Geography tomorrow pm.

After that it will be a beer festival Fri and party Sat and she says a lie in on Monday. Monday DS starts year 10 mocks for 2 weeks!

Best of luck for all those doing Physics today.

I think we are all dreading results day. DD likes the units at her firm and of course the year abroad (hope York are not too ruthless). However if the Biology paper has messed it up then we will have to investigate another way to get a year abroad to tie in with her Insurance choice. Any ideas gratefully received.

I hope the exams are going well today.
Littleham - friend's DD got into York last year (insurance choice) and she had dropped a couple of grades (1 of those was biology) so hopefully your DD will be fine.

Thanks hellsbells. What subject did your friend's dd take? Makes me feel a bit better, although History is supposed to be one of the more popular courses. She will definitely get an A or above for History and an A / A* in her History EPQ so maybe that will help. Feeling a bit sick though.

Here we go again. It is a stupid system which almost sets them up for a fall.

littleham will York take equivelant say if she can get A* in history make up for a dropped grade. I wonder if internship abroad in the summer months when your dd is in 2nd year of uni might work? I know my nephew did one in Japan for 6 weeks, however my sister had to pay for flights and accomdation, the work was paid but not very much.
Hopefully fingers crossed your dd will achieve her grades. I've read that because government has removed student caps, uni may be more lenient and flexible with grades. I hope so. But I know what you mean now exams are nearly over for us, and results day looming, its nerve racking, for us, dd will go straight to clearing if she doesn't get her firm as she didn't put a insurance as she just wasn't excited going to the others she had applied for, we think she should do a gap year since shes so unsure. Does everybody else have plan B if plan A goes belly up??

Hi Littleham, a friend's daughter, did a degree in marine biology, and took a year out of it after 2 years to get some work experience in New Zealand. I got the impression that it's something anyone can just do. She organised it herself I think. Maybe it's worth asking her insurance how possible and easy that would be, to help reassure her?

Anyone heard how the Physics paper went this morning? Sent a text to DS but he hasn't replied and he has another exam at 1.00pm

DS has said that OCR was straightforward enough bigbluebus, and he's not doing it alongside maths or further maths, so not the sort to find it straightforward if the boffins didn't!

Plan B haha. No. Not beyond pleading with his insurance and going into clearing. I did just suggest sheep shearing in Scotland to DS, for no particular reason.

Thanks molio that sounds hopeful then. DS is doing Maths but he was stressing about something non-exam related before he went in to college this morning, so I'm just hoping it hasn't affected his performance in the exam .
He's got General Studies this afternoon then just one more exam on Monday. Am of all those whose DCs have finished already.

Littleham - it was a healthcare course.
Plan B is clearing followed by a gap year. Some good friends are taking gap years so she may tag along with them - after working for a few months first.

DD said OCR Physics was an OK paper, but didn't go too well for her. Possibly less mathematical, more memory.
Think she's just glad its all over.

Would pleading on the day work? I thought it was a 'yes you are in' or 'rejection'. If nothing is showing on track on results day then they are still considering.....wouldn't it annoy them to ring up at that point?

We was told to ring the uni up if she was having a remark, or few marks off grade, in which case they will hold her place till 30th of august for remark result. Although we have heard of many instances at dd school where if they were a few ums off, the school rung the uni, which they did in the end took them in after being rejected. I think uni only know the grade but don't know the overall ums they got.
DD plan B, might end up with gap year and resits. But girl has already thrown away all her A2 work apart from maths, thinks she counting on her chickens before they've hatched

Just got home and found DS's yearbook which arrived today. Awww, that has really made me feel sad. Seven years, it's gone so quickly.

miffy at your DD throwing all her work away already. I was in DSs room earlier and was thinking about all the paper that is on his floor and wondered if I should just bundle it all into a box and put it in the garage until 13th August. His plan B is also a gap year and re-sit anything he needs to, although after a wobble he had about something else this morning, i'm not banking on him going through with going to Uni even if he gets his grades . I can honestly see him backing out -deferring-- the night before he is due to go

I wish DD2 would throw her A level notes away - she's just about to graduate so doesn't really need them!

Ha ha NiceCardigan, I was chatting to a vet aged 50+ last night who still has all their notes from their vet training!

Oh no, DH was crying tonight after seeing the yearbook. Real proper sobs as he washed up after dinner. That set me off as I'd been holding it together although I felt really emotional today.

The pair of us are a wreck!

bigbluebus I know I was too, think she got too excited about end of exams for 2 of her subjects, got a bit over zealous and dumped all her work in the recycle bin! I think it must have given her some sort of mental relief or something. Can't get it back now bin man come and gone. Yet tell her to tidy her room is another matter definitely not as quick handed or with such enthusiasm . Hopefully your DS will over the next few weeks, may get bored with the amount of time off, and so have a epiphany, and hear the callings of him to go to university
nice cardigan maybe she wants to hang on to them to show her kids how hardworking she was. Mind you when you think it's taken them 2 years of hard work and slog, it seems a waste when they then throw all their work away, it seems a tad sad that they have nothing physical left to show for it

Littleham York have had history V100 in clearing for the past 3 years so don't lose faith.

Thanks eatyourveg. She would be happy with V100 if need be (her offer is for the sister course V104 History with a Year abroad). I'm sure we could arrange a working trip if necessary. (Thanks for the tips on internships everyone - might need to investigate). She wants to be a teacher so I was wondering about something like Camp America. Any experience anyone?

It is quite hard to keep the faith isn't it?

She has slogged her guts out today to revise for Geography tomorrow just in case a higher grade somewhere else can compensate. Thank heavens we are nearly at the end.

If they join a course without a year abroad can't they switch to the course that has the year abroad after a few months?
DS was told he could do this at several universities when he visited.