GCSE Results thread and starting 6th form

[WitchofScots]

Follow on thread from the GCSE exams and proms thread. For hand holding and recommendations of wine/chocolate/biscuits to get through the post results stuff.

stonking grammatical error.
Autocorrect is not my friend.

It is weird as most of the subjects that WE consider worth doing, maths and sciences etc, you do have to have an A

She's done the Further Maths extension Gcse this year and that means already done a lot of the A level maths work once so hopefully she'll find the A.level easier. Did get an A in maths already.last yr

I really feel for those of you who are on results day number 2 this week and have fingers firmly crossed this one will go smoothly .

6th form is very much unchartered waters for us as DD is arty and creative and DH and I just aren't.

Ooh, no, I don't know that point system for GCSE. I am acquainted with the point system for as and a2 though. Never understood it either. U grade in maths o level here. Those points seem a bit arbitrary. Find it hard enough to cope with them being in year 11.

They probably had all the papers marked by June 30th and just keep everyone waiting to ruin summer holidays. IB results came out ages ago, although they do finish earlier.

DS' school is another one that kicks out pupils who don't get high enough grades. No point throwing yourself at the mercy of the Headmaster either, as there is absolutely no leeway.

DS convinced me that there was no need to worry and therefore no need to register at another school with less onerous requirements, as a Plan B. So he has no Plan B. Let me say that again: He has no Plan B!!!! Can you tell I'm getting a bit anxious about it?

However, the good news is that my intrepid traveller is flying back to the UK tomorrow. The house has been too quiet without him. I'm thinking of buying shares in the car park at Heathrow, as it's got to be cheaper than the amount I've been spending dropping off my DCs on their various adventures.

I think £250 should do the job, maybe £500 if you want them to have a super short break before they go back to work appreciate the kind gesture.

DD is not at all stressed, oh no but she did just say can we talk about something else other than this shit when I asked what she was doing on Thursday after she's been to school. Apparently they are all going home so everybody can tell their parents so they want to avoid the post-mortem then.

Marking place.

DD has this afternoon described this as the "week of doom". She is very anxious and very concerned that she has only got a "B" for English Lit. This is very important to her.

Worried sick tbh. We don't mind what she gets because we know she works hard but she's already seeing a counsellor because of self harming since February (which I found out about the day after the GCSEs when I got a call from the GP because DD made an appointment and asked for help on her own). Very mature I know but made me feel a pretty poor mother that she hadn't felt able to tell me first.

On tenterhook here tbh. Just want her to be happy and at one with herself.

Also signing in. I've been dreading results day for a few weeks (and having some broken nights sleep about it as well) but DD didn't seem to be too nervous about it until last week, when she saw everyone getting their A-levels results on the news and then it kind of hit her that she'd be doing the same sort of thing in a few days!

All I know about the day is that she's able to collect them after 8.45am, I've got to take her in and staff will be on hand to answer any 'post 16 queries.'

They will have been marked ages ago... I'd imagine by now all the boundaries have been agreed and the marks are all just sitting there waiting (there might still be some negotiation with Ofqual over boundaries I suppose). I marked GCSE for an exam that was late (16th June)... the marking for that paper was all over by about the 10th of July.

Yes I've had A levels last week ( fine) and GCSEs this week
. DS broke his ankle a week before his first GCSE, and was in hospital for three days having it pinned..then he got tonsillitis half way through.
But he seems positive.

Should have said that was in response to Lynette earlier.

ripening - that's a whole other level of worry for you, I do hope she is satisfied with her results.

Checking in. DD2 fluctuating between supremely calm and hysterically upset

She is (hopefully) moving schools for 6th form. The new school requires 5Cs but also needs Bs in ALevel choices, so there is a bit of nail biting going on. She was in hospital for her busiest week of exams in May and missed two papers due to her bad reaction to a lumbar puncture - so we have our fingers crossed that extenuating circumstances have been applied. The school have said that they will take all this into consideration but she is still very worried. There is no plan B although the local HE college does the subjects she wants and will take late applications.

The plan for Thursday is both DH and I will take her to pick up her results although I think she wants to go in alone and come back to the car to open the envelope. Then off to the NW to celebrate with Grandma and Nana.

As well as GCSEs we have had DD1's degree finals this summer. Very stressful. I hope all the DCs (and their parents) collecting ALevel results last week have recovered from the strain and have their future plans sorted.

I have been following this thread and the previous one.

Also a lot of stress in this household as DD1 had Finals, DD2 Part Ones, and this is the last set of exams, as DD3 has taken GCSEs, and the waiting seems to have gone on forever.

I woke up about an hour ago after a nightmare in which I was awaiting my own exam results - I'm not sure why - and needed to catch a train to pick them up. However, I got on the wrong train going in the opposite direction and was in a panic, then I woke up, so I never found out if I passed! I can't get back to sleep so here I am.

I know DD3 is very anxious but we don't talk about the results day very much; it's a bit of an elephant in the room. She has asked me to say that I won't be disappointed in her, whatever the outcome, and I have told her that I will be proud of her, whatever.

I am encouraging her to keep busy so there is less time to worry. She had friends over for a sleepover at the w/e and we are going to the theatre on Wednesday.

I always think it's wrong to wish your life away, but Thursday can't come soon enough.

Am told some who sat igcses have ready been told their results by their schools. Doesn't change that most have to wait till Thursday but makes me more nervous inexplicably?!
Doesn't help that DC is determined to wait for the post - has lost school sign on password and won't go to school and collect ????
I know it's not my results but .....

We're not allowed to mention Thursday.

DD has NCS all week, only get out to pick them up, with a bit of extra time to either go clothes shopping or driving to sixth form college and cry all over them (should be fine, they will accept her on to something anyway).
At least then she has something else to think about.

DD wants me to take her by car, wait outside, she will pick them up and then open in car - she doesn't really want to see anyone from school - but that could change on the day.

Checking in too. DS1 is supremely over confident. I am a nervous wreck. I have tried to block all thoughts of results from my head but am now failing.

He says I can go with him to collect his results as, fingers crossed, he then has to enroll at the VIth form he wants to go to and I can sort out the finance for his subsidised laptop. He needs to pass 7 GCSEs with an A* in Maths and an A in Physics. This should be fine and we do have a plan B but I am very much a worse case scenario person. The VIth form is totally perfect for him and could really change his life.

I have also realised that I have never had to collect my own results; this is probably adding to my panic. For O-levels we had moved house to several hundred miles away and were on holiday so they were sent to my grandma. She read them over the phone to a wet, windy phone box in the middle of a hurricane in Wales.

I shall go and try to bury myself in work between now and Thursday. I hope that everyone's DC get the results that they require and that everything goes smoothly.

DD1 has to get an A in all the subjects she wants to study at A level, and an average of 8 Bs.

Luckily, she did Drama outside of school, and already has her A for this one, as it's what she really wants to do.

As I've pointed out to her, she will almost certainly get an A for English, her other love (but she'll be disappointed if she doesn't get an A*) and her third subject is Politics, which there is no GCSE for, so no need to worry about getting an A for anything there.

The last subject is Art, and she is really unsure of this one. The teacher was very washy washy about the requirements to get an A. She said things like, "oh, I think you might manage it, you've got pizzazz!" Which is very different from giving clear instructions about how much annotation is needed, and what needs to be said in it. She did ask these questions, but the teacher was impossible to pin down. The other art teacher at the school is married to this person, so she couldn't easily ask him for advice, either. She is working really hard on her summer homework portfolio to see if this will swing it, if she doesn't get the A.

Failing that, there is Music. Unfortunately both music teachers left her school at Christmas, and the (frankly uninspiring) new teacher coming in promised them all they would definitely get at least a C. She doesn't want a C. She wants a flippin' A* (but an A would do!). She and some friends joined forces with friends from another school to revise, and effectively fill in their gaps, so I'm hoping this one will be okay, if she can't do Art.

Everything else - well, a B would be good. Hopefully some better.

I'm starting to feel quite sick, waiting for Thursday!

Juggling the iGCSE English being out is making me more nervous. Someone in DD's school already has his and it was a D which made it all seem that bit worse.

I don't think I ever went to pick up my results either. Was at work for O Level and friend brought them into me and I think the A level came by post.

Ripening - it's great that she reached out for help. At least the GP called and you can support her now

Ditto, DS needs an A in Maths to study it at A level. And Bs in the sciences. He is hoping for a C in Further Maths (the one where they didn't actually appear to have any lessons....)

He did an AS level early with a very dedicated teacher who gave them an hour's tuition every week for two terms, in a creative subject, and he found out on Friday by post that he got a B. I'm very chuffed for him.

Saw this in Active & am just nosying. My DS has barely mentioned Thursday bar when I asked him what day he'd to go in, what time & was he heading out with his mates after.

Reading this thread makes me wonder now if I'm altogether too cavalier about his education didn't worry about 11+ either the only times I've stepped in are RE (we're in NI & one word creationists ) & his subject choices when I forced french on him instead of crappy cv building nonsense which backfired spectacularly when instead of an easy A in cv thing he dropped french altogether

Now I'm worried that I'm not worried & apparently neither is he.

How does it work re getting to talk to the teachers after getting the results? School open all morning and again Friday but won't there just be huge queues?

Sacrebleu - don't worry. I gave DD some duff advice and now I'm having to pretend I'm not worried.

SacreBlue I admire your creationist intervention! My DS refused to study RE at all, and the school were quite cats-bum about it, but he was doing so many other subjects I could see his point.

I would have done the same as you on the French. You could never have predicted it would go a bit tits up.