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GCSE Results thread and starting 6th form

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WitchofScots · 16/08/2015 11:04

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.

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WitchofScots · 17/08/2015 08:05

Some of the exam boards have already published the grade boundaries, I was looking at an A level one last week and they had the GCSE ones on the same site.

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SacreBlue · 17/08/2015 08:46

Well I'm usually hands off but I thought french would be better even though I knew he wasn't keen.

I pulled him out of RE altogether in his first year at the school though their unofficial policy is: kids with alt religion e.g. Islam/Judaism that get pulled out go to library. Atheists have to stay in classroom & parent provide alt cirriculum.

His school runs the points system to get back in plus grade system for choosing ALevels. I think he should be fine since he changed his mind about A level Chemistry - I stayed out of his choices but was really glad he went politics instead.

tobee · 17/08/2015 10:13

Just feeling a bit bleurgh reading these last posts - it's all too real!! So log in to email to find school have sent one from drama dept about doing subject at A/S and all hard work involved!

mummytime · 17/08/2015 10:36

DD is just going in collecting the envelope, not peninging it, coming out to the car, and wants to be driven home and open in private in her bedroom. She isn't staying at school, so doesn't want to talk to teachers there, may want to talk to college if she has done surprisingly well/badly, and we just about have time.

I just looked and discovered I can access the grades from 10am online - it is going to be so hard to resist...

When I looked at the three main GCSE sites they don't actually have the grade boundaries available yet.

funambulist · 17/08/2015 10:55

Just checking in to the new thread. DS1 is still asleep. (10.55am) I guess that's one way of dealing with the nerves.

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WitchofScots · 17/08/2015 11:05

mummytime how do you access the results online? Do the school put them on or is that an exam board thing? I really shouldn't know this because I know I will look

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LineyRunner · 17/08/2015 11:11

Results online? How are they accessed?

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WitchofScots · 17/08/2015 11:15

I've just logged onto the parent's part of the school website and her mock results are on there. DD can't have given them to me or I've forgotten that she did Not sure if knowing them now is a good thing but if she does the same as she did in her mocks then I'll be happy.

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spudmasher · 17/08/2015 11:35

Hello everyone! We are on holiday. It's absolutely pissing it down and the mood is low, very low. DD will be emailed results but no idea what time.

aginghippy · 17/08/2015 11:49

DD is away this week, but decided she wants to come back to get the results herself. Afterwards we will meet up for a celebratory lunch.

She is quite confident about it all. She had a real dilemma about whether to change to another local school for 6th form or stay at her current one. There are pros and cons to each one, it's not a straightforward choice. A couple of weeks ago, having talked to a couple of girls who go to the new school, she decided to change. It's like a weight has been lifted from her mind and she is much happier.

Theas18 · 17/08/2015 11:52

Back at work after a week off..... DD getting twitchy, moody and teenaged. Glad i'm here!

SoupDragon · 17/08/2015 12:16

I keep forgetting about this and then remembering it and feeling sick.

I then tell myself "How can he possibly have done badly? He hasn't ever done badly in an exam so far" followed by "But did he do enough work? What if he was skiving up in his room all that time? what if he doesn't get good enough grades to stay on to 6th form? Where will he go? We're fucked!"

Happy days!

I'm waiting for him to decide how he wants to play Results day. I've said I'll drive him to school and hang about until he's decided if he needs to come home and cry, needs me to come in and sort anything out or wants to go celebrate with his friends.

tobee · 17/08/2015 13:08

The fun part is trying to get the tone right between showing them it will be all fine if it goes badly and not letting them think you expect that to happen. I'm very rubbish at this apparently!

tobee · 17/08/2015 13:10

I don't expect it to go badly btw!

GinandJag · 17/08/2015 13:14

Subscribing.

Just coming down from DD1's A level results last week. DD2 this week for GCSE.

JugglingChaotically · 17/08/2015 13:19

Am resisting the temptation to see if DDs boards have published grade boundaries. (School did various boards, if it was only one I don't think I could resist!).
Wish she'd sort out on line access though as waiting for post will be hell. Likely to be a day late in our area.

funambulist · 17/08/2015 13:30

Hate waiting for the post. Did your DC's school offer any other options? Ours was just candidate collects from school on 20th or candidate nominates someone else to collect if out of the country.

canny1234 · 17/08/2015 13:53

Distraction therapy has been the aim here today.we went shopping in what used to be our local 'market'( lived overseas).We managed to buy 3 Mexx jackets,4 pairs of Mexx suit trousers and a Ann Taylor lace skirt for Dd School's sixth form uniform at 10% of Uk price.Dd is a bit high and very happy!Shop staff remembered us well and were very happy to see us.

Worries are starting about Thursday as we will get the results emailed after 1pm which is 8pm Asian time.We will be in a restaurant with some family friends so there will be nowhere to hide for her.Woolly you and your daughter deserve an award for resilience and calmness over a really stressful period and however she does will be a real achievement.Spud....sympathies. I hope the weather really picks up for you.
SugarPlumTree · 17/08/2015 14:31

We've come back to where we started a few months ago, DD is back to making soup to distract herself.

My lovely (and takes no prisoners) neighbour has offered to come with me for flinging on floor and begging session at school if needed, says she has done a lot of that metaphorically speaking in her time ! It would be lovely if no floor flinging is necessary though.

MadAsgardian · 17/08/2015 14:40

My DD is slowly working herself up into a frenzy of stress. I am pretty confident that she has done well apart from possibly in French which she is not bothered about. She already has 2 GCSEs from year 10 so only needs 3 A*-Cs.

Simultaneously she is beating herself up about not having a job (she does but it's only 3 hours per week)/not doing more with the long holidays/not being prepared for college/not knowing what to do with her life/not leaving the town we live in for 6 weeks. (friends have been to London/Brighton/exciting places - she has watched Netflix!)

Honestly, I swear she needs the drama. I have never much thought that people inherited personality types but she is EXACTLY like my MIL. Lovely but anxious.

SugarPlumTree · 17/08/2015 14:42

Ripeningapples that adds a whole other layer of stress to things Flowers .

mummytime · 17/08/2015 16:49

Its a school thing, they are putting them on the online "thingy" where in school results are posted, and it's supposed to be accessible from 10 am. Knowing before it may be a bit late.

But it would have been seriously hard to resist looking if she picked hers up very late. As it is I am going to have to resist temptation until she tells me.

MadAsgardian - a friend of mine had a DD a bit like yours, her best was when she went to Italy to learn Italian and kept phoning/texting about how miserable she was, then suddenly stopped... of course she stopped because she'd met some people and was having a great time, but...

Ginandtonictime · 17/08/2015 17:26

The student room has the grade boundaries surveillance set up already:

www.thestudentroom.co.uk/showthread.php?t=3508335

As soon as they're published, the links turn blue ...

spudmasher · 17/08/2015 17:30

SugarPlum!!! SOUP!! I remember those days well. Bless. A coping strategy is a coping strategy. It works, so get the veg in! It could be worse!
Thank you Canny! The rain cleared at about 3pm at which point I made us all march over a mountain to a lovely beach where we had a swim and DH and I had a glass of wine by the sea. She is currently in the apartment pool flirting with a lovely blond boy. I have heard the word 'results' mentioned. Maybe he is waiting too!

JugglingChaotically · 17/08/2015 17:41

Ginandtonictime - thanks for the link
Funambulist - school is open 9-1030 and are posting on student portal but DD has lost her access and is refusing to email for a new password.
So post it is .... if it takes till Friday I will be in knots!

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