Parents of Year 11s - the end has been and gone

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The thread that got us all through the exams is now full so here's a new one to get us through the nervous wait for results

Well done to all our brave Y11s and wish every last one of them all the best

Link to the last thread

Well done everyone. It is such a relief isn't it?

DD has 7 A* and 4 A. Very, very happy and relieved!

Well done everybody

she did brilliantly. She's very happy!

Still feel sick though.

Really really well done everyone!!!

Come on tell us .....

An A*, 3 x A, 7 x B and a C. All she needs for college and she's relieved that she can now do subjects she's interested in.
Her friends seemed to do so much better than her but she wasn't too worried. I was pleased with what she got - I don't think I would have lasted under the pressure of the exam weeks.

I know what you mean Iwant, one of DS's best friends got all A*s and another got all As but we are really pleased with DS's results.

Congrats to all, and to those slightly disappointed.
DD got a B in Maths which shes over the moon with, but a D in English which shes gutted about. She was predicted B/C but her result in Paper 2 really dragged her down. Shes asking if she can just resit that paper and not the full course again, but i honestly dont know. Still, im proud of her after a tough few year

Dd did very well, 7A and 4 A. She's a bit disappointed with an A in further maths when she was predicted an A^ , but she realises herself that she's being ridiculous.

My classes at school have a mixed bag of results. Some have outperformed their targets and are thrilled, others have underperformed and are devastated. I'm a bit disappointed with some of the results from my top set, but looking at the actual marks it's the high grade boundaries this year that have dropped a few of them down a grade.

Several of DD's friends got all A*s with a couple of As. But who cares. I'm so proud of her.

I forgot to say well done to everybody else . There are some brilliant results.

to those who are disappointed.

Oh OK, 9a*s including with distinction for further maths and 2 as. Very very pleased!
One A was a bit of a surprise but dd isn't kicking herself over it.

All that worry and it's done. Thank goodness!

OYBBK that is bloody brilliant!

It is rather bloody brilliant :D

So happy for you kitten

DD did better than she thought and is extremely happy. What a flipping relief.

That's brilliant Kitten. Well done to your dd.

We staying together for alevels I bloody need it
Cheers

Chocolate, glad your dd did better than she thought, it's always a relief when they are happy, isn't it?

Well we didn't get any A* or A grades but I was extremely happy to see a B grade and a load of C grades. Never expected that in a million years considering we were looking at some D to G grades this time last year. I am very very happy! Thought I would post as most people here seem to only be talking about very very high grades. Surely there must be others with less than just A and B grades?

DS didn't get a C in English. He got a D. However, his school are letting him do 6th form and resit next year. So that's a relief. He got As in maths, further maths and computer science, Bs in geography, chemistry and biology, a C in physics and a (most unmumsnetty) G in Engineering. He said he was impressed it wasn't a U.

So all is ok here.

Yes there are other dcs with more modest grades hotdiggedly. Reporting back with 4Bs and 4 Cs (in line with expectations/predicitons) so no resits needed and grades needed in right subjects for sixth form college to do A levels in her preferred subjects.
One of the Bs was for RS where she had an E in her mocks which was a surprise.

hotdiggetty a B, Cs and Ds for my son. Really pleased for him. He's over at college now confirming his place. I'm just glad that we can now cut ties with the school. Unfortunately we're in an area where it's not a matter of choosing the best school but choosing one that's not quite as bad as the others and isn't in special measures.

Or hotdiggedy even

Well done to your DD catslife. Improving a predicted E to a B is very impressive.

DS was predicted DS in both computer science and engineering at Christmas. He told me he put all his effort into his computer science coursework (which resulted in an A) at the expense of the engineering coursework (hence the G). He's taking computer science at alevel so I guess that was a sensible choice. In general he's not great at coursework.