Year 10 exam results- sense of perspective please

[Swarskid2184]

My DD has always been academically able and at the end of year 9 was predicted 9's for all of her GCSE's. I was concerned at the time that was unrealistic.

So fast forward to now. DD has spent all of her time when at home in year 10 sat on the sofa, on line browsing on phone and iPad. No revision and no prep for year 10 formal exams. Her argument is that she works hard at school.

So, her aim is to study medicine - planning on doing A levels in Biology, Chemistry, maths and either history or music.

Just got her exam results, she got:

English: 6
Maths: 6-
Biology: 6
Chemistry: 4
Physics: 4
French: 5
Geography: 7
History: 7
Music: 6-
RE: 3+

She is also doing further maths- but didn't do an exam in that.

So... should I be worried? Slightly odd that she is doing best in subjects she is not planning (or possibly considering as an AS in the case of history )??

Views please.

Her best friend has 7's and 8's across the board- and DD has always been in a similar situation to her.
Thanks

If she wants to study medicine she should be getting work experience in her holidays and volunteeering. As has been said she needs to show motivation and commitment from now. And no, those grades are not good for year 10 if her friend is getting higher (some schools have capped year 10 results as we are making up grade boundaries as we frankly don't have a scooby).

Yes she should be getting at least old gcse level b to study a levels.

ForforPour - You know that supposed 2 getting straight 9s was not correct. It is likely to be higher (possibly 300) for 9s across the board.

Also are they the grades (numerical rather than percentages) that your DD would get were she to sit an actual gcse today or were they the grades she got on an easier exam set specifically for year 10s?

Our year 10s sat last year's gcses as their year 10 paper so it is easy to see where they sat within last year's grade boundaries.

All the best

They sat actual GCSE past papers- so is meant to be what they would get if they sat them today.

On a positive note, DD has done maths, French and chemistry study tonight unprompted so may have been a much needed jolt!

Good luck - motivation has to come from her... All you can do is ask her if she is serious about wanting to study medicine and then get her to research what she needs to do to achieve this - perhaps talking to a couple of able sixth formers on this track about how much revision they did etc.... and ask the school for their realistic assessments of how much revision/school work she should be doing each night next year.....and get her to tell you her plans and then help her stick to them.

I got a shock with year 10 exams just now, seeing how little revision DD has done (for a range of reasons) compared to her school mates - results coming in now... some stellar, like 96% on Eng lit... others average for her classes ... I'm going to be having these kinds of conversations with her as she is likewise an 8/9 across the board kind of girl... IF SHE WORKS.... and who knows what if she doesn't.....

So she is on course to pass them all with some that will probably increase to 7/8s. However her sciences do not look as though they will be on course for the very high level she will need for medicine.

Now would be a goid time to talk about putting in proper effort for her mocks (Jan/Feb?) so she/you can gauge whether medicine is a reality or a pipedream. I had a DSS who got gcse grades at science but could not sustain them at A level so is now doing a geography degree. However he had already started volunteering at a care home and hospital from year 10 onwards with a view to doing medicine so she will need to be a bit more proactive on that front too if she is serious.