GCSE Results Day 2017

[justmumof1]

Hard to belive that I was here 5 years ago sweating it out for the results of his secondary school offer!

Only a few days now bwfore the GCSE results come out. DS is starting to get nervous....as am I!

She seems excited by it. Even if she doesn't look it up herself, someone is bound to post some doom and gloom on one of the social media sites before 9!

Stick with the metaphor going

Will do....

I'm just excited to get a reply. Lately I've joined in threads and not had an answer. I was beginning to wonder if I was invisible or blacklisted.

First pre results row between DH and DS . Good - o.

Actually 5.30 is not bad ; was expecting it before!!

She seems excited by it.

Yes it's odd. Dd1 says she's excited (or did a week ago before she went off camping with friends until tonight). I'm the one that's nervous. I can't remember being excited or nervous about mine until the actual moment of seeing them, then I was nervous briefly. Excited never came into it.

Sorry if this has already been done but when they get their results tomorrow, do they get the results of the grade boundaries aswell?

If the grade boundaries are released at 6am where would you need to go to online to be able to see them (I'm interested in WJEC)?

Genuine interest - why the excitement about grade boundaries? Have never got this. yes, the school's may well be interested in who missed a 4/5 /whatever by fewer than 5 marks but, otherwise , why does it matter so much to students? If nothing else, it can piss them off further , if they feel they have just missed a grade! And they can't possibly question by question remember these papers and exactly what they wrote.

Also, can I emphasise 1 mark is not one mark : in English, one mark means they have missed all the grade descriptors for the next grade up , in general It means they didn't exhibit enough skills, sadly.

In maths, obviously different : but they will still be UMS marks - so not 'one mark'.

Not sure I am making sense!!

I'm a bit confused re the Welsh GCSEs, DD took Welsh exam board English but we don't live in Wales. Will she get numbers or alphabet tomorrow?

Am spouting on MN since no one at home wishes to talk....

hastings - numbers.

Forgive my ignorance, but if they don't get their results until 8:30, say, what is the point of them finding out the grade boundaries at 6am? As soon as they open the envelopes they'll see what grades they got won't they?

Or what piggy said! She obviously types quicker than I do!

Silly question but I assume they get a different result slip for each exam board? Or do school's amalgamate them?

DS sat with three exam boards I think.

Thanks piggy

Yes but they'll get an idea as to whether there are more or fewer students getting certain grades. If last year, to get an A ,was 80 marks for example and this year it's 85, there will be panic!

What time are children collecting their results, DD needs to wait until 10am.

Ours are available from 9-11 tomorrow.

Goingtobe that has happened to me many times. May I offer you and

3 years ago the MNers on the GCSE threads when my ds was doing them were obsessed with grade boundaries and remarks me too. I find it very strange that this one isn't. FWIW it's the dcs that are driving the fascination with the leaked boundaries IMHO. Did has come back from work and settled down to checking out all the Edexcel subjects and is anticipating the AQA boundaries at 6am. It's certainly not a case of keeping the knowledge from them. All the rumours and twitter links are discovered by them acting unilaterally.

I don't get all this grade boundary malarkey either. I suppose it's useful if one wants a re-mark.

I only became aware of shifting grade boundaries about 7 years ago, until then I thought it was always the same mark to get a C , another to get a B and a higher mark to get an A. I had no idea that a panel assess each exam paper for it's difficulty , see how the kids did and put the boundaries after. So basically t means that the same mark one year could be a B and the next year an A.

In dd's case her interest in the grade boundaries is all about predicting the result. Dcs can be very accurate in judging the raw marks for their papers now because of the mark schemes and examiners' reports for previous years. Which is useful - I have much more faith in the outcomes being objective. On the other hand it does mean they have spent the last 2 years being taught to the test, not the subject as a whole.

I have no idea how a student thinks they can estimate their raw mark, unless a very, very able or very, very weak student in maths.

Ds isn't interested in grade boundaries and hasn't been taught "to the mark scheme" really...

Maybe it just seems to give DCs some sense of an element of ownership or control? I get that seeing low grade boundaries makes them feel vindicated in their suspicions that an exam was hard : that seems to be the conversation around Edexcel maths.

It's science my DS is pooing himself about : he is good at maths but has never been any good at science and fears a D, I suspect. It's not fiar really as he is decent at biology but buggered by the other two.