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GCSE Results Day 2017

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justmumof1 · 21/08/2017 06:45

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!

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hamsterloverlover · 23/08/2017 23:43

i did read on another thread that their school had called them to get permission for a photo shoot so the child already knows that she did really well! is that allowed? seems really odd

Fleurdelise · 23/08/2017 23:54

I've just seen the alleged Edexcel grade boundaries, I really hope they are that low.

Knowing that DS's results are already at school give me criminal thoughts Grin I feel I should be the first one to know or DS how he's done, not some random stranger.

Good luck all!

unfortunateevents · 24/08/2017 00:15

Going to bed now, hoping to sleep. Have had a last-minute check of the letter from school re collecting results and realised it is 10-12 tomorrow, not 9.30!!! Aargh, even longer to wait. Never mind, too late to let DS, who is camping, know. Will pick him up as arranged and go for breakfast instead.

wonderingstar01 · 24/08/2017 01:14

Been winding DD up about only 1 more sleep until my big day - 16 years of sweat and tears to get her to this point! She's not biting though (or pretending not to!) She knows there's no chance she'll be going to pick up the results without me. Nope. Good job she has a sense of humour 😀

BringOnTheScience · 24/08/2017 01:35

Our school doesn't open until 10 for results. DC1 just wants it done and over now.

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justmumof1 · 24/08/2017 02:23

Just had a text from a neighbour saying" Let us know what grades your DS gets for his GCSE"s tomorrow". She is just a neighbour, not really a friend! Aghh!

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Eusebius · 24/08/2017 03:01

What a nosy cow!

DS just woke up with tummy upset.

Frith1975 · 24/08/2017 04:26

Not really sleeping here. (Me, son's been asleep for hours!)

CiderwithBuda · 24/08/2017 05:01

Not asleep here either. I think DS is. Not sleeping pretty normal for me though.

DS's friend will know his results in just over an hour as they get emailed at 6am.

We get email at 8.

DS sent DH and I a text with what he thinks he got. Be interesting to see how close it is. Not very I suspect.

Justmum - that's weird. I might text and ask how someone has done but wouldn't ask for grades.

Dunlurking · 24/08/2017 05:49

Morning. Been up since 5am.

My aunt rang last night in a quavery voice to ask me to ring her with dd's results. She hasn't any children/grandchildren so wants to live through ds and dd, and loves telling the other residents in her sheltered housing all about them. Dd isn't going to have the same list of As and A*s that ds and I don't see why she should be exposed and have her results spread round. I'm going to be very proud of them as I know how hard she's worked to overcome her difficulties, but there'll be other residents' relatives who will have done much better. Think my aunt should be content with past glories - when ds got his results.

Frith1975 · 24/08/2017 05:50

We're going in at 9.

Dunlurking · 24/08/2017 05:55

Frith good luck. Dd wants to be there at 9 as well. She's asleep still, thank goodness. A friend dragged her out for a walk last night, which was wonderful, and she consented to stay off her phone after that.

Teddygirlonce · 24/08/2017 06:36

Good luck to all the young people getting them today...

Had the worst night's sleep ever last night dreaming that DS got much lower grades than predicted, then had to keep reminding myself it was just a dream. Tossed and turned all night.

@hamsterloverlover it doesn't seem right that the 'chosen few' (aka highest achievers) get told ahead of everyone else - that they've done very well - for photo-call purposes. DS's school is full of very high achievers but the HT never seems to engage in local press round-ups on results days so unlikely that any of the cohort will have been called in ahead of 9am 'R-time'. Not that he knows of anyway!

DS seems to be still asleep so not checking grade boundaries yet. DN seems to think she's failed her Higher Maths but all may not be lost...

indy69 · 24/08/2017 06:42

So when will we know how many students actually achieved a 9?

RaskolnikovsGarret · 24/08/2017 06:43

Good luck everyone. Jet lag means we were all up early today. DD is sensibly refusing to look at grade boundaries. All calm here - she says she knows she hasn't done exceptionally well or failed them all, so it's hard to get stresssed about average grades. She usually underestimates her achievements, so we'll see.

Good luck all DCs.

indy69 · 24/08/2017 06:43

The grade boundaries seem low this year so I suppose they might change next year.

cricketballs · 24/08/2017 06:45

That's an interesting question Indy; normally the headline figures are all over the news first thing but all that's on the news is about employers being confused over new grades

Dunlurking · 24/08/2017 06:45

BBC saying more than 10,000 set to get 9s - am I reading it correctly as 10,000 per subject, or is it 10,000 for all 3? www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-41023354

Piggywaspushed · 24/08/2017 06:51

I have tried to set my expectations very low to counter DS's generalised pessimism. That way I am hoping my pleased face will look genuine when he does better than expectation... so anything over a D in science is set as good, more than a 4 in lit OK , a 5'll do in maths etc. The disappointment will kick in (and be hard to mask) if French and Spanish are below A. English is so unpredictable he could get anything from an 8 to a 3!

Trouble is he is such an oyster I am genuinely not at all sure what he wants to achieve and what he himself will be happy with or upset about. All his feelings about results are geared towards what DH will think : which is a bit sad but fairly commonplace, I know. He has also had some pretty crap teaching in some subjects.

Want it over and done with now!

HPFA · 24/08/2017 06:51

There was a Mumsnet thread a few months ago about the possibility of anyone getting all 9s once the exams have all moved to the new grading. Some have estimated the possibility as being one or two children nationally. I guess the number with all three this year will give some idea of how accurate that is.

DD only thirteen so no personal involvement but I always like to see how our local schools are doing and cheer them on!

minesawine · 24/08/2017 06:53

DS checking grade boundaries all night so I took his phone away because he was getting anxious. Now he is sleeping and I feel sick and wished I smoked to calm me down. I am on the verge of tears and need to get my shit together before I wake him up. Is it too early for a drink.

Piggywaspushed · 24/08/2017 06:56

lurking , BBC uses the word each so that suggests 10000 per subject but their grammar can often be a bit off so who knows. Think they have just worked out a rough percentage .... seems too high to me but we'll see. It's certainly in various political interests to make sure students do achieve 9s otherwise the whole thing will seem like a waste of time which it is

cricketballs · 24/08/2017 06:59

There's definitely one maths grade 9 - BBC Breakfast interview at a school in London at 6.20 am

HPFA · 24/08/2017 07:00

In this article an executive at Ofqual says that those getting 9s in all three could be in the hundreds

www.theguardian.com/education/2017/aug/24/gcse-overhaul-means-results-are-incomparable-to-previous-years#comments

RaptorInaPorkPieHat · 24/08/2017 07:03

I'm avoiding bbc breakfast.... I don't think it will improve DD's mood at all (not that anyone's awake except me yet)