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!

Eusebius you can ask for as many remarks as you like - you're paying for them after all. But caveat emptor, grades can go down as well as up.

Once she starts, she'll be fine I think. Only 3 ish % got 9s. There are considerably more than 3% who will do great at A level. DS isn't doing the subject he got a 9 in at A level. He's worried they will try to persuade him when he enrols!

My DD got 8s in Lit and Lang. She felt the 8 was justified in Lit as she made a mistake in time management and had to rush one question but came out of Lang saying she felt it couldn't have gone better. The 9 student got lower grades in all other subjects. Her HT felt it was justified enquiry and that they had a student who got a D, got remarked and he got an A last year!!! These stories really worry me!

Thank you so much. DS is more than a minimum of 10 marks from the grade down so I think it's worth the risk. 1 mark from A star in Physics. 3 and 4 marks respectively from an another A* and an A. Would you pursue it?

School said if her marks are close they will pay for remark.

Definitely! Eus

MsHarry- mine did not want to do English A levels till this evening but having a wobble as she likes English as well!!
She is going to attend few English A level class as well before she makes up her mind. She has Fab English teachers who she does not want to leave!!

JumpingJoey to your Dd. Bloody hell, what an ethics question to be faced with.

My DS has a slightly unexpected 9 in Language. He did feel it went well, and was excited by his story, but his spelling is a tad erratic. I do see that some of his classmates would wonder how he got it and they didn't...

Oh crikey I couldn't take anymore subject wobbles. We've been back and forth between sciences and arts more times than I can count.

Thanks MsHarry.

Eus- my Dd is 7 marks above the boundary and 3 marks away from the next grade so the school said yes to remark!
So go for it...

Yes fallen I don't want to discredit this particular student, it just seems quite a jump from a 5 to a 9 when other grades were C/B.Well done to your son. Grip that 9 for dear life!

There are only 5 marks between a 9 and an 8 for each Eng Lang paper, that seems quite tight. I should think there will be lots or remark requests. While I sat in school today waiting for DD to speak to someone, 3 parents came in asking for remark forms! I was only there 10 minutes.

*of not or

I would go for thr remark but I still say it is ridiculous to predict 9. In Lang top 2.2% nationally, how can I possibly guesstimate that? Though in an inner city non selective I had 11/28 in my top set

Could my DD's teacher be predicting a 9 because she had always got the highest marks, often nearly full marks on every assessment/end of year exam over 2 years? It's a high achieving state single sex school.

Non selective school also.

DS has a nice set of results, so no major discrepancy. It's just that top 2.2% seemed a stretch in English. DS has visions of his KS3 teacher (who moved him down a set and recorded no progress for 2 years) demanding his paper be remarked!!

Professor - We're in the Same boat it seems, I hope it turns out well.
Did you request to see the script for the teachers ? (Im completely new to all this, but probably you are as well), because that has a separate charge in itself doesn't it? Is it after that you request the remark?

Proud mum here. 9s and A* in everything.

I'm really crap at bragging irl - but so excited for him

JumpingJoey

Well done to dd, fab results made more fab by circumstances.

I did not realise that you can see the script so did not ask for it, Dd went on her own to see her teachers

Could my DD's teacher be predicting a 9 because she had always got the highest marks, often nearly full marks on every assessment/end of year exam over 2 years
Probably. It's still a silly thing to do because the 9 is norm references as a proportion of the grades in a national cohort. We have some exceptionally bright students but it would be irresponsible to say we know they'd be in the top 2.3% nationally.

There are only 5 marks between a 9 and an 8 for each Eng Lang paper, that seems quite tight. I should think there will be lots or remark requests
That's fairly predictable becauee the 9 is a norm referenced grade boundary.
People can"t just ask for remarks. That's not how it works now.
There are now 3 grades (7,8,9) where before there were 2 (A/A). Not all children who got an A will get a 9.

Reading this thread I'm starting to wonder if some schools have actually informed parents of the changes. We did letters, webpage updates, assemblies for the students, talked them through how it works in English in our lessons, had information evenings. It means on results day we didn't have loads of people wanting remarks because their child got an 8, not a 9.

Some schools may be saying 'we'll go for remark' but the boards have said no. So either the schools don't know this, or they are sending it for a 'review of marking', which is NOT a remark.