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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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JonesTheSteam · 23/08/2017 15:51

Welsh GCSEs are still A* - G...

TheFallenMadonna · 23/08/2017 15:54

Sorry about forgetting the Welsh GCSEs Blush

YoureAllABunchOfBastards · 23/08/2017 15:55

Bloody hell, Tara - does the word 'embargo' mean anything to you? I am SLT and have seen our results, but I'm not bloody daft enough to say anything about them, even anonymously.

Some boards have the actual mark printed on the results slip, some don't. School will have access to marks and, from tomorrow at 6am, to boundaries as well: in many cases they will have considered remark cases before students arrive, in others they just get everyone to sign and agree to a remark just in case.

JonesTheSteam · 23/08/2017 15:55

No need to apologise 🙂

Witchend · 23/08/2017 15:57

Not sure if DD knows about being able to look up grade boundaries at 6am and I'm not going got tell her as if they are high she will get in a state, possibly unnecessarily

I agree, unfortunately it was dd1 who told me that happened.
I can see scenarios where they look at the boundaries and think they've done better then they have and are devastated when they get their results.
And the other way round, where they have 4 hours of tears because they think they've just missed a grade and find that they haven't.

And if they have got the grade they wanted, it surely takes some of the delight of finding they have the grade.

So I don't think it is good for anyone.

I was telling dd1 that we never knew our grade boundaries, and she was really shocked, but I think it was better that way.

thekillers · 23/08/2017 15:57

Overheard comment of the day the morning.

It was soooooo awful. I had a dream and i only got 1 A* and the rest were Bs.

thekillers · 23/08/2017 16:01

To add. IGSCE here.

MsHarry · 23/08/2017 16:05

killers I heard a better one; "I'm just not a B grade person!"

TestTubeTeen · 23/08/2017 16:06

"Having to get 4As sounds a massive pressure but probably a private school (!) so hopefully they've been really well prepared, so should be okay. "

Nope, Livingdisgracefully, loads of state sixth forms require A grades and 7s in all A level subjects, and one in Hackney demands an average point score that means As in every single subjects (or Bs and A*s)

Eusebius · 23/08/2017 16:23

"I'm just not a B grade person!"

Perhaps they're more of a D grade type Sad.

s4rah19 · 23/08/2017 16:26

So the school will have decided whether they want to ask for a remark on certain students before students even arrive? My DN doesn't want to open it in school which I'm concerned about because surely that's the best time to query the grade if you have any concerns? (PS do you think all this social media/internet makes it worse - I don't remember feeling like this when I got my results!)

Eusebius · 23/08/2017 16:30

Cider - How are you going to go in if it's a boarding school, haven't they all closed for the hols? Just wondering as we're being emailed as well.

Witchend · 23/08/2017 16:42

s4ah19
What dd1 is doing is getting the envelope and we're driving round the corner. She can choose to go back in if necessary.

But you have time to query the grade, some point in September it was last year.

Notanothergiraffe · 23/08/2017 16:48

DS has also said he is not opening them in school.

His plan is to get the envelope and walk out with it. Is that a disadvantage?, will someone grab him if he needs a remark? Presumably they will be in contact? (He is not planning on staying at his sixth form so won't automatically see them).

Witchend · 23/08/2017 16:55

I would hope that if they think it's a good idea for a remark that they don't grab them in school.
Juts imagine, handed your envelope, and about to walk out and the teacher says "and we need to talk about remarks". Non-subtle way of being told you've not done as well as expected.

My dentist said when he went to pick up his A-level results he was greeted by the headmaster who said "Well, Barnes, we thought we were going to be looking for a new goalkeeper next year. I see we're not."

If they feel there's a case for a remark then they can email them after they've picked it up (please).

Notanothergiraffe · 23/08/2017 17:00

Good point witchend! I suppose I just don't trust DS's school to actually bother following up what is best for him. Perhaps as it will effect their results they may do...

s4rah19 · 23/08/2017 17:03

I've spoken to DN and he said he wants to go back to the car to open it. I suppose he'll make a decision then if he wants to go back in, I won't push him. Being a year 10 he'll be back at school in a couple of weeks so I'm guessing they'd talk to him then.

Witchend · 23/08/2017 17:04

What I would do is get dd1 (or do it myself if she wasn't bothered) to email the subject teacher or exam office and ask for the actual marks if they're not given. If they are close (no more than 3 marks away) then look for a remark.

She went up 2 marks last year (1 mark away from the boundary) on Statistics.

They didn't chase her at all, but then she only got the grades by email.

EsmeMargaretNoteSpelling · 23/08/2017 17:04

Well my DD is doing IGCSE and is getting numerical results for English and Maths.

Goingtobeawesome · 23/08/2017 17:05

Thank you Quadratilla. That is a good way of answering.

Goingtobeawesome · 23/08/2017 17:06

Ffs he isn't going to drown. No idea what I was trying to say Blush.

MsHarry · 23/08/2017 17:06

Well so much for my plan, DD has just heard, via the grapevine that is snapchat, about the 6am grade boundary announcement!

MsHarry · 23/08/2017 17:07

going I thought you were being metaphorical!

Witchend · 23/08/2017 17:13

MsHarry I was wondering whether an accidental Wifi outage overnight would cause more stress or less. Grin

Goingtobeawesome · 23/08/2017 17:19

MsHarry wth was I trying to say?! I can't get autocorrect to come up with anything I thought I meant that turned into drowns!