GCSEs 2018 (13) Untwisting our knickers, lucky for some!

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Thread 12 Link to the thread with our potted histories. Now the end is in sight.

That would be great kick

Thanks Sost. Same to your DGD. If only we could just award them those results now!

Although the reality could be anything because who knows how erratic the marking will be or where grade boundaries will fall. We could be miles out.

I don't really care as long as she passes English

Sorry, I think the first figure might have been attainment 8.

Noble I did this for our school and got English & Maths grade 5 and above - high prior attainers 89%. Grade 4 and above - 97%
Totally agree with what you said about how primaries do very much teach to pass SATs in a lot of cases and it certainly does have a negative knock-on effect for secondaries.

It's a very interesting site which I hadn't looked at in detail before. The school is known for being very successful but its figures for disadvantaged children are worse than locally and nationally Also girls achieving much higher than boys. I used to be a primary school governor and looked at RAISE every year. Maybe I should join secondary governors and get to analyse their stats too DH will leave me if I commit that much time again

DS had 2 exams today, got home from school (4:45 ish) then chilled til he went out to his badminton club. The "plan" was to revise chemistry after badminton and dinner. However a friend who's wife has dementia came to ask for help as she had " disappeared" while he was having a lie down. So we organised some people to look for her and DS went off on his bike. Fortunately she was found, safe and well. DS has done no chemistry, but has very achy legs!

Yes damn English kick! My biggest worry for dgd.
94% achieving 5 and above in English/maths.

National average for Oxbridge 1% dgd school 4%.
National average for Russell group 29% dgd school 40%

Interesting stuff about the grade boundaries. DS reckons the boundary for a 9 in maths will be about 96%, because "none of the new content was in any of the papers"! He is also cross with himself as he made a really silly mistake today..... It's the other mistakes he's not aware of though that o think could be the problem

Glad lost lady was found adrinkofwater

As in you will need 96% to get a grade 9!

Have found it particularly difficult to chivy DS into much chemistry revision today, partly as a friend came round this afternoon.
Doing some revision together didn't seem high on their priorities.
I talked it over with DS later and we decided he's having a bit of a dip for this second to last one, he said he'd be more motivated for the last one
as the end so clearly in sight.
Plus they have prom night afterwards.
So all in all I guess that is fair enough, especially as he tried to reassure me that he does have things in his long term memory.
This is probably in response to me keeping telling him to use his short term memory too, and just learn one or two more things that might be helpful for tomorrow!
This has been my mantra for several weeks now!
I don't know if DS has taken it on board at all, but his friend seemed momentarily impressed with the idea that a little bit of revision might just help them over the next grade boundary. Always easier to impress other people's DC isn't it?!
Roll on Friday!

For DD1 and DD2 we could predict pretty accurately the grades they were going to get with just a couple of uncertainties. For DS I have no idea for a number of reasons - he is a very different child and his exam results have always been lower than teachers anticipated (sometimes spectacularly so), we don't know grade boundaries or what is required to get certain grades, teaching of a couple of his subjects has been suspect to say the least (and in fact all schools seem to have varied hugely in terms of how far they have got to grips with the new exam and how much support they have given the dc this year), all that is offset a bit by the fact that he has worked harder and more effectively than ever before. But there will be a range of out comes - I did joke once that DS had heard these GCSEs were called new 9-1 GCSEs and he thought that meant you had to get one of each number - he might not be far off.

No won't be that high! Well not for AQA IMO. Just go 2-4% higher than last years me thinks.

Now is the time to be optimistic everyone! Time to be pessimistic day before results so at least we can enjoy the summer!

Hmm, for DS3's school,
5+ 68% 4+ 96%
For the state comp sixth form he's hopefully going to
5+ 89% 4+ 98%
Now I want to look at KS5 stats.

Yes, adrinkofwater DS3 would be better off with harder questions so silly mistakes lose importance.

noble knows best about what maths boundaries may be.

The good thing about them being the first cohort doing all 9-1 GCSE's come results day when people ask how your DC has done, unless they have a fellow y11 they will not have a clue whether your DC has done well or not can you imagine telling someone who is used to the old letter system oh they got 3's,5's 7's and an 8 they will be and we can just say I know they did fabulously

ellen Bit like dgd forgetting what properties a rhombus has and having to really ponder a 1 mark question but probably getting last question on paper right (5 marker)

bluebelle

Why can't I get this thing to copy on this crap phone! I take too long to type stats out from site about school. Copy, copy,copy,copy!

DS didn't finish all questions in maths but thought was good otherwise. I guess I felt a bit disappointed for him that he didn't finish as it always seems a shame doesn't it?
DD had a lot of timing issues throughout her GCSE and A levels, partly due to overwriting answers.
I think this may be the first one DS was unable to complete so he's done well with timing generally I think.

We will be on thread 15 by the time I do it! You know the one where we burn our twisted knickers!

blue yes! And we can just baffle them with "oh that's roughly the same as 5As and 4Bs" regardless of the numbers

I think my knickers are still pretty twisted

Bluebelle exactly! Most people won’t have a clue what the numbers mean anyway! We can turn any result into a triumph!
Well, after an impressive effort on revision since Easter, I think DS is easing off for the final 2. He seems sure he’s done enough for chemistry - or abandoned hope!

Its not amount they answer jugglingmummy no point in trying to answer all if you get masses wrong in your hurry. Better to answer as many as you can accurately and still end up with good grade.