Teachers - do you know your students results?

[mummabear1967]

Hi

Any teachers on here - when predicting grades for your GCSE & a level students, how did you do it? Did you just look at all their mocks, classwork and homework and decide “John deserves an A and Charlotte deserves a D” ?

So when you predicted grades, is that what they’ll actually get, so do you know their results already? Or do you submit your predicted grades to exam boards and then they change them if necessary?

@cricketballs3 I’ve just asked him what he’s got so far.

First year units:

3 distinctions
1 merit

Second year units:

low passes in 2 assignment units
Not sure about external exam unit
Merit in an assignment for another unit

Are there any gcse art teachers on here? Dd was completing amazing portfolios but only one was compiled by lockdown. Her second one is still in her room. I'm so disappointed that she never got the chance to submit it. With no written exam, nor the 10 hour practical , will it all be based on her first portfolio?

It took weeks and weeks before grades were inputted. I am so upset by all the hard work that went in for nothing at the moment

HappyKatieA :

"but this is the type of student who pulls it out of the bag in the end' they would probably be marked down.
It is these students who I feel most sorry for this year, as they will probably not get what they would have done had it been a normal year. "

Yep. This is my Ds1. And I've told him that this attitude, of coasting, and then performing very well in the final exam, may well come back to bite him on the bum this year.

In fact I said this to him right back at the end of March, at the beginning of lockdown.

Oh well. We'll see what Thursday brings.

@Oblomov20 - this is my DS exactly too. Such a shame.

@Oblomov20

HappyKatieA :

"but this is the type of student who pulls it out of the bag in the end' they would probably be marked down.
It is these students who I feel most sorry for this year, as they will probably not get what they would have done had it been a normal year. "

Yep. This is my Ds1. And I've told him that this attitude, of coasting, and then performing very well in the final exam, may well come back to bite him on the bum this year.

In fact I said this to him right back at the end of March, at the beginning of lockdown.

Oh well. We'll see what Thursday brings.

My DS too

I've said to him he can't be complacent when it comes to his A Levels, he's got to knuckle down from day one as you never know what will happen in 2 years

but this is the type of student who pulls it out of the bag in the end'
And this is very poor attitude for jobs/real life. An employer needs someone who works conscientiously, not the arrogance of someone who who wings it at the last minute.
Treat it as a useful wake up call.

@lifeafter50

but this is the type of student who pulls it out of the bag in the end' And this is very poor attitude for jobs/real life. An employer needs someone who works conscientiously, not the arrogance of someone who who wings it at the last minute. Treat it as a useful wake up call.

Definitely!

In fact I think this might be the wake up call DS needs

I would definitewly have done badly unde the system for this year. I always pulled it out of the bag for every exam I took, usually by working really hard , to the exclusion of everything else, in the 1-2 months before the exams. It worked very well for for my GCSEs and my degree .

It worked less well for my A levels where I didn;t work that hard at the end either because something got in the way (my mother broke her leg and needed a lot of extra care and help for a few months which unfortunately coincided with when I would have got my head down). Still if you leave it till the last minute, things can happen to get in the way. It didn't teach me much to be honest. I still pull mostly procrastinate at work as well it put of the bag at the last minute, and I am 55 now, so unlikely to change much really

This system would hwever probably have worked better for DS who is bright but really really struggles with the pressure of exams.