Normal kids only thread GCSEs

[Allotment123]

This is a thread for normal kids and parents. DD is going GCSEs this year, hoping to get 44,55,66 to get into her chosen 6th form. Anyone else got normal kids who might do a bit of GCSE study, or might just spend the evening annoying their siblings or decorating their nails...

For what it's worth I was an average/middling GCSE student because I was bloody lazy and only interested in boys and chatting to friends I ended up going to a redbrick Uni at 22 and got a first then subsequently worked at Oxbridge. GCSEs are not the be all and end all.

What sort of university degree accepts students with a CCC?

You may wish to visit the HE board with your question @Ericaequites & include more detail on the course they may wish to study & their A levels subjects,

Friends son got to uni with DDE.

Lots do. And the great thing is, once you have a degree, particularly if you get a good class, the vast majority of industries and companies won't give a monkey's what your A level grades were. Universities also won't care if you are applying for a Masters.

Well if you’re getting DDE in A levels it doesn’t bode well for a degree surely. I guess it depends on the degree.

I got CC in my Alevels and BE in AS Levels. Got a University place through clearing at Roehampton which then became part of Surrey University. I got a 2:1. (I only went through clearing because I hadn’t planned to go to University at all but then split up with my horrible possessive boyfriend and decided to go and study).

There is less of a direct correlation between A level results and degree class than you might think - the style of teaching,.and learning, is quite different so may suit different people more or less well. And then there is also the point that some people thrive once they can fully focus on the one subject which is their passion.

If you are studying a STEM subject for example you are.likely to be spending much of your time in a lab. Conversely if youre studying, say, English you are going to have a lot less face-to-face contact time and be left largely to your own devices to do the reading and research.

So we have mocks starting tomorrow, hoping we get the grades needed for 6th form to apply (tho they also say apply anyway).445566 needed. Fingers crossed

Good luck mini @Allotment123

My DD got into Leicester uni on clearing with BCC so pretty close to CCC - not RG but a really good uni IMHO.

As @thing47 says, some really shine when a) the style of teaching is different b) they study a single subject they love and c) (in DD's case) they can pick modules they enjoy and choose an assessment style that suits them.

I'm boasting a bit on her behalf now but she graduated last year with a first and highest final-year mark in her subject. Those A levels (which were low for a variety of reasons) don't really matter now.

Good for her @clary!

Thanks @43ontherocksporfavor i know it’s a bit boasty but really I always want to tell ppl that all is not lost and your education does not need to end just bc you didn’t gain three A or A above, as you might think from some threads.

Yes for sure the most popular unis ask for high grades, but there are many other options and the right course can be an eye opener. I am so proud if her hard work.

Good for your DD. Thete is also a huge difference in maturity from 16-18 especially for boys, so just because they struggle at 16 doesn't mean they are destined for a lifetime on the scrapheap.

I think you’re BU to use ‘normal’ for your thread title, because not being ‘normal’ for SEN kids means exclusion, friendlessness and often active bullying. Not ‘normal’ = ‘wierd ‘etc.
if you actually mean ‘academically average’ then you could put that in your thread title

@BobFossilsSafariSuit RTFT, or at least the OP's posts. This has been covered already.

Not really no. No comment at all by OP as to what referring to ‘normal’ kids might mean for the kids deemed outside of ‘normal’. Thread title unchanged.

Crack on but as a thread title it is not in the supportive spirit IMHO