Failed Maths GCSE re-sit what now?

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What happens if your child failed their maths re-sit? My daughter got a place at college to resit but has pulled out of college as she was unhappy and wanted a change of direction. She is now doing work experience waiting for another course in sept. But she failed the re-sit. What happens next?

What did the provider of the new course say? It will depend on their entry requirements but at some point she will have to pass maths but it may be Functional Skills rather than GCSE. Some providers offer just FS courses, ask at the college..

Talk to the college and plan to resit in summer. Think about getting a tutor (two hours a week got my reluctant Yr 11 son from 3 to 5 between Jan and June). She needs maths and needs to put in the effort.

She doesn’t “need” maths for her sept course (agriculture). But I worry she will need it later on in life. She’s de-registered from the sixth form college where she re-sat. So where do you go from there?

Further Education college?

My son didn't pass at college,he tried twice over two years. Got his level 2 in carpentry.
Was offered another 3rd year to attempt it and to leave college with a level 3 but y then was totally fed up with it.
Got employed by a joinery firm and worked.
But then decided he wanted to go in the army,passed out and doing ok.

How old is your child? If she'll be under 18 in September, she'll have to resit next November, if she's in a college, even if it's not required for her course (and again in June, if she fails).

If she's not doing any other education, and it's affordable/possible, it may be worth looking at a tutor and paying for her to take the exam privately this summer.

If she's doing a course then a condition of government funding for that course will be that she works towards resitting her maths, so it should arranged by whoever is organising the agricultural course.

Presumably the agric college will need her to resit. It would be odd for a college to accept a student aged under 19 without requiring them to resit.

Given that, she needs to spend the next few months practising! Can you afford a tutor? And arrange for the resit to be done at the sixth form she has just quit?

Whatever college course your daughter is planning to take she will need to take maths alongside. Sorry but she really does need a maths qualification for many jobs and college courses. She needs to build on what she has now - I'm guessing she scored 3? Build on that with a tutor (if affordable), if she steps off the bus now until she restarts in Sept all that maths knowledge will be lost.

I find this quite offensive @MissDianaBarry . My daughter will most likely fail her Maths GCSE this summer. She has had weekly Maths tuition for the last 7 years. Sometimes it isn't about 'putting in the effort' 🤨

I failed maths by forgetting to hand in the coursework and didn't turn up to the resit as I didn't know where/when it was.
I signed up for a GCSE maths Saturday morning class at the local college and spent 34 mornings of my life doing that then I wasn't allowed to go to the exam because I didn't have the right ID with me as per college rules.
The next year, I re-started my AS-levels at a new college and they put me down for GCSE maths again. These weren't resits, they were actual timetabled classes with a teacher who taught us the content which sounds like what your child needs, too. I'd be surprised if the college didn't sort that out.

Years later, I went on to do A-level and OU maths so it wasn't that I was bad at maths or not trying, I just had undiagnosed ADHD (now diagnosed) and couldn't organise myself.

DB on the other hand failed GCSE maths twice, they then put him on a numeracy certificate level 2, he failed that, so they put him on it again and again until he qualified in a trade and could leave college.

Some people just have to turn up to the classes until they leave education, it's such a waste of resources, he would have been happier writing it off from the first fail.

This is what they do at a college local to me

• If you have grade 2 or 1 at GCSE, you’ll do a Functional Skills qualification at the right level for you
• If you have a grade 3 at GCSE, you’ll continue to study GCSE maths and English to help you achieve a 9-4

Another local college just offers GCSES and the students will continue retaking along side their main course they pass or leave.

@HopefullyHopeless - gosh you are easily offended. I am sorry you are disappointed that 7 years of tuition has not helped your daughter pass GCSE maths - maybe you have a tutor problem? However tuition worked for my son and he passed. I think I am allowed to pass on my personal experience on this forum without you jumping on me - calling me offensive.

@MissDianaBarry I am not 'jumping' on you. I am disagreeing with the fact that you seem to think effort is the only thing required to pass a Maths GCSE. If that were so, my daughter would have a PhD by now.

@HopefullyHopeless you found me 'offensive' that isn’t simply offering a different opinion. It's fine to disagree - but we can do so a little more politely.

OP. (Which agricultural college? Mine went to Sparsholt.)

Her best bet would be for you to employ a tutor and to keep going with either GCSE maths (or Functional Skills L2) this academic year. Find an exam centre to take her as a private candidate (NB this would need to be done v. soon and to find the same board).

If she does no maths for 8 months it will be hard to get up to speed again. Resits at college generally don't have great results, because there just isn't the focus they have at school and the students care more about their main course too.

Sorry to hear about your daughter GCSE Maths experience. I would strongly recommend she trying to resit her exams after sufficient learning and revision at the following website:
https://www.education-auditorium.co.uk/gcse-maths-higher-learn

I passed my GCSE then my A level Maths with A* through hardworking and this website. All the best

@MissDianaBarry who's easily offended now? 🤔

OP, best of luck. I hope your DD succeeds in her next steps. I know how stressful it is navigating through an education system which is unfit for purpose for a significant number of pupils. Good luck🤞

@HopefullyHopeless 😀