Y11 2023/24 thread 5 - results!

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New thread as no 4 is nearly full

DS has preseason rugby training this week, so that keeps him busy. He is so stressed. I wish I could help...
We are at rugby training in the evening as well.

Thank you for all the insights from schools. It is all very interesting!

Good luck to everyone's DCs tomorrow, may they all get the grades they are hoping for. 🙏

I'm off tomorrow (and have no need to drive), so wine here and lots of it (perhaps tomorrow, too)
DS is still asleep, so I have no idea of his plans for this evening. If he's in, we will have a nice tea and maybe a film, but in all likelihood, he will be out

DD has training between 7 and 9 so she'll sleep well. We're having a normal dinner at home tonight - curry - but have booked a restaurant for dinner tomorrow to celebrate (I hope!)

Well dd has just got up , told me the bus for college is at 7 am every day if she wants to arrive for the free breakfast, said at least if she fails she won’t have to get up early and went back to her room 😳😳😳

am going to have to find someone to start praying to

Does anyone know when the exam boards publish their grade boundaries...will it be tomorrow morning too?

Schools certainly have them tomorrow

Yes looks like tomorrow for AQA www.aqa.org.uk/exams-administration/results-days/grade-boundaries#boundaries

I will keep everything crossed for all of our DC tomorrow. I hope they all achieve the grades they need for their next steps. All the best x

DD is at a gig tonight. Won’t be back till gone 1. I’ll be having a glass of wine and a pizza at home with the dog (well not the wine for him!) as I’m not on driving duty for this one. Tomorrow dd already has plans with 2 friends for early pm so won’t have time to dwell at least initially (I hope)

Doe anyone know ... if a student has x 2 conditional offers as follows -

1. With current school for 6th form, high grade requirements and must be accepted by time lunchtime, and

1. With college and lower grade requirements and must be accepted by lunchtime Friday,

If - and it's a bloody big IF - all goes well and she gets the higher marks is it possible to accept the first one for where she is and then sleep on it and decide which one is her best fit before possibly cancel that and accepting the second the next day?

Hope that makes sense

Time lunchtime = tomorrow lunchtime

Absolutely yes. She can even accept both, then cancel after the weekend.

Ahh thank you. As I say it's a massive if but it would be good to have that breathing space to make the choice.

I wasn't sure if their exam/candidate number somehow meant that once one offer was accepted you couldn't do another.

Today is dragging so slowly. I just want it to be lunchtime tomorrow so the drama is mostly over.

DD is pretty chilled.

We haven't got a plan for tomorrow. I'll drive her to school. Parents not allowed inside, but I don't know if I'll park and wait or go find a wine bar cafe and wait for her to call me and let me know what's what.

I feel sick…! We’re not in the country at the moment (poor holiday planning!) but we can log on at 9am to get his results. He refused to consider a Plan B, so he is screwed if he hasn’t got the grades.

DD has now decided to come back to the car to open her results tomorrow. I’ve promised to go for a walk around the school field (while hyperventilating) to give her time alone.

Further general advice:

If results seem odd, requesting scripts is free in most cases, although schools can charge an admin fee.

Only students can request scripts or reviews, and they have to be done through the centre.

Reviews are expensive so if you're considering it, it's always wise to get someone who knows the papers to have a look first. If grades change, there's no fee. If marks do, but grades don't, you have to pay.

Individuals can't have NEA reviewed. Only centres can do that. It has to be the whole cohort.

Today is dragging rather...

Good luck everyone for tomorrow.

DS has admitted he is now feeling nervous. Mainly about history, which is his favourite subject and he is doing for A Level. He is now worried in case they can't read his handwriting. Also getting stressed about maths- he should be fine, predicted 7/8 but felt a couple of the papers went badly and now feels probably lost a lot of marks. Realistically, I think / hope he will be ok, but will be glad when know the reality and can move on.

I'm quite anxious but DD isn't. She feels optimistic about it all. Her 1st choice is her own school and 2nd choice is a selective grammar where she was waitlisted based on mock results (doubt she will get in from waitlist as her subjects are too popular). Her A level choices are set in stone: Maths, Chem, Bio, Further Maths. She needs 7+ to study Maths. Ideally 8-9, to be able to study Further Maths.

She is more preoccupied with what to wear this weekend and which Reading camp they will camp in. She is off to the festival on Friday with half her cohort (what was I thinking) and she's more excited about that than the results (me: I won't sleep with worry until she's back). Time flies too fast... GCSE exams, provisional licence, national insurance number, registration on the electoral roll, Reading festival with no parents, no uniform from September, independent study time, planning to travel abroad with friends next summer, job talks... it's all a bit overwhelming.

Hopefully tomorrow will be kind to all of us. Not sure how I will manage at work, even though I'm WFH. I've booked a 3-hr "do not book calls" slot in the morning as I don't think I'll be able to do meetings regardless of the results😀

Thanks @MrsHamlet that's useful to know x

We have no plan B.

If DS doesn't get his grades I have no clue what we'll do. He's high functioning ASD so changing schools isn't a good idea anyway and he gets good support where he is. He got appalling grades in his mocks (didn't realise how much revision he needed to do despite us and school telling him) and his executive functions are terrible, unsurprisingly, so actually doing revision was hard.

Having said that, the mocks were a big boot up the bum. He got a poor D for his additional maths mock and a high A in the real exam which we got back last week and which will allow him to do FM at A level. So here's hoping the rest are better too! (He wants to do maths, further maths, computing)

I want to go and hide somewhere. With gin.

I finished work at 3. I have washed the dishes, put some washing on, tidied the kitchen (cleaner comes tomorrow so she would do that anyway), packed up some sale sandals to go back and and now sorting through random bits of paperwork.
DS is in the shower. He reckons a film and pizza us the way forward for this evening.
Not sure I can cope until tomorrow

Thanks to some shitty behaviour in his ‘friendship’ group ds is probably more worried about where he’ll be camping at Reading than his results.

A delightful young man has taken against him and removed him from all the WhatsApp groups and seems to be actively trying to ostracise him 😡

I’ll be driving him there so he’s at the entrance at 8am when it opens on condition he checks his results before he goes in…

We have no official Plan B but a local sixth form will interview on the day for last minute places.