Year 11 - 2024/2025: The Results Day Thread

[QueenMabby]

New thread for results day. Deep breaths. We can do this!

Another here with nerves building. No idea why really as son is expected to do well, but still! Their school is open from 8am to 10am to collect results. Son being very "what ever" about what time he wants to go, and whether we drive him and wait outside or whether we just wait for a whatsapp! I need plans dammit!

Anyone who has been through it before.. I know I see people saying things like "he was just 3 points off a 7" or what ever. Do the results give that level of detail? What their actual score was, not just the result?

Joining ready. Good luck everyone!

I’m trying to decide when to take the dog out tomorrow. Dog likes to go as soon as I’ve eaten breakfast but that will be about 8am and I don’t really want a text / call while I’m out as the results may not be great. However I can’t wait til we all get home and don’t want to take the dog out after I know in case there’s stuff to sort out! 🤣

My daughter was set on sixth form but we found a T Level Health course in Midwifery that is the equivalent of 3 A Levels. She only needs 4s for her place but we are still nervous excited.

I've resigned myself to not sleeping well tonight so I'm planning to take our dog out super early – prob 6.30 – for a quick run round park then she'll have a second longer one later in the day.

Joining nervously.

DD worked so hard but has struggled with school. Undiagnosed dyslexia until year 10 then her Grandma died a few weeks before the exams started.

We're just praying to see some 4s on the paper!

My eldest daughter had the scores on her sheet. Didn’t mean anything to us at the time. The teachers had been through the grades and she had a star on her envelope which meant she needed to see the teachers. It was to tell her she was 2 marks off the next grade so had to decide if to ask for a remark. At that time the school paid for rechecks so we went for a remark to find it stayed the same. Luckily didn’t make a difference to her next steps and she had passed the subject.

If we had to pay ourselves we wouldn’t have bothered to do a recheck.

Tomorrow youngest collects results we’ve been told school no longer pay for rechecks.

Mine can get a bit excited and then anxious around other dogs and I did think about going out v early but think they’ll be a lot of dogs out at that time and a lot of different dogs that he isn’t familiar with. I think I’ll see how I sleep. I know my son wants a lift to a meeting point to meet his friends and then they’ll walk in from there so it’s either before I give the lift or when I get home from the lift 😬

Come join the BTech/T Levels thread for Sept starters! Lots of us haven't had any experience of them before now, so it should be a great place for support.

https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/further_education/5391936-btect-levelother-vocational-2526?reply=146425907

Just a reminder about English.

Schools are required to report the spoken language endorsement. This means that it's highly likely that you'll get the overall grade + that but NOT the actual mark for the exams.

It's not the exam board's fault, or the schools. The MIS just can't cope with the number of fields of data.

School WILL have the mark but they'll need to look it up.

I'm feeling very lucky regarding tomorrow.

DD - very SEN - has a place on a vocational course, and they have emailed 3 times to check she is definitely coming and are super keen to have her, so that has been good for morale. She only needs 4 GCSEs to matriculate and we have one in the bag from last year and scores on coursework were enough for passes in 2 others so hopefully even if it turns out exams were wildly off she should have everything.

I have absolutely no clue what results she will get - and I suspect they will be a very random bunch of numbers. Mainly praying that the decision to sit the Higher tier maths was the right one. If not, the new college have already said they will just stick her in for Foundation in the Autumn and get it sorted.

I feel that finally we are starting from the right point where Covid will no longer feature. It's messed up so many subjects for her for GCSE.

Music was the one thing we managed to keep normal all the way through the bubbles and lockdowns and online learning, it's the only thing that her SEN doesn't disadvantage her in, and her taster day at the new college was really fun. It's all she's ever wanted to do, so I'm also feeling grateful that we have a school system that does allow early specialisms and we haven't got another 2 years of maths, english and other subjects to slog through!

Wishing everyone lots of luck for tomorrow and that everyone gets what they need for next steps!

A big unMumsnetty hug to you, @Fightingdragonswithyou, that sounds really tough. Hope she gets what she needs.

Sorry. I'm not sure I understand what you are saying. What are we likely to see for English then?

Thank you! I will come over 🙂

Thank you.

Its going to be a hard day as Mum was so proud of her and all the Grandkids and would have been the first person we rang with the results.

I'm so proud of how she just got her head down and worked. God if she passes English I feel like shoving it in her teacher's face as they basically told her she'd never pass and didn't try hard enough!

Joining ready for tomorrow, nerves are really kicking in now (and thats just me 😂)
I have absolutely no idea how ds will have done, he’s convinced he’s done well so I’m just hoping he isn’t disappointed 🤞

@OhCrumbsWhereNow her college sound great, I’m really glad she has found something that sounds so positive for her

An overall grade and then the spoken lang which will be P, M or D.

I see. Thank you.

I feel similar. I haven't lost Mum (exactly) but she has dementia which has reached a point she isn't easy to contact. So we're visiting on Sunday. But she is so proud of my kids, and would have been SO excited and be bragging to all her friends. I will have to convert the results to what she will understand too, as she won't get the 1 - 9 what so ever.

Welcome all!
@lifeturnsonadime- that’s such a shame for your dd. Fingers crossed for tomorrow.

I shall be picking my dd up from her residential tonight which will probably be followed by a sleepless night! We pick up results tomorrow at 8am and she has to be back at the residential at lunchtime. Our celebratory meal is therefore postponed until Saturday!

My beloved late dad would be SO proud of his gc 💙

Same situation here, l like to think they're looking down on us

I saw ours yesterday! I’ve had a good old nose and added the grades to my mark book !