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Year 11 - 2024/2025: The Results Day Thread

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QueenMabby · 20/08/2025 09:16

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

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QueenMabby · 21/08/2025 13:47

Some amazing stories on here! @TeenToTwenties- bloody well done on the re-sit result. Fantastic!

Dd apparently had to give an “interview” to a videographer at school after I’d left her. She has no idea whether it was a school thing or an outside thing (there was a press photographer there but it wasn’t the same person) so I’m now scouring the local news outlets just in case! 🤣

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HereIGoOnceMore · 21/08/2025 13:54

Another with an English that has dropped from a 9 to a 5, but close to the grade boundary for a 6. It does seem to be a theme.

Well done to everyone’s DC for their hardwork and their successes. They’ve had a bumpy school career and we can be rightly proud.

loopsngeorge · 21/08/2025 13:58

Yes same here for us in English Lit. Predicted at least an 8, got a solid 6. But got a 9 in Eng language with a different exam board. Definitely going to have the paper checked.

MackenCheese · 21/08/2025 13:58

What do people think about doing A level Biology with a 6 GCSE? My dd got a 6-7 in Combined science higher, but doesn't want to bite off more than she can chew in 6th form (previous EBSA)

TeenToTwenties · 21/08/2025 14:02

MackenCheese · 21/08/2025 13:58

What do people think about doing A level Biology with a 6 GCSE? My dd got a 6-7 in Combined science higher, but doesn't want to bite off more than she can chew in 6th form (previous EBSA)

Have you got the marks per paper so you can see how she got on on the biology papers themselves? You could ask school, they will have that info i believe.

BreakfastClub · 21/08/2025 14:03

Help!
English language was surprisingly low - 4
Mock was a 7
exam board Edexel
I've asked for a copy of the papers so the teacher can look at them.
Not sure what happened, anyone else with a surprisingly low English Lang grade?
The mark also did not show on the Exam slip for English Language, is this normal?

JoanThursday · 21/08/2025 14:04

Interesting to read the comments about Eng Lit here. My ds was predicted a 7 but got a 5 and the school has put it in for a review.

Overall, ds is very happy. He has the grades to do his chosen A levels - especially as our school asks for at least a 7 for STEM subjects. We have a very relieved boy!

justteanbiscuits · 21/08/2025 14:07

BreakfastClub · 21/08/2025 14:03

Help!
English language was surprisingly low - 4
Mock was a 7
exam board Edexel
I've asked for a copy of the papers so the teacher can look at them.
Not sure what happened, anyone else with a surprisingly low English Lang grade?
The mark also did not show on the Exam slip for English Language, is this normal?

How do you request a copy of the papers for teacher to look at? Predicted 8/9 and got a 6..

Michele09 · 21/08/2025 14:11

@justteanbiscuitsWe just phoned up the Exams Officer and she emailed it straight through to us. Have now forwarded the paper to the teacher to look over.

TeenToTwenties · 21/08/2025 14:15

@BreakfastClub It is normal for the marks not to appear as the software can't cope with reporting the speaking&listening bit and the mark. The school will know.

JudgeJ · 21/08/2025 14:16

SuperTrooper1111 · 21/08/2025 11:17

You can make an observation but, seriously, what a comment to leave on a forum of parents trying celebrate their children's achievement on the biggest day of their lives so far! Read the room, perhaps? We have to be involved because of the sheer amount of work involved. My DD has struggled with school-related anxiety since Y3. She sat 25 papers for her GCSEs and that was less than a lot of students. If we left them to it, so many kids would buckle under the pressure.

Thanks, lovey, I can 'read the room', stupid phrase but it seems to be on trend this week. Nothing was meant to be critical of parents' celebrating their children's success, it was just a thought about how I think that parental anxiety isn't good for children in any field.

SuperTrooper1111 · 21/08/2025 14:17

Just had a message back from DD's English teacher saying that they are going to look at her Lit papers again in light of AQA marking/grading issues. She said "we'll had her to the list to be looked at" so clearly we aren't the only ones questioning it.

BerryTwister · 21/08/2025 14:19

MrsTWH · 21/08/2025 13:39

We’ve had the same! Predicted 8/9 in Lit/Lang and both a 6!

Same here. Also AQA. DS has never got below 9 in English language and literature. Predicted 9. He found language paper 1 hard, as did many. But he felt the literature papers went well. He ended up with a 7 in each, and according to the grade boundaries he was very near a 6. All his other grades were as expected or better, but English was significantly lower.

mojobrojo · 21/08/2025 14:20

Little bit of a mixed bag here. Some expected results (9s in maths, physics and chemistry), some results that really show how much work he put in because he found them tough (9 in biology, and 8s in English lit and history), some he says are okayish (7s for music and business) and then a bit of a rogue 6 for English Language that he’s a bit disgruntled with.

He’s a couple of marks off higher grades in five subjects though… so looks like remarks are going to drag this out…

We’ve confirmed A level choices and put it out of our mind to focus on the birthday brunch and present opening 🎁 🥐

TheLivelyViper · 21/08/2025 14:20

strawlight · 21/08/2025 11:39

Sorry if this has been asked but is an 8 an A or an A*?

An 8 is an A (a-star), a 7 is an A(a) and a 9 is technically a higher A(a-star) so an A**(a-star,star). Sort of like with a 4 is low C and a 5 a high C.

BreakfastClub · 21/08/2025 14:21

@justteanbiscuits We completed a form and returned it to the exams officer while we were still at the school.

justteanbiscuits · 21/08/2025 14:21

JudgeJ · 21/08/2025 14:16

Thanks, lovey, I can 'read the room', stupid phrase but it seems to be on trend this week. Nothing was meant to be critical of parents' celebrating their children's success, it was just a thought about how I think that parental anxiety isn't good for children in any field.

At least we are celebrating our children's success and they know we care about them.

I got the bus to school, got results and that was it. Parents weren't as interested. I prefer interested, involved parents thanks.

justteanbiscuits · 21/08/2025 14:22

BreakfastClub · 21/08/2025 14:21

@justteanbiscuits We completed a form and returned it to the exams officer while we were still at the school.

We didn't go in with him. So I just need to email the school exams officer?

BerryTwister · 21/08/2025 14:23

MackenCheese · 21/08/2025 13:58

What do people think about doing A level Biology with a 6 GCSE? My dd got a 6-7 in Combined science higher, but doesn't want to bite off more than she can chew in 6th form (previous EBSA)

@MackenCheese I got a B in my GCSE (actually it was O level then) biology, then got an A in biology A level, and now I’m a doctor.

ExamStuff · 21/08/2025 14:25

JudgeJ · 21/08/2025 14:16

Thanks, lovey, I can 'read the room', stupid phrase but it seems to be on trend this week. Nothing was meant to be critical of parents' celebrating their children's success, it was just a thought about how I think that parental anxiety isn't good for children in any field.

🙄

SuperTrooper1111 · 21/08/2025 14:26

JudgeJ · 21/08/2025 14:16

Thanks, lovey, I can 'read the room', stupid phrase but it seems to be on trend this week. Nothing was meant to be critical of parents' celebrating their children's success, it was just a thought about how I think that parental anxiety isn't good for children in any field.

You don't think calling parents hysterical is being critical?

SuperTrooper1111 · 21/08/2025 14:27

ExamStuff · 21/08/2025 14:25

🙄

I know. I do wish they'd bore off to another thread and leave us to celebrate our children's successes.

TheLivelyViper · 21/08/2025 14:27

Just to say about the AQA marking for English Literaturw - different exam boards make different papers and have different styles of question, different texts sometimes (although similar) and they have different mark scheme based on different AOS (assesments objectives - what you need to do in your answers. AQA English Lit has A01 - knowledge and structure and ideas mainly being coherent, etc. AO2 - Language and structure analysis and evaluation, etc. AO3 - Context of the author and the time the book was written, etc, and using that to inform your AO1 and AO2. That's a brief summary.

Basically, for any subject but especially English Lit, you can not compare the marking because the papers, the questions, what they ask students to do, the structure of the paper, etc, are all different. So while there may be 'issues' with marking that happens across all subjects(it may also not be an issues of marking but the student messed up, read the questions wrong, pressure, ran out of time etc). So it's quite hard to make a comparison of marking across exam boards, especially for English literature, as its so different between them. If you think the mark is wrong or bizarre , ask the school exam officer to request the scripts and teachers to review first before you go for a review of marking.

MackenCheese · 21/08/2025 14:28

BerryTwister · 21/08/2025 14:23

@MackenCheese I got a B in my GCSE (actually it was O level then) biology, then got an A in biology A level, and now I’m a doctor.

Im so glad you said that....Do you know what? I did exactly the same!! B in O level biology, A at A level and ended up in Medicine WinkWink. I'm sure exams are harder now, though.....!

SuperTrooper1111 · 21/08/2025 14:28

SuperTrooper1111 · 21/08/2025 14:26

You don't think calling parents hysterical is being critical?

It's also supremely patronising to call someone you don't know "lovey". You're not my mother.

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