Mock exams

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Dd doing really well in two of her A levels, but struggling with the third subject.

Has just completed her mocks and I'm really worried about the grade she will get.

What do we do if she fails? I'm so confused about everything. She has had a tough time at home as her older brother has been quite demanding and struggling with mental health.

We begged her not to take this subject but she was being stubborn as she took it that we didn't think she was capable. We knew she just wasn't suited to this subject.

She has now admitted it was a huge mistake taking it. Not sure what our options will be?

She'll just have to continue with it.
Ask the subject teacher what additional support is in place. Over the holidays she'll need to revise and do more practise papers.

What age is she? Is she final year or first year? Either way, tuition or an educational consultant could be an option? Whether they recommend she resits the exam to get into uni etc, or they tutor her through the next year?

She won't 'just have to continue'. There are other options but you might think they are worse.
The most obvious other option is to restart y12 in September with different options, maybe at a different place. This could be A levels again or a BTEC Extended Diploma, or 2 A levels & a BTEC certificate.

The school may not allow her to restart yr12. Our school only does so in very special circumstances. She either continues, or she can go down to 2 A levels and think about what options are open to her.
Or leave and find a college course or an apprenticeship.

How badly did she do? It really depends on what she plans to do after A levels. If she looks in line to get a C that's not too bad, and there's time to pull it up to a B with determination, and a C is fine for many universities. Or dies she want to drop the subject?
I'm not sure starting over if she's doing well in two subjects is a good idea. It is possible for her to continue with the two and take a third A level online or after she leaves school at a different college (in effect taking a gap year). But her school is your first port of call - what do they suggest?

She is in her first year. She has her final mock tomorrow and told me she is struggling with this subject.
I guess we can only be sure once we get her results. The other two subjects she is doing really well.

The subject is split into two modules. One part she is getting As & Bs the other Cs & Ds

So she's doing well in one part?
Which part and what subject?

Economics

She is struggling with the micro part

From her last report she was predicted A B B .

It sounds redeemable. Could the teacher give her extra support for the micro part, so that she can tackle some past questions over the holidays?
As pp said, she could still get into a university with those grades. What does she want to apply for?.

Getting As and Bs on one part and Cs and Ds on the other is an awful long way away from failing

If she puts in some extra work/gets a tutor she may well be able to pull the grade up. But she's definitely not at the level where doing anything but continuing should really be on the table. Unless she really hates it.

Maybe you are setting the bar very high and putting her under pressure. She is doing well if she is getting As and Bs for part of it.

That is nothing like failing. That is 'not doing quite as well as she would like'.

So I have a totally different answer. Use the summer to go over the half she finds hard, and if necessary think about a tutor.

Economics is hard. It’s not easy to get an A in. Hopefully she has a B or C. As it’s the end of her first year, you could easily hire a tutor for her second year and that would increase her chances at a really good final grade.

I was going to offer advice from experience but I can see it's a bit different, my son was actually failing.

He worked with school to do extra work to plug the gaps in his knowledge, they gave him extra sessions, I got him a tutor.

Same thefirstfortyeight . Part of it is mindset as well - my son only started doing better once he got over the belief that he couldn't do any better and it wasn't worth trying and actually started applying himself.
We also got him a tutor, encouraged him to go to every bit of study support at school and helped him organise a study timetable (because it helped him to have some structure around his day).
It also helps not to define "not getting As or Bs" as "failing".

@redskyatnight I identify with that strongly, mindset and confidence are key.

Yes, it really doesn't seem to be too bad a situation.

Get her a tutor in this subject. Most kids I tutored at A level jumped up 2 grades.

Thank you for your replies. I should have worded myself differently as I don't see her as failing at all.
She said she is going to fail this subject.

I was just seeing what we could do.

It sounds as if she just needs a bit of extra help on that module and she can bring her grade up, possibly a tutor as pp have suggested.
Her grades are looking fine for a good uni.