GCSE results day tomorrow

[Legz]

To all my fellow FMTTM'ers in the same boat as me tomorrow as a mam, I wish all your daughters, sons, grandkids, great grandkids, neices, nephews, cousins etc the very very best of luck. I suspect in a lot of cases today is going to be a highly emotional/difficult for some with nerves etc building.
We need to remind them though that whatever happens a number on a piece of paper doesn't define them, they are and mean so much more than that to all their nearest and dearest

 

[Malaguena]

What we said to ours at exam results time (not GCSEs, but the principle is the same) is that it doesn't actually matter - if you can look at yourself in the mirror and say I did the best I possibly could, then that's all that can be asked

 

[Malaguena]

Did I read somewhere that they're marking them "harder" this year ?

 

[clay]

Did I read somewhere that they're marking them "harder" this year ?

I think they are still correcting for the grade inflation during covid. This was the A-level trend:

 

[Legz]

I think they are still correcting for the grade inflation during covid. This was the A-level trend:

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This is the last year for taking Covid in to consideration marking wise for GCSE's..my daughter was starting year 9 when all this started so missed out on a whole year of GCSE work (she picked her options in year 10 instead because of the covid restrictions). Obviously this year it was back to normal for A levels as they are 2 year courses but GCSE's are 3 (years 9-11)

 

[red_harrington]

My boy getting his tomorrow fingers crossed

 

[Concrete Dreams]

This is the last year for taking Covid in to consideration marking wise for GCSE's..my daughter was starting year 9 when all this started so missed out on a whole year of GCSE work (she picked her options in year 10 instead because of the covid restrictions). Obviously this year it was back to normal for A levels as they are 2 year courses but GCSE's are 3 (years 9-11)

This year is another step closer to pre-Covid so it will be another step down in terms of pass rate and the top grades.

 

[red_harrington]

3 x 9s (physics, maths, history)
6 x 8s
1 x 7

Now where is that gloat emoji?

 

[Legz]

3 x 9s (physics, maths, history)
6 x 8s
1 x 7

Now where is that gloat emoji?

Haha yeah I need that too...I've converted to old money though
2 x A*
2 x A
4 x B

She's more buzzing about the fact she's passed French more than anything. She's not studying it further or anything but it's always been her achilles heel

 

[red_harrington]

Dunno where my boy got his brains from it's not me that's for sure

 

[Legz]

Dunno where my boy got his brains from it's not me that's for sure

Hahaha....well the daughter is now officially the cleverest person in the house with her results!

 

[Malaguena]

She's more buzzing about the fact she's passed French more than anything

I remember my daughter - international school doing the English curriculum

She got 3 A*s, 3 As, 2 Bs and a C - she was more chuffed with the C in Maths than anything else as she hated that subject and struggled with it

 

[Corco65]

Some great results and pleasing for the young people who have worked hard for them.

If you have a young person who hasn't done as well as hoped or expected, or they haven't even entered any exams, don't let it define them. There are so many pressures on young people to achieve certain things at certain times and if you don't succeed you can be left feeling a failure. They have plenty of time ahead to work out what they want to do and to learn in many different ways. Help your young person to be happy in what they enjoy and they will find a way of being successful in whatever way success means to them.

 

[sweet_left_foot]

Some great results and pleasing for the young people who have worked hard for them.

If you have a young person who hasn't done as well as hoped or expected, or they haven't even entered any exams, don't let it define them. There are so many pressures on young people to achieve certain things at certain times and if you don't succeed you can be left feeling a failure. They have plenty of time ahead to work out what they want to do and to learn in many different ways. Help your young person to be happy in what they enjoy and they will find a way of being successful in whatever way success means to them.

Absolutely. This is the start, not the end.
It's a marathon, not a snickers, as many wise heads have said before.

 

[FatFrank]

I left school with 2 Cs, 6 Ds and a U.

I now have a Level6 degree and a £45k p/a job.

Never let a fish try to impress you with its ability to climb trees.

 

[NorthumberlandBoro]

How many adults quote precise GCSE results on their job applications?

 

[1finny]

I left school with 2 Cs, 6 Ds and a U.

I now have a Level6 degree and a £45k p/a job.

Never let a fish try to impress you with its ability to climb trees.

Great last line.....
Can't help thinking you have been modest.....
leaving out your degree in philosophy

 

[Legz]

I know that GCSE's aren't all that important in the long run and we told her as long as she had tried her best it was all we wanted. But we could see the pressure she was putting herself under the nearer that results day came, having to deal with a year of covid in her GCSE years and being pretty ill the first week of exams, she had written herself off.
But when she rang me today (I was barred from going lol) the pure joy in her voice....well I cried. I think she proved something to herself today...more important than her results.

 

[1finny]

I know that GCSE's aren't all that important in the long run and we told her as long as she had tried her best it was all we wanted. But we could see the pressure she was putting herself under the nearer that results day came, having to deal with a year of covid in her GCSE years and being pretty ill the first week of exams, she had written herself off.
But when she rang me today (I was barred from going lol) the pure joy in her voice....well I cried. I think she proved something to herself today...more importantly than her results.

That's just fab

 

[London_Boro]

Our boy is now going into year 11 in a couple of weeks, and his yr.10 mocks were a disaster, he really struggled. We're pretty worried but as long as he tries hard, then that's all we can ask. I just hope he gets what he needs for entry onto the 6th form courses he'd like to do. The hard work starts now we have a school year to turn things around!

I did pretty average/poorly at school 1xC, 4xD, 1xE, 2xF, but managed to get onto a college course for a City and Guilds, which led me onto a B-Tec, Then a BA(Hons) degree, and recently in my 40's a Masters Degree in a specific area of law (LLM) the last one whilst working full time in a pretty busy, and well paid job. There is always hope!