GCSE result day!!!!

my son had his results and was sooooo pleased, I had to collect them for him as he is in Germany with the Marines on an activity week! I felt sick waiting in the queue. How mad is that they were not even my results.

When I called him from school, all i could hear was a bunch of Marines shout HOOFIN BOY!!!! his school pals were in fits.



well done kiddo Alevels await.

Any other stories good and bad?

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Congrats to your son :)

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Thanks, but it wa sad to see some of the kids who were upset with their results being told that their place at 6form was no longer available to them... Some of them looked so lost while others were shouting with glee. Made me wonder if there was a better way to give out the results. In my day they came by post!

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Well done jacqs junior :thumbsup:

I agree though it's a tough time for those who don't get what they were hoping for. If anyone reading this is in that position post away on here and we'll cheer you up with some stories of how not all of us got the results we perhaps should have :smug: :thumbsup:


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Guess it depends how hard those kids worked. When I did GCSEs the kids who got poo grades were the ones who were disruptive.

Obviously, that's not the case for all. But GCSEs aren't hte hardest things. I'm not a fan ox exams, though. they shouldn't count for so much of the grade. They don't show how much you know, they show your skills of how much you can cram in in the days, even night before. Thats how I got through my exams. Basically memorised things the day before and blagging. And I got good results.

It's not really right. There are people who know their stuff, but just can't work in exam conditions. And bollocks about getting them used to workign under pressure, etc. No job I've had, under pressure or not, has been like an exam room.

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Very well said. I got good GCSE grades but it was a result of revising hard for the 2 weeks before, I didn't really pay much attention during the term.

It's very true that exams are a bit of a wasted skill. You'll never need to have the ability to have everything you know about a subject in your memory at one time.

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A huge amount of the result is in the units these days, so if you get A* in the unit and an A in the exam you get an Aa?? So there is scope to help some folks out. Also the staff are good at helping the kids to inprove unit grades before they are submitted.

I think compared to the ols O'levels they have a better chance to achieve, but agree that the exam is the worst part. in one paper the entire siting were expected to sit a paper based on an are they had not even covered?? how does that work then? Lucky for my son he had the ability to pull a good grade out of it anyway but no all could do that.

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that happened to me in a geography exam. We were meant to memorise these different case studies because two of them will be the two answers to the questions. I memorised just two and one of them wasnt one of the q's. But I blagged it like a beeyatch and somehow made it apply and got a decent grade out of it.

I blagged and Engliush oral exam too. Had to talk aboit something to do with his book that I can't remember. I managed to pull that one out of the bag too.

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