AS results? Confused.

mae

Its so frustrating because if he puts his mind to it and revised he would easily get Cs and Bs. I don't expect him to get As or over achieve just work to his potential.

He is not bad just a normal teenager really, his attitiude drives me insane at times. Funny how other peoples teenagers really make me laugh and I can accept its their age and no big deal etc but when its MY teenager you could peel me of the ceiling he could get me so hyped up with his 'yeah, what ever you say Mum' attitude. I tell him how it is and he will say ' Yeah' and then I say 'Yeah? Is that it, yeah' and he says 'Yeah if you say so' it sounds funny writing it down but its SO not, its infuriating!!!

This is how I would describe him in smilie icons :eek: :eek: :cool: :cool: :cool: :rolleyes: :rolleyes: :eek: :A :A Get my drift? :rotfl:

HC_2

Today I had one DD with phenomenal results - this time next year she will have 5 1/2 A levels, all at grade A. She says she will, and I know she will.

My other DD, although perfectly bright, finds sciences and maths hard and slightly boring, and so watches TV when she should be studying. Hence dreadful results. (I have twins.)

It's a case of deciding what you want, and doing what you have to do to get there. Many teenagers know what they want.... but prefer to do other things. I was the same.

We have a lot of thinking to do in our house, with regard to the DD who didn't get what she wanted, as I imagine is the case all over the country.

RachelRa

Argh! I was told this over and over and over again... in college, I don't understand how anyone can miss it! (No offence to your kids, but we really had this drilled into us).

AS marks (along with teachers predicted grades for your ALevel) are on your UCAS form for uni. You will get or not get interviews for unis on these results.

ALSO, further doom (sorry). You can resit, but most colleges wont until at least Jan, by which time UCAS will have already gone off to unis.... only way I can see to get out of it really effecting your chances is take a gap year. That means you can have the resit grades on your application.

Oldernotwiser

mizzy2 wrote: »

I got a U in General studies in AS, but when I went to uni they didnt even look at it or ask me anything about it. I think it only matters if its one of the subjects required for the desired uni course.

Whatever grade you got in General Studies it hardly matters. Most decent universities don't count it at all.

HC_2

Oldernotwiser wrote: »

Whatever grade you got in General Studies it hardly matters. Most decent universities don't count it at all.

Very true. So why do some schools make it obligatory? It seems a dreadful waste of time that could be spent on proper subjects.

HC_2

pandora205 wrote: »

she was doing 5 subjects which is stupid!

Some teenagers can cope with five subjects. My DD got all straight As, and so already has an A grade maths A level. She is continuing with five subjects to A2. Additionally she is doing an 'Extended Project' in physics, which will count as an another AS. My other DD is taking only three subjects to A2. It depends entirely on the child.

SuziQ

My daughter repeated 2 modules to pull up from a B at AS level and managed to get 4 A's today-she did the resits in amongst her other exams in June and said it really put no extra strain on her (she did resits in Spanish and History) She really didn't need to bother as her results of 2 A's and 2 B's was already ok but wanted to do it for her own satisfaction-she had missed an A by I mark in Spanish and 3 in History!
Another friends daughter got a U at AS for English and resat,then managed to get a B at A level last year-she also said it was no extra stress to do that. For her this was imperative as she neded at least a B in English.In my opinion I therefore feel it is well worth resiting (we were made to pay for them though!)

SuziQ

HC wrote: »

Very true. So why do some schools make it obligatory? It seems a dreadful waste of time that could be spent on proper subjects.

My daughter was forced to do it as our local Uni-Essex-recognises it so they ALL have to do it. She was forced to give up psychology last year (which she achieved 100% in and enjoyed)due to this as she didn't want to do 5-but hated General studies and it goes completely unrecognised by Kent where she is going.

I also hated General studies A level back in the 70's when I took it and used to bunk off sometimes as I couldn't stand it!

Conscientia

My college devoted an hour a week to General Studies. The class had no structure at all - we did the entire A-Level in a year (AS at Jan, A2 in June). I think colleges must have a financial incentive for forcing it upon their students.

In regards to the original post, I think I'd definitely resit the examinations that I failed on. If he is dropping one of the 'U' grade subjects then it would probably be best that he didn't acknowledge it on his UCAS application or CV, as 'U' grades tend not to work in an applicants favour.

As mentioned above, the predicted grades sent to UCAS will be based on the AS results. On top of that, having a low AS score would make it INCREDIBLY difficult to get a good grade at A2. The resit examinations would be in January, so wouldn't interfere with his A2's too much (he may have to put in a bit more effort with balancing his homework/coursework for A2 and revising but that is about it).

An added bonus of resitting an examination is that it shows potential employers/universities that he is determined to correct his failings and therefore committed to achieving. As I said in another post on this board, it would be possible for him to speak to his tutors and have this mentioned on his reference - it may work in his favour.

Realistically, if he doesn't resist he'll be lucky to open the envelope this time next year with anything greater than 'D' even with a moderate amount of work. Plus, it is possible that simply knowing that you have a low grade at AS and finding the A2 difficult you may just give up on it entirely with a "I didn't pass last year, I probably won't next this year - so why try?" attitude.

I hope you manage to talk him around

Helix

Conscientia wrote: »

In regards to the original post, I think I'd definitely resit the examinations that I failed on. If he is dropping one of the 'U' grade subjects then it would probably be best that he didn't acknowledge it on his UCAS application or CV, as 'U' grades tend not to work in an applicants favour.

Providing you decline it, its like it never existed. Things which haven't been declined must be declared on UCAS though, you can't be selective as to what goes on like you can with a CV.