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Nice people thread 2 - now even nicer
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Congratulations treliac!
I know what it's like to be on scholarship. 
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vivatifosi wrote: »Never say never fc. I didn't get my Masters until I was early 40s.
So true, I never thought I would ever get to do my degree but here I am, aged 40 and in my second year....even if it is via the OU and will take longer.We made it! All three boys have graduated, it's been hard work but it shows there is a possibility of a chance of normal (ish) life after a diagnosis (or two) of ASD. It's not been the easiest route but I am so glad I ignored everything and everyone and did my own therapies with them.
Eldests' EDS diagnosis 4.5.10, mine 13.1.11 eekk - now having fun and games as a wheelchair user.0 -
I am one very proud mum right now......eldest got 9 A-C GCSE's! There was only one bad result which was history with an E but we expected that one anyway.
He is off to 6th form and no retakes!We made it! All three boys have graduated, it's been hard work but it shows there is a possibility of a chance of normal (ish) life after a diagnosis (or two) of ASD. It's not been the easiest route but I am so glad I ignored everything and everyone and did my own therapies with them.
Eldests' EDS diagnosis 4.5.10, mine 13.1.11 eekk - now having fun and games as a wheelchair user.0 -
I am one very proud mum right now......eldest got 9 A-C GCSE's! There was only one bad result which was history with an E but we expected that one anyway.
He is off to 6th form and no retakes!
Excellent result!! Well done him. :T
Please congratulate him heartily and wish him good luck for 6th form. 0 -
Super result for eldest, Sue! :beer:
It's days like this that make all the anguished parenting stuff worthwhile. 0 -
That feeling I know very well.
I seem to have been dancing to someone elses tune all my life. I am like the girl in the little red shoes, my feet are blistered and bleeding and yet on I dance.........
It is entirely my own fault, I keep moving my own goalposts.
Might have a little to do with wanting to spend £1300 on a skirt too!;)My daughter starts her masters next month - thanks to everyone who showed such interest. :A
She was worried about the finances and has been working every minute she could cram in but, a miracle has occurred, the uni has given her a full bursary.
Needless to say she is over the moon. The pressure is off and the money she is earning can be put aside for books, car running costs etc. etc.
Our pocket will be helped too. Freed up to concentrate on child no. 2
:jTop quality news treliac!I am one very proud mum right now......eldest got 9 A-C GCSE's! There was only one bad result which was history with an E but we expected that one anyway.
He is off to 6th form and no retakes!
:j ditto for you too Sue!
And also to fc123!:T Tell DS to work very hard, as I may need his services when I slander or libel someone on here!:D
I would like to do my MA at some point. I didn't go straight to uni. When I did A levels at school I bit off more than I could chew. I took a year out after that, worked here & there, & then went back to college & did alternative A levels.
I then went to uni, not studying my first choice of subject. However, I have to say with the benefit of hindsight that the subject I did study was more enlightening, more fun, and more enjoyable!
I think having had that year out helped. I still wanted to do a lot of the stereotypical student stuff. What struck me, was that after leaving uni, for personal enjoyment I wanted to read loads of the books I was supposed to have read in studying for the degree!:oIt's getting harder & harder to keep the government in the manner to which they have become accustomed.0 -
I will do thanks Treliac.
He was so nervous last night and was expecting the worse..he was even talking about retakes. The one worrying him the most was maths as you need that at C or above to get into 6th form here (not sure if it is the same everywhere), he had had a go at an early GCSE in maths (linear) at the start of year 11 where he got a D and he wasn't confident on improving on that in the GCSE (modular) this time around...but he did!
Funniest result was biology, talking to him last night and he was saying he would fail that completely as he didn't understand a blooming word of it....he got a B.
All told, he has now got 11 GCSE's with only two below a C grade.
Unfortunately, the three musketeers as we call him and his two friends (one boy and one girl) looks like will be split up. Eldest and the other boy got enough for 6th form but the girl did pretty badly and not enough for the school to offer a place - not even for retakes, so eldest has gone up to the local college in the next town to see if they can do anything for her.
Real shame as the three of them have always been there for one another to support, study and make sense of things since starting at high school.We made it! All three boys have graduated, it's been hard work but it shows there is a possibility of a chance of normal (ish) life after a diagnosis (or two) of ASD. It's not been the easiest route but I am so glad I ignored everything and everyone and did my own therapies with them.
Eldests' EDS diagnosis 4.5.10, mine 13.1.11 eekk - now having fun and games as a wheelchair user.0 -
Bad mummy moment.
We collect results at school, open envelope and I say, "we need to leave quickly, those results are too good to be yours, we need to leave before they realise.":o:o:o:o
1 x A*, 6 x A's and 3 x B's.
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Does that mean his UCAS offer was 2 x A* and 1 X A? I didn't think offers went that high. Or was he looking for a clearing place?
He's going to apply to Oxford this autumn, but he thinks that 1 x A* is not enough to have a decent chance of success. As MissKool says, there are so many people applying with top grades that the exams are not much help for the universities in sorting out academic merit. And one approach must be for them to apply a very high barrier, just to avoid having to process so many applications.
Oh, and grats on the excellent GCSE results. No reliance should be placed on the above! Absolutely none, do you hear?0
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