GCSE results day - proud mums and dads, what did you (ie your kids) get?

megela

Emmarillo wrote: »

My daughter (just finished year 9) did one early and got a C. She's really disappointed. None of her friends got a higher grade with a lot of Es and Fs so it makes me wonder what the point is really.
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My year 9 daughter just got a C too in double science, she's over the moon, apparently she took a foundation level and couldn't have actually got a higher grade. Lots of her friends need to retake the course next year.

So proud of her.

meritaten

my Aspie grandson took one O level this year - Welsh. he got an A and a C. Two components to the exam! after his dismal first 12 years in school and only being at this school for about 18 months we are all absolutely thrilled! he is doing another two O levels next year plus BTecs.

fedup.com_2

My youngest dd. got 2As and 7Bs. I'm very proud of her she has been quite poorly this school year with loads of time off ( only got 70% attendance) due to lots of time in bed and hospital appointments. So she did very well.
My eldest has just got into university after being diagnosed as dyslexic in may this year. She didnt think she would get the grades needed. So again very proud.
I'm a single mum not through choice and its been a rough few years for us all. Ex has messed with their heads and refused contact with them so it could've been very different. But they stuck at it and made themselves and me very proud.

dragonb4

so very proud of my daugher andrea
she just had a ear-infection that went in to her brain and has been left with a large blood clot on her brain she has just spent the last 5weeks in the UHW..( noah,s arc childrens hospital cardiff).. yep we missed the heat wave
she sat her exams during the infection but still managed to get one B and 3c,s she didnt get the grades she needed to return to school
but our local college has excepted her, its gonna be a long slow journey but were getting there

SingleSue

Very proud of my middle son, he is Aspergic and was labelled unteachable at age 7 and has a verbal understanding learning disability.

He got 10 A-C GCSEs/GCSE equivalent including English and Maths plus a couple of D's and one E (in R.E). This is even with the school messing up and not submitting all his work for music, meaning he missed out on his Distinction* x 2.

I must admit we were sweating on the English result as he really struggled with the subject but thankfully, all the extra tuition paid off...phew!

Been a good 7 days for us, eldest got into the university of his choice last week with better than expected results.

loobylou2

DS who is only 15 and has just finished year 10 is at a school where they do enter them early for their exams. He now has C grades in Maths,Science,Geography,History and German and a Starred distinction in BTEC Public Services which I understand is the equivalent to 2 A*'s at GCSE. He's pleased because he struggled with German which was his second attempt after getting a D last year and Science but is disappointed that he didn't get a B in History.

I'm incredibly proud of him for doing so well when he has taken the exams a year early and in the case of German and Geography 2 years early as he did them last year. But, I do think there is an awful lot of pressure on the children at his school and cannot help but wonder how he would have fared if he'd taken them at the end of year 11, rather than year 10 as legally he still has to spend a further 3 years in some form of education or training before either going to university or getting a job. My understanding is that he will probably have to retake maths in order to try and improve his grade and I need to find out what has happened to English as I thought he had finished the course this year but he is now telling me that he finishes it next year.

Also and I don't know how relevant this is to the results my son got his school was a failing school 10 years ago, they got a new superhead who has really turned things around but now they are part of a large family of schools with the Superhead as the executive headteacher for all the schools in the family and seemingly a different headteacher for their school every year which is for myself as a parent very confusing.

tanith

What do you say to a grandson who has got lower than predicted grades because he just isn't interested we can hardly congratulate him or reward him when he just didn't even try. I just hope the school will let him retake his English and his interest in Engineering will carry him through.

dibuzz

Tanith you can bribe, reward, cajole and anything else to your hearts content but if he doesn't want to do it he won't.
This time last year my youngest just scraped enough points to get into one of the top colleges in the country. By Christmas he was way behind, not because he wasnt capable but because he couldn't be bothered to put the effort in. In February he left but would have been chucked out if he hadn't, we are very disappointed, not with him but for him as he could have done so much better than the minimum wage job he now has.
We tried everything to encourage him and know that he will regret it in the future but short of doing the work for him we were completely out of ideas.
I hope you get somewhere with your Grandson.

loobylou2

EmmaBridgewater wrote: »

Btecs are much easier than traditional subjects. I agree about early gcses. I did three early (RE, Stats & double science) and achieved a B in each. I don't really mention them as I don't believe I was fully ready to take them when I did (just turned 16)

I don't know, are they really that much easier??? My understanding is that BTEC's carry the same weight as GCSE's. He did his BTEC in Public Services because he wants to either join the police or go into the forces and there did seem to be a lot of coursework involved. He also got a grade which was higher than his predicted grade which of course we are very pleased with given that he is still only 15. I would have thought that the course would be relevant to his future career aspirations and that even though it is a BTEC if it helps him meet his goals for the future it is surely a good thing given that he also now has a clutch of GCSE's to go with it.

susancs

loobylou2 wrote: »

My understanding is that BTEC's carry the same weight as GCSE's.

Although technically BTECs are supposed to be equivalent to GCSE in reality most colleges and universities consider the GCSE as the higher level qualification. From 2014 many BTECs will not count in GCSE school league tables results. Some schools it seems used the BTECs to boost their school performance in the league tables.