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[Looney]

Well done everyone!

[sadietoo]

Fabulous results everyone...give yourselves a big slap on the back for all that hard work......

[chickencam]

My son did Geology in yr 9 and got an A and he did his RS short course this year and got an A* getting 100% in one paper. I am so proud of him, he had a rough start at school had loads of speech therapy and uses a laptop because his handwriting is illegible. This is really building his confidence for next year and the rest of his GCSE's. I am one proud mum

 

Well done all

[Ain't Nobody Here]

That's fantastic, Liz . Well done to everyone, there must be a lot of proud Omlet parents out there .

[Mum]

Fabulous results everyone, very well done!

 

My son achieved 6 A's, 4 B's, 1 C and 1 distinction, I'm so chuffed for him (No monetary bribes involved )

[ubereglu]

Well Done everyone!

[purple hen]

Well done everyone DD got 1A*, 5As, 6Bs and 3Cs. I'm sure there a lots of proud parents out there at the moment.

[Ain't Nobody Here]

Do kids really sit that number of exams ? Or is that over a period of 2 years? (Bit ignorant of the English system, sorry!)

[Sam]

Do kids really sit that number of exams ? Or is that over a period of 2 years? (Bit ignorant of the English system, sorry!)

 

Depends, GCSE maths can be set in modular (have a test at the end of each module throughout 2 years) or linear where you have 2 big tests in the summer after yr10 & yr11. Some subjects like photography are completely coursework so you just do it throughout the year. And then sciences you have 1 piece of coursework per science, then 3 separate exams per science. So 9 exams in total for science... similar for English lit/lang. It's all different and depends on the exam board the school uses.

 

I think I sat 20 tests in total though for 10 gcses, other schools do more/less though.

 

-----Forgot to say those 20 exams were over a 3/4 week period.

Well done to everyone

[Ain't Nobody Here]

And I thought the Scottish system was complicated .

[Chucky Mama]

I got confused when DD gave me her results on the phone. She said that she had 7A*s which was true but some were in modules of the same subject and so overall they amounted to 5 With the first year GCSE results we have found that a lot of kids are quoting all of their modular results instead of the overall subject which makes it sound like they have masses (can't say I blame them )

[izzys-hens]

Do kids really sit that number of exams ? Or is that over a period of 2 years? (Bit ignorant of the English system, sorry!)

 

I really have 16 Gcse well 15 gcses because 2 are half.

But thats because we were fast tracked and then ended up doing extra gcses rather than starting as levels which was what was first suggested.

 

Umm i think people usually do about 9-11 i think, but im not to sure.

[purple hen]

Schools seem to do a lot of fast tracking now, my DD did her first GCSE in yr9 some more in yr 10 so didn't have so many left to do this year and was able to add in a couple of extra subjects to fill in gaps in the timetable (though she did put in a lot of extra time after school) She was lucky to have teachers who were prepared to put in a lot of extra time and effort to allow these additional opportunites.

[Sageandonion]

Well done everyone, great results all round

 

My son took his 1st GSCE paper this year in Latin grade 1. I didn't know he'd taken it until the end of term. He got a B, I'm very pround of him as he's only 13 and the school has only been teaching it for two years.

[chickencam]

Well done him, I think it builds their experience and confidence doing one or two early exams Shows what is involved and the effort levels needed.

[percy049]

You also do controlled assesments, I've done 5 so far (so in 1 year), for english language.

[izzys-hens]

You also do controlled assesments, I've done 5 so far (so in 1 year), for english language.

 

I hate controlled assesments, i always found they had no relevance to the work we did and so i always thought theyb were really hard