Just heard my daughter's GCSE results, she is now the proud possessor of the following ...
1 x A*
2 x A
7 x B (one of them from last year - taken early)
1 x C
I feel thrilled for her, and extremely dim at the same time ... :)
Well done that girl! Did you have a little snivel to yourself? I know I did. Wait until A levels or degree ceremonies :) :)
Bask in the reflected glory while ye may curry ;) ;D
Well done to your daughter, Curry, that's brilliant news. Celebrating tonight?
T.
Snap(ish). I'm a chuffed Mum!
1 A*
2 A's
3 B's
3 C's
1 D
All this with very little work despite my nagging (which I knew was a waste of time.)
Well your daughter too Beejay, I altered the thread title to be more suitable ... :)
Well done to your daughter too Beejay, it is a traumatic time! :)
T.
Hoorah! Well done to all GCSE result getters.
Quote from: Curry on August 24, 2006, 18:32:00
Well your daughter too Beejay, I altered the thread title to be more suitable ... :)
Thanks for that Curry.
Many congratulations to both ;D
Congratulations !
Hey! delighted for them! and for mums and dads
Congrats to parents and to the hardworking students :)
Those are excellent results Curry and Beejay, well done to both your children :D
I'm really proud of my son he got 6 cs 1 d 3 es and an f but he also went to a local joiners for work experience and impressed them so much he got the apprenticeship the only one for this year he passed his exam for his college place hes been at work two weeks now and loving it the down side he gained his apprenticeship before sitting his exams so why revise so we expected a lot worse!! Ive put an order in for a new kitchen in 2 years!!
It is really great that the people on this site congratulate the hard working students, they really deserve it. Well done all of you.
What annoys me is all the mingers who say that they are making the exams too easy. These kids have worked hard to get the results and deserve all the praise we can give them.
I wish I was as bright as them.
My kids were never going to be academics, but a hard working nurse, a project manager and a skilled mechanic still took a lot of hard work. I subsidised their wages as they did not earn a lot while they were training and I feel very proud when I see their framed city and guild certificates on the wall.
PS and don't forget the parents, for their encouragement. They also feel as if they have gone through hell.
ACE, it's good to see your point about the people who say exams are too easy. I have invigilated GCSEs for a number of years and it is so sad to see such stressed young people come in to the hall to take their exams. Even the ones who make out they don't care change when they come in there, it is stressfull for each and every one of them and well done to them all, no matter their grades, they have all done their best and gone though a lot to get there.
Sorry, I just feel for them all... :(
Gourd, your son sounds to have landed on his feet, well done to him.
T.
I suppose the process of study and exams is still the same - difficult whatever level.
Well done to everyone.
belated congrats, the kids deserve every bit of praise they can get with the press keep knocking them...A really well done.
Well done to your daughter. You are, and should be, suitably proud of her achievements.
The bit I find hard to get my head round are the sods who try to belittle, not only your daughter's efforts, but the efforts of any children these days. The idea that 'exams are 'easier than they were in my day', is utter rubbish.
Good luck to your daughter. I hope she manages to pursue her chosen career, without incurring too much debt!!
valmarg
I actually think kids have it a lot harder at school these days. I had the 11-plus, which was a stupid thing, and at least they accepted that it was damaging and got rid of it. Then I had no exams that mattered till I did my 'O'-Levels. Then there was nothing till the end of the 6th Form. So there was no pressure for the first couple of years at secondary school, and not a lot till I got to the 5th Form (they call it Year 11 these days). Then we had a year when we could do charitable work, help on archaeological digs or nature reserves, run school magazines, put on plays, do loads of stuff which may not have been strictly academic, but did something to help us grow up. The pressure was back on for the last year, but then if we went on to university, the first year was pretty easy by comparison; 'A'-levels were the hardest exams I ever did.
These days it's all SATS, which contribute nothing to the kids' education, coursework, which puts loads of pressure on the kids and encourages cheating, GCSE's, then AS levels, then A2's. It never lets up, there's never a chance to relax and do all the stuff we did. the result is, the kids are all stressed out, and I feel an important dimension of education has been lost.
Robert you have said all I feel, I have children of 12, 15 and 18 so have been through it all now and really feel a lot of the exams are unneccesary.
The SATs are a waste of time as the teachers know what mark the children will get and could just give them the mark without all the stress, especially the stress that some parents put on their kids, it is amazing, even coaching 4 year olds for the baseline assesment in the reception class. And no seven year olds should know they are being tested.
And it goes right up to AS levels, as soon as the pressure of GCSEs are over they start back at school/sixth form college and it is there again! What are we breeding for the future, people who are so used to being stressed they find it harder to relax? And feel their lives should always be under pressure, I hope not.
I'm sorry, this should be in a place where people who make the decisions on education can read it, but living with youngsters doing these exams makes me much more aware of them. I spend a lot of time telling mine that they mustn't worry and 'they are testing the school not you, that's why the teachers are stressed'.
I will stop - I can't change anything............. :(
T.
Yes, Well done all those hard working students who got good results. You are right to point out how much support the parents give too. It always annoys me when I hear about how they are making the exams easier. Why can't they give the accolades without trying to downgrade people. I do feel sorry for students nowadays also as they reckon a degree can cost up to £20,000 pounds in debt - quite a weight to carry when you finally manage to get a job and have to think about paying it back. busy_lizzie