My son got his AS results having failed most of his subjects last year he has passed well this year. B in DT that included a mark of 144/150 in the exam......he's decided to resubmit his coursework in January....needs 15 marks to get an A. He passed his Art module but it's a unit 1/12th of the final. He's all fired up now and ready to go!
Well, done I bet your pleased, it like its happening to you but you can do nothing about it only listen and try to be constuctive. Another hurdle eh.
Kea, well done to your son, as GG says you live it with them don't you!
I think the AS exams are possibly the worst they go through as they seem to come so quickly after the GCSEs and so many do badly in them. I know of so many youngsters who do three years at college instead of 2. A friend has just popped by and was talking about her daughter who has not got what she thought she would and whether to start again.
We are awaiting GCSE results next week and still don't have youngest's KS3 SAT results....
T.
A good day in our house as well - our third and youngest will be off to uni in the autumn. ;D
Thankfully the eldest has just finished so we only have two to finance at a time!!!
My heart though goes out to one of her friends who didn't get the grades :(
Thanks everyone. He did pass DT last year but with an E he completely failed the exam but they weren't taught the theory by their teacher who left in April then they had a supply teacher for the rest of the year.
He also got a 'D' in his art exam but it's only 1/12th of the final mark and he's never sat an art exam before not even a practice....and I know they're hard myself.
My youngest has got his KS3 SATS: English 7; Science 7 and maths 8......though his school his complaining about the results. I hope they don't want to complain about his results we don't want them changed.
Good luck Tulipa for next week.......GCSE results are the worst to wait for.
My friend's son sat an extension exam in History and he didn't get a mark back for it apparently all the extension exams from his school have disappeared.
Well done, all. I realised yesterday that it's the first time in six years that we haven't had any exam results to get stressed about (apart from uni but by that stage I think it's easier). It all starts again next year with GCSE's for our youngest.
What's DT? ???
Quote from: grawrc on August 15, 2008, 19:29:16
What's DT? ???
Good question grawrc.
I'm only glad I'm not a student these days.
I get a bit sick of the media telling us how much easier exams are these days. The poor children have put their hearts and souls into these exams, and to be told, 'Ah well they aren't as difficult as they used to be', is unfair.
If they aren't as difficult it's not their fault. It's the statistics massagers/targetmongers that are to blame.
valmarg
design and technology? Thre are different demands put on young folk nowadays. They have to be much more orate and able to defend their ideas. While this is a good thing, they get this skill at the expense of in-depth knowledge of the subject so don't have reserves to fall back on when things fall apart.
Yes - design and technology - but you can do different sides to it ie product design, graphics, textiles which my daughter has just done. She has worked very hard on producing her course work, the design , the final product and then the exams.
my daughter had a bad year two years ago and it shook her to her foundations, this year she got her a level results a b, c and a d and she got into uni to do a degree in psychiatric nursing (she must be mad lol) so proud but as you say you live it with them i was away when the results were due and couldnt sleep until she had text me ;D
Mine has done one AS 2 years early, the school was using this group as guinea pigs to see if they could do it!
She is away and we were away when the results came out so we still don't know..............her GCSE results out on Thursday, she has begged me not to open the envelope if I collect it....................anyone got a kettle? ;D ;D
Well done to young Kea, they need a good firing up now and again, my eldest didn't do any revision, and got a huge shock in her AS's! Now gone from a Marine Biologist to going to uni in September to study animation.....................more up her street really!
Yes mine originally wanted to design yachts but now it's digital art, computer animation and cgi which is more artistic which better suits his skills.
I'm hoping that the good marks act as a carrot and he can now see that he has the potential to do well. Next year he's added an extra course so he's going to have to work even harder than he's done before particularly since he's chosen Music another one with lots of coursework. He wanted to do music originally but the school timetabling didn't allow and ended up doing chemistry which he didn't like then dropping it.
My sister was a Psychiatric nurse....you have to be really tough to cope with that job. I worked in the Psychiatric hospital as a student as a cleaner so I got an idea just how difficult it is.
yeah i know as a medical nurse working in a and e we get lots of psychiatric patients in, i just hope she knows what she has let herself in for. i know she would like to end up working with adolescents particularly eating disorders but that all may change
My sister had to work on the maximum security ward in which the guy who'd murdered his Mother was in........his Mother was our Mothers friend!
I'm hoping it was really good news today for Doris_Pinks and Tulipa.
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Yes, thank you Kea, my middle son has done well and now has the grades to go and do the AS levels he wants at college, he and all of us are really pleased for him. Shame he has now gone away for the weekend and we can't celebrate, still we can look forward to it. :)
Doris, I hope yours are good too, thinking of you and all other parents going through this!
T.
Well, I picked up the envelope...............called daughter who said, and I quote " Mum, just put them under my pillow, close my bedroom door and I will open them when I get home next week"! :o :o
The little rotter, I tried pleading, pursuading even thought about bribing, but no, she wants to wait till she gets home to open them, rats!
So we still have another weeks to wait, with this brown envelope staring at me, daring me to open it!!! (And no, cant be steamed, it has rubber like glue, not that I have checked or anything ::) ::)!)
Well done everyone elses offspring!
Doris, that must be absolute agony, you have all my sympathy - just waiting half an hour until my lad phoned was bad enough! :( :( :( I shall be thinking of you all week and I hope she goes straight up to her room and doesn't keep you waiting any longer. How can she wait too???
Thinking of you
T.
Eight Radio 1 DJs re-took their maths GCSE and picked up their results live on air yesterday .....
http://news.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/hi/newsbeat/newsid_7575000/7575406.stm
That makes me quite proud of my grade 2 cse! ;D
She returned this morning........I allowed her 1/2 an hour before reminding her of the brown envelope!
one D, One C and 5 B's! We are very pleased. ;D It was worth the wait!
Poor you with that long wait...I would have gone nuts!
Great news though ;D
Aren't you glad it's all over.