Help understanding my daughters grades

[Londoner]

Hello Everyone,

I am sure that someone on here can help me with this.

I received my daughters school report with her levels at the moment (she is in year 8) and the grades that they think she will achive in her year 9 sats.

Most of her grades for now are between a level 5c - 5a(with the exception of Drama she got a 6C & Maths 6)

Could someone explain if these are good grades.

Most of the grades they think she will get in her sats range from a 5a - 6a (again with the exception of Drama they think she will get a 7 & English they also think she will get a level 7) Is this good?

If someone could help me out on this that would be great.

Also with the above grades will she do well in her GCSE's (like a grade A-C)

Thank you to anyone that can help

[Abbie]

Those are really goosd grades!!!

Like its goes : 5c, 5b, 5a, 6c, 6b, 6a and so on, if you get the idea

And if you do well in your stats you are likely to be placed in the higher sets for GCSE

[Chloe O'brien]

I don't know if I can be of any help as i'm up in Scotland so we maybe slightly different and the year 8 confuses me up her we have primary school 1 to 7 then high school 1st year to 6th year. With standard grades I think it goes a 1 is fab and the higher the number the lower the grade sorry but I don't think a 6 or 7 is a good mark, but I maybe wrong. Its so different when I was a school you either got an A, B, or C or you failed.

[Londoner]

Ahhhhhhhhhhhh

Now i am really confused, as the last two posts tell different stories.

Can anyone else enlighten me please.

Is my daughter doing well or should i be worried

Just to let you know i am from London (although my user name might give that away )

[Abbie]

Well it was only 4 years since I was in year 8/9 and I can tell you those grades are great. The scotland system is different, higher level grades such as 5, 6 and 7 are good
Its when you do GCSE that they grade you A, B C and all that

[Londoner]

Right so i take it the i do not have anything to worry about.

She is on track to do well in her GCSE's

Thank you Abbie

[Abbie]

I think a level 5 in year 9 stats are what is expected of children in england, 6 and 7 are above average.
I think so at least
I did the higher papers where 7 was the maximum and highest level you could get.
In some cases in maths you can get a level 8. Those in our school who did that paper did maths a year early as in GCSE in year 10, well if they got a level 8 that was. The higher the number the better the grade

[Chloe O'brien]

I'll just mind my own beeswax Londoner as i've no idea how the grade works south of the border, and I'm just giving out the wrong info My daughter is still at primary school and she gets tested every 2 years for maths and english she is at level c, which she has acheieved a year before she was supposed to as she had until p6 aged 10 to do this. But as I said up here in Scotland our grading is different. Sorry again

[Abi]

SATS go from Level 3 - 7. They are sub-divided into A, B and C (A being the highest, C the lowest). So in Drama and English, she is expected the highest grade possible, a level 7.

They reckon if you get between level 5's and 7's, then you will get A*-Cs in your GCSEs, if you carry on improving at the same level.

As Abbie said, a level 5 is what she should aim for, thats the average. Level 6 is above average, and 7 is even more above average!!

So sounds like shes doing really well!!!

To give you an idea how she'll do at GCSE... I only did SATs in English, Maths and Science, and i got a level 7 in all 3. In my GCSEs, i got an A in English, A in Maths, and BB in Science.

Hope that helped a bit!!!

[Jojo]

Londoner - this is a fantastic website to help you understand:

http://www.nc.uk.net/webdav/harmonise?Page/@id=6016

It goes through the different levels etc, what they mean, what they are achieving and were a great help to me, when my eldest son was coming home telling me he was working at Level 7 - what happened to A, B, C etc right through the school years!!

Hope it helps a little