Results Day

[Abbie]

Dont remind me I feel sick at the thought. Whilst Im here Ive banned the subject of college, results and Uni. Its gonna be worse when thursday comes cos my dad will call the college to find out how his students did, since he works there

are you not gonna find out your results til you get home then?

I have to wait till I get home which will be a saturday and I have to wait till tuesday (cos of the bank holiday) to go get them from college! Or if they have been posted out its the same, wait till tuesday cos my mum stopped the post while we were away

[di marco]

i didnt get any money, i got "well done" and that was about it, i knew they were proud of me though.

yeh same. i never minded not getting any money, it just always seems like everyone else does! when my sis did her gcses she asked my mum why we didnt get money and my mum said cos she didnt wanna bribe us with money to work hard as we should want to do our best for ourselves. and also cos she would feel bad if me or my sis ended up with better grades than the other and therefore more money even if we had both done our best. my parents always say well done though and i know they are genuinely proud of our results, apart from my maths alevel which tbh i hadnt done any work and my teachers told me i should have done better as well, but i still got a B so its not like i failed, but i understand that time cos they knew i could have done better. although after i got my alevel results and my sis had got her gcse results (cos we got them the same year) we went out for a meal

[di marco]

Don't worry about it Spicy and Kim - what grades are you both expected?

If you'd rather no one knew your results, you don't have to let them know - after all, it's your personal piece of paper with your results on..no one has the right apart from you to look at it.

I am sure you have both done fine, but if you haven't, it really is not the end of the world. Exams are exams - life goes on even if you've done badly or not, there will be something out there for you to do! ... and remember this, things could always be worse.

Just try and keep positive

I am too embarrased to say (yes even on here lol) but hopefully they should all be a C or above (excluding Media)..

theres nothing to be embarrassed about whatever grades you get as long as you did your best. and a C or above is really good

[di marco]

Yeah please can tell me how it looks on paper for GCSE's.. I want to know where to look and what to expect lol Thanks x

On the GCSEs, each exam board has a separate sheet of paper with your results on. I had like 4 different sheets of paper for my results as I was on 4 different exam boards. On each sheet of paper, the subject name will be there, and your grade will be printed next to it. You will also get another sheet of paper which will have all your results on it. Each subject will be named with the grade next to it, then underneath that they will have breakdowns of the grades or marks you got in each module/coursework for that subject (there may be some exceptions as I remember in Maths, I just got my grade C and I don't actually know how well I did in my coursework or in each exam paper).. sorry I hope that made sense!

I will imagine this will be the same for AS actually (well I hope so as I want to know what modules I didn't do so well in and the ones I would need to resit).

I think I just got the one sheet of paper with all my results on. The first column had the exam board, the next had the subject and module. Each module was listed separately; in the next column was the grade/UMS mark for that module and the overall grade was in the next column.

Just a warning, the marks on the results paper will be in UMS. Your actual marks that you got in the exam are converted into UMS (don't know how) so they won't reflect how many marks you gained.

I'll have a look at one of my results sheets tomorrow. I might scan it in if it doesn't have too much personal info on.

All my results sheets have been the same from science modular exams in yr 10 right through to AS. The only time that I got results printed on exam board paper was when I did my AS.

im not sure if its different now to when i did them (makes me sound old lol but i know they keep changing things) but for my gcse results i got a piece of paper for each exam board each listed with each subject id done with that exam board and the grade i got for that subject. i dont remember getting the marks i got in the exams or for my cw, if i did i dunno what i did with it lol!

for AS, you just get a sheet with the marks you got for each module i think, a bit like what you get for the january exams. unless its changed, i dont think you get an actual overall grade (although you can obviously work it out yourself). if you decide to not continue with your AS subject then you get sent a grade but otherwise it just carries on til alevel

[Kirsty :]]

Ugh. I had a few of the girls over to stay last night and this was like.. the highlight of the night seriously!
I'm obviously nervous for my results and I know I've not done well, even though I did do my best, but at least I will have my mind at rest for what I need to resit and I'm sure I'll be gutted for a bit but at the end of the day, I did my best it was all I could do and it's not the end of the world I'll jsut resit and make sure I do even better... there's alot more worse things that go on in this world. Life goes on after exams.
I suppose I'm pretty lucky I'm not pushed. I'm the first in my family to actually do A Levels so I see that as an achievement in itself, but my family just tell em to do my best and whatever the grades.. so be it. As long as I knwo I tried my very best then they're proud of me no matter what, and I suppose that's what keeps me going!

One or 2 of my friends are in really bad states over results tomorrow though, because their parents expect them to get the best grades and work them and work them until they're physically worn out. I don't believe that's the way to be and jsut do exams for yourself. For what you want to achieve. In the long run if you did bad but you know you did your upmost best then good on you! Carry on doing what you're doing because you can only do so much!.. Take resits, it's not the end. You'll all do fab anyways I'm sure

Good Luck Everyone xx

[DaVeyWaVey]

Completely agree with what you've said Kirsty. You can only do your best and my parents have the same outlook when it comes to exams.

Thanks for the link Abigail - it was helpful.

[Kim]

I pushed myself as far as I could for most of my subjects; couple of them I hated though. Coursework's at A* for them though so hopefully that'll push them up a bit. Only one I think is terrible is Additional Science; my friend's gutted because she spent ages revising for it and still struggled so I'm glad I didn't lose motivation further by doing as much as she did and then struggling with it. By the end of exams I really couldn't bring myself to revise any more.

UMS is Uniform Mark Scale, Spicy. For GCSE I think it's up to the exam board how they scale them, but I'm sure in an A Level guide we were given at options evening there was a common conversion or something. My friend really wanted to know how our Core Science was converted to UMS last year and worked it out with a calculator. I think she said they multiplied the raw mark by 1.3 something in that. The greater the difference between the number raw marks and the total UMS marks for that paper, the more it will be multiplied by.

I know what you mean, Kirsty. I'll be the first on my Dad's side to actually have any GCSE's but they're expecting more than Mum's side. I think one Aunt from Mum's side expects me to beat my cousins, but Dad kept going on about A*'s and then saying he didn't care if I failed everything. Basically when he wanted me to do an invoice out for him he didn't care if I failed, lol! I'd be very disappointed in myself if I didn't beat my cousin's grades, so it's not really pressure from my Aunt.

As for the money for grades thing, I didn't want to arrange anything before exams as that would have meant more pressure than I was already putting on myself. I've been trying to since they finished though, as there's nothing I could have done to get any more money for them. My dad's yet to agree though. I don't think he even really looked at my predicted grades, so it'd a bit of a stab in the dark for him if he did offer money for grades. It'd be nice if he gave me some money but then again I'd have done my best for myself anyway as everyone's seen from how much I've been thinking about silly little mistakes.

[.:SpIcYsPy:.]

Was just talking about telling results and stuff and mum said she would agree to fake my results if I am not happy with them Now I sort of am looking forward to getting them. Obviously I am not going to say all A's but if I got a C or something I might say B..
I am just going to say that to my family (apart from mum and dad).. Not going to make this a habit lol.. I will tell you guys what I get though

[Abigail]

Ugh. I had a few of the girls over to stay last night and this was like.. the highlight of the night seriously!
I'm obviously nervous for my results and I know I've not done well, even though I did do my best, but at least I will have my mind at rest for what I need to resit and I'm sure I'll be gutted for a bit but at the end of the day, I did my best it was all I could do and it's not the end of the world I'll jsut resit and make sure I do even better... there's alot more worse things that go on in this world. Life goes on after exams.
I suppose I'm pretty lucky I'm not pushed. I'm the first in my family to actually do A Levels so I see that as an achievement in itself, but my family just tell em to do my best and whatever the grades.. so be it. As long as I knwo I tried my very best then they're proud of me no matter what, and I suppose that's what keeps me going!

One or 2 of my friends are in really bad states over results tomorrow though, because their parents expect them to get the best grades and work them and work them until they're physically worn out. I don't believe that's the way to be and jsut do exams for yourself. For what you want to achieve. In the long run if you did bad but you know you did your upmost best then good on you! Carry on doing what you're doing because you can only do so much!.. Take resits, it's not the end. You'll all do fab anyways I'm sure

Good Luck Everyone xx

I totally agree Kirsty. You've done your best and nobody can ask any more than that. And if you feel you could have done better... well it's something to remember for the future.

I could have done a whole lot better last year and I thought that I had no chance of getting into uni this year but in hindsight my AS results aren't that bad. I have worked harder this year and revised a lot more so I guess I learnt my lesson. A levels aren't a walk in the park.

[Abi]

Dave, take a calculator with you tomorrow!! When i got my AS last year, they didn't add them up, or give us an overall grade, they just gave you the UMS mark for each module. They said it was because AS isn't a "qualification", its half of AS, so its the modules that matter, not the overall grade. Which is true. So they gave us an extra sheet to tell us how to work out the grades for AS, but then told us not to worry about what it is, lol!! So yeah, calculators are your friend!

At GCSE, its just the subject and the grade in most subjects. Some will give you the total UMS as well, but most will just be the grade. Its dead easy to understand. And if you are in the top 5 in the country on AQA, they will give you an extra letter as well to congratulate you, lmao. My friend was 5th in the country in GCSE History, and had this well funny letter with hers. I don't think the other exam boards do it though.