Gcse results day

[Weretheweststand]

Is today (thurs) i'm getting my Maths, English, Physics, Chemistry, Biology and Sociology results, anybody else getting theirs?

 

[Bridcutt]

I'm only getting science I think, I'm taking all of them this year

 

[Weretheweststand]

I'm only getting science I think, I'm taking all of them this year

what year are you going in to then?

 

[Bridcutt]

what year are you going in to then?

Year 11

 

[Weretheweststand]

Year 11

oh nice, good luck mate, it's tough but the albion kept me going last year haha

 

[Sam Ovett]

My little brothers getting some of his today. Not sure which ones as he's doing the rest next year

 

[Bridcutt]

oh nice, good luck mate, it's tough but the albion kept me going last year haha

Thanks, I'm not bothered what I get in science tbh, it shouldn't be compulsory

 

[Chicken Run]

I'm going down the school today to pick my 16yo and 12 yo's up (he did latin)
They are both on hols with their mum, then i 'm under orders to ring the results thru to Varndean for some reason...

 

[Perkino]

I'm going in to school to see how the kids did and I'll probably stick around for a bollocking from the head before heading off to enjoy the remaining 2 weeks of my holidays

 

[Nibble]

Heard the OfQual lady, or whatever tinpot organisation runs the exams on R4 this morning and she admitted that they started being tougher in exam marking this year as too many students were being given higher marks on the benefit of the doubt. So to all the people saying it wasn't easier to get an A* you were wrong and to all those who got good grades today Congrats! You have hard it harder than any year for 10 years. Boom!

 

[abc]

Heard the OfQual lady, or whatever tinpot organisation runs the exams on R4 this morning and she admitted that they started being tougher in exam marking this year as too many students were being given higher marks on the benefit of the doubt. So to all the people saying it wasn't easier to get an A* you were wrong and to all those who got good grades today Congrats! You have hard it harder than any year for 10 years. Boom!

As an employer I would say that this 'exams are to easy these days etc' is totally made up by the media to have something negative to say as is their wont. The results on a CV are taken for what they are, a decent number of GSCEs with half decent grades impresses. No one achieves this without a modicum of intelligence and hard work.

So if you get your results today and have achieved your best let no one take that away from you. Congratulations!

 

[ATFC Seagull]

I'm going in to school to see how the kids did and I'll probably stick around for a bollocking from the head before heading off to enjoy the remaining 2 weeks of my holidays

Sounds about right!

 

[Badger]

As an employer I would say that this 'exams are to easy these days etc' is totally made up by the media to have something negative to say as is their wont. The results on a CV are taken for what they are, a decent number of GSCEs with half decent grades impresses. No one achieves this without a modicum of intelligence and hard work.

So if you get your results today and have achieved your best let no one take that away from you. Congratulations!

Indeed, it's not like the CV says "GCSE Maths A* (but I took in 2012 so it was really easy)", employers are always going to be impressed by lots of good grades. The thing you do need to do these days is make sure you have lots of other (not necessarily academic) achievements on your CV to put you a little bit ahead of everyone else.

 

[Nibble]

As an employer I would say that this 'exams are to easy these days etc' is totally made up by the media to have something negative to say as is their wont. The results on a CV are taken for what they are, a decent number of GSCEs with half decent grades impresses. No one achieves this without a modicum of intelligence and hard work.

So if you get your results today and have achieved your best let no one take that away from you. Congratulations!

You'd be a bit crap in an exam eh! Read the words carefuly, then answer the question. The lady in charge of marking standrads has said the last few years were marked too leniantly, this year's have been marked more stringently. Then I go on to congratulate people for getting good results in the first year they are clamping down on the marking.

 

[Birdie Boy]

My boy's getting his today, unfortunately, the only one he was struggling on was English, fingers crossed he has passed that and got the expected results in the others.

 

[abc]

You'd be a bit crap in an exam eh! Read the words carefuly, then answer the question. The lady in charge of marking standrads has said the last few years were marked too leniantly, this year's have been marked more stringently. Then I go on to congratulate people for getting good results in the first year they are clamping down on the marking.

Er yes. I was agreeing with you

 

[SK1NT]

Jesus this thread makes me feel old... I started posting on this site when you guys were toddlers haha... and i remember getting my exam results like it was yesterday.

 

[jackcgull]

yay - my lad got exactly the bare minimum he needed to stay at his school for A' levels (why try harder??) Anyone on here at Hove Park School - i was a founder member there just after the grammar system was broken up.

 

[maltaseagull]

Is today (thurs) i'm getting my Maths, English, Physics, Chemistry, Biology and Sociology results, anybody else getting theirs?

Nah I got mine in 1968

 

[The Notorious BHA]

Just had mine! So pleased! Enough to stay on for 6th form at Hurst college!