MegaSack DRAW - This year's winner is user - rgwb
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Proud dad here!
They're too easy 😉
great stuff, now start charging them rent 🙂
congratulations to your offspring
(how bad's a "!" ?)
Bloody nora, that's pretty impressive.
Congrats 😀
Nice proud moment - excellent work!
Is that a representation of your vocal input during the implementation phase of the project? 😆
Good work that man! Hopefully I'll be on here saying the same thing in 14 odd years.
Congrats to you all - proud dad here too!!
Good luck to everyone with results today. Hope everyone gets what they deserve. And for those that don't, do not despair, is is just one stage in the process and different people peak at different times.
My son just trotted off to get his results.
His girlfriend got 12 A*'s.
He won't.
I thought it was a yellow pages style ad for plumbing services.
Congrats to your nipper.
congrats!!!!!!!
ps wwaswas he sounds smart enough to me
Congrats to you all, still waiting here!
Well done to teenagecrashes and all the others collecting results!
Well done, bet you're proud as can be.
Know someone whose son got 11 A*s......
Ended up going to Cambridge, unsurprisingly 🙂
11 GCSEs? Wtf are they doing to kids these days?
I took 11 GCSEs in 1997. 10 or 11 was quite normal.
Congratulations to all those that did well. Don't listen to the old gits banging on about them being easy.
Have they started taking exams already? And that's the result??
Result!!
What Uni?
Results back.
Let's just say that the cash incentive for A's and A*'s isn't going to be troubled too much.
And for those that don't, do not despair, is is just one stage in the process and different people peak at different times.
THIS my mate got 4 o levels then went on to get a first in his 20's.
people only look at your last result ,which is good, as my a levels are very average
3 As, 5 Bs, 3Cs and a D for my daughter - I'm very happy with that.
I now owe her £305 based on the £s per Grade scheme we agreed two years ago! 🙂
Firstly congratulations to everyone that worked hard for their results but 11 exams, is that really normal or is your child some kind of genius?
I'm sure we only took 8 subjects and even then were only really expected to concentrate on about 6 of them.
I took 9 in 1992, only high pressure over-achieving swots took 10, and our school didn't even give us the option!
My brother is waiting for his GCSE English for the 6th time today! He is hoping he will pass, the sensible money is on another fail!
5A and 5B plus a merit in IT for my lad, really pleased for him as he's worked hard and got A's in the subjects he needed; 6th form of choice stipulated A grade minimum at GCSE for the A levels he wanted to do.
Firstly congratulations to everyone that worked hard for their results but 11 exams, is that really normal or is your child some kind of genius?
Seems fairly normal these days. IIRC rocket jr got 13 (not A* I hasten to add!)
They weren't all different subjects - some of them (Physics Biology IT) were double awards, two for English, compulsory subjects + a couple of random ones they soon add up
I got an A, 3xB, 4xC, 2xD and an F.
12 years ago. They are getting easier.
Anyone going to come on here and admit to producing thick offspring with Es and Fs ?
If this cool looking video is true, cash incentives mean people are likely to do worse if the task is even slightly complicated?
whats everyones view on this? do they work, or is it just another thing to worry about?
Congrats to everyones kids regardless!
[i]Anyone going to come on hear and admit to producing thick offspring with Es and Fs ?[/i]
only people who don't know the difference between here and hear 😉
I got an A, 3xB, 4xC, 2xD and an F.12 years ago. They are getting easier.
Quite a few kids there this morning that got results like that or worse.
I got B's, C's and D's many, many years ago.
Not convinced high grades can all be due to it getting easier.
Anyone going to come on hear and admit to producing thick offspring with Es and Fs ?only people who don't know the difference between here and hear
*s*****
Sod it !and I did language a year early only got a c though.Must not hurry when posting !!
12 minutes to fix those typos, bro.
Good results all round well done. Wonder what the drop in pass rate for science was as overall the raye went down by over 1% and science was the one predicted to drop the most.
I got A BBB C DD E back in er 89!
Given up on typo`s gonna work for the Guardian !!
I've just collected my results.
6 A*s, 2 As and 2 Bs despite the fact that I'm pretty lazy and spend most of my time riding my bike. I'm chuffed with that. 🙂
PS. Well done to the OPs son.
That`s a good set of results if you spend to much time cycling .Are you in line for a financial reward from your folks ?
They are not getting easier, it's just they have been around so long that by now everyone knows the answers 🙂
Nope.Edric 64 - Member
Are you in line for a financial reward from your folks ?
They are getting easier.
I helped my lad with his revision and although I don't think the questions were any easier they were a lot less wordy and not intended to confuse the candidate.
As opposed to some of my O-level questions e.g a geostationary satellite of mass blah blah blah is in a decaying orbit. Given that blah blah blah give the grid reference of where the satellite is expected to land (Maths)
or
An alchemist is attempting to turn lead into gold. He has a solution of Copper Sulphate and a particle accelerator blah blah blah (Chemistry)
Happy days
In answer to my own question.
This year 53.1% of science entries were awarded between an A* and a C, down from 60.7% last year. That was the biggest fall in top results across all the subjects.
I thought everyone was doing international batchelorettes these days?
I did 13 GCSEs about 20 years ago and got 3 A*s, 5 As, 3 Bs, a C and a D.
It all went a bit downhill after that.
I thought everyone was doing international batchelorettes these days?
no lots of places are doing IGCSE as its easier and Gove wants to judge schools on five "good" gcse's rather than just eng and maths plus 3. He called this the english bacc to confuse people and its eng maths sci a modern language and history or geography I think.
I did GCSE's back in 92 I think, I got 2 E's, 2 F's, & 2 G's.
I'm now a Civil Engineer!
I got an A, B, B and A at A level.
But I couldn't get anyone to Take A Chance On Me.
I am not sure about the argument that IB is harder than IGCSE - although there is a perception that IB is harder (work) than A levels and possibly pre-Us but again not sure that is correct.
IMO, the material is as hard if not harder than it has ever been - maths is a good example where calculus, surds etc are (I)GCSE whereas they were Ad Maths O level in my day. The distant past! Plus the volume of material in subjects like geography is very broad indeed. The main difference IMO is the marking and to a lesser extent the requirements to write correctly. My younger son took all IGCSEs bar Theology ( 😉 ) which was standard GCSE. His conclusion...you know you will get an A* in GCSEs because you just have to get the facts down (but against major time pressure in his case) but in all the others the top grade was in doubt due to the stricter grammar/spelling/essay structure requirements. In my day this was the Oxford & Cambridge board versus JMB debate, so perhaps things haven't changed all that much!
A-A the name English Bacc is really stupid as it it really based on old O levels not the IB at all. Can't see why Gove did that?
molgrips - Member
11 GCSEs? Wtf are they doing to kids these days?
Eh? I did 11 GCSE's in '93.
2A's, 8 B's and a C.....
Yep 12 in the late 80s. Two early (Maths, Divinity in those days!), nine in the correct year, and one in lower sixth (Spanish from scratch) as a bit of fun. So no real difference there.
The other difference - no course work, no retakes, all linear exam-based apart from language oral papers. No chance for parents/teachers to "do" the course work!!!
A-A the name English Bacc is really stupid as it it really based on old O levels not the IB at all. Can't see why Gove did that?
because he's a ****ing idiot, he also wants Grammar Schools go look good.
IGCSE maths has been taken up a lot recently as it was easier afaik. The ibacc is a completely different kettle of fish.
No harm in making grammar schools look good In my book, 😉 not that they need politicians to do that for them!!!
Interesting to hear you perception of IGCSE v GCSE and you have some support in that view especially with English if the Torygraph is to be believed. However, that is not our experience. But even fewer seem to believe the boards who try to present both exams as being equally challenging!
back in '79 (1979) we did 7 gce's from maths english language english lit., one foriegn language, 3 sciences (physics biology chemistry) history or geography.
each marked soley on two 90 minute exams.. no calculators ( but we did have books of logarithms , whatever they were..)
we did no revision.. zip. we had a prelim 6 months before the actual june exam for practice and that was it.. (My outstanding achievement was getting 4% in the maths prelim.. this meant extra lessons on saturday morning from a very very attractive 19yr old teacher training student from the local college)
they are easier today on the basis that the kids are schooled to pass the exams (such as they are) where as we just turned up and were memory tested from stuff we might have done 3 years earlier..
I thought everyone was doing international batchelorettes these days?
My personal diary plans are none of your business.
Parental input, revisions guides, the Internet, peer pressure, overall expectations etc.....a lot has changed. Not all for the better, but unlike a lot of headlines IMO a lot is much, much better.....even teachers!!!!! 😉
No harm in making grammar schools look good In my book, not that they need politicians to do that for them!!!
of course not, which school would if they pre selected students on ability?
Please note I am not anti grammar schools as education should be about teaching each person to fulfil their maximum potential. That will be grammar for some and a more technical based approach [as used in Germany] for the less able/more practical inclined for others and basic education for some.
2 A's, 5 B's and 3 C's for me.
It was A levels I found the hardest, more so than my degree even.
6th form of choice stipulated A grade minimum at GCSE for the A levels he wanted to do
Wow, we don't ask for anything like that - if you get 5 Cs, you can come here; some subjects ask for a B, but none require an A - and we do pretty well.
I took 9 in 1992, only high pressure over-achieving swots took 10, and our school didn't even give us the option!
12 GCSEs in 1994. Not A*s though!
Please note I am not anti grammar schools as education should be about teaching each person to fulfil their maximum potential.
I'm unsure how selecting people at 11 and then segregating them achieves these laudable aims.
Very proud dad here - eldest lad has 2xA*, 5xA, 2xB & 1xC
Off to do A Level Maths, further Maths, Physics, Chemistry and Govt & Politics
😀
I sat my high school exams the first year GCSEs came in. We took eight subjects; three mandatory and five options. No option to take any more. That would've been 1988.
3xA, 4xB and a C. And I was a girly swot. Either they're getting easier, kids are getting smarter or teaching's improved. I'm leaning towards the latter.
5A's, 5B's and a C for Son1. He is pleased and we are ff for dinner. Might buy him a set of kneepads for our trip to the Forest of Dean this weekend. If I really push the boat out, I'll rent him a downhill bike for an uplift day at UK Bikepark next month. We don't do pay for performance nonsense.
The 7% drop in Science passes is dissapointing but I think it is setting the stage for a return to more sensible marking across all subjects. Given the sample size, a 7% change must have a 10^-10 P value.
Nephew's result 6A's & 1B.
Niece's result 3A's 3B's & 1D ...
🙂
The 7% drop in Science passes is dissapointing but I think it is setting the stage for a return to more sensible marking across all subjects. Given the sample size, a 7% change must have a 10^-10 P value.
Amazing work by Gove to dress up poorer results as an improvement. He really has worked himself the ultimate win win. Its dressed up as a harder set of courses, although I teach it and struggle to see whats harder. Some of the exam questions are harder but the content is much the same. The % needed to get an A grade really are shockingly low so I'm not sure its helping we are just having less questions got right and more people failing. My school and department got best ever results though 🙂 thats despite offsted moving us from outstanding to in need of improvement just a couple of months ago 😉
IMO the first sentence makes [i]some sense[/i] - however to prove his own rigour, and to set the appropriate example, Gove should have said that YoY comparisons are of less value as the marking criteria have become stricter in sciences (and English?). As usual with Gove a hint of something sensible but dashed by sloppy presentation and execution - no A* for the minister.
I had the dubious pleasure of e-mailing my boss to tell him his eldests maths teacher needed to chat via e-mail!(They are on holiday in the US in Yosemite). I think it wasn't good news and the career choice of medicine may not be possible now.
The 7% drop in Science passes is dissapointing
There was a deliberate move to make sciences harder this year, so a drop was expected. Not sure if it was 7% though.
The overall drop is hard to compare with last year, because a huge number of Y10 kids were entered for GCSEs this year and they did less well. Just looking at Y11, it was about on a par with last year.
There's certainly been grade inflation - we're getting students who are not as good as someone with the same grades of a few years ago - but that's not necessarily a sign that the exams are easier. Schools are now very good at targeting specific students and use all sorts of techniques to make sure their headline figures as as good as possible.