Your Kids and Their Exam Results

[Lou]

How did your kids do in their exams? Have they got the grades they wanted?

Seems like it has been a bit of a shambles this year to be honest. I do feel sorry for the kids.

Hopefully now the government is letting the teachers give the grades it won't be as bad now.

I heard BTECs are still not being changed though which is a shame. I think a lot of BTECs are in trades so they need to do something about it really.

 

[SimonG]

Mine are all grown up, but sick of hearing the young ones whingeing on about it. Yes the 'adjusted' marks seem out, as do the teachers guestimates.

Listening to one today, didn't do well in mock exams, poor teacher estimate. It's not fair, I would have aced my exams.

Erm i dont think so!

T me it's not exam results that make the person it's the efforts. Exam results wont get you a job, might get a skive for 4 years at uni, but theres more to it when you're going for a job.

Summed it up last night on the news, one of them wasnt even bright enough to hold their protest banner up thr right way.

I really despair for the future. I can hear the excuses now. Aye if it wasnt for that covid thing I would have been a brain surgeon.

I must really stop watching the news.

 

[Deleted member 82985]

How did your kids do in their exams? Have they got the grades they wanted?

Seems like it has been a bit of a shambles this year to be honest. I do feel sorry for the kids.

Hopefully now the government is letting the teachers give the grades it won't be as bad now.

I heard BTECs are still not being changed though which is a shame. I think a lot of BTECs are in trades so they need to do something about it really.

Fortunately BTecs don’t seem to have been as badly affected (although many were late) as A levels. So my g/daughter has got what she needs to be accepted on her osteopathy course.

Rumour has it that the Permanent Sec at Dept for Education will be sacked not that useless former fireplace salesman Williamson - yes, that’s right, the one who was sacked by the previous PM for leaking from the National Security Council!

Just the latest of a bunch of incompetents masquerading as cabinet ministers; whose qualifications for being appointed were a willingness to suck up to Johnson/***mings and to pretend to believe the lie that a no-deal Brexit will not severely damage the country.

 

[king of pipes]

Mine are grown up so hasn't affected me or them . Kop

 

[Murdoch]

I think the original system worked with the exception of people that ended up with a grade more than 1 grade from their expected

i.e

expected A, awarded B = ok

expected A, awarded C = review

this years GCSE and A level results will all be the highest ever - bad news for next years kids because they will look bad by comparison

 

[RoryD]

Mine are all grown up, but sick of hearing the young ones whingeing on about it. Yes the 'adjusted' marks seem out, as do the teachers guestimates.

Listening to one today, didn't do well in mock exams, poor teacher estimate. It's not fair, I would have aced my exams.

Erm i dont think so!

T me it's not exam results that make the person it's the efforts. Exam results wont get you a job, might get a skive for 4 years at uni, but theres more to it when you're going for a job.

Summed it up last night on the news, one of them wasnt even bright enough to hold their protest banner up thr right way.

I really despair for the future. I can hear the excuses now. Aye if it wasnt for that covid thing I would have been a brain surgeon.

I must really stop watching the news.

I really have stopped watching the news months ago. I pick up snippets on Twitter. I totally agree with all you said. I have to confess that I'm baffled at such a thread on the Plumbers forum

 

[Murdoch]

I totally agree with all you said. I have to confess that I'm baffled at such a thread on the Plumbers forum

Probably because we can be trusted to have a sensible debate, yet other media forums turn into off topic slagging matches ...............

 

[Keefy]

My daughter is only six years old but her reading, writing and mathematics progress has astounded me. Mrs Keefy is a key worker and neither of our jobs has been affected (not much anyway) by the lockdown. We were feeling quite guilty recently for not spending as much educational time with her as we felt obliged to (plus cancelling Disneyland in April) but I really do think she's picked up more being in a small group at school during this time.

She's often been the only child in the whole school over the last few months but her teacher has brought along her own kid as company for her on the odd occasion she (teacher) could forsee she'd otherwise be alone.

When I said "astounded" I wasn't kidding, she's doing great and we're proud of her.

 

[Aquarius]

My kids haven’t done exams yet. Eldest starts high school this year and youngest start school juniors.