Results day

Tewkesbury_Addick · August 2012

Got my AS Levels last week B, C, E, So pretty annoyed with that! But well done to all those getting results today!

seth plum · August 2012

Check out university courses abroad.

Imnot Athletic · August 2012

My son (who is 13) told me today he wanted an A, two Cs and an F for his A level results, but only if they came out in a certain order on the certificate!

cafcfan1990 · August 2012

Imnot Athletic said:
My son (who is 13) told me today he wanted an A, two Cs and an F for his A level results, but only if they came out in a certain order on the certificate!

haha, I like it!

Swisdom · August 2012

Results - NEGATIVE

phew, that's a relief.....

Oh, not those results? Ok move on nothing to see here

InSollyWeTrust · August 2012

Thanks for the advice guys , very helpful, will notify you of my choice son

Brendan_O_Connell · August 2012

I did my GCSE's in 1994. You lot are making me feel old !!

Well done though chaps, glad to see your hard work paid off. Good luck in whatever you decide to do now.

Salad · August 2012

great results well done - my daughter got 10 A*s and 2 As so she's gone off to Reading very happy this afternoon :-)

LuckyReds · August 2012

Girlfriends brother has come in with a collection of Ds, Fs, Gs and Us.. His girlfriend however had a 4 A*, 6 B and 2 C... Whoever said women were the smart ones

DickVanDykesDiscoDog · August 2012

LuckyReds said:
Girlfriends brother has come in with a collection of Ds, Fs, Gs and Us.. His girlfriend however had a 4 A*, 6 B and 2 C... Whoever said women were the smart ones

hats off to the lad for punching well above his weight ... academically speaking of course

cafc4ever · August 2012

My results were:
4 A*s
3A's
2 B's
3 C's

Davo55 · August 2012

1. Well done all the youngsters.

2. Thank Christ I'm well past all that exam stuff!

BIG_ROB · August 2012

Well done fellas, good luck too!

BIG_ROB · August 2012

.....and well done lasses if there are any here! : /

seth plum · August 2020

My beautiful nephew and if anything Charlton Fan (always Boxing day, occasional other matches) got an A*, A and B today.
Not a freebie either, but thoroughly deserved.
My Charlton fan brother in tears of happiness this morning.

MuttleyCAFC · August 2020

I am happy for all the kids that got the grades they wanted. As per every year, I find the opening of the grades live on tv distasteful. Spare a thought for the disapointed kids, especially the ones this year who might have been marked down because of their school.

golfaddick · August 2020

Heard a teacher on LBC today - London school where in her Biology set 9 pupils were downgraded from a predicted C to a U.

Same teacher, different subject. Whole set reduced down 2 grades from their predictions.

Somethings not right surely. Must be a mistake.

se9addick · August 2020

Good luck to any Addicks getting their grades today, crazy circumstances this year.

MuttleyCAFC · August 2020

My son improved significantly on his mocks last year and did very well, getting the grades he needed and the University and course he wanted. He is thriving at Uni so far despite Covid. I reckon he would have done worse under the system this year, his school wasn't going to up his standing, and he may not have got his choice.

What should have happened is a willingness to give a bit of the benefit of the doubt. And a willingness to listen to what teachers across the country are telling them.

Off_it · August 2020

InSollyWeTrust said:

I hope to carry on to as level and enlist in a sports journalism course at university, sports journalism is the dream

Just realised this thread is 8 years old!

I wonder if @InSollyWeTrust is managing to live the dream?

Jints · August 2020

Teacher predictions of 3 Bs for my son downgraded to 3 Cs. Not happy. Looking at resits unless the Government does a big u-turn.

PemburyAddick · August 2020

Jints said:

Teacher predictions of 3 Bs for my son downgraded to 3 Cs. Not happy. Looking at resits unless the Government does a big u-turn.

Was there any explanation or rationale?

Elthamaddick · August 2020

Off_it said:

InSollyWeTrust said:

I hope to carry on to as level and enlist in a sports journalism course at university, sports journalism is the dream

Just realised this thread is 8 years old!

I wonder if @InSollyWeTrust is managing to live the dream?

maybe he's Alan Nixon ??

follett · August 2020

It's a stupid system whereby the whole school gets moderated together. That means if the school gives favourable scores to some of the students at the lower end, everyone gets punished and downgraded. For example if they gave students a C grade when they should have received a U, the entire school will be moved down a grade or two. This makes it impossible for kids that would have gone on to score 100% to get the top marks as their grade will be moved down no matter what.

It's why we have seen private schools go up 4% on their usual grades and non private schools do poorly. A fundamentally flawed system where people are missing out on top universities. If anyone has been adversely affected by this I would recommend taking a year out working and studying and taking the actual exam next year to showcase true ability

Jints · August 2020

PemburyAddick said:

Jints said:

Teacher predictions of 3 Bs for my son downgraded to 3 Cs. Not happy. Looking at resits unless the Government does a big u-turn.

Was there any explanation or rationale?

Nope. Lots of other downgrades at his school

golfaddick · August 2020

follett said:

It's a stupid system whereby the whole school gets moderated together. That means if the school gives favourable scores to some of the students at the lower end, everyone gets punished and downgraded. For example if they gave students a C grade when they should have received a U, the entire school will be moved down a grade or two. This makes it impossible for kids that would have gone on to score 100% to get the top marks as their grade will be moved down no matter what.

It's why we have seen private schools go up 4% on their usual grades and non private schools do poorly. A fundamentally flawed system where people are missing out on top universities. If anyone has been adversely affected by this I would recommend taking a year out working and studying and taking the actual exam next year to showcase true ability

I cant see any school "marking up" a student from a U to a C. That would be plain daft & tantamount to cheating.

Surely the best way is to take their predictive grades from their tracking stats. Seeing as these tracking stats have been around for a few years & used by schools to show parents how the child is doing. If they are not accurate then what's the point of them...?

MuttleyCAFC · August 2020

follett said:

It's a stupid system whereby the whole school gets moderated together. That means if the school gives favourable scores to some of the students at the lower end, everyone gets punished and downgraded. For example if they gave students a C grade when they should have received a U, the entire school will be moved down a grade or two. This makes it impossible for kids that would have gone on to score 100% to get the top marks as their grade will be moved down no matter what.

It's why we have seen private schools go up 4% on their usual grades and non private schools do poorly. A fundamentally flawed system where people are missing out on top universities. If anyone has been adversely affected by this I would recommend taking a year out working and studying and taking the actual exam next year to showcase true ability

I accept it isn't easy but there was time to identify a more refined system. What would have been sensible was give the solution, with expectations, to Head Teachers to find. People who actually understand the issues.

sirjohnhumphrey · August 2020

We worked really hard in making sure our predicted grades at both A level and GCSE were fair and a true representation of what each student would have achieved if they sat the exams. We then had to put them in an order, so for example if three children in a class we predicted an A which would get the higher A etc etc.
I can honestly say that we did this as fairly and equitably as possible but of course it is hard to remove the personal factor as these are kids you have taught for 7 years in some cases.

The way this has been handled has been terrible. To come out the day before the results and say that mock grades may be used says it all. Mocks are also teacher marked and assessed and are conducted in a variety of ways.

As a school we did well. Only some of our brighter students who were looking at 3 As or A* were marked down by a grade.
I see that schools in the private sector have achieved the highest increase in top grades. Funny that.
It has been an awful experience for so many families and today has seen some dreams shattered through incompetence, confusion and bloody mindedness.
We will do what we can to get the children the results they deserve so they can have the future they deserve.
On TV this morning Gavin Williamson said that grades have to be harsh to ensure young people in future are not given positions in employment they do not have the ability to fulfil. He said this with no sense of irony!