how would you have done - better / worse / same?
would you have trusted them to do this fairly?
would there have been other kids who the teachers inflated / deflated?
I did way better in A levels than i was predicted - mostly because i started to work hard in around April of the year i took them. Got As was predicted B/Cs (this was at a time when a B was not a bad grade FYI). This is tough for those kids. I expect there will be lots of law suits / appeals. Some might actually prefer to take the exams once they are able to. Is that an option?
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I did better than expected, but not better than my parents would have forced my teachers to predict.
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I did better in my A levels than my predicted grades (similar to you - predicted ABC got AAB) but I think if asked to say how I would have done in these circs, they'd have said pretty much what I actually got.
is there any info on when kids will be told yet?
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I was explaining to somebody who has just finished uni that, not so long ago, you could get into pretty much anywhere with a couple of Bs and a C. Law prolly needed one A but any more was just showing off.
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I did too. I got AAABC. I fooked about in year 1 of A levels and was predicted B's and C's. Glad I pulled my finger out and stopped trying (unsuccessfully) to get laid.
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Me: much worse than predicted
I've never met anyone who actually did better
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Soz foal.
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5 a levels? Are you a young person?
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I'm 41.
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Wtf were you playing at then?!!
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You only needed 3. That was the first thing I checked.
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I enjoyed them and couldnt choose.
In an ideal world I would have done chemistry too, but it conflicted
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I am a single child.
I did not have a happy childhood.
Study was an escape.
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I got much better than predicted grades but I was a total penis in school. My economics teacher predicted me an E and I got full marks. Maths was the same but I didn’t get full marks but still got an A. Only thing I aced all the way along was English (also full marks).
this is why I wouldn’t send my kids to private school.
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The only excuse is that one was general studies (I did that too so have 4 really); 5 at our age is mad keener behaviour
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For my A-levels I don't think it would have made any difference. I might have been given an A in a subject I ended up getting a B in, but I don't know. I was always borderline.
For my GCSEs I think I might have gone up a grade in a couple of subjects, but I'd have been a bit fooked in history, because my teacher gave me a D in the mock to scare me into doing some work and then I got an A* in the real thing.
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Predicted BCD and got AAB.
I wouldn't have gone to university and had a job lined up on the railways. Would probably have never left my home town.
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The predicted grade system is a bit daft really, amazed we haven’t moved beyond it.
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GCSE - did better than predicted grades by miles. There was a big concern that I may not get five grade C
A-levels - did worse than my predicted grades, everyone was quite surprised and the teachers suggested getting two papers remarked. But I had an unconditional offer so didn't care really. In hindsight I realise they were doing it for them not for me to make their leaver grades look better.
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predicted BBC (which before you tits laught at , got offers at more or less every uni back then)
Got BBD
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I feel sorry for a family member of mine who was predicted straight As at A level but tanked with BBC and didn't get into top uni to do top course.
If they had been sitting this year they probably would have got waived through on predicted grades.
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The prediction would have been str8 As. The reality was someway short of that.
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I honestly can’t remember what I was predicted. Am I old now?
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I stand with you Kaul. I'm amazed all these people who can remember what they were predicted, I've got no idea.
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GCSE I'd have done better if my teachers had decided my grades but A-levels I'd have done worse.
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‘I honestly can’t remember what I was predicted.’
we had a saying - if you can remember South Kent College you weren’t really there
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Much worse - some of my school teachers hated me as much as I despised them!
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BBC was all you needed for all the Oxbridge reject Russell Group back in the day. Back when A levels were actually relatively hard and what they do nowadays was regarded as O level material.
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You must be a relatively old Massive fookwit then. I did A levels in 1992 and BBC would not have got you into Russell Group for anything other than Sociology.
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I got a BBC offer for Durham and Manchester in 1997
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I am sure that Uni offers used to differ massively, depending on your proposed subject. I even got an offer of 2xD from UCL for a course that was clearly undersubcribed at the time.
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Pretty much hit my GCSE mock grades in the exams
Would have ben bad for A Levels tho - was out watching bands every night and boozing. Just pulled it together for the proper exams.
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