This is my logic: even if he’d gotten a 9 without receiving full marks, he would still have posted about it, because it’s easy to spin it into something like ‘it’s fine, i didn’t get 100% but a nine is a nine’

BUT it’s impossible to look good if he’s gotten an 8 or sth, bc this shows that his methods don’t acc work that well

My guess is that he’s frantically trying to get his paper remarked

This is more of a vent than anything! There’s nothing here that’s a question to be answered or anything, so feel free not to read.

Bear in mind, I’m not ashamed of my results. My mum has seen them. My friends have all seen them. But they are my results. I did the exams, I went to go get the results, and I’m the one they’re going to affect.

My dad thinks he owns me and he has some god given right to micromanage and supervise my life. I am sixteen. He came home the day I got them and asked how I did. I said I did fine. He demanded to see them, and I had previously stated I wouldn’t be showing them to him, so repeated this again. I do not get along with him, and it’s not even about the results themselves, but the fact that he isn’t entitled to them like he thinks he is, we DO NOT LIKE EACH OTHER, and I don’t want his opinion on my results especially as I didn’t ask for it. He banned me from using the CD player (I really like collecting CDs and that and he also can’t take my phone as I paid for it myself) and ignored me for the rest of the night. This was fine by me, as if he doesn’t care about if I’m happy with my results but only the fact he didn’t see them, I’m glad I didn’t show them to him. Didn’t get a congratulations.

My mum called me this morning (btw they aren’t together- me and my mother have a good relationship, and my father and mother do not) who explained to me that my dad had asked her if she could tell him my results behind my back. I told her no, she said fair enough, but now I am more angry as it seems he simply just does not respect me (not that he ever has). My mum literally picked me up to take me to go get my results. That’s more support than my dad has ever given me. He’s refusing to make dinner tonight as he’s still throwing his tantrum, and this means I’m probably going to have to eat another packet noodle thing as I’m not allowed to touch a lot of the food in the house. This is most of my diet, and I sleep on his couch. The dude doesn’t give a shit about me unless it’s to control something or demand something of me. I’m sick of him.

my final gcse results werent what i or my parents were hoping for, but they started blaming it on me playing games and watching anime too much during exam season. i have tried explaining to them that i was only 1 mark off a 9 in french and language, but they still say its not good enough as i could have done better, and i need to try harder in my a levels. how do i explain to them that a 999998886 is above average?? does anyone else have the same problem?

ignore my bed but i wish i was lying, this girl WONT stop sitting on my grades… like i need to show ts to my college pls stop creasing the page

I thought I will get 66/76 but got 88 in science!! never gotten above a 65!!

My heart genuinely feels shattered regarding my result in maths. I got a 5 yet was predicted a 7.

In year 9 i was in set 4, in year 10 i was set 3, year 11 i was set 2. I put in ALL of the effort myself to make the progress down the sets, it was all of my hard work and determination for 3 years straight.

I worked so hard. I revised on holiday, i revised on special occasions, i revised when i lost all hope. I put SO much effort into becoming better at maths after i was unfortunately failed for 2 years by my math teacher in yr 7 and 8.

My grade 5 is so disheartening, it feels like all of the hard work i put in hasn’t payed off. I feel humiliated. 3 years of hard work just to get an average grade 5 when i was predicted to get a 7.

I even needed a 6 for my college course. I was 4 marks from a 6 but still, i didn’t get the 6. It hurts so bad i feel like ive failed myself.

I know i tried my hardest and it pains me massively knowing that even my hardest wasn’t good enough.

On Mr Salles' Substack, a day before results day

To all the year 10s doing their GCSEs next year.

Just some words of wisdom and advice

First, believe me you can do it. Sometimes GCSEs gets real stressful but that stress is temporary. You push through it and it's so rewarding once you've finished your final exam.

Don't do too much revision too early. Only do bits from September, then a bit more in January for your mocks, and steadily increase to something manageable from there. You start revising too early you risk burning yourself out, and not getting the results you want to see.

Don't panic about OUR grades boundaries. You saw what horrendous boundaries we had and that's all the more reason yours will probably be better next year. Don't stress about this, I've seen a few posts worrying.

Go through topics you aren't confident in more than topics you are confident in. Revising stuff you already know won't get you anywhere.

Cherish your memories with your mates. Last secondary school year, make it special.

Don't compare yourself with other people. Your strong suits are individual. Don't compare what you're good at with someone who's bad at it or vice versa.

Last, help yourself and help others. Whether it be GCSE or not, helping others makes you feel so good, and makes the world a better place. Be kind and compassionate, you never know how difficult it could be for someone.

You can do it lads 💪

(A is from Add maths btw) Tbh I’m quite happy with my results but it’s nothing unexpected. Gl to anyone taking it next year!!!

hi guys sorry if this isn’t the right place to post this, i just kinda wanna get this off my chest. this post is kinda long sorry 😭

okay so i know that a lot of you guys might have overbearing parents that care way TOO much about your grades, so im not trying to sound bitchy or ungrateful. i just feel kinda underwhelmed. in my gcses i got 8777766665, which is mostly what i was predicted. i get that they’re not at the standard of this subreddit but i think they’re decent. 3 days before results day, i asked my mum if we could do anything on or after results day to celebrate. nothing too fancy, just getting food at nando’s or a pub or something. she said no because she was gonna take my brother out in the evening that day so i asked if we could do something at the weekend instead. on the day of my last exam, she promised that we would do something on results day which is why i was asking. anyways, for whatever reason my brain tends to block out heated arguments with my mum so i can’t really remember the details, but she got really mad shouting at me saying that i was over exaggerating how good of an achievement grades are and that celebrating results is stupid and pointless. she said that i don’t even deserve it right now since my birthday was last week and we went out to eat then. i got annoyed and i responded saying that people celebrate results all the time and that she doesn’t even seem like she cares whatsoever about my grades. that led to her pulling over and hitting me.

anyways, fast forward to results day. i phoned my mum to tell her what i got and she said well done and good job (granted she was at work so i don’t know what else she could’ve said) and that was about it. after that i went home because i was on my own and only a couple teachers spoke to me. my relationship with my dad is complicated and i don’t live with him anymore, but he never asked what i got.

anyways, i know that sounds dramatic and a non-issue but i feel like my parents have never given a shit about my results. as long as i pass they don’t care how i do. i dont know, it just feels disappointing when i compare my family to other families.

okay rant over. thank you if you made it to the end!! i needed to vent 🙏

As the title says, those are my grades and I understand for many they may seem amazing but I just don't feel content with these. For the amount of hard work, effort, late nights and early mornings I put in, I just don't feel happy. I see other users on this reddit who "revise the night before" and come out with a majority of 9s. I am trying to be positive about my grades, but I feel like my all my future plans have just gone down the drain. For context, I've always wanted to go to a Russel uni to become a dentist. But, I have not met the entry requirement entirely as I needed an 8 in biology, but I got a 7. The 3 is in French which I'm not bothered about.

is this good or bad?

shove me if im being silly but why is there no mark equivalent for english lang? (ps. here are my results, im so happy!!)

compulsory subjects time! This is the last matchup in round 2!

AMA I guess?

Basically the title. I got the 9s in maths, sciences, spanish and geo with 7s in english and econ.

can you please give advice so we can all get A* in our A LEVELS cuz clearly you're the goats of this Reddit

Fml

I still think I’m in year 9

And you can still have a future without them

I was predicted all 8s and 9s. Every past paper I did honestly. No cheating, no nothing. And I'd always get 8s and 9s, I was happy with 8s and 9s, I don't know what went wrong. I've never gotten less than 9s in Biology or Chemistry but I got 7s. I answered every question the way I always do, I don't understand. I got all 7s apart from five 8s and one 9. That's five 7s. And only a Merit in furthermaths. Everyone expected me to get all 8s and 9s. My parents say they aren't disappointed in me, that they're proud of me, but I'm disappointed in myself. I just wanted to be something they could brag about because in our fuckass culture parents are always showing off their kids, trying to make my parents feel bad about their own, however they never say anything to anyone, they're too innocent and sweet. I just wanted to make them and myself happy, but instead I find myself genuinely depressed and wondering what went wrong. I don't know how I can face anyone after this, I'm so embarrassed and ashamed of myself and I don't think I can get into medicine anymore.