GCSE results

Not all results have yet been reported to me.

I had two disappointments. A girl came to me for lessons about 6 weeks before the exams, and she only got an E. I had hoped to move her up one grade to a D. 

A boy with special educational needs only got a D. I was hoping for a C.

However, one girl who was predicted an E grade, got a C. She came to me 3 months before the exams and worked hard. I am really pleased with her C.  It makes all the work by the two of us really worthwhile when it pays off like this. 

Another girl managed to get her C, although she was doing the exams a year early. That was also pleasing.

The lesson from these results is not to wait too long for tuition.

Private tuition can move children up two whole grades, if there is enough time.

But if tuition is left too late, then nobody can work miracles.

AS results day

The waiting and nerves are over, and my students got their AS and A-level results.

I had 4 students doing these exams.

One got her A in her A-level Mathematics. She was pleased.

Another got a C in her A-level Mathematics. She was also pleased.

One of my male students got a C in his AS modules. He was pleased. At one stage he was going to drop the entire subject.

My other student got a D in his AS module. Sadly, he also got a U in Business Studies. I wouldn't even know where to begin to teach that. The D was slightly disappointing. I was hoping for a C.

Next week is GCSE results week. One of my students is being entered by her school in the Higher Tier a year early, and the school is hoping she will get a C.

I disapprove of this practice of entering students for exams where the school has not yet taught the content of the exam, and the school hopes the student scrapes a C. It is demoralising to do an exam where a lot of the questions are on subjects you have never seen.