My own thoughts were that the schools reputation is at stake and they wouldn't want to predict grades if they did not think the students were capable.
In my son's case, I think the capability is there with hard work and I think his tutor thinks that but it's whether he is prepared to put the exta effort in. He has always sat at the top of his sets by sheer ability but A levels are a whole different ball game and he needs to put lots of effort in.
I think he has been slightly hampered in year 12, he had three tutors for one subject of which two they worshipped and one they thought was useless and he I believe was teaching them the module that he found the hardest. This was Decision Maths, hates it with a passion and refuses point blank to resit it. This means of course that he cannot afford to slip up on the other 12. Luckily going into year 13 they have only two tutors, one is God and the other is God's assistant.
The other distraction has been the introduction of girls into sixth form and the social life that suddenly has exploded in these years.
I have everything crossed but I feel like even though it is the summer holidays he should be studying, he had said that he was going to teach himself a couple of extra statistics modules so that he had something to play with but that hasn't happened yet. It might be that now he has two excellent tutors of which they have the utmost respect, then he might feel capable of getting an A in each of the remaining modules. Am I correct in thinking he has to get above 80% to get an A in a module.
Thanks