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For me good results would be all A*s and 8s with maybe 1 A max. I would be over the moon with any 9s, but anything below 8s/ A*s would probably make me feel a bit disappointed in myself (which is pretty ridiculous, yet I know I'm capable of getting those grades).
That's in terms of myself. For others, I just think anything worked hard for is good. But if I am going to be completely objective and honest, I'd say anything like mostly As and Bs is 'good' in my eyes.
Good luck for results day everybody!

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Reply 221

chinkilicious

Personally, no B's. At least 7 A* and 3 A would be amazing. 5A* would be good too. I've always seen B as disappointing and A as 'average.'

Reply 222

Fighter365

Original post by chinkilicious

Personally, no B's. At least 7 A* and 3 A would be amazing. 5A* would be good too. I've always seen B as disappointing and A as 'average.'

Yeah same

Reply 223

chinkilicious

Being Asian though, I'm not actually expecting straight A*s. No B's would be satisfactory in its own right...

Reply 224

The RAR

The thing so different about TSR is that,everyone wants As as minimum which is quite crazy considering where I live the majority of people would be happy with Cs

Reply 225

stoyfan

A* for physics.
8 for maths
A's for the other sciences.
B for spanish
B (hopefully more) for history
At least a B for spanish
6's for English (tho it is quite possible that I might get 5's).
A for comp sci.
A for further maths AQA

Reply 226

Siliac

This is what I would consider to be good in GCSEs currently:

Maths: 8/9 (A*/above A*)
English: 5 (C/B)
Science: 6 (B/A)
Geography: 6 (B/A)
Resistent Materials: 5 (C/B)
Systems and Control: 6 (B/A)
Computer Science: 8/9 (A*/above A*)

I might consider different results to be good in the future.

Reply 227

Alex savova

Are these good gcse grades ?
A* art
A* Spanish
A* English lit
A* Biology
A* French
A * georgraphy
A Physics
A Chemistry
A Maths
9 English lit

Reply 228

LELzexc

Original post by tbag1

It's completely subjective.

One person might be happy with enough passes to get them back into school to do A-levels. Personally, I got 9 A*s and 2 As and was slightly disappointed about the 2 As. I know my GCSEs are fantastic, but I still had that wee bit of disappointment.

Everyone is different :smile:

Same here I got 5As ,2Bs and 3Cs and I wanted 7A's , 2B's and 1C

Reply 229

LELzexc

Original post by mashman9

I really wouldnt worry about gcse's tooo much, there not a good indicator of ability...

Unless you want to go to oxbridge, a handful of A's, B's and C's should be fine :smile:

I had no A*, was very lazy scraped an A in maths, but now have A*A in maths, further maths at A level, aswell as a B in phyeics when i got a B in gcse physics.

So as long as you do enough to get onto the a level courses you want, i wouldnt worry too much :smile:

Omg that is exactly like me . I wish I tried harder on a few subjects but my grades were average

Reply 230

thegalaxy

A* fantastic
A terrible
B rubbish
C worthless

Reply 231

anonymous2680

additionl maths doesn't count as half an A-level. Yes it does cover most of the AS maths course but it is considered as a level 2 qualification, although people are aware that it is significantly harder than GCSE and there are elements in it (i.e. Matrices) that are not even in A-level maths, only Further Maths A-level

Reply 232

collagefulltime

Original post by N_young

tell me about it, + im abroad on results day so im gonna have to wait for my bro to call me n tell me...

2013 law?

im not the one to hate but who wants there results online? like if its online you cant constantly keep that web page through your whole life and people ca n hack it and change them to lower scores. for example you may be thing i only got 4 u's and yes u is the lowest but what about oh im a hacker oh lets see 4 u's. how many head have i got 1 oh lets just erase 3 subjects

Reply 233

username4929556

The irony is that people are constantly typing on here that GCSE results aren't all that and most Uni's take little or no notice of them......except for Oxford that considers them as part of the application.