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Is it not early days for predicted grades?

My year has been predicted grades for AS already. We've only had 5 weeks of lessons. Is it normal for alls chools to do this because a few of my friends have been predicted 4 A's. One of them is absoloutely rubbish at French and hasn't done very well in the vocab tests so I dunno what the teachers are reflecting off. :s-smilie:

Is it not a bit silly to predict grades at this stage?

I haven't see mine yet, but I've been told I'm predicted "good".

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Reply 1

dilburt

yeah its pretty stupid

Reply 2

Noémie

i got a maths predicted grade in like, oct/nov time ish.
the rest of my subjects didn't.
i think that the maths people just did it so they could have fun with some complicated logarithms to predict things.

Reply 3

Valbonne92

Yes it sure is.

The career's lady said we're going to start filling in UCAS forms in Feb/March!

ME and University? I don't think so :no:

Reply 4

robotic_dancer

that happened to us, but they are usually undestimated

Reply 5

jaz_jaz

It is!
I got predicted two B's so far which is abit odd cuz the subjects they've looked at from GCSE to predict them have been A's :confused:

I hope I can pull them up :frown:

Reply 6

thatkidd

I've only started AS Psychology this year and I've already been predicted an A.

Reply 7

somemightsay

They are utterly pointless, I don't think I can actually remember my AS predicted grades.

Reply 8

benwellsday

Are these the official predicted grades or the stupid 'expected grades' thing the school gave us. They took our gcse's and basically picked a letter out a hat, I was predicted C's in maths, physics and chemistry, despite having A*'s in maths and double science gcse. Worst idea ever. But they did send AAAB as my prediction to uni's, which was reasonably close.

Reply 9

anyarian

we're getting these soon but they aren't the teachers' predictions, they're statistical target grades based on your gcse grades. we had similar stuff given to us at the beginning of year ten, based on SATs levels. only one of mine was right.
i think they're a bit pointless, tbh.
that said, i think teachers will be able to tell fairly accurately what we'll get now, unless someone drastically changes the amount of work they do/effort they make.
it's easy to see in year 7 where abouts someone will be in the yeargroup ranking for gcse, which is 4 years later, so why not now, for AS levels?

Reply 10

Superman_Jr

How do the teachers predict grades? Test-wise or...?

Reply 11

username219321

The "predicted grades" are predicted from GCSEs.

Reply 12

inksplodge

Yep, they're predicted based on the GCSEs you got, and they're not accurate. Mine came out to predict me 4 D's (if you have a couple of off grades like me, expect these to lower your score dramatically) and I ended up with ABBB at AS (two B grades were 3-4 UMS off an A grade respectively) :p:

Complete and utter crap.

Reply 13

lalalee-anne

Oh don't listen to them.

Because of how I did in my GCSE's i was predicted BCCC for AS, but i ended up with AAAB. So meh...

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Reply 14

AnthonyShock

So if I got:
Chemistry: A
Biology: A
German: B (2 mark off an A)
English Language: A

(not taking these but might contribute :smile:

Maths: C
Literature: A
Physics: B

What grades could I be looking at maybes?

Reply 15

Melting Sugar.

Our english teacher came around on our first day giving us predicted grades based on what we got at GCSE

:s:

Pretty stupid really.
We haven't had any from other subjects though, more likely they'll give us those after the October Mocks ( :o:

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Reply 16

hanzmanz

yeah, they base them on your gcses, though i know at our school they say they're minimum target grades as opposed to predicted grades. so basically what you'd get with a fairly minimal amount of work. if you're predicte a B, no one's saying its impossible to get an A!

Reply 17

electriic_ink

Well 5 weeks if one sixth of the way through the AS level course. How long do you want them to wait?

Reply 18

jelly1000

At my school they gave us minimum target grades based on GCSE results and ALPS points scores. Based on my GCSE results I should be achieving bccc at AS.