Hello.You must all be clever clogs.! My son took 8 GCSE`s ,but has failed the ICT miserably. He did no work,absolutely hated it [I kind of pushed him into doing the subject], and hardly turned up for any of the lessons. He never went in for the actual GCSE ICT exams.There was no point. So I told him OK, we [he] can afford to let ONE GCSE go, but only one,and that I expected him to do reasonably well in all his other subjects, all of which were academic subjects. Must point out here he has absolutely hated most of the last 5 years of secondary school,and getting him to go in some days was impossible. Had the Education Welfare Officer around to talk to me and him on numerous occasions,threatening to take me to court. The whole thing was just a nightmare. Thankfully, we got through it, somehow, and now i`m relieved to say, his last exam was 2 weeks ago and it`s all over. He actually [astonishingly] did a wee bit of revision for his exams, and he`s naturally clever in almost every subject. I expect he will get a few grade C`s and B`s. Possibly one Grade A if he`s very lucky. But he`s starting a college course in September [Doesn`t want to, of course. Would rather lie around the house doing f*** all, but told him that is out of the question]. But for the course he is enrolled on [BTEC Level 3 Extended Diploma in Health and Social Care],you only need a minimum of 4 GCSE`s at C or above, so I`m hoping out of his 7, he will have got at least 4 of them at the C grade. You are all very lucky you are motivated and interested enough to care what grades you are going to get, and be concerned about your future. I wish my 16 year old son was like this.!!!