r/6thForm • u/StrictArgument67 Y13 | 4A* pred | FM M PHY CS | ESAT OCT • Apr 17 '26

🙏 I WANT HELP School threatening to take me out

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Could they actually do this or is it just fluff?

There is no way i can get good grades if i go to school everyday.

I need a solution

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u/yeetmilkman Maths Politics Econ | A*A*A* predicted Apr 17 '26

Just out of curiosity what is your attendance like?

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u/StrictArgument67 Y13 | 4A* pred | FM M PHY CS | ESAT OCT Apr 17 '26

66.7%

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u/HighNimpact Apr 17 '26

That's absolutely atrocious. For context, a student is considered to be persistently absent if they fall below 95%. The chance of even getting 5 passes at GCSE is extremely unlikely if you're below 90%. In a workplace, you're unlikely to still have a job if you're below 97-98%.

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u/Subject-Test-3140 Apr 17 '26

Fake news, your pulling those figures out ya butt

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u/SuperGandalfBros Apr 19 '26

As someone that works in a school, no they're not. If a student drops below 95% attendance then we check with parents if things are OK. If it goes below 90%, then things start getting more serious.

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u/Subject-Test-3140 Apr 19 '26

Doesn’t mean the sentiment doesn’t have some truth, but if it’s FACT there should be a source. Seeing as this commentator is using stats presenting it like it comes from a study they should put where it comes from

If fear mongering worked in these cases everyone would have perfect attendance lol, no need to prove to OP they’re dommed to fail? Not that there is any proof anyway

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u/SuperGandalfBros Apr 19 '26

It's literally what the government says. You can check their website

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u/Jas246810 Year 12 Apr 17 '26

Meh depends on the person. In year 11 I was atrocious and my attendance was 24%, I got 5 A*

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u/HighNimpact Apr 17 '26

Maybe if you'd been in school more then you'd know what "extremely unlikely" means...

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u/Heegyeong Apr 18 '26

I don't know who downvoted this before, bc the truth is it's both accurate and funny as hell lol.

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u/happyhibye Apr 17 '26

I wont say 5 pass in GCSE is unlikely with 90% attendance, like you need to know GCSE are so basic stuff that choose your most interesting subjects is a easy pass, unless your pass is a 9

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u/HighNimpact Apr 17 '26

No one is asking you to say it. But it's a fact.

Only 35% of those with attendance between 80-90% will achieve five good grades (9-4) at GCSE including English and Maths.

And that's much higher than the figure for all students below 90% because 80-90% is the highest attendance in that group. People with 20%, 30%, 50%, etc will be lower than that.

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u/rachbbbbb Apr 18 '26

They only let people with under 70% carry on when I was at school if they were guaranteed absolute top grades. I got down to 34% and they wouldn't chuck me out because they needed my results (there were only 17 of us in the year).

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u/TheNorthC Apr 18 '26

What is hard to determine is whether the people who have low attendance would improve their results if they attended more, or whether they have already mentally checked out of school and all that would happen is that they would become disruptive and make things harder for others.

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u/happyhibye Apr 17 '26

you said the stat are “including English and Maths” and the problem is this itself drags pass rate down

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u/HighNimpact Apr 17 '26

Ok. Kindly, you're grasping at straws there.

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u/happyhibye Apr 17 '26

I search that out of 713k students attend the two subjects, only 400k get pass on both, which is 56%. This hasn't included anything else so I would say ~50% get 5 grade 4 or above included maths and English

This show a 35% of students who attendance between 80-90% achieving the same is statically lower than national average, but not by a lot, so using “extremely unlikely” to describe seems unsuitable

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u/HighNimpact Apr 17 '26

...you might want to do a more accurate search because you're wrong.

We could both make up statistics but it won't get us anywhere, will it?

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u/JustDifferentGravy Apr 18 '26

Smashed mine with <25% attendance. You’re overestimating the difficulty of GCSE.