YAY!

Yesterday, Jack and I had an interesting conversation about retroactive prayers. So, if he prayed yesterday about the exams he'd already taken and which had been marked, would God take those prayers into account when he was considering how much mercy to show Jack over his lack of revision? Mmmm...an interesting philosophical discussion ensued about whether, if God is the Lord of Time, He is outside its laws, whether/how our prayers affect God's decisions and the nature of undeserved mercy.

Well, I didn't have any answers, but today Jack got his exam results. At least, I logged on to the exam board's website and got them for him. He's not up yet! He did much better than we'd expected.  'B' for Physics, not bad since he only studied it for 12 weeks. Congrats to Jamie for helping him through the course work for that. And a totally undeserved 'C' for his O Level Religious Studies. It's a pass and a few more points to add to his total, so I am very, very happy.

I'm hoping that Jack has learned that revision in the back of the car on the way to an exam is probably not the best strategy, but hey, we got through and in the case of the Physics, got through very well!

The head of the A Level Dept at the Oxford FE College he's applied to told us that IGCSE's are worth about a grade more than plain old GCSE's that kids to at school, so that is really exciting too.

Phew. No re-sits required this summer. And now, whilst all Jack's school-educated peers are struggling with a massive workload of 10 or so GCSE's to finish and exams to prepare for in May, Jack only has English and 2/3rds of the Matns left. Oh I don't think I mentioned that last week he got the first GCSE Maths module result, which was an 'A'.

See, he is a bright boy really. {LOL!}