"Almost 30,000 pupils in Scotland have received their exam results a day early by mistake. The blunder meant youngsters who signed up to get results by text message got an early look at their grades, the Scottish Qualifications Authority said. Opposition politicians branded it a "serious mistake", but the exam body insisted the problem had not put anyone at a disadvantage. Higher and Standard Grade results for 160,000 students come out on Thursday."
However we already knew about this because when we were in IKEA this afternoon Alasdair received a text from the SQA - he was one of the 30,000! It took us all by surprise and I rushed to phone James with the results. Alasdair has done very well with A's & B's (six highers in total) - an excellent total of 15 points which should be enough for him to do Law. What a relief; his prelim results in January were a mixture of B's & C's and I know that he has worked very hard to improve them. The wee trooper has come up trumps! Next step is the application process. Meanwhile David is still talking about doing Science, possibly Pharmacy or Biochemistry, he loves Science and has been thinking about this for several years now. I think that Biochemistry is currently the front runner because David's two Int 2 exam results will arrive by post tomorrow; his Highers will be next year. Ally didn't seem very excited about his great results (some of his friends have done even better) so James and I had a long talk with him and told him how proud we are of him, and emphasised that he has lots of options. Since his laptop is on its last legs his reward is going to be a really good, up to date laptop. He was very pleased about this, I think that it demonstrated to him just how very well we feel that he has achieved, and he went off to research it!
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