To be fair exam results aren't all that when you're an Ingham. What is Isabelle ever going to achieve in life. A job independent of her family? A LIFE independent of her family? You don't need exam results to travel in a tin can. If she's not going to go to college till next year, she's basically a year behind her peers. Wasn't so long ago she was taking these exams early because she was apparently ahead. My daughter sat her exams a few years ago now and she was always classed as one of the younger in the year late July birthday, whereas Isabelle is the older end of the school year. She did well, B's and C's if I recall correctly, may well have been an A in there. I was proud, she was happy. She got on her course at college, which involved work placement in a nursery, which lead to a job, which she's still in 7 years later and holds the record of being the nurserys youngest room leader. She's in a relationship, has a mortgage, planning a wedding, has a social life (well she is a home bird) but has friends. That's what I find so difficult for these kids, they have none of this to look forward too. None of this to aspire too. At 17, Issy could be college, part time job, friends planning holidays with friends, real friends, not your 13 yr old sister and your sad excuse of a mother.