OK, quick recap on the background. DSD came to live with us from the States in Jan this year and long story short she'd had a very turbulent time there, hardly went to school and consequently failed every single subject.

When she first got here, her school report was pretty good.

The latest one has slipped and she's also missed quite a few classes. She's doing only averagely in all subjects and got a D in VCE Biology 1 & 2.

I know I should be asking the school this but it's quicker to do it on BB than find the number for the school coordinator and wait a few days of phone tagging to actually talk to them.

My question is, with those sorts of results in Year 10, how is she likely to do in VCE? I'm concerned that she may think that she can get into a course with a high ENTER score when maybe that's just not very realistic.

I'm not from Aus so the whole VCE/ENTER thing is a bit of a mystery to me. I just know if you were getting average/below average marks (so Cs and Ds) at age 16 in the UK, the chances of going to uni wouldn't be good. I know that the system is different over here and an average is just the learning standard they would expect so 'on track'. Didn't explain that very well.

Don't get me wrong, I don't see uni as the be all and end all - I just don't want HER having unrealistic expectations and she's a bit head in the cloudsy at the moment. She didn't even remember that she'd got a D in Biology when we talked last night - she thought she'd done really well.