I really feel like I should understand the new curriculum but every time I think I do, something new comes up!
DD is in S4 and doing 8 subjects at Nat 5. Her prelims just finished the other day (thank goodness!) and she has been getting some results over the last day or so.
Overall she is doing really well and has put in a lot of time and effort but she just really can't get her head around chemistry. She really studied hard for it but she genuinely just doesn't 'get' it. She came out of the prelims saying it was like the paper was written in another language.
She's not had the results back but she is sure she has failed it.
I wondered if maybe the best thing to do would be to drop down to nat 4 chemistry as I thought a pass in that would be better than a fail at nat 5. But DD has said that if you get a nat 4 in a subject then you must go on to do the nat 5 in S5 which would limit the number of highers you could undertake as you would be 'carrying' the subject from S4. Does anyone know if this is true?
I'm getting the impression that nothing is really standardised and rules/guidance is varying from school to school.
There's a parents night early January so I can clarify then but thought it worth an ask!
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Can anyone help with a Nat 5 question please?
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YoScience · 16/12/2015 12:55
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