Corona Cohort: Statements Scripted, Grades Predicted

@decorhate dd has final assessments the week after next. So far she has done 2 hours revision. And she’s only planning to revise for one subject as she’s happy with her other 2 predictions! I just hope they don’t change their minds if she bombs these exams!

Welcome @mummyinbeds!

@Piggywaspushed Ds has had that cough for 4 weeks & then gave it to me 3 weeks ago.

He has assessments next week which are the final ones used for UCAS predictions (as well as the Y12 ones) but he is going out tonight & tomorrow. I keep reminding him that our local uni is always an option if he crashes & burns

*what a shame. Bloody keyboard! 😣

@mummyinbeds what shame, hopefully he has done better than he thought. Is he applying to all unis that need the LNAT, there is quite a few that don’t require it. I have suggested to DS that he should look at a couple just in case.

Hello mummyinbeds, welcome!

Thank you for welcome 😊

@JustHereWithMyPopcorn it was the MCQ he struggled with. He refused to listen when I suggested some practice and only looked at the LNAT website practice questions the night before. So typical of him. He enjoyed the essay part.

Sorry to hear it didn’t go well, was it the MCQ or the essay that was the problem? Did he do some practice first? DS has done a couple of practice tests and finding them very difficult.

They seem to have got rid of those attainment offers blue. We had the same.

Welcome @mummyinbeds

Birmingham’s offer rate calculator used to say likely attainment offer CCC but now says offer likely AAB. What happened?

oh crap - in here! I know how to spell here - great first impression ;-)

Welcome @mummyinbeds - very friendly bunch in hear - so much useful information :-)

Hi, I've been following this thread for a while but haven't been brave enough to join in....

@JustHereWithMyPopcorn I have a DC hoping to do law. He did his LNAT on Monday and apparently it didn't go well.

That’s a drag, Piggy. 😞
Lots of people we know seem to have the non Covid coldly-flu thing.
Get well soon x

loving the forward thinking @Monkey2001 - looks like a great idea for your DS.

Yes, really knackered....

Do you feel tired all the time? I'm still chesty, knackered (sleepy) and ache all over, not just overweight 53rd yr old tired and achey - more like 75 yr old tired and achey (no idea how to spell achey) :-) and I didn't have it bad at the time, I feel worse now I think.

I was feeling better also but now have that cough that isn't covid that's going around! Appetite and taste buds still bad.

We're off to Winchester again tomorrow, then we have got Bournemouth, Reading, Chichester and Royal Agricultural booked in over the next few weeks. All are within a 90 min drive for us but none are easily train-able. I was discussing the railcard thing with another parent at DS's school, her DS goes to school by train and is about to see the fares double . My DS is eligible for a disability one because he claims PIP but otherwise the options are limited. I've got a network railcard but that's off peak only IIRC.

I will report back, Also. It will be the first time we've been somewhere with some students around.

I must admit I enjoy these trips and chatting to him about unis, courses, personal statement etc. All very exciting. But when Esther and Hatti mentioned actually submitting forms I did have a bit of a moment when I gulped and thought - this is happening! (And this time next year he'll be leaving home if things go well )

DD’s thinking about QM and Sussex, singing.
Will be interesting to hear your impressions of them both.

I have just booked a little trip for DS and me to look at Queen Mary and Sussex at half term. Hopefully he'll make his picks after that and the form can go in.

We are going on the train as Brighton and Mile End are such a pain to drive to for us - with one overnight it's costing about £400

Thankfully this is our last trip apart from DH taking him to Bristol (very close). Fingers crossed DS doesn't have any radical changes of mind.

Hi everyone. Impressed with those who have got UCAS forms in - we are waiting for results from new set of mocks before half term to (I hope) raise predicted grades. So won’t be applying until early Nov I guess.
My DS seems to have a fantastic social life, and has had it pretty much throughout, which involves lots of friends sitting in a thicket in Port Meadow or University Parks in Oxford with beer and a portable speaker on low for music. Pretty much what I did as a teen except it was “by the river” with cider and a transistor radio! But the 18th parties are racking up - tonight it is about 40 people in a garden in the middle of nowhere - I think he might have to bring his own tent.

I am going to Newcastle this weekend for a memorial /wake/party for a dear friends parents who died within 2 weeks of each other, but I’m rather worried I will get up there and have no petrol to get back. It feels as though people are panic buying and that never ends well. I’m kicking myself for not having an electric car!!!