Thread 30 Covid Cohort, Mad March Hareing Towards Exams

Sorry for his disappointment @22Newnames, I hope Bath come through with an offer - although Nottingham and Warwick are great options too. Maybe he’ll be really taken by one of them on the offer days.

@22Newnames so sorry to hear this - so many great kids seem to be losing out this year

Sorry to hear that @22Newnames. It really does feel like a horribly tough year for our youngsters. Fingers really crossed for Bath (ds’s likely prefered to, I have to admit I’m feeling less hopeful as time goes on and he’s not had anything back, although that may be unfounded.

Sorry to hear that Newnames, that is 🩲.

Thanks all. I am just so worried about Bath now as he will be gutted. It has been so competitive at the top unis this year. I think DS just thought that he would get offers from all, after all he’s never been rejected from anything before. There has to be a first time I guess.

We have offer holder days at Warwick and Nottingham over the next few weeks so hopefully will persuade him they are also good options.

Commiserations, 20newnames. It’s rough, especially when it’s a uni they wanted to go to.
Everything crossed for Bath. 🤞🏻

@22Newnames I’m so sorry it is so horrible getting rejections. It’s scary how hard this year has been. Let’s hope Bath hurry up. X

Oh, that's so disappointing for him .

DS just got rejected from Durham. He is really disappointed and down. Durham and Bath were by far his favourites. He still has to hear from Bath but will be absolutely gutted if he doesn’t get an offer.
Personally I would pick Warwick over Durham anyway but he definitely wouldn’t.

He hasn’t heard anything from Durham themselves, just a ucas track “your application has been updated” email. Is this normal?

We got the exam entry list a few weeks back, the GCSE list went on and on. The A levels look very pleasant in comparison. They’ve both done their revision timetable and it definitely looks boring doing 3 exams.
My two have been off for end of term, so revision has started. DS1 is knackered already.
We haven’t been to Exeter and the open days were full, so we aren’t sure if he will get to go there before the exams start. So he won’t have visited a single Uni. Easy for us though.

Thanks @heifer, that's useful. Dd only firmed yesterday, so it may be too soon for her to do the accommodation portal bit.

Nottingham info:
For those that DD/DS have firmed Nottingham don't forget you need to register before you can apply for accommodation on Monday
accommodation.nottingham.ac.uk/

Once firmed you may have to wait 48 hrs before you can register (kept saying that DD wasn't reconised even though DD had received email from Nottingham acknowledging her Firm). DD Firmed on Monday evening, email received this morning and could finally register this afternoon. I had to go and set up DD a new email address as it mentioned not using school one as it will be 1 for accommodation all the way through uni. All sorted now so we are ready to apply once the portal opens on Monday.

Similar here with DS GCSEs 24 exams 16 May till 27 June, DDs A levels in one week and finishing on14 June.

It seems like it will be a hard slog for the next few months.

Ds’ GCSE exam timetable looks awful too. And he gets extra time. He’s been having bad migraines the last few months and has missed loads of school, so I’m really not sure he’ll have the stamina to get through 5 weeks.

My DD's GCSEs run from 17 May to 20 June with lots of days with two papers (and she has extra time so those are long days). DS's are more spread out - 09 May to 22 June but only 4 papers as he has 1 for a BTEC and 3 for History.

We have booked his DSA assessment. I also need to try and get him a social care assessment, the SN stuff does seem relentless at times.

Same here @Alsoplayspiccolo we got the gcse timetable yesterday and DS2 has 21 papers starting May 17th and a Spanish speaking exam compared to DS2’s 9 papers!

We got DS’s GCSE exam timetable yesterday.
God, it’s endless.
His first exams are the end of April and his last ones are the end of June, with no more than a couple of days off in between.
DD’s A levels, on the other hand, are short and sharp (definitely not sweet).

Two of mine are generally lovely and a pleasure to be around.
The other two can be horrible.
Sinkholes of love where you pour lots of effort in and it's spat out with ire.

There are definitely some days I feel so disappointed in DD's attitude towards me. It's never directed towards DH, just me. She doesn't talk/act that way with anyone else, has never been in trouble at school or big fall out with friends but there is only so much I can take without taking it personally. I will say it's less often these days thankfully but boy does it hurt.

I'm with Orange, Newnames, Piccolo and Fonty with rude ds.
He said something about me being so lazy, was I going to start cooking again soon? This because it's been 3 months now since I took 2 jobs, working 6 days, so Dh is doing all the cooking. And having just taken him to Durham, and then starting sprouting some irrelevant and misunderstood A'level sociology / pyschology bullshit about matriarchal society. I told him I was staggered, speechless (unusual for me ) and had to walk away.

@icanbewhatiwant I think your DS2 is heading for a career as a stand up comedian! Love the Lego bonsai tree!!!

Sorry to hear there still seems so much covid about. We don't hear much about it from school. I think it must've passed through us at some point without us noticing. Ds's friend had it recently, he was the only one in ds's friend group apart from him to have not had it at least once.

I made a fuss that the dc's hadn't got me anything for my birthday (big birthday) Ds2 didn't even get a card. So they got me Mother's Day gifts. Well...not Ds1 at university. The 2 at home did...Ds2 bought me a Lego bonsai tree. I don't know if I'll ever be bothered to build it, no...I will build it.

Glad to hear everyone is pushing buttons.

@Oblomov22 & @KingscoteStaff Congratulations on offers!
Good luck to those still waiting for stragglers.

I hope those who are unwell recover soon. Lots of covid here too. Anecdotally a blinding headache that paracetamol doesn't touch is a common symptom this round.

DS thinks there's a prom being organised by 'the girls' but claims to know no details.

@OrangeCinnamonCroissant It's hard as they push for independence without a second thought for anyone else. You have my sympathy. DS and I have had a few such words over the last few months.

Sorry to hear that orange & hope things settle down.

I’m with you @22Newnames & Also We changed our Mother’s Day evening restaurant booking to just DH & I, as DD was at her boyfriends (she had asked for a 7pm sitting, which wasn’t particularly ideal for me, but then asked if I’d mind if she didn’t come) & DS said there was no way he was missing the Saudi Grand Prix….. I swear next year I’m booking a spa day for myself 😄

Don’t even get me started on meals at home. They both think our kitchen is some high end restaurant with an actual menu you can choose from every night, even though I work full time!!