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Science GCSEs level 1 start this week!

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OrmIrian · 10/01/2012 13:03

I'm hyperventilating on behalf of DS1.... who had one wobble the day before he went back to school but is now irritatingly calm. I am dragging him kicking and screaming through his revision books. We have had lots of eye-rolling, tutting, surreptitious looking at the laptop, attempts to distract me with the Flight of Conchord DVDs.... but we've finished Biology! Hurrah! Exam on Thursday

Just chemistry and physics now..... Hmm

It's a bloody nightmare. I avoided science as much as possible at school and just scraped a C in biology. At least it makes DS feel better - he does at least know more than me.

Anyone else ?

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Hullygully · 12/01/2012 16:02

Ah just worked it out Orm, got you at IT

magentadreamer · 12/01/2012 16:02

Long answers? Bugger! DD is good at science because she doesn't have to write reams! Sad

BellaVita · 12/01/2012 16:01

Sorry Orm Blush if I panicked you... I thought the maths was a resit as they take the best result depending on how they did in June/November.

PatTheHammer · 12/01/2012 16:01

I'm sure they will all be fine, you all sound like you have been working as hard as I have....reassuring to see from my side I can tell you, hope lots of my parents are just as bothered!

Hullygully · 12/01/2012 15:58

Ds has literacy difficulties

PatTheHammer · 12/01/2012 15:58

Agreed Hully, and very much at a disadvantage this year are children that find literacy a challenge. Several of my bottom set year 10 have a scribe in the exam and this automatically loses them some marks in the 10 mark question as they are not doing their own punctuation...mad!

Hullygully · 12/01/2012 15:58

Ha! Got you at in now hully

In English s'il vous plait?

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OrmIrian · 12/01/2012 15:55

Ha! Got you at in now hully Grin

pat- It was jjust the thought of DS writing anything coherent of more than 2 sentences under stressful conditions. But they've been through old papers and I have to assume the school know what they are going and that DS is more capable than I fear

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ShirleyKnottage · 12/01/2012 15:53

Waiting for DS to text me. He did let me know earlier that he "only" got a C on his latest maths module and was FURIOUS.

lubeybooby · 12/01/2012 15:53

Oh and yes it was AQA - she mentioned having 15 minutes to go and still four questions left and feeling a bit panicky but she said she managed to do it.

Hullygully · 12/01/2012 15:52

6 and 10 mark questions

lubeybooby · 12/01/2012 15:52

My DD has done a module of her science GCSE today. She seems to be feeling quite positive. I seem to always be giving her the same pep talk about revising enough so she feels she can do her absolute best, keeping calm in the exam and reading the questions properly etc. She does seem to have tried very hard bless her - she revises in front of me but not really 'with' me unless she's very stuck on something.

She retook a maths one in Novemberish and we get the result of that tomorrow

PatTheHammer · 12/01/2012 15:51

Orm- I meant by their teachers....not the parents!!

I spent ages going through the 6 and 10 mark questions with my classes and now I'm glad I did!

Hullygully · 12/01/2012 15:49

yy this really annoys me Pat. People talk about results going up and down yadda yadda, but nothing about HOW MUCH HARDER THE SODDING PAPERS ARE THIS YEAR.

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OrmIrian · 12/01/2012 15:48

"I hope all your DC's have been prepared properly for the longer written questions."

Ha ha ha ha! Ah ha ha ha....... Thanks Grin

Yes, AQA.

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muddywindydales · 12/01/2012 15:48

DS2 (y10) has Bio/chem/phys. exam today.

Had Maths before Christmas ( gets results today) and has Geog. next week.

He's spending most of his time after school at revision clubs at the moment!Grin

Hullygully · 12/01/2012 15:48

He might not have done, Orm.

At my ds' school, only the top set do maths early.

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OrmIrian · 12/01/2012 15:47

Ah thanks magenta - perhaps I'm not going mad....

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PatTheHammer · 12/01/2012 15:47

Orm- is he doing AQA?
I had a look at the paper today and I though it looked alright, no nasty surprises. My Year 10's all thought it went ok although they looked nervous as hell this morning, poor loves.
LOTS of writing though, I was in the exam hall when the exam finished and two-thirds of them were still madly scribbling. Hardly seems fair on them when last years cohort had the multiple choice and loads of them used to finish with 15 minutes to spare. I hope all your DC's have been prepared properly for the longer written questions.

Hullygully · 12/01/2012 15:47

what board dotty?

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OrmIrian · 12/01/2012 15:47

??? Oh good lord.

Now I am really confused. We only has a GCSE consultation meeting right at the end of yr 9. I wasn't aware he had done any maths - only English.

FFS! The old way was simpler...

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dottygamekeeper · 12/01/2012 15:45

My Yr 10 and Yr 9 both sat Biology today - I was invigilating same exam elsewhere, and thought paper wasn't too bad at all, but am waiting for them to come home and give their verdicts. Yr 10 should have had his first Maths module result today too. So glad Biology is over, but now we have Physics and Chemistry to look forward to next week...the Yr 10 is obsessively revising all the time, the Yr 9 appears to be doing absolutely no revision at all (but assures me she does know it all!) At least after next week we have a bit of a break until the next set of exams.

magentadreamer · 12/01/2012 15:45

DD's Maths wasn't a resit. They do the first two modules in yr10 and the last one at the end of yr11.

BellaVita · 12/01/2012 15:41

Orm, did he not tell you his mark from June? The November module was a resit.

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OrmIrian · 12/01/2012 15:38

No-one answering the phone at home and I know DS's mobile is on the floor under his bed out of charge Hmm

DH home soon and he's promised to call me asap.

I didn't know they actually got their module results back. Oh lord....

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