Science GCSEs level 1 start this week!

Magenta, DS got his maths result too!

DD did OCR GCSe Biology today, she did texted after it but to tell me how she'd done in her Maths - They got the first module result today. I was so thrilled for her I forgot to ask how Biology went oops

This morning when I left for work I suggested that DS txt me on finishing the exam... Cue huge sigh and a "sure mum". Anyway he did and said it went well that comment is definitely to stop me fretting!

oh no. DS texted it wasn't too bad. Probs to stop me fretting...

DD text me to say it was awful....oh dear.

I can't decide whether or not to text ds...

DS1 was going for history and then at the very last minute he changed his mind and chose science instead.

why is it that teens have to sit exams! its the one time of their life when they are the least interested! mine is driving me mad with the heaving and sighing and the "yesssss mum" whenever i ask anything....

DH sat and did her history homework with her tonight and she looked about as disinterested as could be....i would love it if all i had to do was learn about the bloody league of nations or why the atomic bomb was dropped but nooooooo....i actually wonder sometimes why she chose it!

youth is wasted on the young. fact.

Our year 10 do their first Science exam tomorrow. Worth 35%, but remember Science is a 1 year GCSE.

Year 9s are definitely going to linear.

Vicar, DS1's planner comes with the exams listed in it

I asked him if he had all the right equipment tonight to be met with a yes mum... BUT sometimes at my school I help out with invigilating and the amount of pupils that turn up sans pens, rulers, pencils etc and you are constantly running back and forth getting items for them.

dd has her biology tomorrow....year 10. i am so glad its not just my dd who is a stroppy mare when i ask her about revision etc...

i have had to phone school to get exam timetable etc as DD has kept most of it from me....

am now on the ball though much to her annoyance!

Before xmas

DS1 (yr10) is also sitting his science exam to tomorrow.

He is now on his third seat . Brought home his statement of entry before exams. Last week given a new one as his seat position has changed. Tonight, the exams officer phones and says she has moved him as he was near the door and another pupil needs to be placed there.

I have tried to test him... He says he knows everything... He has revised he says... He just gets all stroppy with me... WE WILL SEE!!!

We've got Additional Science Higher C4, P4 and B4 Unit 1 next week! WTF does that mean?

I'm guessing, that since she's in yr11 and she's done her coursework, we're nearly there!

English yesterday. Looking good she says. She did a re-sit for RE on Monday too, because she sat it early and only got a C. Only? Surely, we could have put that one to bed to consentrate on something else?

In amongst all these, she's doing her mocks too! She had another RE today! Plan is, they have a mock results day too, just like it'll be on 23rd August.

It's going to be a long 33 weeks until then and given I am emotionally charged for my own yr11's at school and I'm not sure I'm gonna make it, let alone DD!

Folks - tomorrows biology paper is worth 25% not 40% of the total marks of the biology GCSE, same with chem and phys. It's unit 1, then ther are another 2 units, each worth 25%, and the controlled assessment also worht 25%.

Polgara - don't feel guilty, I was the same with dd until recently. I don't think there is a right way or a wrong way to approach revision, somethimes I actually think I don't help dd and just wind her up.

My daugher blames me for forcing her (I didn't, I just strongly encouraged it) to take triple science instead of double. She loathes it.

She has two interviews for colleges next week as well, to add that stress into the mix, and has to prepare 2 different 10 min PP presentations for each.

She came home earlier in a foul mood, stropped around all over, then burst into tears. I feel really sorry for her, she has got into such a state lately. She is considering junking the idea of studying a levels and doing a BTEC diploma thingy .

She is now sitting watching repeats of the OC, sucking her thumb after having eaten two bowls of coco pops. Bless her.

Ds did english yesterday and maths today. Still got ethics, physics, chemistry, biology and geography. Always ask if he wants testing (got some science revision aids which are good so just read out the questions and look up the answers). Geography is something called "sustainable decision making" English was something to do with newspapers - couldn't really help on that. Was a bit worried about english as he failed his mock as simply didn't answer two big questions due to his bad time management. Hopefully this was sorted by teacher in after school revision and extensive classroom revision - said it went "Okay" which was what he said after the mock. Can't help with maths as it looks beyond Einstein level to me - said it went "okay" today -

Hullygully - agree about the menstrual cycle bit! Did that last year - never knew it was so complicated! Now an expert on the workings of the female body, protons, neutrons and nuclear fusion.

You are all making me feel a bit bad now! DD1 is doing the science papers and I haven't been revising with her at all - she has just been squirrelled away in her room with her books. Think I will go ask her if she is ok

The bit I hate most is the sodding menstrual cycle and sodding FSH and LH Aghhhhhhhh

A friend was telling me about her raised cholesterol the other day. She was somewhat astonished when I told her all about the HDLs and LDLs and their journeying to and from the liver. It was all I could do not to draw a diagram.