Science GCSEs level 1 start this week!

My son has some exams (GCSEs) this week and next week. I don't revise with him.

My DD is doing the flippin iGCSEs for science- they are sooo hard as no course work or modules, just an exam at the end so you need to know and remember EVERYTHING.

They are supposed to prepare pupils better for the rigours of A level science but if she is not great at science and not looking to do do A level anyway- I so wish she was able to do modular science.

I have been helping her with the Biology and DH has basically learned the chemistry (which he has never studied before) and the physics (which he took) from her book in order to revise it with her.

I think between us we could take and pass the exams ourselves!

She has her science mocks on Thursday and next Monday so we are expecting lots of tantrums and door slamming for the next few days!

More bio tonight

Orm, isn't he yr10 like mine?

Some people are talking about exams further on, I believe.

My ds is 10 and has biology tomorrow, these are the same modular exams from 15- 20 years ago yes?

The 40% comment up there somewhere scared me a bit!

Ds is pretty chilled but does appear to have been doing a fair amount of revision and being staying for revision classes.

Yr9 statistics went very well so I have been trusting his judgement.

I fucked my gcse's up massively and am trying not to assume he's like me. He's not at all but I do worry about him.

My yr11 DD is so laid back about her exams at the moment that she's almost horizontal. Why do children seem to be one extreme or another?

Let me join the team. Biology on Thursday, ICT on Friday, Chemistry and Physics next week.

While some kids suffer from the lack of confidence, DD has an opposite problem - "I know EVERYTHING, LEAVE ME ALONE!". Exactly the same shouts and stomping I had prior to math this autumn: she had Statistics in Y9 and Knew Everything Without Revision. That story ended in tears, and apparently did not teach her anything.

Hullygully. Indeed the parties are ghastly. Dangerous too when you build in the alcohol fuelled formula, sea, beaches, tides and cliffs.

GCSEs really demand a lot of effort from day 1 of year 10 now. Whatever people say about them, anyone coming away with grades on their fair target will have had to put in some consistent effore.

hahahahahaha

at Cornwall isn't ghastly

She means the teen alco-drug parties there, not Cornwall actual (I assume)

I'm assuming this in in England?

My DS is in Yr10 but in Wales, he had examns in the 3 sciences and in history and geography in the middle of December. I don't know if he has any more coming up.

Apparently the ones in December were to sort out which Sets they were going into and the sciences were to decide on double or triple award.

We've had a diary from school showing everything for all years on it and there are a lot of GCSE exams on there but it doesn't say if they are Yr10 or Yr11.

Cornwall isn't ghastly. It's absolutely beautiful.

The effort put in to ensure these children are not plied with alcohol is immense but, in many cases, they bring it with them and - in some cases - actually given it by their parents to bring.

Something is ghastly about this, but it isn't Cornwall.

I think mocks are useful for a first stuffing of the noddle with the stuff they need for the real thing...

DTS are mid mocks at the moment. It seems that minimal revision has been done but I suppose mocks are there to give them a kick up the backside. Or should I have sat with them to make sure they revised, are mocks really that important

Well, after the anticipated row then tears, wailing and gnashing of teeth we are back on an even keel. What will be will be and the next round of modules revision will have more parental input - no doubt that will be wrong too!

Geography is Thursday next week I think - not sure which exam board.

Best of luck to all taking and supporting.

I loathe geography. I don't care about urban zones and weather patterns ffs.

Can I empathise/sympathise?

Y10 DD doing Biology module this Thursday (we are curently doing test questions which we will discuss row about in due course no doubt); chemistry and physics and geography next week. Biology seems less angst ridden than physics (mock was not good) and chemistry. Geogrphy I think she is confident based on test questions and mock last term.

DD works hard and is diligent but I think the exam treadmill of modules and CAs is beginning to sink in - not sure if the 'all at the end' exam format I did way back in the dark ages was better.

Just waiting for her to come back from a science revision class...will be able to tell by the slamming of the door whether it went well

Probably the same exam as your dd then freaky. Iwill tell dd that she is not alone in running out of time.

MrsRobert - your poor dd with anxiety attacks.

Getorf, my dd had 2h 15m English exam this morning and was really pushed for time. Maths tomorrow! What is science level 1?