GCSEs 2012 support thread

Stark reminder though. I will be back here again in 23 months!
Me too Kez, with Alevels at the same time as gcses!

What a relief it's over .

Dd is looking more relaxed than I've seen for a while and preparing piles of notes for burning!

'what will be will be', I echo that sentiment knitted. I said to DD the other day that whatever the results we know that she worked hard and has done her best.

Dd had science this morning. One more to go on Monday and then we are done! Study leave and half term did us no good re revision, dd would have been better off if they were made to stay at school. Ah well, too late now what will be will be. :)

Hi all. Last exam was this morning - AQA Physics unit 1 (new spec). Just had a text from DD 'Easier than chemistry & biology!'. But she did think they were hard ;)

I'm so looking forward to 3 pm this afternoon when it's all over for this year! Mind you DS gets his degree results at 4pm so its just a brief respite from the stress!

He made it in time and DH has gone to Costa for a breakfast:)
I have been dreading that there would be problems with the trains Gettingalifenow, he has been going a train early just in case but this morning he risked it! One train is bad enough, 3 trains must be a nightmare. Dh only started his new job last week and was on 7-3 last week but this week it was 10-6 so he was there to rescue him. Only one exam left and a bit of course work to finish, then can relax a bit.

Your poor DS, bluffing. Hay fever here too, in a big day. And last week there was the only day of the whole exam season when I couldn't drive DD in and she caught the first two trains but the final connection didn't come! And all the girls had to run up the hill - not a good start to the exam....

that should have been a not a

Well bad start to the day

DS got up with bad hayfever.

I haven't bought him a train ticket this week because he is only going in twice. He got to the station and the machine tried to charge him £12 instead of £6 then he had to swap machines and ended up missing the train!

Thankfully DH is on late shift and had to rush out with no breakfast to take him by car. Hopefully he made it in time!

DD1 has physics today. She's in Y9 - this is her first proper GCSE written exam. I'm not even in the UK right now (I'm in Luxembourg. I don't recommend it). :( she seemed fine when I texted her just now. But still. It's swivel I'm more nervous than her I suppose.

Sympathies to your DS bruffin. DD has had to wear a wrist brace for some of the longer written exams. It seems that she writes far more than I ever did in an exam!

DS has physics tomorrow and last German next wednesday so I will be there with you Bringback1996
DS been getting blisters on his thumb from writing, i looked and he holds his pen really oddly. A bit that its taken me all this time to notice

Fluffy, DS seems to have lost all motivation too. I think they must just be so tired though, it seems a bit unfair to have such tough exams at the end when they're getting to fed up with the whole thing!

Congratulations to all of your DC for making it to the end! I think I'll be one of the last standing on this thread - DS has 6 between now and wednesday. Three tomorrow so once they're over he'll be on the home straight.

last one (physics) tomorrow morning - can't wait. Sorry to hear the maths was tough BBK, hopefully it will mean the grade boundaries will be lower. Dd thought hers was OK (but she has a habit of making lots of unforced errors so it may well not have been) - she wants to do the A level too, but I'm not convinced it's the best idea in her case.

We're dragging it out a bit here! Still got one science tomorrow and another on Monday! Monday's one isn't even in the morning. She's got to wait until 2pm! 6th form induction is Thursday and then it's fun all the way! Although, I do know she'll have a summer project from 6th form to have to do beore September!

Phew- DD has finished! Unit 3 maths today was horribly hard- so she doesn't think she will have got enough marks for the A so probably won't be able to do the A level... Out for dinner tonight for a belated birthday meal and celebrate the end of her exams!

DD seems to have lost all motivation to study for her last exam tomorrow which appears to consist of learnig the Aenied. She has DofE, Sixth form induction, prom and veterinary work experience to look forward to (her cat survived it's fall this morning) over the next few weeks. We will be trapped in the house because of the effing Olympics, I don't even know how I am going to get to work. We have a week's holiday overseas and that is it.

The very last one tomorrow - physics which is his favourite subject.
The end of an era .

He also has sixth form taster day next week and the prom.

Hurrah! Last GCSE exam (Maths) this afternoon!
(but 6th form AS-level taster-days next week may prove a bit of a nasty shock )

Hurrah! no more school uniform!
(but has to wear a suit and tie in 6th form )

Hurrah! no more packed lunches!
(but will be forking out ££ for school dinners instead )

It's all swings and roundabouts, isn't it? One door closes and another opens.....

Only Latin left for DD tomorrow. She has just gone to the vet with DH and the cat as it fell from a second floor window onto the front steps. It seems OK and hopefully not concealing a serious injury, which would upset DD greatly. She is doing work experience with the vet in a couple of weeks.