Jan GCSE modules

We have science on Tuesday.
Oh god.
Another D looming.

Good luck to anyone else's DCs who have science or anything else today.
Hoping snow doesn't cause further stress to anyone with exams tomorrow and next week.

to KatyMacs DD, who I know much prefers dancing to anything else.

Thanks - they have said "wait & see" & she can't dance at all (which for her is a nightmare)

oh katy poor DD and poor you! any idea when she can get back to school? can they give you any idea of what/whether she could do some revision or coursework at home?

DD is still off school & is now 'post-viral' - so no exercise no school & grumpy sad teenager; goodness knows how that affects GCSEs

That must be a weight off both your minds, Boschy!
I'm waiting for DD1 to come home to find out how her English exam went today - she was very stressed when she left this morning - I know she was well prepared (am an English teacher!) but she didn't seem to believe me when I told her.

Thats good to hear Boschy

not sure if this is the place, but DD1 just called to tell me that she has a place in 6th form at her current school (which is what she wants) to do all her choices as long as she gets her C in English. She can re-do maths as many times as necessary. hooray, she is so happy and so am I!

dont think Tuesday's maths test went that well, so we may well be in for multiple retakes on that front. C in English is achievable, fingers crossed and a fair wind.

"It is not helped with the constant rhetoric that GCSEs are easy and everyone should get a string of a*s when for many DC even getting a C or a D is an achievement. "

so true creamteas. It breaks my heart when they struggle and struggle to get that bloody C, and people come out with how easy the exams are. Quite honestly, I dont understand a single word of DD1's maths revision book.

she went to a maths session at school on sat, they reviewed last week's test and she thinks she might not have done quite as badly as she thought. next maths paper is tomorrow.

mrsr re the heavy periods - DD1 has just gone on the pill for that very reason and I'm thinking that if she stays on it just for 6 months til we get through GCSEs that could be helpful. (it also has the added bonus that she has FINALLY learnt to swallow a tablet as result!) Not worried that she is sexually active; I suppose a slight concern about taking hormones etc, but it's her body and she's got to get through it.

Dd got D for maths, which is a pain.
And failed her PE mock...also isn't happy with the English language paper.
Lots of tears and low self esteem last night, together with a sudden heavy period.
Poor girl

Hopefully they all did as well as they could. DS got caught up with the English AQA debacle last year and was offered a resit, but he decided not to go for it and concentrate on A levels.

DS took his physics AS today. He has done 14 previous papers in the last few weeks plus 2 more this morning and he rang me up really pleased because a lot of the same questions came up. Just hope he isnt being over confident. Gets the results march 7th i think. Maths in two weeks time now.

I dont know mummy, I will ask her! hope your DD is better katy

My dyslexic son said none of his friends answered question 4 (I think it was 4), I'm not sure if this was a problem just for Dyslexic/ASD students.

my DD was not that impressed by yesterday's Eng Lang, which I think was AQA, but she seemed ok about it. she said it was confusing, the layout was different than she expected? but she is dyslexic, and she likes things to look the same.

maths today, o god, she got a G in the summer (I didnt know you could get a G!)

Bad news for my DS then Raven, third time he's sat this paper. Apparently the head of Sixth form has a cunning plan if they don't pass this time, not sure what this means. Now on to ASs etc.

DD had 2 controlled assessments today & was sent home before they started s she was so poorly

I think I am grateful she can try when she is better (but I think she would have rather got them over with)

I've seen the AQA Eng Lang paper (my students sat it today).

Seen worse.

The devil's in where they draw the boundaries - persistent mutterings coming out of AQA that they're being raised again, which, if it happens, will hit the top end of Foundation hard, ie. the C/D border. Again.

But yeah, the papers themselves were quite fair.

We have triple science in two weeks and A2 exams and AS resits in the next two weeks in this house! A bit stressy! Think I will bake, that should help!

It was the AQA higher.

DS gave me a detailed run down of all the questions and what he wrote including what he would he would have written if he hadn't have run out of time so I think he was generally happy with it but could have done with another 15 mins. He said it was easier than last summer's paper (he took it in year 10)