GCSE Support Thread 2013

Have been testing on chem too. V amusing as I have no idea what I am actually asking. Am Eng teacher though so have been a bit more use for tomorrow's Eng Lit as I can mark her past exam paper questions.
Hope all goes well for everyone's DC tomorrow.

Eng lit and chem here too! To kill a Mockingbird and The Crucible though. A full on day, good luck all :-)

Yes, chemistry and eng lit here tomorrow too... I think she has mice and men and inspector calls down, and have been testing on halogens this evening!

Good luck to all of them!

Tension mounting again here, before Chem tomorrow. Have sent her out to the shop to buy chocolate . Partly so she has something nice, but I'm also hoping the walk on her own will reduce the chance of a full meltdown and partly so I get some peace as well

This is DD's best subject, but that seems to have made it worse rather than better.

WJEC - not sure why, as we are not in Wales! Eng Lit this week is also WJEC.

Ooh yes hellsbells listening apparently really hard according to DD1 here on Fri too. Edexcel or other?

DD1 says Spanish listening paper was hard on Friday but the reading paper was goodish - hopefully will balance the marks out. Chemistry tomorrow, Eng Lit & Physics on Thursday and Music on Friday so quite a busy week but everything is calm at the moment. DD2 has a controlled assessment tomorrow so she has been doing some prep for that today. They have trashed my kitchen making pancakes so I'm just off to make sure they clear up! Good luck everyone.

DS is having an easy ride at the moment just English lit on thurs and music listening on fri (he did the other English lit paper in jan). He is still in school so still having lessons and homework and not doing much at home. His exams go on till june 23rd which seems just ages away.

Plus dd2 has French and Spanish controlled assessments this week and her first Core Science gcse exam. And ds has y7 exams. I'm stocking up on wine and chocolate.

I think the only gap between the two science papers that dd1 gets is just collecting and handing out papers again. So easier to think of it as one thing.

Lit, Chem on Monday, RS Tues, German and Latin Wed, Physics and another Lit on thurs. Might let her have a lie in on Friday ;-) then nothing else until 5th June, when she has 3 subjects in one day.

There's a lot of brownie-baking going on here :-)

Yes, ds1 has the 4 hrs (3exams) Sci/Lit thing on Monday and Thursday; and German (2 hrs) on Wed.

He said that as a result he's not planning on doing much revision in the evenings during the week this week (his school doesn't have study leave, so he's still in school full-time.)

I was a bit surprised at this, but he seems well-prepared and on top of things; so it probably is the best strategy for him.

Good luck everyone with a heavy week! See you out the other side on Friday.

I think 7 exams over 5 days wouldn't be so bad if they were more spread out. As it is, Dd1 has 3 exams on Monday and Thursday, and 1 on Friday. 3 exams seems ridiculously tough - although I suppose you could look at the two physics and chemistry papers as just one exam each. With an interval.

DD is having a bit of a tough weekend. English Lit and Chemistry on Monday, then Physics, German and Music over the rest of the week. She is really starting to feel the stress, had a meltdown this morning about a past paper that she could actually do in her sleep if she didn't get wound up with worry.

Just English Lit x2 and Music coming up this week.

Sciences not till after half term but did P1/2/3, B1/2/3 and C1/2/3 last year.

Easier in some respects with the modular and early sittings, leaving only 10 papers for 7 subjects in this session. And fortunate they have been quite spread out. But not much let-up as CAs continuing until the week before the exams started.

Feeling for everyone's DCs with more than one paper on same day

(9 if we're counting P2, P3, C2, C3 separately. Ugh, let's not.)

Yup, 7 exams in 4 days coming up - sciences, Latin, German, RS, Eng Lit - all stuff you need facts for, little chance to waffle. Then a lot easier-going after half term.

Dd also has an awful week next week. She has exams every day and a few days where she has exams in the morning and afternoon. She has P2 & 3 and C2 & 3 for physics and chemistry which covers so much work. I feel really bad for her as she has worked incredibly hard since the Easter holidays but seems to be running out of time to cover everything. We have got to the stage where we have said she needs to focus on her A'level subjects (not physics and chemistry) but she doesn't want to go into any exam under-prepared.

On the plus side once next week is out the way the exams are much more spread out.

Yes snap here too Russians. It does seem rather bizarre time tabling this year. As well as 4 x 1hr science exams and 2 x 2hr Lit exams; ds1 also has his German exams.

Sigh. Dd1 has eng lit and chem x 2 on Monday, then eng lit and physics x 2 on Thursday, and music listening on Friday. Monday and Thursday are such heavy days.

Spanish was OK apparently but ds in less than communicative mood so no real idea how it went ..

Next week is hell week here - eng Lang, chemistry, maths and eng lit in the space of two days, day off then biology then TEN days until the next one ...

DD had RE today. It went OK (so just like all the others

Worst week over (5 exams) thank goodness. Just 3 next week (chem, re, physics)