GCSE Support Thread 2013

Chemistry today, not good. Keeping fingers crossed overall grade not affected too much, as high CA and did well in C1/2/3 last year.

Just Physics left on Tuesday now, then the waiting game.

webwiz that's a very late finish for your DS

6 left here as well and the strain is really starting to show....lots of door slamming and general sulking! Cant wait for next Thursday!

DS does the A syllabus circular so its Physics 4,5 and 6 tomorrow and then the C7, B7 and P7 papers next week and the week after to complete each science.

DD1 said geography was 'fine'. I checked and it was regular fine, not timelord fine. Just 3 exams to go now. All maths.

Meant to say also, well done to Corys DD

Not sure what you meant webwiz re the 7s for OCR sciences. DDs only goes up to 6, but Im fairly sure its B syllabus.

Bit if a panic mode yesterday - 6 hour revision in school plus studying till 11 last night.
Geography today, shorter case study paper not great, longer paper OKish.

Chemistry tomorrow, then only Physics to go next week.

DS is still on study leave at the moment, but goes back to school on 24th for the rest of term.
He has 2 exams tomorrow - classics and biology and I know he has revised quite hard for these.

Well done to cory's DD.

Downward slope here now, only 3 left.

No sign of study leave here yet but DS said only about 40 people were in today out of 155. He had a useful day though and did more than he would at home. There are still 6 more exams to go here so am jealous of those so close to the end

study leave officially declared today - although tomorrow is all day maths revision before final exam on Friday morning. she has decided to go in first thing and stay 3 lessons at least after I pointed out that she would do nothing at home, and I certainly cant help her... so pleased with that decision; also thinks it helps maintain the routine til the very end.

makes me laugh that they are all so monosllabic - yeah, ok, whatever - just as well probably as I have no idea what she is talking about most of the time. they all seem to be pretty clued in about the questions which get the marks etc.

hang on in there everyone, there is light at the end of the tunnel!

DD had geog today, and it went..... ok so no change there.

Just one more exam to go, Maths on Friday, can't wait to be done with this now!

Hope everybody's DC are hanging on in there..

Hope Maths was ok for everyone (especially cory's DD). DS said it was fine and he got some easy stuff wrong but got the hard stuff right which is what normally happens in his maths exams.

He has a day off exams tomorrow and was asking not to go into school but he's had a mysterious change of heart this evening which has probably got something to do with his new girlfriend (impeccable timing DS - start going out with first girlfriend in the middle of GCSEs )

I'm welling up, too! Well done to your dd, cory!

oh cory, I am welling up! good on that girl for her courage. sod the result, she got there.

official response from DD1 was "ok I think" no idea what that means

Cory so pleased to hear how positive your DD is being. She will be able to draw on these recent successes as she faces her next challenges - and I hope that the exam went well for her too.

Cory, that's brilliant, you must be really ning.

No wonder your proud of her cory.

this is the child who tried to kill herself at the time of her last maths exam

who used to meet every scary situation by freaking out, self-harming, going into muscle spasms which would leave her incapacitated for weeks, hiding under the bedclothes, vomiting

and who is now going to be a real grown up with a real life

Glad she went in Cory - well done to her

Cory - I'm so happy for her. And you.

She's gone in!!!! The taxi was half an hour late, it got to our house at the exact time when the exam was starting, she stood there outside the house in the rain for 30 minutes and held it together!!! I am sitting here sobbing with pride and relief.

The lovely school receptionist I spoke to on the phone assured me it would be fine if she was late, but I don't really care about the exam, if she can cope with this then she can cope with life, she can live.

I shall now go looking for beggars to give money to, colleagues to buy cups of coffee for, mums with pushhairs to help off the bus. I'll just need to wash my face first

Best of luck to everybody who is sitting maths today!!!

If I drop off MN you will know that I have been arrested for patting babies on the head and smiling at small children.

how's it going cory? hope she kept it together

Hope she's ok cory and holds her nerve.

DS is doing OCR gateway sciences circular but I think he's doing the A series. He doesn't appear to have done any revision yet for the 7s but since they only finished the syllabus a couple of weeks ago its probably still fairly fresh in his mind

the maths, the maths, the maths...

dd is now doing the higher paper having been in hospital during the foundation paper

she has the ability, but does she have the nerves?

going on previous form she will either freak out during the next half hour or get in that taxi and be ok

I don't think I really care about the exam, I just want her not to freak out