Any parents of Y12 DCs up for a support thread?

DS did English too and found it hard. Said everyone found it hard which is reassuring, not just him!! Didn't do same texts as others posting on here though.

Ds did economics yesterday and said it was 'good'. Followed by philosophy which was excellent. So fingers crossed better than before.
Bluestring good news for your dd with the economics. One of d's friends wants to be an economist and he found the first paper hard!

Did he do Brighton Rock and Clockwork Orange and poetry? Dd said she thought the unseen was very hard because it was such a dull poem!

I don't know if I am supposed to be pleased others thought the English wasn't great - in the hope that it was a difficult paper and not just him freaking out - or just sad for all our dc.

Hi Seeker ds did English this afternoon. He thinks it didn't go well. He said "he froze".... not really what I'd hoped to hear... that's not the subject he was wanting to drop

DD has done core 2 today - she was pleased with that, and then this afternoon English lit. She was glad there was a choice for the Frankenstein question as one of them she thought was awful, but didn't mind the other.
Some people at her school have had clashes today, but they did the extra exam yesterday and have then be kept away from all and sundry!

4 completely different ones in a day sounds a nightmare

No in Surrey! but they have to be kept in supervised isolation and away from the internet/phone calls etc, as the exam is supposed to be sat today, but because it clashes with their others they can't.

Just had a text from DD who has just finished Economics 2 and apparently "it was really good!!" so that's a relief..

Ds said the Stats paper was a tough one but it "went well".
BlueString at overnight in college. Do you live on a Scottish Island perhaps?

Anyone else's doing English this afternoon?

Ds found D2 (ocr) difficult today but he was really pleased with the Core2.

DD sitting Economics 2 today, and went off in a good mood - she'd checked the unofficial mark scheme for the Economics 1 paper, and reckoned she'd done quite well in the multiple choice after all.

Some of her friends have 4 papers scheduled today, and I think are having to overnight at College and take one paper tomorrow morning - can't remember which ones she said they were, but I think they were Economics, Maths, Politics and English Lit?

What a nightmare - so glad she's not in that situation, and really feel for those that are!

DD had S1 today and is now off to do economics 2. S1 was difficult but she seems quite upbeat about the economics.

Edexcel are using different maths papers for our school this year, the R set for schools more than 5 hours ahead of the UK. Unfortunately they seem really hard to everyone. The students have found C1, M1, D1 and S1 all unusually tricky and are now worried about the rest of the papers.

DS1 has Statistics AS module today and Decision next Friday. He revises by doing past papers and is doing 3 most days. He loves exams and will be deflated when it's all over, unlike DS2 who has a dreaded 2 hour English Controlled assessment today and hates exams or tests of any kind.
They look like two peas in a pod but they are so different.

That was good Cardibach, good luck to her on Tuesday and every one else who has exams today.

Today DS has Core2 and Decision maths and my DD is doing Citizenship gcse.

Ds did history yesterday, said it went much better than economics. He got the question he wanted. Focus now is on philosophy and economics on Friday. I hate days where they get two different exams, it seems you hardly get time for a brain rest and it's all go again.
Margot ds is very sure what he wants to do and how he is going to achieve it. He has a 1 yr, 2 yr, 5 yr plan! I'm sure I don't know how he got to be like that. But he is driven and he will get there of that I have no doubt.
Blue string Eeeekkkkk at 2 lots of exams at the same time.
Notfluffy fingers crossed you find somewhere for work experience. What does the admissions tutor say about the experience dd has already?

University is not for everyone, as it's a different style of learning. Make sure they are able to cope with that style of living and learning, before they go for it. They need to understand that they won't, or shouldn't. have a personal tutor at uni , so they have to get down to independent study now and understand what their goal is! I have two girls at top universities now. They are very focused, work hard. They are independent girls, from a comprehensive school, mixing with other students at uni, from an increasingly privileged background...

DD did that geography paper too and was pleased with the China question. Geography's what she'd like to do at University so really hoping it went well.

Maths and English now on Friday.

Yes Geography went ok she thinks. She got a question on 'China's one child policy' that she was hoping might come up. Otherwise she said it was harder than she was expecting but not too bad.

DD2's Biology GCSE papers were also 'ok' which is good.

Next for DD1 is Economics on Friday, she's not doing Maths so just the one to focus on for the next few days...

Bluestring I hope geography went well for your DD. My DD said it was ok but the cold environments question was not nice.

We have two days off now before Maths and Econ on Friday.