Any parents of Y12 DCs up for a support thread?

Biology this morning here. Had a text with a smiley face so I guess it went well.

Cricket notfulffy that was close!

Luckily, for us, DD can only get there if I take her to the train station so I've had her dates in my diary for months ( and have obsessively checked and rechecked them a hundred times!)

cardibach My DD has found chemistry really hard all year at AS, despite getting A* at GCSE and loving it then. She has spent ages on it during study leave and has straightened out the vocabulary but is still not all that happy with it. She has also focussed on Biology as she feels she can do better in that. She has the second papers for all 3 sciences this week, starting with the Biology tomorrow.

I will be so glad when this is over.
A year ago when he was doing GCSEs he did alarmingly little revision. His answer was always " I've got it in hand".
Fast forward to now and he is working so hard I'm constantly trying to coax him out. He's left the house just twice in this week's holiday. Other than that he's been dong 3 or 4 past papers a day. He is only dropping the odd mark on each one so it's clearly working. Now he just need to get them done.
First up Biology, he's dropping that for A2 so he'll have a bit more time for the others.

cardibach my DD is similarly finding revision for chemistry really hard. First paper was fine. Practical was good. But this section of chemistry she things she just doesn't get so easily. She's been working really hard on biology for tomorrow so it's not an overall malaise, it's just related to this chemistry.

But she did make herself spend practically the whole day on it yesterday and felt much better after that - so there is a point at which it falls into place - so hers hoping the same for your DD...

Slight hijack. Has anyone's dc entered for the R A Butler prize at Trinity college? Just wondering how many students enter for it.

Despite having done really well at GCSE and absolutely loving the subject DD has struggled with Chemistry at AS. The big thing she has struggled with is the correct use of vocabulary.

Now that she has realised this is the problem she is addressing this specifically.

Is this the problem for your DD notfluffy ?

It is the problem that the precise use of language isnt needed for good grades at GCSE and if the school doesnt teach to A level they dont seem to be aware or care about that problem.

DD is visiting UEA on the 21st and Warwick on the 22nd. She is wanting to study Biochemistry with a year abroad. On paper these are the courses she really, really wants. I hope they live up to their billing!

AS is such a jump. We have a uni grad. tutor here today - found on web, for Physics. Just was not doing well on practise test papers and lost his text book on last day of term!! All going well - he'll be here every day this week for electrons, waves etc - will let you know how it went.

For us money worth paying if it helps - we are not loaded by any means but without jan resits - too much could rest on next summer.

Have to say methinks it may take my son 3 years to get the A and B grades needed these days.

Just Core 3 and 4 to go in Maths. Core three is first and he seems to be getting consistently good marks on the past papers. Then Core 4 on the 10th I think. He did very week on the mock last week so fingers crossed.
I'm not sure why it's done this way but at least they do have a firm A level result for the UCAS application, then further maths in Year 13.
Biology, Chemistry, Physics and C3 on consecutive days next week. He's dropping Biology at A2.

DD is OCR as well, but I think schools organise things differently. At her school you complete A Level maths in Y12 and then do Further Maths in Y13.
She did statistics back in January, but then does Core 1,2,3 and 4 now. The other applied module they taught this year was mechanics so she's doing that as well.
Core 3 is going well - she thinks she is just about there. Core 4 to tackle next.
How are your DC getting on?

Ds is OCR

I guess they must be different boards? Ours is AQA. Some do AS Further Maths alongside AS Maths and then A levels in each in Y13.
He did C1 and C2 and mechanics in January. He has done Statistics and Decision this time with C3 and C4 to go.
prettydaisies how is your DDs revision going for C3 and C4?

Ds maths seems to be diffetent
He did decision and mechanics in january. Did core 1 and 2 and decision 2 in May and has pure maths and mechanics resit after half term. Also has physics left.

Secretsquirrels DD's maths is like that too, but she has mechanics after half term as well as core 3 and 4. She also has 1 physics paper left.

Bristol was on DSs list but it's a very long way and the open day clashed with something else.
DS has a few coach trips to open days booked through college but not until mid June.

I can see we will all need a UCAS thread in September