Year 11 GCSE thread continued!

text from DS is that maths was 'good'. The first exam he has sent me a text about .

Thanks, atia. Have to confess to being more than a little worried! Good Luck to your tutee, and your DS for tomorrow. Have you many tutee's sitting exams this time?

DD has five exams this week in total. Latin today, then chemistry, RS, physics and Latin again. Wish at least one of those had been last week, when she only had one English.

And good luck to Leeds's ds for his Latin :)

Good luck to the maths people! Mine's not doing it today (has a maths AS module tomorrow) but I have got a tutee sitting Edexcel :)

DD did IGCSE maths, and that finished before half term. Seems funny for people still to be talking about it, iyswim. Good Luck to them all though!

DD has Latin today.

Very best of luck and everything crossed for all the people doing Maths today. Feeling nervous for DD who has struggled and pushed herself for all these years to make some sense of Maths and this week will test whether all her efforts have paid off.

Bloody awful, isn't it, Nocomet? DS has similarly been up to his ears in composition, science controlled assessments, drama, geography field write-up and - oh god - a Statistics assignment. He's the sort of child who can only think one step ahead, so he barely started revising till the blasted controlled assessments were over.

Good luck to everyone's DCs who have Maths today!

I prefer having terminal exams to modules.

The problem here has been we haven't had that.

We have had stress since Christmas with music, drama and art causing multiple panics. Composition, two performances, 10 hour art exam and the sketch book from hell to accompany it, final drama performance, music creative task, then and only then exams.

Oh and music and drama both have the most ridiculously spelling heavy written exams you could give a dyslexic. Indian musical instruments and foreign character names.

Yes I did 8 three hour exams (some two in a day) and one short additional maths paper, but they were all after half term and over in three weeks. We also had study leave from Easter and didn't have any revision classes.

Must get uniform out the wash, to dry over night.
Will wash it to keep jumpers for DD2. There a bit big, but they are expensive. Skirts will fall off her and DD1 can use her black trousers for sixth form.

I really must not horde DD1's past it blouses and summer polo shirts. DD2 has enough of her own, is far slighter and likes fitted shirts. They will just take up space!

DS has been having a Maths meltdown all day.. He was in the top set, then dropped to the bottom, then got moved up, and following his 'C' in Jan, is now doing the Higher paper tomorrow.. Problem being, he has never been taught half the stuff in past papers he says

I've just told him to 'do his best', as can't think what else to say! (am really bad at Maths)

Last uniform wash done, by this time next week it'll be on its way to a charity shop!

What is a surd?

My younger daughter is completing all her GCSE exams is one sitting unlikely my older daughter who completed modular exams. In total DD has 24 exams starting 26.4.14 and ending 16.6.14. She is averaging 4/5 exams per week - almost one a day. This is overwhelming she is both mentally and physically exhausted with another 6 to go. Is anyone else finding to whole thing just too much ?. Older daughter only had 14 in the summer, as some papers were taken in Yr 10 or Jan of Yr11.
10 GCSEs in one go is all too much !

Dd is far and away much better than I ever was in maths, so she either self marks or they take them in and peer mark.
Jelly at- I was thinking that about uniforms-it will be 20 years for me. I got quite sad thinking about it.(not really, I can't wait!)

Just 5 more days of this hell to go

Maths, physics, chemistry, then the second maths paper.

Dd is so bored of revising now, if I look at her she just mouths 'fuck this ' at me and then carries on revising.

She did 3 maths papers yesterday and got A's in all of the which is good as it likely means she has a chance of a B in the exam with the possibility of an A. But hopefully no chance of a C as she can't do a couple of choices if she doesn't get a B.

And right now she just wants to keep her options open.

Dd has done three past maths papers today after a lovely breakfast in the garden. Told her that's enough for today. Maths in the morning. Physics Tuesday and bio Thursday. Can't wait until the 19th.

DD has been working through past papers all week for Maths and is averaging a high C. She got a B in her mock but her confidence goes in exams and she gets a bit panicky, but this only seems to happen with Maths, not sure why.

Had to make her take a break and sit in the garden for a while as she was getting worked up about the fact that 12 years of numeracy will be tested in 2 fairly short exams and she is going into these exams with no controlled assessment behind her so all rests on performance on the day. She also is worried that if it all goes wrong and she gets a D, she will have to resit in year 12 (didnt tell her I think this is a good thing, better to save that conversation for another time!).

Fingers crossed for a good paper and that she doesnt get too panicky on the day.

" maths x 2, chemistry and physics this week " for us too! the Modern Grade 5 on Sunday - which is causing more upset tbh

dd is pretty fed up too. We've maths x 2, chemistry and physics this week and then further maths next week. DH has taken a further maths paper away with him on work trip this afternoon. He's away till Wednesday so plenty of time to do it and he knows he needs to get up to speed. I'm hopeless!