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Year 11 GCSE thread continued!

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MorvahRising · 05/06/2014 11:52

We seem to have reached the limit on the other one!

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Best1sWest · 08/06/2014 16:34

Gave DS the morning off and we all went to see X-Men, Days of Future Past. He has been revising maths all afternoon though and we 're going do do another past paper shortly. Just praying for a C.

Nocomet · 08/06/2014 14:00

And DD reappeared plastered in mud and had to go and have a shower.

She went up the bridle path and says she stopped where the thunderstorm had flooded it completely.

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eatyourveg · 08/06/2014 12:15

ds is at a football trial for his college course and already shattered from staying up to watch England last night. (wish I had been more insistent that he stuck a video in) Revision this afternoon and this evening is going to be really tough - hope it cools down a bit, hottest day of the year here and the carpet in the conservatory is burning my bare feet.

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MorvahRising · 08/06/2014 11:22

DS also very worried about maths and he really needs an A or A*. It's the one subject he panics about although he's perfectly capable. The number of practice papers he's come down in the middle of in a stew saying he can't do it and then goes back and tries again and whizzes through it with no problem . . . . . . I just hope he doesn't have a panic tomorrow.

Am also hugely fed up with the whole thing.

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Nocomet · 08/06/2014 11:01

And DD has wandered off for a walk.

She needs to get back to drawing and singing, there really is only so much revision you can do for one hour papers.

Lancelottie · 08/06/2014 10:16

DS has five science and maths exams next week.

He has just gone out to an all-day drama rehearsal Hmm.

MissScatterbrain · 08/06/2014 10:07

Its all science and maths here too....

nostress · 08/06/2014 10:07

Well DS & DS's GF are both very concerned about Maths. It is their worst subject with Bs and Cs in mocks and past papers. They both want to get a C at least as they dont want to have to ever do it again! Fingers crossed for a fair paper tomorrow. 5 more to go here so I've said to DS he needs to do 5hrs today.... The look on his face was priceless :)

Phaedra11 · 08/06/2014 08:51

Two more weeks for us too, and DS is starting to lose the will to live. He has Maths, Chemistry and Physics papers next week and RE and Further Maths the week after.

He is finding it all very boring and actually said he wished he still had an English Lit paper to do, so he could revise that instead.

MissScatterbrain · 08/06/2014 08:15

I think we all are bored of revision.

Two. More. Weeks. Of. This

Nocomet · 08/06/2014 01:17

DD is getting really, really, really bored of revision.

She really should have been in the triple science group. She's read the science through a 100x she's done piles of past questions and she's taught her classmates most off it too. There came a point this afternoon where she just threw spectral lines across the room.

Tomorrow she has a maths paper to do and a long walk to go on. She has declared exams or no exams the fields are getting stomped over.

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MorvahRising · 07/06/2014 21:34

We've still got physics x 2, chemistry x 2, biology x 1, res mat x 1, maths x 2 and statistics x 2. Next week is the worst of the lot. It's going to be a long week!

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sausagedog12 · 07/06/2014 17:37

Chemistry,physics and computer science left from this end. Roll on Thursday 3.00 pm Grin

marymoocow · 07/06/2014 15:26

2 maths, chemistry, physics and r.e. left here. Next weekend can't come a moment too soon.......and that's just me :-)

Best1sWest · 07/06/2014 14:39

No RE for DS either.

Just Maths and Media Studies left now.

RaspberryLemonPavlova · 07/06/2014 12:43

DS only did a half (compulsory) GCSE in RE, so he only had Ethics. Even the half has been removed from DDs GCSEs (she goes into Y10 in September).

He says Chemistry was fine. No further detail offered.

Nocomet · 07/06/2014 10:03

No we have OCR philosophy on Wednesday too.

DD says OCR biology (double award) was really easy, lots of tick boxes and very little writing. No one needed their extra time and the invigilator looked a bit worried when they were all adamant they had done.

I did get thanked for making her learn to spell 'ribosomes', she said it was the one essential word not in any of the questions.

Edexl Geography data was OK too. Minor panic " how the fuck do I spell - resources???" until she realised they live you a Resource Booklet, with that written "In large friendly letters" on the front cover.

Honestly dyslexics use more brain cells getting round not being able to spell than on working out the actual answers.

LIZS · 07/06/2014 09:59

Philosophy Weds here too ! Latin Monday then following Weds.

eatyourveg · 07/06/2014 09:32

Are we the only mn house doing philosophy on wednesday? When ds did paper 1 ethics on the 12th, everyone's dc's here seemed to be sitting it too. I thought everyone did RS Confused

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MrsMaturin · 06/06/2014 17:35

Sorry have been a bit absent from this thread. All doing a lot better here atm than we were before 1/2 term. dd seems very happy with (AQA) Biology paper today - said it was very much what she was expecting. She was pretty disgusted with one girl who moaned how hard it was whilst saying ' but I didn't do any revision'. What did she expect?!? Dd seems happy with what she's done. Maths x 2 and the other sciences next week and then further maths the week after. Gulp.

Lancelottie · 06/06/2014 17:30

Phew. DS just phoned. Admittedly not to discuss exams at all, just to say he'd be going in town, but at least he got there, and apparently did have shoes on...

kaytola · 06/06/2014 17:19

The end is in sight! 5 more exams and we are done. It's been difficult, stressful and there have been a few tears but we should all be done by 3pm next Friday. Then the long long wait for results. Can't wait for all this to be over.

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MorvahRising · 06/06/2014 16:47

DS said the biology (OCR triple science unit 2) was more difficult than he was expecting. He thinks he did OK but he was expecting to breeze through it and he said he really had to think! Well, isn't that what exams are FOR?

One of his mates forgot to turn the paper over and completely missed out a six mark question on the back, poor lad.

There was apparently a quite tricky question on enzymes, but he reckons he answered it all right, although he said despondently "that might be an A rather than an A*"

Hopefully a chicken curry tonight and an evening off will cheer him up a bit!

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