Year 11 GCSE Exam Support Thread

DD is doing CA's - she has written one French and is supposed to be doing another now. She will have to do a Spanish one too ready for going back.

No point having a timetable if you're on holiday!

DD's timetable is only for this week. Any revision she gets done during the next half term will be a bonus, as by the time she has done CAs and drama rehearsals she won't have much bandwidth left.

I can see why some DCs don't need to do so much though. Some people will look at the science once, understand it and remember it. This takes quite some effort for my DD. (We spent over an hour on exothermic v endothermic at Christmas, and she was still shaky).

Bloody Hell, all your DC's are putting DD to shame - not only are we on holiday, but she hasn't got any sort of timetable either

I've done DD1's timetable for her (tip - excel does the colouring in for you), has her desire to revise is strong but organisational skills weak.
We did the same at Xmas for mocks and it worked well, sticking to a similar schedule this half term.

BBC Bitesize have some good speaking and listening practice for MFLs

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Epic that's why I got him all the revision guides. One step ahead of him I am.

Dd was a dream, she treated every day off as a school day and stuck to the timetable with the scheduled breaks. She had a colour coded revision chart and everything.

I asked ds if he wanted me to make him one and he said I could do if I felt like doing some 'colouring in'

(Seriously though, I am actually itching to make one)

DS1 has done 'half an hour of History'. Whoop de do. German speaking test is in a week's time.

My DD just announced that she's finished revising unit 1 physics (the boring part, apparently). Her maths revision guides and FM workbook have just arrived ... I got the Face for suggesting that perhaps I should keep hold of them till she's revised the things she's not keen on that need memory, like Biology.

DH spent quite a lot of time setting up our Netgear router so that we can curfew DD's wifi access without affecting ours, and he can also selectively filter - I think he's allowing all non-nasty stuff right now but she knows that he has the power to stop eg social networking and youtube.

Please help me! My dd cannot be my dd. She's gone to school voluntarily to do revision.... I am very worried. After DS1, who managed to totally ignore the fact that he had any GCSEs to do for 2 entire years, this is seriously unnatural behaviour

Fairenuff but how will they revise without Internet access? That was the answer I got given when I said much the same....

Fairenuff but how will they revise without Internet access? That was the answer I got given when I said much the same....

Sparkling I have already warned him that when he goes on study leave I will be taking all the electricals to work with me. That went down well

I got THE FACE when I suggested allocating some time slots over half term for revision.

THE FACE? No, surely not THE FACE? I got that from DD when I suggested that she get out of bed and do something.....or even stay in bed and do something

I have just put my nose round his door and suggested he turns the PS4 off and does an hour or two of German. I got THE FACE.

Hi all, not posted for a while but ds has had his mock results back and now seems to be relaxing for half term. Mixed results but he didn't revise very hard so now he knows where he has to put the effort in. He's got revision guides for each subject so will just be working his way through them, with a few tests thrown in by me to make sure he's on top of it

He's applied for sixth form and got his four A levels sorted so it's just getting through the gcse's now and getting the best grades he can, He's hoping for As and Bs but it will depend on how hard he studies. As long as he gets a minimum of 5 Cs he will get into sixth form, so not really under pressure yet.

Our school also laying on revision sessions left, right and centre. There is loads of support for them.
I don't think people who slate teachers realise how committed to their students most of them are.

Lots of my friends are teachers and I definitely could not do the job!

That sounds great AP

Squishes right into the corner on the scousers bench to make more room.

DS is back from his weekend away. He's had a ball and claims to have learnt loads. It was particularly helpful that they had different teachers for some subjects (obviously those who could get away) so some of the emphasis was slightly different. He's had a bath and is now eyeing up his bed.

DD's teachers are offering after school, breakfast and lunchtime revision sessions every day. The French department have arranged a study day over half term and a couple of controlled assessment focussed Saturday's. I'm amazed at the time and effort all her teachers are putting in.

DD also has the sniffles but is on good form - even managed the 12 hour car journey yesterday with only one moment and did a rough copy of a French CA in the car! She is even trying to speak a bit of French

I think the DC's school take some away for a revision weekend or something - very dedicated of the teachers.

Any more room on the 'scousers' bench?

There is a five year gap between DD1 and DD2 and DD2 has the ability to better her older sister's GCSE results but the teachers still ask how her big sister is getting on at university. I think it is just the way schools work - my younger sister was in the year below me and was constantly being compared to me. She isn't bitter about it lies

SugarPlum my DD is under the weather too. I think it's a "crash" after two weeks of trying to ignore any sniffle or ache.

I am impressed at how much extra time some teachers put in to help them get the grades. An activity/revision weekend sounds like an excellent idea.

Horsemad I'm glad it went well. I think it is very difficult if you have two with differing abilities. I have this snd thought with the 5 year age gap and DS being younger it would be ok snd she wouldn't notice but last year when back from his parents evening she made a sarky comment and I realised it isn't really ok and will be an issue.

DD has a sleepover and cinema trop planned for this week. Not much happening this weekend as she feels a bit grotty. I'm hoping the revision books will appear and she will have a bit of balance between.chilling, seeing friends and working. You can all laugh at how naive I am !

Our Parents' Evening went well. Good reports, just needs to revise a bit more. I think DS2 doesn't believe in himself. He walks in DS1's shadow and feels he can't emulate his brother's excellent GCSE results. Have told him to just do his best. He'll do ok but won't get as many high grades and that's what he struggles with.

We're on half term now, so a mix of revision sessions and downtime. We went to a visit day at Univ of Nott'm for DS1 yesterday for Comp Sci so relaxing today!

I agree it seems a great idea. So impressed that a number of staff have given up their weekend to take them away some are obviously staying overnight and other are going in for a session. They've done science today and then gone in those hamster wheel big balls over the hills. Last night they did maths and had a midnight walk. Good mix of work and fun hopefully stuff will sink in and stay.