2015 Yr 12 support thread

Thanks hellsbells I looked on the Yr 13 thread and the consensus seems to be that the mechanics was 'OK'. Sorry to hear about poor DD's physics. It's so disappointing if they don't do themselves justice when they've worked so hard - but hopefully it won't be as bad as she thinks.

Physics A was also 'OK' although DS was very tight on time and knows he made a few mistakes. He also has statistics tomorrow morning - although actually I see it's today, I'm a bit late up. He is dreading this one as it's his worst out of the three applied modules.

He also has D1 and C3 maths next week as he is doing FM, and then C4 the week after so it doesn't half drag on . . . . . hooray for all those who have finished though! Have a lovely weekend!

MrsU Very pleased to hear I'm not alone in not knowing what a Physics paper looks like. We can compare notes about the importance of past papers on here on 13th August!

Yes, ums will be on the results sheet.

Thanks - Aug 13th...
Will they also know their UMS marks on that day?
From DS POV that seems to be the key thing rather than the grade...
I have not seen DS doing a past paper - well done to those who have DC who have been serious and responsible!

MrsUltracrepidarian If he is doing Further Maths with AQA they do all the maths modules AS and A2 in Y12 and then all the FM modules in Y13.
So yes, he will have some A2 papers, Core3, Core4 and possibly M2.
They don't "cash them in" though until Y13.

Dd is full of smiles - exams finished and major clothes shopping done today. Good luck to all those not finished yet. She said last night how much she was looking forward to learning something new on Monday when she's back at school. Bless her

Ds didn't finish the Physics paper and is refusing to talk about it so I think he realises his revision was inadequate! (Not a single past paper done at home in the last week - I have no sympathy, which is why he's not talking to me about it.)

hellsbells there were some people freaking about a paper being terrible in TSR thread and being told their paper wasn't the AQA A, so I think they were probably victims of the same B paper as your dd. Good Luck to her and everyone else for the S1 tomorrow, and any others still to go next week.

August 13th, same as A2

DS says he messed up some of the qus on the Physics paper.
Last of the AS s today - next Fri he has maths 'core3' which si apparently and A2 paper (??).
Forgot to ask him when the results are due out for AS - need to put in the diary???

It's been a very relaxed fortnight for dd2, and she still doesn't have an exam until Tuesday (D1). She's been doing some revision every day this week, but not needing to go crazy.

Hope everyone's sanity is holding out; nearly there!

Glad she didn't arrange the get together at ours as DD1 has exams until 17th and is getting rather stressy!

Same here Neither.
DD was doing PhysicsB which no one else seems to do! Just looked on Student Room and there isn't even a thread for it - just physics A.
The good news is that the grade boundaries were so low last year that you only needed 62% to get an A on today's paper so fingers crossed that it might not have gone as bad as she thinks.
Roll on tomorrow lunchtime - they have plans I am informed! Rounders & pizza straight after exam, and then get together/sleepover at friends house.

DS said physics was a nice paper - think he lucked out in that what little revision he did covered exactly the topics that came up, he's relieved cos he hated the first paper.

Stats tomorrow and then its all over.

Well DD home from the physics B unit 2 exam and said it was awful! Paper 1 didn't go very well either. For saying it it normally one of her best subjects, she is very unhappy. Told her to have an ice lolly and 10 minutes break in the garden .....and then stop wallowing and get on with statistics revision for tomorrow

Physics this afternoon here and just mechanics left for next week.
Physics is one of those where they can drop a lot of marks and still get a good grade, possibly the same one as hellsbells DD. The mechanics is his least favourite but he seems to be doing fine on the past papers.
Almost there..... although DS1 who is first year at uni still has 5 of his 8 papers to do. It's never ending.

Ds has his Physics this afternoon as well. He spent last night learning Wave Theory, for the first time, as far as i can tell. Not looking good this end.

Tomorrow is S1, his last exam. Apparently it has been badly taught at school so he is relying on his Statistics GCSE knowledge to get him through

Dd1 and her friend both said the Stats paper yesterday was quite a tough one. Seemed reasonably happy though. Such a lovely feeling to have them done. Just hope we get the grades she deserves. Poor lamb has been working so hard all year.

Hi Morvah. There are a few comments about M1 on the year 13 thread. My DD1 said it was ok and was better than last year's paper.
DD2 has physics this afternoon but she does the physics B syllabus which seems to be harder but has much lower grade boundaries!

How did people find the mechanics yesterday? DS said he knows he got one thing wrong (was very cross afterwards!) but that on the whole it seemed to be OK, better than he was expecting anyway. Although he was expecting it to be absolutely awful so this may not be an accurate measure!

Anyone else got Physics this afternoon?

Good luck to her, Narvi! DS is out of his depth, sadly, and knows it. Music was always going to be a long shot for him.

DD1 felt good about yesterday's music exam. But that doesn't always mean anything. She still has gen studies A2 to go but she feels like she's done now. Went off to school this morning with a spring in her step planning to spend all day practising (and Heaven knows she needs to, she hasn't touched her instruments for what seems like ages) and plans to go out this evening.

Dd very anxious about maths this morning. Thankfully this is the last exam!

DS 'had brain failure' for yesterday's music, and put the same answer down in more than one place.

He spent much of yesterday evening sputtering things like 'Oh Christ, did I put thirds? It's fifths!'

Dd was anxious too. We had to go to my work yesterday evening for emergency printing of past papers because our printer chose not to work . I was slightly when she said we needed to print out 2009's papers 'because I've done all the others' but I just do as I'm told! Hope it all goes smoothly for her. She has nice plans for the evening.