2015 Yr 12 support thread

hellsbells good luck to your DD too - DS is very apprehensive about this one although he has put in a huge amount of work.

Good luck Morvah - DD1 is doing mechanics this morning but she isn't looking forward to it.

Glad to hear chemistry seemed to go OK.

Today is the worst day here - maths (mechanics) in the morning and computing in the afternoon. It'll be nice when that's over and done with!

Good luck to everyone today!

We're off to Exeter on Saturday, then Bath and Bristol later in the month.

DD2 had biology yesterday, which was "not the best but not the worst" and chemistry today which went well. DD1 also retook chemistry and said it was "pretty good". DD2 has physics on Thursday and the final one, statistics on Friday. DD1 (year 13) has 7 to go.

Well done to Narvine's DD!

Dd seems happy enough with chemistry and biology. Just stats tomorrow now. She is doing Dundee open day later this month, also Sheffield. Possibly Bristol, possibly Newcastle.

I didn't even think about school allowances re Open Days...as hotels are booked we are just going to have to go regardless! We are doing a fair few as I am not from the UK and so have no idea of any of the universities that DD is considering - haven't even been to most of the cities! DD is also the oldest of five so hoping this will help the others ahead...by the youngest I will definitely be in the know! We went to an Open Day in London earlier this year which ruled out London thank goodness (we are in the far north of England!) but have Bath, Bristol, Leeds and Nottingham to consider and the long, long shot of Oxbridge - although Oxford/Cambridge are places I am happy to go visit just for my own experience! We also have Durham - our one and only day trip! DD daughter's school doesn't organise any trips so it is totally up to us to visit. Her course is available everywhere which doesn't help narrow anything down. Our one and only 'must' and narrowing factor (apart from being at least 2 hours from home) is that it has rowing which unsurprising cuts out some great options!

DD1 is probably just over halfway through her final AS. although she has general studies A2 next week and the week after. She's already done 3 open days, she's doing the Cambridge one in July and needs to cancel her booking for York and rebook for the autumn. I don't think she will actually book anything else other than that - possibly cardiff. The weekends are so full of concerts and shows in June and July and she has used up all her open day allowance from school.

Last AS - Chemistry - for DD today.

She has Open Days booked for Bath and Bristol later this month.

mainly a case of walking round the campuses and seeing if it felt like her.
Yes, I think that will be us for the same reason, and also that can be done at any time rather than at a time when parking impossible
DS is allowed two days off this term for a visit, so we will be at Imperial & Cambridge, but like others, DS now thinks they will be off his radar, but as 'the train tickets are booked' we are going

Dd and I have a weekend open day roadtrip planned. One open day on the Friday and another - 200 miles away - on the Saturday. She is looking at Speech Therapy so not that many options. We are doing two open days in June and will leave the rest until after AS results when she has a better idea of what is achievable.

We have Warwick, Lancaster and Exeter booked (June, July and September respectively), but did several self-guided tours in February to rule a few places out. The course DD wants to do is pretty similar everywhere, so for her it was mainly a case of walking round the campuses and seeing if it felt like her.

Um... zilch! DS seems to be so despondent about the whole AS business that he doesn't see the point in going to any open days.

Can't relate to chemistry, maths, Oxbridge or game of thrones, anyone else out there? ! ??DD has finished exams & next step is open days. Trying to get her to do some planning for these ( I've booked them for her while she was busy with exams) and also some job hunting, can't see a lot of progress with either! Open days take up pretty much every weekend in June, I'm exhausted already ... It's just me & her going, her friends are going to some of the same ones but not on the same days. There seem to be so many talks & tours going on it looks tiring, & we've got at least 3 in 3 different cities on consecutive days. Wish they were spread out a bit more. What's other people's open day schedules like?

Got a phone call this evening from DD1's flute teacher - she got distinction for her grade 8 which she took a few weeks ago. So that's 3 grade 8s now. She is very very happy and relieved and hopefully it will put her in a good frame of mind for her music AS tomorrow. DD2 grouching around wondering why her piano teacher didn't ring her with her result! But that was a much lower grade so I'm not surprised.

Huge wobbles here. 4 more maths.

DD1 has been told today that following on from her post 16 evaluation, 25% extra time is in place with immediate effect. Sadly she just has the one exam left, tomorrow! And the A2 general studies papers I suppose but she has barely even thought about them yet.

Politics ok today , only one to go now'

All I got re biology was an 'OK'

DS said computing was OK luckily. It's his best subject, but he was almost more worried about it than maths in case he blew it on the subject he should be able to up his UMS points on . . . . .

Hope the biologists did OK today. Unexpected I find that 'OK' is probably the best I can hope for; I think I'd be quite worried if DS described a paper as amazing! Hopefully your DS has done himself justice!

I don't think my DD can be doing OCR B. At least I hope not!

Just to clarify (and stop last minute panics) the syllabus with a pre-release booklet for Chemistry is OCR B (Salters).

DS is /was doing OCR biology this afternoon. No word from him yet - and first I have heard of a booklet...

Anyone else's DC doing OCR Biology this afternoon? DS has texted to say it was ok but not amazing.

OCR give you a booklet in advance with some stuff (technical term!) I think it's a technical article then in the exam there are questions on a nd related to it. They get it in advance as it's not always from stuff specifically in the course (I think). V helpful chap on Youtube has gone through it explaining everything and suggesting possible questions that may come up.