2015 Yr 12 support thread

Thanks hellsbells99 Hope you are right about Physics paper 2. Ds now tells me he is only working half days at his job this week. I predict the other half of the day will not be spent on revision...

Dunlarking - thanks. Her two worst papers so far are the chemistry and physics unit 1. But she is a perfectionist and thinks she has done terribly if she can't answer 1 question. We looked at last year's boundaries and for chemistry it was 56 out of 70 for an A on that paper so not high. If she can pick up on the unit 2 papers she should be okay - but I think her wish for a high UMS is out of the window. I hope your DS' physics goes well - DD thinks that unit 2 is the easier paper she hopes. But he could with revising and not working . DD has only 3 hours of work scheduled so she is okay - but is still asleep now after going out last night.

hellsbells99 I hope your dd picks up more marks in the second paper for chemistry then. We are hoping the second physics paper will do that for ds but not much chance when he has told his saturday job employer he can work all half term

DD2 was disappointed with the chemistry exam. She knows she got the first question totally wrong which was a 6 marker. At least the 2nd paper after half-term is worth more marks.

DS was telling me his friends detested both the chemistry and the biology, if that helps, Secret.

Oh, that's tough Squirrels It's hard when they have very high standards and expectations of themselves. Is there another Chemistry after half term?

Sorry to hear that Squirrels. Sad for him when everyone else is on a high with the arrival of 1/2 term.

A bit tense here. DS was short of time in Chemistry. The questions seemed to require longer answers, time is never an issue for him so I he was a bit flummoxed. Thinks it was really tough and he has not done very well.
I have tried reassuring him that everyone has a bad day and all his other exams have gone well. He is a bit down.

And breathe ........ half term is here! Dd and I have had a lovely day out together. A bit of shopping, lunch and Pitch Perfect 2 at the cinema this afernoon. As you say zazas the lack of tension this evening is a relief! Back to the revision at the weekend but for now .... calmness and tranquility

Sorry been offline - cheers bt- so have some catching up to do. Ds only has politics to go after half term. Fingers crossed that was his last ever Latin exam!

Chemistry good here too - or in DD words - "what she expected, they just asked the questions in a different way from previous papers", which one would assume wouldn't you !!! She is off out with friend's to celebrate a birthday - although the actual birthday is at the end of next week - which they have decided is too close to the next round of exams to celebrate then - sensible kids! I think we will all enjoy the lack of tension in the house this evening!

Glad to hear the biology chemistry and french have been OK generally. I hope you all have a good half term week. Feel like I've earned mine anyway.

Ds having second thoughts about History for uni . I've posted a question about Liberal Arts Degrees in Higher Education, if anyone has an opinion or thoughts they can share there? Thanks. He's spent the last 10 years doing Dance and Musical Theatre as his extracurricular thing so the personal statement for history was always going to be difficult impossible

French was fine, thank goodness thanks for asking And she had a chat with her history teacher that cheered her up a little bit. And dd1 has been giving her pep talks about putting it out of your mind until results day

chemistry paper similar to previous years apparently. Dd seems happy enough.

Yes glad Biology went well and fingers crossed Chemistry does too.

Atia how was French? Hope your DD was happier with it.

We are out the other side now and the relief that they are all over is lovely!

Good to be hearing ok reports of the biology, hope today's chemistry turns out ok too.

Biology seems to have gone ok yesterday. Chemistry today..........hope, hope, hope it goes well.

Enjoying the break here, good luck for all the chemistry do-ers today and happy half term to all.

. . . . . and now I have discovered that DS has the Debating Society dinner on the evening of the day we're going to the Bristol open day. That's going to be a rapid run up the M4.

Good luck to everyone doing chemistry tomorrow! And anything else as well.

Another on here with biology today (DS said was ok - phew - relief after the maths & physics) and chemistry tomorrow then a week off and a full week after half-term. I had a bit of a panic today because in my diary I had DS going on a DoE practice expedition next week which seemed completely bonkers. Luckily just checked with DS and they have put the date back till after the exams (why wouldn't you??) and he forgot to tell me...

Phew - dd reports her biology was 'fine - happy with that'.

DD1 who was retaking AQA biology said it was better than last year's! DD2 has not come home yet to ask - gone to a friends instead of revising for tomorrow's chemistry

Biology today was "really hard but not awful", whatever that means .
Chemistry tomorrow and then a week off!

Apparently DD1 has skipped through 6 harmony past papers this morning. Thing is though - she is shit hot at harmony. It's the other bit of the paper she needs to work on!

We live in Devon. There are border controls both ends. Really, it's an initiative test - if you can get FGW to take you here without trouble then you are smart enough to get in.