Year 11 GCSE Exam Support Thread 2

I asked: How was your exam?

DS: It was OK (slight smile)

Me: Really?

DS: (sill smiling) Well I answered all the questions.

Considering he was intent in failing RE to make a point that he didn't want to be catholic or to go to a catholic school or have to do RE not so long ago, I am thrilled.

It's a nice easy intro to exams...it's not a subject he wants to do at Alevel, and he now has no exams until next Monday (next week is very heavy)

Although almost all the year has timetabled sessions until the last exam, apparently most of the year disappeared after lunch!

Loads of information from dd - as ever

Me : Well?
dd : Well what?
Me: How did it go?
dd: How did what go?
Me: You know, the RE GCSE you had this morning...
dd: Fine
Me: What you got tomorrow?
dd: French

and so it goes on

oh do they? Didn't realise that but it makes sense.

Found the GCSE exam thread thanks.

I think the different exam boards have their exams on the same days where possible as it reduces the chances of clashes when schools use different boards for different subjects. Ds has Edexcel French and OCR 21st Cetuary biology tomorrow.

'On the eighth day God realised there were some potholes and said, Lo let there be road works.....and verily the road works appeared.

Well we made it in today easily as they were just setting up, but I am now hemmed in by ROAD CLOSED signs.

DD also has French (x2) and Biology tomorrow. They must all be doing the same exam boards. Poor thing has her 16th birthday this week.

Did have a convo with dd yesterday where she agreed with you all that RS is probably more wing-able than biology. Glancing at her biology textbook with all it's diagrams and technical words you had to see she had a point.

And dh's helpful contribution was that biology was more important than RS
But again, since she wants to do it for A level and maybe something along those lines at Uni too, perhaps he does have a point too.

But I'm kind of advocating for a simple one subject a day revision plan now we've actually started them. Apart from weekends and half-term.

I was trying to get her to move on to looking at RS from about lunch-time onwards yesterday. I think she finally did so around 7pm. Then stayed up til midnight of course. Just as well perhaps that following her art exam she's well trained in functioning on no sleep

Picking her up just after 11 - then like many we have French and Biology tomorrow (a thankfully rare double subject day)

Best of luck to everyone as we start this exam week - especially to anyone else who has first exams today (or virtually so)

ds(Y8) has history and maths today. History on different sources and historical balance regarding Oliver Cromwell. ds gave me an analogy about historical sources which involved bananas
But I think he has the general idea!

Best of luck for all the DDs and DSs.

HSM maybe now would be a good time for you to kick off thread 3 - the final reckoning? (or will that be results day?)

Good Luck everyone! Tomorrow is THE day for us. French x 2 and Biology x 2. DS2 is stoic and revising hard. I feel he's been left to his own devices a bit as his errant brother has taken up a lot of our time with A Levels this year.

Morning all. Hope all your DC are ok this morning.
Dd was ok last night, woke at 5, snuffling and wheezing. Not sure if it's a cold coming or nerves. Got told to stop nagging when I asked her to do her inhaler.
RE and Citizenship today. Then 2 hours of English intervention. Not overly happy with this, it's too much, would rather she came home, had a rest and food, then studied on her own.

DS's just gone. His parting quote whether made up or not was "and God said I hate divorce".......he's calm and laughing at my panic, which is good as it's 90% work crap and only 10% him today

HSM, that was me 30-odd years ago!

Just Citizenship this afternoon for DD. Then same as TWF tomorrow, gulp.

I feel sick. Don't know about DD!

Good luck for RS to all who do it. I told DD to just write something "kind and spiritual" (tongue in cheek) - she was in stitches. At least it lightened the mood.

WF very apt "quote".
DD has French & Biology tomorrow too.

Found out that the main/only exams officer at DD's school has just left a couple of weeks ago, they recruited quickly and the replacement starts today! What on earth is going on in that school with the new head?

She who doth not revise shall live in a vale of tears.

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Just RS for DD today.
Then both of mine have French tomorrow morning and biology in the afternoon.

Here we go, good luck for those with exams today

Having read the various inventive approaches to RS I almost wish my DD was doing it .

I was away most of the w/e at DBs wedding, she seems to have been revising chem and biol with slight hiccup of having lost her biology revision guide (DH dutifully went out and got her another, I think the last copy in town).

Good luck to everyone doing Rs (anything else?) tomorrow.

DD2 hasn't done any RE revision this weekend she's been concentrating on Biology for Tuesday. As for RE "All you need to know is Love Thy Neighbour and Catholics are against anything to do with sex"

She just had a shower and has her pencil case all ready. Pens, pencils (lead and coloured) and highlighters all bought yesterday.

Good luck to all our DC

Hello all, well after a whirlwind weekend of partying for DH's birthday, I'm coming back down to earth with a bump!
Had to buy pens today, they have to be a certain kind and I've been searching high and low for them. Still didn't manage to find the one, but hopefully found an acceptable substitute.

Good Luck for this week everyone, DH & I have been looking at a weekend away just for us after the exams are over. I cannot. wait.

SPT better late than never!

Reading about hanging upside down off bars: I found DD unicycling without helmet today (she can't unicycle, it!s Ds's). Teenage brains are weird things.

I'd be up for that ! So 8.53pm night before the exam and DD comes in to say she is going to do some revision amd part of FB group chat who are revising.