Year 11 GCSE Exam Support Thread 2

Well done Dingit's DD those are great results, well back to school here and DS is buzzing mock English they did before break up A*, Rs B, so hes very happy. No revision tonight we've had a Scout meeting about Japan so that suddenly seems very real. 1st exam is 11th May!!!

Great results for your dd dingbat, lovely to have a confidence boost

Bit of a change in the weather since the practice not long ago, word!

What AS subject is he doing Word?
It's a lovely day for your dd to be enjoying the fresh air.

Go dingit DD.

A nice clutch of decent mock results are just the ticket to boost confidence .

DS clearly enjoyed school today and said AS revision (he's doing one alongside his GCSEs) was particularly useful.

DD text to say her group are doing great but sun burned!

That's great dingit!

She should be please with that, dingit!

Dd has just come home with some mock results. English Lit A ( just)- her worst subject, chemistry A, and Biology A ( one mark off A *)
It's keeping her confident, just off to Maths tutor in a minute!

TWF, glad your DD is OK with the timing of the DOE - mine would have had a complete meltdown! Not that she does DOE...

She seemed happy with the amount of revision she has done over the weekend - quite a bit, but with friends, mainly in the library!

Feeling refreshed after weekend away. The D of E expedition might be a nice break WordFactory.

DD has another mock today.

The French oral went really well - no mess ups.

DD is away on DofE expedition.

I was, as you guys know, really pissed off about the timing of this, but now it's happening I'm more sanguine. She has done a truckload of revision already and still has another three weeks until her first exam, two weeks until her French oral. She was really happy to go.

DS has gone into school today for a mixture of revision sessions and sports. Despite an early start he was super cheerful. Probably glad to break the monotony that's taken over his days recently too.

His first exam is in two weeks .

Oddboots, your ds sounds very sensible. A whole day off is a good idea, but I'd have problems persuading dd, although she would have time if she added up all the time she wastes on social media.

DS has decided his week starts on a Sunday, he has a timetable of his subjects with a total of 14h of revision a week on it (probably not as much as some are doing but it is the right level for him to cope with and keep sane) and he chooses when in the week to do what and ticks them off as he goes. He spent most of yesterday doing nearly half of his revision - I think he is eyeing up a completely free Saturday.

He's gone into school today though telling me exactly home many more lessons of French and RS he has to do before he is free of them forever.

There is very much a 'countdown' mentality happening in this house.

Here we go for another week. Let's hope it is as calm as it can be for everyone at this point in the proceedings.

Thanks HSM

Dds is edexcel. I think it only gets split into the 3 subjects at triple.
It's very confusing. The one thing I don't know is if she can get in to her selective academy with her double science A*, or if she needs her triple grades. I think probably the latter.

Good point about full name as well, my dd never uses her legal full name on anything!

We've got:

Art 1 21/4
Art 2 22/4
Biology 12/5 x2
Chemistry 14/5 x2
RE 18/5
Engineering 19/5
Geography 19/5
English Lit 22/5
English 2/6
RE 2/6
Maths 4/6
Biology 5/6
Maths 8/6
Chemistry 9/6
Physics 12/6

I'm missing the date for the other AQA Physics exams - anybody?

It's probably OK for CAs as they just have to be traceable back to the child (and will have candidate number on them anyway). But certificates need to be in legal name for evidence in later life that the person actually took them so need to correspond. (I had to show some certificates when we adopted to prove I had the qualifications I was claiming).

Yes agree about burn out. DD has two massive ulcers on the back of her throat.

Thank you T&T for mentioning legal names. I've just said to DD that every thing exam related is going in with legal name and not known name.

She said she submitted something for English recently and asked teacher which name and teacher said the one which is the one she uses as it is in the register. On her list of things to sort on Monday.

Dingit, that science sounds like it works differently (and possibly better!) than the way DD's (AQA?) works - they do each science separately for triple, although combined for double

Tilly I'm not sure what it is about ICT, but it was a mess at dds school too, and they are only doing a half course, even though they were all capable of doing full.

I know what you mean about burn out teen, dd is shattered this week, and has a big maths week next week ( tutoring and then mock)
I think we are fairly ok with the timetable, she has had letters saying she will do full course PE and RE.
I have a science nerd who has already sat double science, so just the triple papers for her. It sounds a lot of work doing both!

Sounds like DD's school were doing pretty well to get the individual timetables out months ago - provisional ones then the real thing! Shame I can't say the same about the ICT teachers marking

DD went off to school at 9.30 with a bulging bag and plans to do a long list of stuff. If she does half of it, that would be great! I am particularly pleased that she didn't seem to be completely blown over by the ICT debarcle yesterday and is ploughing on. For the moment

T&T, you are right to give her some time off - there has to be a balance.