Year 11 GCSE Exam Support Thread 2

Love that hippo idea!

DD phoned earlier, in tears as she has to stay late to redo some ICT for the CA - despite having asked and asked and asked for weeks the Head? of ICT if all was OK, he only told her today FFS

Flipping heck Littleham, that is full on 'DS landed his drone in a neighbour's tree' is definitely one of the more unusual ones I have seen on here ! Have some

Like the Hippo thing. Read it to DD, she has named hers Hiccup. She's a bit happier today as turned out her English Mock was a B not a C. Rumour has it exam timetable will be coming next Monday. Two whole weeks to go until first exam then, who needs notice

Dd has named hers Humphrey and ds's is called Horatio

Horatio has just got home from school and is having a snack. Humphrey is watching tv.

Very nice!
And a good reminder of what our little hippos need.

Dd (who is doing A levels) came home from school with some useful advice today:

Look after your hippo!

The hippocampus is a part of the brain connected to memory, learning and emotions.

One of her teachers advised the students that part of preparing for exams is to make sure that their hippo is well looked after. Enough sleep, good food, exercise and entertainment.

I thought this was a rather sweet way of looking at it.

Littleham, you win the stress prize - don't blame you for running away!

Littleham OMG!

Make the most of it TheWordFactory. Hope you have had a good time.

This is exhausting. Sob.

DD1 packing to go back to university / picking up last minute items.

DD2 handing in A Level coursework tomorrow. Panic stations.
DD3 revising for GCSE French oral tomorrow. Double panic stations.
DS landed his drone in a neighbour's tree. Triple panic stations.
Me - packing to go away with friends this weekend. Probably shouldn't be going at all, but am running away anyway.
House - utter chaos.

I should also buy shares in a print cartridge factory.

Waves at fellow exaministas!

I'm almost done here in sunny LA. Glad to have come but also glad to go home.

I am rubbish at gardening

DD is working up in her room. Science, maybe? And has finally drawn up a timetable with DH's help!

Oh, I'm sure she does (though surely the word count ought to be less in German than other languages, given their pechant for concatenating things into a whopping great big portmanteau word!). She's done OK on the written CAs despite her teacher always wanting her to write more so I think I'll stay out of it!

Errol She should know the expected word count. Just get her to count it! (AQA MFL they are meant to write 250-350 words I think, I make sure DD has written at least 300).

Turns out she was working on her (last, hurrah!) german written CA. Her teacher apparently always says she hasn't written enough. So she's written it really small on close-lined paper, with the intention of then just copying it out larger in class. I'm not entirely sure if she's serious about this or not!

Your DD is very impressive Errol. DD didn't finish the Maths paper she was dong last night until 11pm so is really tired today. I'd gone to bed and hadn't realised what she was doing, will need to keep an eye on her and make sure she starts at a more sensible time in future.

I gardened my way through Mum's Dementia diagnosis, really helped. All the sun has brought the tulips out much quicker than I expected, lovely to see them.

sugar - gardening is always a good thing. I've got more done than usual myself recently, because of DD being chained to her desk.

I think she's doing a U3 physics paper at the moment - DH was talking to me from a room next to hers and I think he got shouted at.

That makes me smile but feel a little sick all at the same time !!

I am distracting myself from reality with the garden. In years to come the new flower beds and plants will remind me of GCSE'S - guess need to wait until August to know if that is a good thing or not .

T&T, I was consoling myself this morning calculating only 8 1/2 more weeks

HSM - hope she likes the new one!

I'm fed up with revision, but only 8 weeks until exams are over (help!).

I hope dds still fits. I mentioned it the other day, and she said are you saying I've got fat? She hasn't, but it's quite fitted, so I hope her boobs haven't grown! Delicate subject!

HSM, DD hasn't done anything about a prom dress yet - I think she has 3 or 4 weeks after the last exam to find one, so should be OK I hope!

It's a money box, which sets off an alarm (sound and lights) if anyone sticks their mitts in without having first turned it off (switch cunningly hidden underneath). Apart from the electronics, the way it all fits together (inner and outer shell with the electronics between) is pretty neat.

Excellent news Errol

Well done to your dd Errol, I seem to remember you saying on the old thread that she put in loads of work.

Haha me too, sounds amazing though, well done to your dd Errol.