Year 11 GCSE Exam Support Thread 2

How frustrating TillyMint, I hope she has a good revision session at home. It does feel like it will be a long 9 weeks!

I hope today has brought forth a timetable SugarPlum.

HSMM that is great news. :) I hope it continues.

That is fantastic dingit, it must be such a relief.

I hope you have a fantastic time Word, I am sure they will be fine, pasties or not.

DS has come in cheerful, he had an extra practice for his Drama practical in a couple of weeks and he says it went well.

Well done Dingit's DD that's brilliant. Enjoy LA word not a bit jealous!

I'm sure they'll survive the pasties.

Enjoy LA!

Well done to dingit-DD.

Hey guys, I'm in LA! .

DH has taken today off and tells me he's fed everyone Cornish pasties from the corner shop.

Feels very weird being away from exam fever.

Well done to your dd dingit

Dingit, that's great!

Dd has come home like a cat with two tails. Her Art teacher marked her exam project, then took a mark off each part again to mark it more harshly, and she still got an A*. She is fairly confident she will get an overall A. What a relief that is.
Just the small matter of an A for triple science to work on now

Thanks Errol, that's what I have for English Lit. There is just the long list of GCSE, AS and A level times and dates. Great in theory but some like the IGCSE were as clear as mud ie. it didn't actually say it was English.

Think I have worked it out apart from photography, one clash as far as I can see. I am really hoping she comes home tonight with her individual timetable and her mock results They are interviewing again tonight for the new Head after not appointing from first advert applicants. Really really need a good one to sort out damage that has happened since the last Ofsted.

Yes Errol re the science - DD did Chemistry last year, but it's odd how they have put U2 and 3 together before half-term.

DD should be in for an extra science revision session today, but had a problem with buses() and a bit of a meltdown, so she is revising at home. I hope.

Feel sick at the thought of 9 more weeks of this and then the dreaded results day!

Good luck to everyone back today , another week off here. DS has been methodical and organised (2 words I would never thought I would say about my dyslexic and dyspraxic son!) With his revision. In school last week when they had planned lessons this weekend he's done 2 hr sessions each day and had just told me he plans to do the same this week. He was climbing yesterday so had plenty of exercise and hes just gone the shops for milk for me, his plan is read his notes for an hour them do either a past paper on line or bitesize questions. I don't want o push it as he does really seem to know what he is doing.

We got an individual plan for the exams wiTh all his exams on at the end of last term so I know what he's got to do when and which exam board he's working with. Results day I haven't even discussed with him, I imagine he'll walk up on his own I really doubt he'll want us around. Might go to my friends who lives next door to the school to be on hand of needed. He'll have been back from Japan for about 8 days by that point and the hoy was laughing saying she wanted him in all the pictures with his tan!

sugar - you're sure that there isn't a timetable on her school's website somewhere? I don't think we were told about the one on my DD's. Anyway, mine is doing AQA for her Eng lit, her exams are May 18th and 22nd for that.

I believe you're right that for the AQA science U1 is core, U2 is additional (so those together comprise 'double science') and U3 is if they're doing triple science. DD was complaining a bit that they rather oddly have the U2 and U3 together before the halfterm and then the U1 after the break. (for biol and physics anyway, for some reason they're doing an igcse for chemistry). That really does seem rather arse about face.

Dd will be able to walk up to school for her results, I'm not sure if we will go with her. However if the first letter of the alphabet occurs enough and in the right places, we have to whisk her 5 miles up the road by 11.30 to accept her selective academy place!
I can't tell you how many times I've dreamt of the different outcomes!

Think I will drive DD and go for a dog walk on the field behind or something.

I'm not the only who was totally unaware that the English is 5 and 8 May. My poor Friemd has triplets, one is resitting the English whilst others are doing AS. She visibly paled when I said this morning about the English this mornng and saud she might need tonresort to drugs at this rate !

I've just been trying to cobble together a timetable from what we have. If DD doing AQQ Additional science, is that likely to be Unit 2 ? My thinking is Unit 1 is core an unit 3 is triple and there are the three separate papers for Additional as there were for Core (which she got a D in last year and I am spitting that she is doing Additional instead of resitting but let's not go there)

Also is any one else's child doing AQA photography ? I can't find an exam date. Finally could I check the dates for AQA English Lit please? So sorry about this. I am really cross I'm having to scrabble around like this, first exam is 3 weeks tomorrow.

*cue

We have a wall calendar in the kitchen, and I've coloured 20th August entirely red ... each member of the family (including DH) has asked me what the red day is? - que thunderous crack of doom: RESULTS DAY!!!

Our summer hols were definitely planned so that we'd be home for results day! As DD's school is 20-odd miles up the road I guess we have to take her there and then lurk unobtrusively while the girls squeal/cry or whatever with each other.

So early start for you on results day then BTM, that adds another layer of stress to the whole proceedings.

Everyone very grumpy here this morning, I had woken up in an ok mood until DS's deep sighs penetrated into my consciousness, DD stressing when I stressed she must see photography teacher and DH running round looking for clean trousers (the latter was slightly amusing).

I am hugely glad you both said that as was hoping that might be the case but didn't dare hope that. Didn't say anything to DD before but have now. However impressed on DD that coming home without seeing photography teacher is not an option.

Yes, we come back the 15th or 16th too. At least his birthday is before the results!
If DD gets what she needs, she will need to dash to the other local comp to register for sixth form as it seems to be first come, first served there!

I was just about to say the same as Tilly. I bet it's just the schools deadline, and loads of others haven't handed work in.

I hope we are all going to hand hold on results day. Tilly are you back from your holiday? We arrive back on 15th. I'm hoping my piles of washing will keep me busy! And it's ds' birthday on 16th.
Dh reckons he is going to work from home on results day. Let's hope its worth it!

Good Luck on the art dingit.

SugarPlum, it will be an internal deadline, so she still has time to find it and hand it in. She won't be the only one - I have RL friends with DC who haven't completed coursework/CA's yet and DD may have to redo some ICT

Hope the art goes well Dingit.

DD tells me she failed to hand in her darkroom work at the end of last term before the deadline. Or she may have lost it, I'm not clear which. Trying to be philosophical and somewhere in my mind preparing for the fact she might have to have another level 2 year. Really not looking forward to results day.