Year 11 GCSE Exam Support Thread 2

Eraser, two pencils and a pencil sharpener here.....I don't think any pencils will be used though...do they use pencils in exams?

Hey fellow sufferers - been off piste for a while, but back in the fold with my sistas/bruvvas-in-worry ...

First week of hell begins day-after-tomorrow with Tuesday: Biology pm and
Thursday: Chemistry am

Then four next week ... English lit x 2, Physics and Geog

Hold tight ... here we go ...

Exam checklist

tutorhouse.co.uk/10-items-of-stationery-exams/

Eraser?

Today I purchased a clear pencil case, and £10 worth on pens, because I didn't know which kind DS would prefer.

DS1 was completely underwhelmed.

It's RE first thing tomorrow morning. DS1 is not at all bothered, and has gone out for a bike ride. I have been reading his revision book, in the hope that I can pass on some knowledge telepathically.

A bottle of wine for yourself HSMMaCM.

Thanks for the tip Littleham. Not so sure about the nasal mucas writing! Beginning to think I shouldn't have mentioned his cold.
Hope all those young people with exams this week have a good week.

Could gain an unfair advantage by writing the answers in nasal mucus on tissues!

bebumba and try Sambucol for ds. I have been poring the stuff down dd3's throat this week to stop her catching the nasty cold that has been circulating. Seems to have worked & it may help shorten his cold.

Hope you don't have any tube strikes spud.

Like the Labour party campaign I'm thinking maybe we didn't start early enough with this revision thing! (on eve of first real week of exams) But they had lessons until Friday and I guess all recent school work and homework has been revision based?
Hopefully it will work out OK?!

Cringing at the thought of see through tissues spudmasher.

Article here from the BBC, just in case things aren't yet quite tense enough in your houses...

The tissues may have to be see through bebumba.

All the very best of luck to all the DC staring exams this week.
We have Spanish on Friday.

I hadn't even considered being late.....thank you for the heads up! DD gies by train and tube so it's going to need checking every exam day and building in contingency time and plan B if trains/ tubes buggered up- which they frequently are....

I'm also going to have a re read if the regs about what you can and can't take in to make sure there are no last minute panics about see through pencil cases etc.....

I'm freaking out (behind closed doors!) she's as cool as a cucumber.

Nnnnooooooo! First full week of exams and ds has developed a lovely cold!
Whats the rule on a mountain of soggy tissues?!#

I agree with MrsU. Crap timing for you, but I remember girls being turned away because they were late.

Good Luck to everyone tomorrow! DD has Citizenship tomorrow - did RS last year, collapsed timetable in the morning before, apparently.

Glad to hear your DS is being laid back, Aunt P.

I agree, Littleham - 5 weeks 2 days to go here!

Coffee - your dd sounds like mine... not going to let the fact she's doing GCSE exams get in the way of the more important things in life. She's away camping this weekend

RS for DD tomorrow.

But it's a compulsory half a GCSE. So DD has done very little revision.

I think both my two have ground to a halt with revision induced stupor today. It's been weeks of endless swotting and past papers.

They're currently laid together on the trampoline supposedly testing one another on Biology but I can hear more talk about football than anything else .

Depends what you mean by walkable auntp. About 3 miles, so I'll take the car (she can revise on the way) and we can abandon it if necessary!

DD has RS tomorrow as well (Edexel). Not her favourite subject.

Good luck to all of your dc's. I feel quite relieved the exams are happening and we can see the back of them soon.

Oh goodness that road work thing sounds appalling littleham I'd be giving myself to ones of spare time, is the distance walkable would that work better than the car?

DS has point blank refused to revise for rs, "god mum it's only RS!" Hes apparently revising for some chemistry for Tuesday but that's "only core" so he's not too worried, I don't know where he gets this laid back attitude from, though with everything else that a going on with me I'm glad he's focused. Good luck to all DC for the coming week.

Yes, RS tomorrow (Ethics) is 2 x 1 hr papers. dd doing OK today so far. Has been doing biology. Probably time to move on to RS soon I think

ds (Y8) says "I've got exams too Mum" Anyway he's just gone over to a friend's house - but perhaps I should check with him about homework/revision/exams too when he gets back!
He's a bit upset about something else just now - looks like he just missed out on buying a go-kart that was for sale up the road as he was busy organising going halves on it with a friend, and meanwhile it's gone from the wall.
Poor ds. We were both a bit sad about that
But I guess there could be other go-kart possibilities if he decides he really wants one

Really bad timing Littleham, one more thing to have to deal with. And I do feel for your school with Ofsted, so much to deal with at the start of exam time.

DS has now produced an exam timetable for next week with more exams on it than I realised there would be, he seems ok though. Hope he is the same in 5 years time when it is him doing GCSE's or whatever we have then!

Thanks MrsUltra - very clear & helpful about the rules. I managed to get through to the road works manager in charge last week and asked him what the worse case scenario would be for a time delay. He said half an hour, but hopefully less, so I have set the alarm clock for 45 minutes earlier. We will probably end up being the first ones at school!

I did try and contact the school on the telephone number (the Assistant Head sent out an e mail saying he would be happy to answer any questions). I left a message but got no reply. Busy with Ofsted I believe....

My relief at him not being back in Education when I woke up and saw news didn't let me connect the dots re Justice and the Human Rights Act. DD has been been down very concerned about that (anything is a good distraction currently as feel we could be on the edge of a meltdown).

I thought Chief whip was quite a good place for him if he had to be around personally. I think with Education a lot of people who don't have school age children don't really know what has been happening. The Human Rights Act will hopefully draw a lot of attention and he will be very much in the spotlight with whatever he attempts to do with it. You can all laugh at how naive I am.

Think it is 2 x 1 hour papers tomorrow on DD's timetable.