Year 11 GCSE support thread 4 - more exams

If you are really worried about possible "missing exams" this link leads to all of the different exam boards and their schedule of exams.

Yes, dd has "ordinary maths" tomorrow and "geeks maths" (her words not mine ) as 2 of the last ones, well into June.

Both German and Geography were "ok" I think he's roughly half way through now so I'm not surprised we're down to monosyllabic answers.

I printed the timetable off the school website so I'm pretty sure it's right - but have double checked it a couple of times. BackForGood, it was Additional maths today; tomorrow is one of the Edexcel maths (not sure if calculator paper or not?), maybe other boards too then the FM DD is doing (it's an igcse, darned if I know what board) isn't till the week after next.

Well at least you have been shown the exam timetable BackforGood. My dd is independent to a silly degree & I have not seen it. She wrote the exams on my calendar.....just hope she didn't leave any out. It freaks me out when people talk about exams not on my calendar too.

Am i the only one who gets all worried when people say things like 'music tomorrow', or 'futher maths today' as dd is doing both those subjects but we dont have those exams on the timetable? Rationally I tell myself its a different board, but it does make me fret.

Dd was unexpectedly upbeat after the German.... its not one of her stronger subjects so maybe that means less pressure.

Maths tomorrow, have a horrible feeling that Edexcel is going to be evil like it was with IGCSE. Have told DS to be calm and read the questions twice. I can't believe there is still a week and a half of this stress left, I have eaten my bodyweight in chocolate digestives!

You can resit both, but if you had to you might have to do a "foundation year" before doing your proper course.

Surely you can't only resit either Maths or English? Most jobs/further ed courses require a Pass at GCSE in both subjects don't they?

Unit two maths tomorrow.DD 's least favorite, solid on all but two types of question (A and B mark types according to her tutor) So should be fine and
DD should pass but I find myself wondering what happens if she fails maths AND English, I am sure you can only resit one?

DD ordered two dresses from ASOS, it was actually hard to choose between them they were both lovely. And I'm happy as it didn't cost the £200+ lots of people seemed to think they needed to spend. (DD didn't really want to spend that much - as we're not sure how often she will get to wear it afterwards.)

DS says German (Edexcel) was ok, Listening last question incredibly quickly spoken in comparison to the rest.

DD has Maths tomorrow, it's one of her A Level choices, so no pressure

DD's dress was from Quiz and looks lovely on. Strapless and navy blue with sparkly bits on the empire line. Most of the long dresses were £70 or less.

Thanks, off to look...

DD'S dress was nice and cheap from ASOS ( short one) and seems fine

ASOS. They seemed to have a lot of long dresses. Cheap as chips, so I'm not sure what kind of quality they will be...

Just out of interest Tilly, where did her other dresses come from?

In that case I might send my dd your way. Slightly panicking here that her dress still fits!

Only 3 more exams to go. Woo hoo! Technically I suppose it's 4 as there are two Philosophy papers next week but they are on the same day.

DD says German and Geography were OK. OCR for both subjects.

dingit, but only for petite but well-endowed promsters!

Oh well, on the plus side, at this rate Tilly, your dd will be able to set up her own dress hire business

I strike out the exams when they are done, much more satisfying than ticking

Errol@ Hereford rump steaks from Waitrose!

Having decided on the new dress out of the two possibles, DD has just ordered another 2 prom dresses to try. Aaaaarrrrrrggggghhhhhh!

AQA Geography was 'surprisingly OK' but she doesn't expect to pass due to paper 1. I'd planned my pick up song amending the words to Pinks Floyd Brick in the wall but it wasn't really needed as was quite cheerful. Host family for Japan trip received this morning which put her in good mood plus haircut after school where she was discussing best way to get her hair blue so she's tired but in a good mood.

Another tick for the fridge list, going down nicely (exam timetable clipped onto fridge).

Was the Additional Maths Edexcel? Apparently A2 Maths Mechanics was awful this morning and the core AS papers particularly tough recently. What with what's on here about the IGCSE as well I have a bit of a bad feeling about the Maths paper tomorrow but hope it's unfounded .

DD said German was harder than any of them were expecting. Apparently some word she didn't know cropped up a lot but she guessed it right.

Human geog AQA was 'great', but she was pissed off with the computing - no binary, hex or logic gates. But sounded like it wasn't too bad.

Special dinner after all that, DH bought some Hereford rump steaks in waitrose

We're half way through!

Geography seemed to go OK...maths tomorrow is my biggest worry.