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Year 11 GCSE support thread 4 - more exams

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HSMMaCM · 21/05/2015 18:30

Anyone got English tomorrow ?

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ErrolTheDragon · 03/06/2015 13:57

So...by now DD should have done her Germans and her stint in isolation and now be doing geography, to be followed by computing. She was annoyed that they're not allowed to do more than 3hrs in a morning or afternoon session, so because the germans came to 1:35 she couldn't do the 1:30 computing straight after hence isolation. Must be a school rule as Littleham's DD is doing the germans followed by 2hr maths (assuming same german L&R)

Still, at least this timetable overload meant that instead of the FSMQ additional maths which they were originally going to do, they're doing the Further maths instead, which is supposed to not be as hard.

funambulist · 03/06/2015 13:52

wed99 oh dear. I hope she's done better than she thinks.

wed99 · 03/06/2015 12:58

FSMQ Additional maths for DD this morning. Just picked her up . Her only comment was 'it was impossible'.

ono40 · 03/06/2015 12:54

No exams for DS today but he is revising music for Friday's listening exam and maths for tomorrow. He is good at maths but occasionally panics and then can't think, so I am hoping Edexcel don't do what they did in the IGCSE maths and make it incredibly hard!

TeenAndTween · 03/06/2015 12:23

No exams for DD today, and only 5 more left, nicely spaced.
She's more or less given up on going in to school as revision lessons are too fast, and I can help better at home.

Littleham · 03/06/2015 12:03

Poor dd has back to back exams this morning. German started at 9am followed Additional Maths finishing at 1pm. She is going to be tired.

JugglingFromHereToThere · 03/06/2015 11:59

Here dd was up at 5 to revise geography
I hope she isn't completely knackered by the time I take her in for
around 1 ish.
Hope she has some energy reserves to actually do the exam!

canny1234 · 03/06/2015 11:23

I woke up dd at 10.30 as there were no signs of her getting up.No exams today!
Healthy breakfast of Bircher muesli with fresh fruit ( if I'm doing slimming world she can do it too Grin).
Good luck to all doing exams today.Woolly I'm very glad your DD's feeling better.

MEgirl · 03/06/2015 10:11

Geography here as well. Only for one of them though and he's not feeling well. The other is still in bed. He has Music on Thursday which DT2 isn't doing.

bigTillyMint · 03/06/2015 10:03

Hope all those doing German/Geography do their best and stay calm.

Good job I rang DD - I woke her up! Hopefully she gets to her maths tutor in time, but I daren't say too much as she flew off the handle at DH and I last night when we pointed out that it was time to babysit (having woken her up quarter of an hour earlier!)

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HSMMaCM · 03/06/2015 10:00

mellifera good luck to your DS.

DD has a morning in bed followed by maths revision at school.

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Mellifera · 03/06/2015 09:52

My DS is doing German today. He's still a baby as he'd doing it early (mother tongue). slaps self, he's 14

It should be over by now, and I have to wait until 6 pm to find out how it went.

DD was still in bed (no exams today) when I left, I think she needs a lazy day or she'll get ill.

Hope the German paper didn't have some weird old fashioned words we never use, like every single one of the last 5 years' past papers. Makes me want to join the exam board to get rid of "artig"

TheWoollybacksWife · 03/06/2015 09:36

German and Geography here too. According to DD she is sitting Foundation in one of the German papers but her exam timetable says Higher for both Confused. I hope it doesn't throw her too much. She is many things but a linguist isn't one of them Grin

LineRunner · 03/06/2015 09:31

Geography this afternoon here, too. He is mostly revising earthquakes.

TheWordFactory · 03/06/2015 09:28

No exams for my two today.
DH is working from home and text to say he's roused the troops and is making sausage sandwiches.

I'm in sunny Salford! I sometimes think when the Beeb relocated someone stuck a pin in a mapGrin.

Could have easily ended up in Aberystwyth or Barnsley!

mummytime · 03/06/2015 09:21

DD has Geography too, unfortunately it clashes with her time to see her Maths Tutor - and Maths is tomorrow. It should be okay...

AmazingDisgrace · 03/06/2015 09:20

German and Geography today. Good Luck everyone

bigTillyMint · 03/06/2015 08:58

Oh Drivingnovice, my DH had downloaded some of them for DD, but I think his school belong to the club!

Must ring DD to check she is up to see her maths tutor...

funambulist · 03/06/2015 08:32

My DS has Geography this afternoon (AQA). He's cautiously optimistic as he should already have some marks in the bag for coursework and paper one. Good luck to all the DCs taking exams today.

OddBoots · 03/06/2015 08:27

I think he would need the school to do it if they are Pixl members. Pixl is a kind of club that schools can belong to in order to share resources and information.

Drivingnovice · 03/06/2015 08:24

DS asked me to download Pixl Maths Paper 1 for him to practice. Can't seem to find it... Any ideas anyone please...?

Horsemad · 03/06/2015 07:11

Hmmm, I might pay to get DS's English paper back just to see what was written! Smile

LynetteScavo · 03/06/2015 07:09

Me too Horsemad!

SoupDragon · 03/06/2015 07:09

I think DS had the "write about how you helped/were helped" paper.

but no-one died.

NO ONE DIES used to be my constant reminder to DS2 when he was sitting 11+ entrance exams :) Ah... Fond memories!

Horsemad · 03/06/2015 07:05

I would love to read some of the stories from the English exam!