Year 11 GCSE support thread 4 - more exams

Sounds like there was some quite creative writing going on yesterday ! Geography today which will be a washout, just need to keep her calm for the all important Maths tomorrow. Woukd be great if she managed to get it but in my head it is a 6th resist.

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It is too early.

Well. English was 'fine'. He had to write about a place that made an impact on him. So he wrote about the exam hall. Apparently it was highly ironic and full of religious imagery (!) but no-one died.

He has computing today which he taught himself at home so who know's how that will go.

mummytime I love it!!

DD wrote about skiing in the alps - which she has never done - and only killed 11 people in this one. Only her teachers and us know the death toll of her creative writing.

mummy time, DS's paper was the memorable holiday one. He also said something about child labour (hopefully that was on the paper and not a reference to his exams!! )

DD - English was good but sounds like a different paper to most of yours though. Something about left wing propoganda (quotes from Gordon Brown) and "a memorable holiday" where she used the Geography not asked for last week.

RE was okay maybe, but she felt she could have just as easily answered sections she hadn't been taught.

I asked DS how his exams were today and he laughed! No idea what that means. He assures me he won't have to do English next year though, so I'm taking it to mean it went well.

English language okay here too. Apparently the last question was slightly unusual - write about when you helped someone or they helped you. However I am sure they managed it fine. They think on the whole particularly with maths and geography some of the papers have been unusually hard this year and the teachers seem to agree on some subjects.

Mine is at 11 down, 11 to go but 4 of those are tomorrow - the 2 german are only 45 and 50 mins apiece.

GCSEs don't seem to do much for a teenager's skin, do they?

Dd said that English was OK.We have now had the ritual burning of her English notes and revision books.As the exams go on she's becoming more and more laid back.
Are any dc's doing Latin Literature?Apparently its a GCSE equivalent ( takes a few years for an exam to be authorised as a GCSE apparently).One of her teachers helped write it,so the girls doing Latin are automatically entered for the exam.

DD had the heaviest weeks before half term, although these ones are more important.

TWF, your DD definitely knows her own mind - good on her for nor following the crowd.

DD refuses to do FB, Instagram, Twitter etc so I'm sure she was able to take the moral ground so high, she got a nose bleed!

Hi all, this is hardcore now isn't it? DD keeps saying' I'm just taking one day at a time.....'

Love the pens and the rotting brains! Apparently DD thought the English was OK (via DH) She is now babysitting - no exams tomorrow, but will be preparing for maths on Thurs and Biology on Fri. 7 to go!

DD did French and Spanish. I think two MFLs is hard unless you are really gifted/fluent in at least one. One of her friends speaks EAL and has found learning both French and Spanish a breeze.

How cool are those pens?

Love the pens Littleham and love TWF's dd's explanation of the internet rotting young minds - I believe it was Janet Street-Porter's view of Twitter. DS said he wished she had a shorter name because he was sick of writing it!

Exam 2 of 5 this week and we are both exhausted already. DS looking very spotty and has two huge mouth ulcers so finding it difficult to eat anything (apart from chocolate, lol!).

Break tomorrow, then Maths on Thursday, Music and Biology on Friday. He felt Biology went badly last time so instead of pulling out all the stops to revise for this, he's more or less given up nash, nash....

Notice board tidied at least. New pens arranged.

DD said English was good, but it's her best subject so she felt quite good about it generally. She said her English teacher high-fived her when they were discussing it afterwards so I'm hoping that she was on the right lines!

It sounds like she's similar to your DS LineRunner as she still has 11 exams and doesn't finish until the 19th.

She's looking tired and spotty, and just wolfed down a huge roast dinner. She doesn't have any study leave until next week, they're in regular hours right up until this Friday and then can go in just for exams and lessons offering revision for those subjects not yet completed exams in. I think we'll both be glad when she's finished!

dd felt English wasn't a problem today, but is FUMING at her maths teacher once again. We got a text yesterday saying there was a compulsory revision session today (and another immediately before the exam on Thursday . She said all that happened was he listed all the topics they need to know for the exam...... I can't help thinking if they don't know that now, then it's a bit late to point it out to them ? .

German tomorrow (I think - communication is at an all time low here ).

DD didn't want to do an MFL either - although she's got her two German exams tomorrow she's already happy that she will never be forced to utter another word of it. If she hadn't had to do that she'd have probably chosen RS as she likes a good argument.

Her grasp of german vocab seems a bit sketchy, though she seems to think she does ok at the listening and reading - maybe she's good at educated guesswork when the words appear in some sort of context.

Ah you see DS is great at and loves French. So I thought (wrongly) that Spanish woul dmake a happy bedfellow.

I was wrong!

Yeh my DS is also doing Spanish and loathes it. He was well put out at having to take a MFL to GCSE. He would rather have done geography (or absolutely anything else for that matter) than a MFL. He likes the classics as he doesn't have to actually speak them.

Anyone else revising natural hazards?