Year 11 GCSE support thread 4 - more exams

No Ancient Greek here.

It was muted as a new subject at the end of year 9, but I recommended Spanish as a. it's easy and b. I could help.

DS has loathed it. So I'll keep my nose out in future .

TWF - my DS reported back on Latin, must have done same paper as your DS as it was about Scipio. Apparently he is my son's favourite general! So...he thought it went really well. He also did a Greek paper today, is your DS doing Greek too? He said it was tough but he knew the play off by heart from his 1/2 term revision so big sigh of relief all round. Still 2 more Latin papers and 2 more Greek before the classics are laid to rest. Nothing tomorrow so he is away to play 5 aside.o

Hmm, we still have all of Maths and some Physics and Chemistry to go. Plus we still haven't finished Geography, History, or RS either.
But then again that's the first time I've even thought in terms of what's left so perhaps we're slowly getting there!

DD1's given her usual exam report that English and RS went 'alright'. Geography tomorrow (one that she wants to do at A-level) and I've given my usual nagging gentle nudge in the direction of doing some revision tonight.
We are finally over the half way mark ~ 12 down, 8 to go but some of the exams left are in subjects she finds hard ~ like maths, physics and chemistry.

DD is happy enough with how her English went, though she wishes she had more time for the last question.
She can see Errol's dd's point about it being a human geography essay

Next is maths on Thursday and biology on Friday.

Thanks Littleham - yes she does have one every day this week and next - but then she's finished. And at least it's one subject a day (before H/T there was the odd day with two subjects)
Last couple have been a bit disappointing as not every question attempted which is always a shame. But they're still going better than the mocks I think where she really had some big timing issues. And really she did OK in those - well enough for everything she wants to do next.
Overall I think we're OK with things but of course can see why dd coming out of some of these recent ones less than happy

Oh no Littleham! They were probably all off at half term helping their kids revise! Ds is looking to do German and Maths amongst his A levels too. Good luck to your Dd for tomorrow.

Great SugarPlum.

Your poor dd Juggling - she seems to have an exam every day at the moment.

German and Additional Maths tomorrow for my dd. She wants to take these two subjects at A Level. And guess what? Yes - they are shutting our road AGAIN. Why couldn't they do it in half term?

Japanese went pretty well by the sound of it which is big relief as is one of 'the 5'.

Add. Maths and Geog here tomorrow. Can hear DH (Mathematician) going over some stuff now with him.
Feel a bit sorry for my boys, DH takes it personally if they don't do well in Maths.

Stopped en route home after English to treat DS to an ice cream from our fave shop - that could easily become a habit!!

Ds has German and Geography tomorrow, these are his first exams since the Friday before half tem and will take him to the halfway point. His revision this afternoon is slightly delayed as he is currently sprawled on the sofa muttering about the unfairness of a potential heatwave during the exam season and having to sit in a stinky sports hall with hundreds of sticky people!

dd had another tricky for her exam with the English for similar reasons to yesterday's History
We cheered ourselves up with a LIDL shop using our 50 of LIDL vouchers courtesy of the LIDL Easter thread - so that was a very nice bonus
Geography tomorrow so lots more to cram (or so dd feels) but at least it's in the afternoon which takes the pressure off our mornings and gives more time for more productive revision I think

Twf, I think your dd should have passed with that single sentence

I'm not sure what RE was like I only got a grunt. Add. maths tomorrow then thats it for the week thank goodness.

DS reports that Latin was 'fine'.

Apparently 'some dude called Scipio kidnapped some woman and her dad bailed her out.'

So there you have it!

Ha ha TWF

DD said the English paper was about the internet rotting young minds and she went blank thinking ' it's all true, my mind has rotted' then she looked again and got on with it..

Just spent the last hour or so testing DS on Geography case studies (his suggestion). I remembered quite a few of them being in the news but realised as I tested him that I had little actual knowledge of the magnitude of earthquakes, amount of damage caused etc. He has kindly allowed me a short break before I we go through the other case studies.

DS says he had to write about "respect" although he didn't elaborate.

DD came in for another chat - not really in revising mood. She could do with some physical activity but its horrid out - she might do some exercise in the garage later.

We somehow got onto whether she should learn Klingon this summer - or whether the school would let her do it as enrichment (well, they can do Spanish or Mandarin, why not? ).

DS said 'Mmmmmn' when asked about English. Said it wasn't as nice as some past papers he's seen.
Had to write about a memorable holiday so wrote about Australia (we've never been!) and it seemed loosely based on I'm a Celebrity, Get Me Out Of Here, with a shack for accommodation and eating grubs!!!

My two just finished English, they said it was OK.
Mind you they have been telling me that for years.

Mine thought it was better than she'd expected (AQA eng lang), though apparently in part of it there were quite a few words that she'd simply never come across so didn't know if they were figurative or not. (Of course she can't remember what they were, I'd like to know.) So this meant she was at a loss for much to say in the last question and ended up going off on a bit of a human geography essay. Still, she seemed quite cheerful, and having had lunch and a chat and come down a bit from a slightly hyper state, she's in her room probably going over the geog case studies.