Year 11 GCSE support thread 4 - more exams

English this morning for DD.
Latin this afternoon for DS.

And I must mark a paper by one of my students. From the covering email he clearly feels this is a work of supreme genius .

English lang today for my 2 (iGCSE I don't know the board). Probably their easiest although one went to their one and only revision class for it yesterday at school - they've eschewed all others on offer by the school.

Welcome AmazingDisgrace Glad history was OK for your ds (though wasn't one of the best for dd) but then it's not one she wants to continue with for A level - she's hoping to do biology and geography and one or two others (as yet not quite settled) And she's happy enough with how those went. So for many of them doing well enough in those subjects will be the main thing. I know some people have more stress than others regarding sixth form options - the general advice here though to just keep going through them all the best you can is very reassuring! As OddBoots says there are always options after results. We'll deal with that when we get there. Possibly get back together for a results, options, and grads thread I'm guessing?!

Good luck to all and the DC for today - we too have Eng Lang
Fingers X for a nice paper and better good time management

MissClemency, I'm sorry she is miserable. It is such a tough time for them. Whatever the results it isn't the end of the world, there are always options.

DS1 is back into the fray today. English Lang is not his favourite but not the worst. He has computing, maths and Biology to come this week. I don't get much more out of than 'fine' about most exams.

He spent 4 out of 5 lessons at school yesterday revising Science and one looking at question technique in English. They still don't know when they finish school but he suspects it will be after his final Maths paper which is next Monday. I think the routine of going in is good for him though.

Good luck to everyone else today.

MissClemency, sympathies. We have found that NOT going over the paper just done, being positive and up-beat (even if fake!) and focusing on the next one is helping. And the end is in sight.

English Language today. DD asked me to test her on something last night, but as she spent the whole time checking her phone and I was very tired, it wasn't spectacularly successful!

Ginandtonictime, thank you so much for the youtube link, DD was actually quite impressed with me for 'finding' it and has spent most of the evening looking at it (checking her phone at the same time obviously). she said she couldn't write any more revision notes as her hand is suffering from handwriting so much in 2 exams today....

Found you all! History was "really quite good" for DS so phew! It's one of his A level choices so fingers crossed. It is also one he has been predicted an A* in but its such a tricky subject to predict

Sorry to hear about your DD MissClemency. It is a horrible time for the kids and parents and all you can do is encourage her to keep going.

DD has been giggling over youtube, if it's not too late for your dc, maybe they can check out "helpmemrdavies" on youtube, a fun way to look at English.
Sadly DD didn't find it before the English Lit papers, there are quite a few videos.

DD is reasonably ok, coping with the stress. This week and next will be tough, but the end is in sight.

MissClemency, just encourage her to keep going. Hard exams usually mean lower grade boundaries. All to play for and all that.

Hope you are both ok.

Oops!

Note to others - don't try to test your dc and poach eggs at the same time. Mmm, egg with melted plastic for a healthy meal.

Glad your DS is confident Fairenuff. If tomorrow's English Language writing task is on Call of Duty or the merits of YouTube, I can safely say my DS will be sorted!

Ds said History (Edexcel) was a bit 'odd' but he thinks everyone thought the same and he wrote loads. He thinks this is a good sign, I'm not so sure. But it's done now, another one hits the dust

He is confident for English tomorrow as it's his strongest subject and he knows it inside out. So instead of last minute revision he has spent the evening putting together his new flatpack furniture which he ordered for his bedroom.

He now has a desk and swivel chair all ready for his laptop (birthday present) when it arrives. He's spent the last ten minutes spinning in his chair whilst texting

Despite not revising much, DD1 reported that her History (OCR) went 'OK' this morning.

Although DD's now officially on 'exam release', she doesn't get to come home early/go in late that often over the next 2 weeks so she had to stay and do extra English classes after the exam. This extra revision was no doubt helped along by the teacher giving out doughnuts

So it's English Language (higher) am and RS (Religion and Human Experience) pm tomorrow. I've told her to look through her notes/do something towards revising but she seems to be giggling away at something on Youtube at the moment

Latin language today not Lit. as I thought - only 45 minutes.Had to drive dd1 in and wait for her so I managed to buy a dress for an imminent ( 12th June) big Irish wedding .Very pleased with myself until I took the dress for alteration whereupon I found I'd smeared foundation marks all over the collar .Now all I have to do is buy shoes,spanx and try to recover from the trauma of being disturbed in my pound world 'comfort' bra in a posh shop changing room.

Well DH has just picked her up and she's come in and is bantering with DS, so we are not mentioning it
I'll still have the though!

Overall grade was an A. So the E paper went up to the B/C boundary mark.

We advised her to bank the A and forget about it! Glad she isn't re-doing it.

Littleham, that is worrying. Was it the module marked as E that was remarked as A, or was the final grade A (rather than C) after everything was remarked?