Year 11 GCSE support thread 5 - finishing off the exams

As a teacher of your, not so little ones, I'm thrilled that you all care
enough to use this thread. Good on you! Wonderful examples of parents. I wish them all the best of luck. Don't forget to give yourselves a big treat once their exams are over. It sounds like you deserve it. A weekend in Champneys maybe? :-) x

Another day, another GCSE...

I managed to sleep in till 5.05am this morning. Exciting stuff!

General Studies and Maths today.

I find it bizarre that Nazi Germany exam had no questions on Jews!

Lynette, have you tried the exam board website? Or The Student Room? They had one of the Maths papers on there last week.

So a pretty stressful start today with DD unable to find both pairs of glasses and it seems I'd recycled her 'lucky' evian water bottle . Lots of shouting. she left the house looking like Alice Cooper and with no breakfast. I dropped her off on the way to my customer Meeting so managed to calm her down. Then we realised that she still had nail varnish on. Bollocks! Luckily student services has remover.
Exam (nazi Germany) went OK but no questions on Jews apparently. .
2 more to go. Yay.

Well it's all sounding a bit more positive on here today. Sounds like lots of DC have turned a corner.
My DD said history was ok and came home to clear out and remodel her room. She's now requesting a trip to Ikea on Saturday.
Her new college published it's term dates today so she knows when she's starting which helps her get her head around the big break.

Would it be possible to find the first OCR Biology paper online?

DS1 today has told me some things which have made me curious re a question about blood alcohol level, and the graph didn't even make sense (to him).

Wonders will never cease, DD actually came out for a walk with us this afternoon. In the morning she was complaining about DH and I both suggesting she should get out a bit when she had to work, but eventually I think she realised that 2 clear days to revise U1 physics was plenty.

She's tired though, decided to shower now and see if that wakes her up or puts her to sleep.

Well DD said today was good and has her hoodie and Yearbook

So it sounds like nobody goes in to do anything after the last exam apart from returning books, etc. Good.

Nice biker jacket!

Same boards as us Littleham with a few OCR's thrown in for good measure - for History and RS. Now we're nearly at the end I've finally got my head round it all

Thanks everyone. All those exams next week are different boards as dd did AQA science and Edexcel Maths. I always thought that the boards did their papers on the same days but obviously not.

DD on a 'go slow' at the moment. She is finding it difficult to keep the momentum up for the last one.

Love the biker jacket.

DD thought History was ok, Public Health.

RS Philosophy and Maths tomorrow, Physics on Friday.

DD's school has been keeping quiet about attendance after exams (DD has a work experience placement) so I emailed the head of year and was told they don't have to be there.
She's been on study leave since 11th May.
DD won't attend prom so after last exam next week Friday she'll be back at school on results day.

DD said history was good. The 16 marker was bread and butter but there was a bugger 9 marker about General Custer, which DD didn't know much detail for. Hopefully all evens out.

DS said Latin literature was good. The question asking why Pliny was a 'Good Writer' stumped him a little. He plumped for discussing some literary devices used and that seems fair to me.

Next up, physics.

Nice jacket gin, looks good on him

Ds said history was great. I said are you being sarcastic (can't always tell ) and he said no, it was great, really. It was edexcel Germany 1918-1939 so one of the easier ones I think.

Anyway, that's out of the way now. He has philosophy and maths (calculator) tomorrow, then physics on Friday.

Next week he still has the last three science papers, biology, chemistry, physics and a final history paper. Finishes on 19th June.

He has been on study leave since half term and only has to go in for exams or optional revision sessions. So he's finished school as soon as his last exam is over.

Some of us def finishing on Friday Littleham. We have same left as you MrsS .... RS and Physics .... And counting in case you didn't all notice

Next week ds has Further Maths x2, General Studies and Statistics. The last one is on Friday. It will be nice next week to be counting down in days rather than weeks.

Other than Friday's physics and classics papers, we just have one next week - the 3rd and last paper of classics on Wednesday ... hallelujah!

Ringing silence from school re: list of books to return - they've organised a trip to thorpe park for all yr 11s on Monday 22nd to encourage a last hurrah before they all go their separate ways. I think this is also an incentive to return outstanding books that morning too.

Took DS shopping for his 16th birthday pressie last saturday - leather biker jacket anyone?

DS has biology (OCR 21st C) on Monday, History: British society (Edexcel A) and chemistry (OCR 21st C) on Wednesday.

And WJEC History (American) is next week.

We're the same as dingit and tranquility - history and last paper for each of the 3 sciences.

No sixth form stuff as no sixth form at her current school, we're moving counties and she has induction day at her new sixth form at the end of June.

DD has the 3rd module of each science next week with Edexcel. I think other boards did 2 of the 3 modules in the first week of exams but DD has only done the core and two of the three additional modules so far. Biology on Monday, Chemistry on Wednesday, Physics on Friday.

History (Germany), biology chemistry physics left next week for dd

The only things after this week on the timetable for DD's school are the AQA level 2 cert in FM (igcse) x2; Polish U2 and 4 (doesn't say which board); Latin verse (doesnt say which board - then the week after D&T Product design, Italian and Latin.

Apart from the prod. Design those are all extracurricular or learned out of school.