Year 11 GCSE support thread 5 - finishing off the exams

So glad DD dropped history after mocks. Though I did find Medicine through Time and American West quite interesting.
I'm letting her sleep as long as necessary this morning, as only final physics on Fri pm to go.

History today for my two, last iGCSE ever, hopefully unless they've failed.

We've got History this morning too Horsemad.
Ours is 1939 to 1975 with lots of "sources" to respond to.
So not much to remember for that, right? (sceptical, sarcastic face)
Possibly may do last, summary question, first, and then go back to all the others. If so, hope that works out for her X
Good luck to all for today

Blue, very similar to the Mumsnet logo (by chance not design).

What colour is his suit OddBoots?

Five more to go here, it seems to have been forever.

DS doesn't actually leave school until the 25th, they are doing various life skills classes and at the last minute it has been decided that they will all be doing their ECDL. DS is quite excited about it al so I'm pleased.

DS's prom suit arrived on Monday, it is as bright as he hoped but slightly tight - it will do as long as he doesn't pig out before the 26th!

3 to go, THREE! Can't wait.
DS has History (American West) this morning.

Good luck today everyone.

Hayfever kicked in properly here so ensuring everyone appropriately dosed.

7 to go here as well, but none today. Still no study leave but I am going to call in sick for DD as she gets much more done at home and is stressed by people messing about or going over exams she's already done. If there was a revision session she'd want to go, but they just have to go to their normal lessons and revise in the classroom.

Good luck to your DD BigTillyMint and to everyone else with exams today.

I'm propping my eyelids up with matchsticks here as I have to take DD in at 7.15 after a late night out with friends.

History and Eng Lang here today.

Wide awake club member here also, since 5:15am thanks to milk man dropping a bottle outside. But now I'm wishing the exams where over. DS isn't having melt downs or being particularly grumpy but he's complaining about this hand and he's very very tired all the time. Thankfully he's got no exam today there is a revision session 2 till 4 for rs philosophy which he doesn't want to go to but I've told him he should, weather looks set to be gorgeous so I hope he gets out of his room and gets some sunshine.
Good luck everyone today still 7 to go here, for those of you that are finished or nearly finished. Enjoy

I've been awake since 3.45am. I tried to have a really early night last night but my neighbour decided to ring the doorbell at 10pm about something that could have waited till this morning ffs, just as I was dropping off.

No idea if DS did as much History revision as he'd hoped to, but there is a breakfast thingy this morning he can go to.

Definitely on the home straight now for DD, she only has subjects she likes left (the physics and the FM). We had 3 episodes of Enterprise tonight as she doesn't have an early start till monday - I think this regular dose of nice escapist sci-fi is keeping our household sane.

DD is dipping in and out of Philosophy for Thursday. She has announced that she is getting up early tomorrow - not to revise - she wants to come to DS' sports day

I think she may want to go on the open days with her big sister rather than me or DH. I'll go with them, anyway, just to check out the city/town and perhaps speak to the uni welfare, but I'll leave them to the rest of it.

Hope everyone gets a good night's sleep.

Littleham, I watched that. At the end I was left wondering how they would be able to afford to send 3 boys to boarding school in New Zealand with no real income if all 3 boys decide to eventually go off. The programme didn't examine how they were able to afford to live their idyllic life off the grid. Was very very beautiful though, I was a teeny bit envious of the view.

Hi everyone. Glad to hear everyone is hanging on in there despite floods etc and inspirational to hear of MrsBs son.

Chemistry Ocr was not good according to DD. Nothing she revised was in the paper.
She's revising Hitler tonight then just physics and we will be celebrating on Friday.
Wow it's been tough. DD looks like a wreck bless her.

Sounds lovely, will look for that.

No it was the Kevin McCloud program - family with three young boys escaped rat race to self subsist on an island in the Tonga archipelago. They built a magical house on stilts overlooking the sea on an island with lagoons and caves. It all looked marvellous until they started talking about tsunamis and using bat poo as fertilizer.

Still wanting to run away to a magical island - one without tsunamis.

We never went with our older 3 children on a single university trip. They either went alone or didn't go.

SPT, there are a lot of people with it Plus many who don't even know they have it

Was that the Japan prog Littleham? Want to watch on catch up.

DD has been studying very hard tonight. I predict an A* in ukulele studies.

Did anyone watch 'Escape to the Wild' on TV last night? I am severely tempted to do just that.....

I'm on blood pressure tablets BTM and Horsemad. The nurse from my Mother's surgery came to help me persuade her to have her meds locked away and it was a bit stressful. She took her BP then looked at me and asked hen I'd last had mine done, duly took it and dispatched me straight off to GP. Suspect I'm on them for a long time too.

And no way will we be lolling at unis this summer...far to early for us. DS says he's not going to uni, apparently he's going to work his way round the world for several years, but I've told him he had to apply incase he changes his mind.

MrsBennet. How awful for you and your family.

You must be so, so proud if your DS!