Year 11 GCSE support thread 5 - finishing off the exams

last exam today .. and last day in school uniform for DS today. Spent 20 mins arguing to get him to let me take a photo as I wnat one to go alongside the 1st day school photo!

I'm quite emotional over it!

Arrgghhh results day. I remember the night before collecting DD1's A level results. She went to bed and left me obsessively flicking between UCAS track and the Student Room.

Graphics here too. Last exam, hurrah! Taking in a prezzie for her form tutor and some flowers for the exams officer who has been absolutely brilliant.

Good luck to all who are taking exams today. See you on the other side

Tears this morning - "I love Chemistry but hate exams." Nearly over and it feels like the longest marathon...

DD took in some presents yesterday, and not just for her form tutor but also other teachers who have really made a difference. I don't think it would be at all odd to buy a present for someone like a scribe auntpetunia.

One more exam for DS, but it's not until Monday so he's going to do an hour a day. Was great to see him out yesterday with his mates.

He's written a cv to send to Subway to hopefully get a part time job.

Not at all AuntP

DD took in presents for 2 members of staff who have supported her brilliantly for the last couple of years. And her friends took in some for their favourite teachers.

Wide awake at stupid O'CLOCK club member reporting in. Ds been up since 5 going over and over chemistry formula and symbols and periodic tables. He didn't even look at graphics but has just explained that once he's finished chemistry then he's got 2 hours of graphics revision in school. I need this week to be over now.

Good luck everyone today, only physics for us on Friday.

. Ds is planning on going shopping tomorrow for presents for his scribe. This wonderful woman has sat next to him through every exam written everything out he says and always tells him he's done brilliant . Question would it be odd for me to by her a present as well?

Clubbing dingit!!!!!

Another non sleeper here. Do you think we should arrange a meet on 19th August, to party all night, as none of us are going to get a winks sleep!

I slept badly last night too.

I kept worrying about DD's results. Which is something I've definitely been putting to one side while she actually had exams.

I don't know why I'm so anxious. If she doesn't do as well as she hoped, she can stay at sixth form in her lovely school. All good.

DS last day of revision today (Latin poetry), then last exam tomorrow.

Linerunner and SugarPlum, I think I am also still in worry/ fight or flight mode too - certainly was after DD's last exam/day at school yesterday and DH woke me again at 4am with his tossing and turning, but at least I went back to sleep for a bit.

I am not thinking about results day for at least 2 months And then (like last night?) we won't be able to make any plans as DD will not want to because the results could be not what she's hoping for or she will want to see what her friends are doing...

Good Luck to anyone with exams today.

Good luck for today to everyone.

Linerunner I made it through to about 6am today which is an improvement. I still feel in worry mode at the moment due to other things and I think my body is still a bit in flight or flight mode.

Results day I was basically planning to throw myself at the feet of the Head of 6th form amd beg him to let her onto the L3 courses ! I'm going to take her, stay in car then come in to help sort if needed as have the issue of has she pulled off what she needs to get onto L3 and which subject will maths resit clash with and she won't be able to take. Fairly low key I think in case of disaster but if everything ok will celebrate at the weekend as suspect I will be emotionally wrung out night of results.

On results day, he has to go and enroll at VIth form then we will probably have a meal out somewhere. We are generally very low key; he doesn't deal well with lots of fuss.

I can't actually bring myself to think about that at the moment. It's very hard to gauge how he's actually done. Apart from the odd comment (apparently Biology 3 was easier than he expected) every exam has been 'fine'. He has to get very high results in Maths and Physics to get into the VIth form he wants to go to so results day could easily not bring the results he needs.

Chemistry 3 today and then only Friday to go. He went all the way to school yesterday for a revision session to find it was cancelled so he wasn't best pleased. He's not going to the Prom; it is his idea of torture. He is going to stay with his grandparents instead for some rest and recuperation.

Good luck to them all today.

Woke up at 3.57am. I think even when it's over on Friday I'll just worry about the results.

Can I ask you all, what do you plan to do on results day? Is it low key, a big deal, or something else?

Thanks Errol, I'll let myself believe that.

Ah, ignore me I'm being daft. I was getting formulas mixed up with chemical symbols which are provided. Don't know why I get involved really, I know next to nothing about chemistry

nydj - that's good, when so many kids who don't have any underlying problems have been getting stressed out. It may be that if he'd revised more earlier it would have got on top of him?

Sounds good, Errol.

Probably roll over from one to t'other - some have already finished, a few people still have some next week poor sods.

How about 'Year 11 GCSE support - going, going, gone ... to proms and beyond' ? something like that anyway.

Chemistry and physics to go here too and I don't want to sound smug if anything but ds seems to have grasped the importance of revision and been revising really hard today. Just today. Not for the weeks and weeks that I have been gently mentioning it to him.

On a non- sarcy note, I am really impressed by the fact that despite his anxiety due to his ASD, he hasn't had any significant issues with the anxiety in the build up to and during the exams themselves. I am genuinely very proud of how well he has handled it all. just wish he had revised properly from the start

Don't mind HSM, they can merge I suppose. I'll go with whatever everyone else wants.

Does anyone know if they are given the formulas in the chemistry exam tomorrow, or do they have to remember them all? May be a daft question but in the last paper they had the formulas and just had to work out the answers.

Thanks Errol, yes he did AQA

I'm wrung out.

It was 25 separate exam sessions, but 32 separate papers if you include the '2&3' ones. Urban state school, recently academised.

Further Maths left, on Friday morning.

I think it is likely they will forget quickly spud , DD finished last Friday and already it seems like a distant memory.

Crikey, sounds like some poor DC are really looking forward to the end now! What a slog! I hope that they will be able to forget about it all very quickly.