Year 11 GCSE support thread 5 - finishing off the exams

Littleham gastric flu is grim. Your poor DD. It's the end of term soon so she'll be back in the bosom of the family and you can spoil her. Thank goodness for charcoal tablets. I'm a worrier too. I think it comes with the territory.

WRT to them being adult but still our baby... My mum visited my eldest brother in hospital after he had an operation a couple of years ago. She took one look at him and said "Oh child, you look a bit poorly". He was 61 at the time and had had heart bypass surgery. Mum loves a bit of understatement

Thanks Woolly. I'm really worried about her and can't do anything to help. I think it is gastric flu but all the worst case scenarios flash through your head (well they do with me because I am a worrier). My advice to take a charcoal tablet seems to be doing the trick.

MyPelvicFloor - think you may have meant to post on the other thread?

Even if the phone is on silent or switched off, if they are found with it on them they will potentially be disqualified.

Tell them to hand them in, not worth the risk!

Oh Littleham I've just read through the posts on the entire thread and seen that your DD at uni is ill. I hope she feels better soon - it doesn't matter that they're an adult we still worry about them.

Lynette, I can't wait (2 years) to see DS in a Prom suit. And I am really looking forward to seeing pics of all DD's male friends in their Prom suits - the girls always look lovely dressed up, but the boys rarely ever wear a suit.

On a lighter not the prom suit I bought on eBay doesn't fit, so I've told him he will have to come with me to a shop. (Fate worse than death mwahaha!)

My dd usually does really well at Maths but a couple of those questions really foxed her too. It will probably cost her an A* at maths but when you look at all the other calamities in the world it isn't the worst thing that could happen.

I reckon he just didn't want to discuss it - teens find their parents questioning them extremely irritating, especially (I imagine) if they are playing Minecraft

After the exam he said it was OK, but he couldn't do all the questions. Which worried me a little, but he was never going to get an A*. He's boarder line A/B.

He was playing Minecraft when I asked him, so maybe he just doesn't want to discuss it. Or maybe he just realised he couldn't do it and moved quickly on without attempting it, and answered other questions correctly.

I have no idea about the boundaries for that maths paper, but DS(Y9) came home with his Physics test paper (an old GCSE exam) which was marked as a C. He had barely got any of the answers correct

Someone posted the Edexcel Maths paper and answers here Lynette, so he could check he did do the right one I suppose if he wants to.

Try not to worry (easier said than done, I appreciate).

I don't know if this is true but DS told me last night that typically the A boundary starts at around 60% and the A* boundary starts at around 83%. That's surprisingly low I think; but if it's true it shows that DCs can miss out a question / get several questions wrong, and still get a good grade.

So all is definitely not lost Lynette

Oh. Could he be teasing you? Do you know if he finished the paper?

Yep, Edexel.

I'm taking it as a sign he's not supposed to do maths A'level. But he really wants to go physics, so needs maths.

Oh Lynette, he was a lucky boy! Seriously though, which board did he do?

Lynette - Hannah and the sweets was Edexcel, so if your DS did another board, he won't have had it!

Which board did he do Lynette?

DS is claiming he didn't have the Hannah and the sweets maths question.

I actually feel sick.

He needed an A

Good luck to everyone's children. My twins share a room even though their sisters' old rooms are empty which is rather sweet even at 16. But one uses his sister's old room as his computer room/day room/study room. I see that over night he's cleared most of the GCSE papers which were all over the floor (as they only have one exam left now next week) so that's a good start. There are still piles of GCSE papers etc in 3 other rooms.

MrsD good luck to your A level one. My older 3 have all been through this. One got his place in clearing so even if the results for your daughter are not that great she probably will find somewhere to take her.

An interesting week here....ds is doing GCSEs with a broken pinned ankle, and was off colour from last Sunday...took him to drs yesterday and he has tonsillitis.
But seems to be happy with exams so far.
History "a piece of piss"according to him.

Dd starts A levels next week. She suffers from ocd and severe anxiety but her medication is helping. Please god she gets the grades. We desperately want her to go to uni.

DS2's last exam is Jun 16, but DS1 doesn't finish until Jun 24, so have to wait a bit longer for end of exam celebrations!

Weekend! Birthday weekend for exam-ridden DD. 16 and never been kissed? My arse.

3 more exams left. 3 more days of uniform. June 16th last day.

Then trying to find time in my mad work schedule for the settling in day, results day and enrolment day for the next school (which is performing arts so DD is already planning piercings and blue hair that she's been longing for but not allowed at strict Girls' school )

DD has insisted that she wants me and DH there when she opens the envelope. But I'm getting ahead of myself. deep breaths, one day at a time.

Oh god, my baby is going to be old enough to do the rudies and leave home.

Another one here whose DD has Italian on the 22nd. Is this one of the last papers?

Was my DS the only one sitting Greek today? He did Greek this morning and biology in the afternoon. Greek was cool but he thought biology was tough. Not his strongest science but thinks he has done enough in his first paper to get the grade he wants. Didn't seem overly concerned though as went out for dinner with a couple of mates afterwards. They did do a post Mortimer though :-)

Hope everyone has a good weekend with DD and DS ready to attack whatever next week brings.