Year 12 preparing for AS levels

All starts today for us, with Geography (2 hr paper this afternoon) DD seems in good spirits and said "I think I can do this"! She has some cute learning aids on brightly coloured cards that she re-groups in different positions. She appears to know some stuff! I hope it goes well X fingers crossed. Timing DD, timing! Try to at least answer all the questions - it makes it easier for them to give you marks for it!

Best of luck to everyone else with exams today

BTM is your DD doing AS History? DS's school not doing AS exams but he has History mock paper today. Panic had set in last night so after Bach Flower Remedy all round, we decreed that revision was "done" and went to the park to play football (me playing football never fails to amuse). His fever is better too but throat still sore - he had to get up early to make sure he had time to 'get his throat working'!

btm DS and friends all saying psychology ok but all agree that some of the questions worded oddly. Fingers crossed. He was in bed by 10 and didn't get up till 7:30 do he's had a good sleep. Just need to keep on him about his English revision...

DD still in bed here.She's not been sleeping properly so I'm leaving her.She has one days study leave before each As exam .So Pure Maths tomorrow.Good luck to everyone who has exams this week.

Study leave here and no exams so both DC still in bed. DD said she was putting an alarm on for 8am though. We shall see.

DS had his 1st use of maths paper, said questions were ones he had revised but with a comment yo catch you out which he spotted, so he's happy. 2nd paper today.

Friends DD did psychology and said on the 12 point question asking for all the different research, they had only been taught 1, much upset there.

Aunt P, that's great he thought psych was OK. DD seems relatively upbeat, so I am thinking it couldn't have been all that bad?!

No exam leave here either, but DD is not going in - she revises much better under her own steam as some of the teachers just make her feel way more anxious and then she can't focus... She has the dreaded History tomorrow (because of the teacher...)

Ds and friends adamant psychology ok so fingers crossed. Thankfully no exam leave here so back in to school for normal lessons. Next exam is Thursday and is media.

That's true, and he's revised for sociology so bonus.
Not sure the same can be said for chemistry.

LittleHouse, that sounds quite positive - at least he had revised it.

DD said the exams were "peak"
2 down, 6 to go!

DS did psychology, he said the stuff he was hoping to come up didn't but that it was stuff he had revised. Not sure what to make of that TBH. He's now in his room eating pizza having declined to eat with the rest of us and is then going to bed apparently.

I'm trying to keep positive also. Apparently a lot of dds class felt the same as her and didn't do the required number of questions or quotes or whatever it was. Seems they ran out of time.
I thought GCSEs were bad but this year is even worse. Don't know how I'll cope with the full A levels next year. Time for I think .

Well psychology was ok apparently but not helped by the senco assistant getting him to do a fit for a scribe test just before the exam!!! What, why? I'll be ringing school tomorrow to find out what that was all about .. he's had a scribe since year 6

So is that good or bad for today, HSM?
DD did Psych but is now asleep#noempty energy cans here

I have just removed 17 empty energy drink cans from DS' room! They weren't there 3 days ago.

BTM might not be the same board of course. And there's always the distinct possibility that DS is taking shite!

Sorry. Crossed wires. You weren't talking to me Get. Different thread and my heads up my arse! But Bumper dd is in the same situation so if everyone felt the same maybe the grade boundaries might be lower. I'm trying to keep positive.

Ono, your DS is a real trouper - poor thing.

Oh no Haircut! DD does Eco too - I hope it didn't throw her as she has Psych this afternoon which she was really worrying about.

Thanks Getahaircut. She did brilliantly in the practical but was hoping for at least a B overall. She's fab at the performance but not good at the written side. But you never know.

bumper hopefully she will have banked some good marks from the practical to balance it out.

Dd's first AS exam this morning. Drama. Said it was pretty bad and she is :( as its her best subject. Never mind. I feel bad for her.

DC home after their exams.

DD said her first essay was a 'shit show' - technical term, but the second went okay. So that's drama done and dusted.

DS said economics was weird. Lots of mainstream stuff didn't come up at all and some large mark questions on minority areas of the syllabus. A real test of who did their revision!