Year 12 preparing for AS levels

No Oddboots ,its me getting muddled.She's doing the Statistics module in 3 weeks time.Yes,Btm I probably will become more laid back.I do think I was a bit shocked yesterday as dd1 is normally so calm and laid-back.Getting so upset is very unlike her.
6 As levels really does sound bonkers Rain.I feel for your DD.

Rain, 6 AS levels???? WTAF? They are clearly totally mad.

teta, perhaps you will find it less stressful with each one, having gone through it all before IYSWIM. I am finding it much easier this year despite DS doing a couple of GCSES at the same time as DD doing her AS's. I am worrying way, way less than last year - what will be will be!

C3 is an A2 module, is her school doing the maths A level in a year?

My DS is doing further maths, I'm not too sure I understand how the various modules work. I know C1 and C2 have to have the grades given to Maths and that Further Pure needs to have the grade given to further maths but from what DS tells me the other three modules (Mech1, Stats1 and Decision1) vary depending on their grade, they can attributed to either and that is decided by the college to maximise the maths grade even if that drops the further maths grade.

I think some schools/colleges teach maths in Y12 and further maths in Y13.

Well that's ok then.I think C1 was hard but she did ok in it.She will just have to do well in C3 now.

I just have to survive these exams,next years exams and three more kids plus their exams , with an extremely detached Dh and me worrying for England (and currently well in to a bottle of red).

We weren't even sure whether to accept the trip (sutton trust ends 12 hours before the flight leaves so that's a long period of time without being home) but it was booked before parents were even officially told.
We all feel hopeless here. This is the same school that pushed for 6 AS levels. We're all exhausted and just want to give up.

teta - for edexcel last year the boundary for an A was 59/75 (so 78.7%) and a B was (69.3%) 52/75 - we won't know how this year compares to last year but that sounds like it is probably A/B borderline.

Incandescent that really does not sound right.She actually went late into the exam with the threat of being charged £2500?Will she be charged that if she's subsequently shown not to be gifted?It all sounds pretty dodgy!
DD has worked out she's a got arround 79% in the C2 paper though she says with optimistic Marking.Is that good or bad?Dh is trying to ignore the whole thing and telling me not to discuss it with her.Although he's so detached he forgot she had an exam today and didn't even wish her good luck!

It was a free trip for gifted pupils which is ironic when you think about it- I don't think the results of this exam will show her as 'gifted'. They wonder why they've never had a vet or med applicant before

Helen, was your DD doing Russia? My DD has Gatsby and Streetcar tomorrow!

WTF Rain? Some of these teaches seem to have zero emotional literacy skills

Crikey. That's a shocker.

But then again, there were tears before the exam as apparently if you pull out of a school trip (that you never agreed to) to Africa for 3 weeks you'll be charged 2.5k that you don't have. Imagine saying that to a student that wanted 20 minutes with her maths teacher but was instead late to the exam

Tears over maths paper here- Couldn't attempt at least 20 marks and was getting high 60s/ low 70s out of 75 in past papers. Looks like spanish and maths will both be fails. That's veterinary out the window

Maths was ok apart from the last 2 questions apparently. History dd though the questions were very difficult to really drill down to what they wanted you to say.

Her birthday tomorrow and Wuthering heights and gatsby - her least favourite texts.

That's it till the stats paper sometime next century ( ? 16 June ?).

I'm so over teens exams. So glad this is the last time !

Another catastrophiser daughter in this house, too.

Seems a little happier about OCR C2, tonight.

I have been through this before, with the added stress of a child going down with severe tonsillitis/query GF two days before AS levels started, two years ago, but it never seems to get easier!

DD said she didn't understand what the sources question was looking for, I think.

Juggling, my DD catastrophises too. She did it a lot last year but her results were really good. Not sure whether that will happen again this year as the AS level exams are a totally different kettle of fish, but no point in worrying about exams once they are done - gotta move on!

Sounds very like my DD's experience with geography last week Rooby, she went into it so positively feeling well prepared but the things she was hoping for just didn't really come up, just lots of other mean stuff I think, and also ran out of time As you say though maybe there was some good stuff in there - at least she was busy attempting answers throughout. Do you think at their age there's maybe some tendency to either over or under estimate how they actually did - based on whether an exam overall felt like it went well for them or badly. I think DD has been catastrophising a bit, quite often talking about failing this or that, and sometimes talking about re-doing the year. I'm hoping results will be slightly better than this?

I think you just have to move them on to the next exam, if you can.

My daughter said History didn't go well either. She was actually looking forward to it as it's her best subject, but said the questions were not great & she ran out of time. Am going down the route of a. Forget about it - it's done and b. Better to have extra stuff in your head you didn't get a chance to write than write everything you know in 10 minutes and spend the rest of the time twiddling thumbs!

Sadly not - she just walked through the door and said it didn't go well

Oh well, at least there's only one more tomorrow morning.

bTM - do it, I am so looking forward to my visit.

DS said History was 'ok, actually ', so fingers crossed your DD thought the same.

AuntP and Horse, I am going to suggest us both going up and combining an open day visit with a visit to DM!

Hoping all is OK after History as she is not replying to my texts

DS is booked onto the Liverpool open day - I would LOVE him to study there. I'm going to that one and meeting up with my sister that day- can't wait!

Ah btm send her home. Cracking social life to be had here!!
I'm trying to convince DS that moving away is the best thing...not that I want to get rid of him you understand but I think here is so familiar and comfortable he'd never leave and whilst I've come back home I've lived elsewhere...and no where is better than Liverpool!!