Starting year 13 2016

Early March are my children's mocks.... and I meant my 2 are in year 13 not 3 above, obviously......

Teta, DD did her first mock yesterday - not great timing bang after the Christmas holidays and no study leave (is in lessons before/after each exam), so she is expecting poor grades. I bet they will make them do more mocks before Easter. I suppose it's all good exam practice and gives them a kick up the backside

HSM did she get her PS done? I would love to know whether DD got her offers on the basis of hers. One for sure said they don't even look at them...

Mine doesn't go back till the 9th, and I think her mocks are just before half term - feb anyway. She's been doing quite a lot of work - self- teaching mechanics 3 and also started on physics revision notes. Also quite a bit of time looking at accommodation choices esp at Southampton, and journey times - not too awful - I think she's getting herself into the frame of mind of being quite happy to be rejected by Cambridge.

I feel the same ageinghippy - that they are all good choices and DD could be happy at any of them. Nevertheless choosing which ones to go for is still going to be tricky.
I'm sorry if this is annoying talk teta when your DD is going for such a competitive course and would love just one offer. But I hope you know we're all rooting for her too
I'll have to ask DD about mocks, she's not mentioned them recently! It's all been about art project deadlines.
She got a school report today but it wasn't wildly exciting - just one of those letters/numbers ones with little personal comment. Seems like she's broadly on track but I think they were giving them all a bit of a kick up the @*@ - that's the way I was reading it anyway.

It does seem late name change. I thought part of the purpose of mocks is to give them (and the teachers) an idea of what to work on.

She could be happy

DS' mocks are after Easter i.e. starting 24 April, which seems very late to me. Not much time to turn things around if they all go pear-shaped.

Mocks next week for mine too.

She has 4 offers, still waiting to hear from Bristol. I told her if she has trouble choosing, she could always flip a coin Her uncle suggested consulting the magic 8 ball.

Really I think she can't go wrong, they are all good choices. She couldn't be happy and get an excellent education at any of them.

Mocks are in March for my two.

Hi ,I hope you all had relaxing holidays and here's some to a brilliant 2017.
Am i the only one with a DD doing mocks now?She has just informed me she has 2 weeks study leave as well .I think she has been relatively relaxed and has been enjoying the getting up at midday.The last few holidays have been spent getting up really early for milking Etc and starting revision at two is relatively easy in comparison.

Mrs S. That sounds hard.I've heard the IB is so much harder than 3-4 A levels.Good luck with finding out Ono!Juggling I'm praying that DD will get one offer!I just hope she has no bad news over the exams as that would really knock her confidence.

My two (both y3) have had a relaxed Christmas holiday (history course work was finished before the holiday started) but have done a bit of work. One has 3 university offers so far and the other one two offers. (They are doing A level not IB and they did 4 AS exams each last summer).

Hi Mrs S, that does sound frustrating, but hopefully your DD will be more inclined and able to catch up with what's needed once back at school with her peers and teachers? Perhaps she needed the break? I know when I was at school it was certainly possible to have a proper break over Christmas and New Year hols, maybe do some revision at Easter!
DD has spent inordinate amounts of time especially this week on her Art. I'm not sure Biology or Geography got much of a look in. But at least the art project is provisionally in today - though in some ways unfortunately they are still able to work on it for several more weeks I think

In other news she just received a high for her offer from Sheffield. (Two higher than predicted grades, although one is recognised as borderline) So we'll have to decide at some point what to do about that. Looks like she'll have 5 offers to consider which has to be good I guess even if it may make decision making harder

Does anyone else on here have DC going through the IB? I swear I will either kill DD1 or have a nervous breakdown by the end of it.

Despite paying vast amounts for an organisational tutor to help her organise a plan for catching up on the work, she has not stuck to the plan and has done little more than fuck all this holiday. She has managed to finish her extended essay but still has three internal assessments that are overdue.

Hope the tests turn up something useful, ono.

Happy New Year everyone! Glad you all had a good Christmas, it really seems so long ago. DS seems to have spent most of the time with his recurrent fever thing which is just annoying now so we took him to a private GP and are awaiting test results.

DS and I did a couple of shifts at Crisis which really put our troubles into perspective. Other than that we lay around eating and drinking far too much and DS actually did some coursework...without me nagging (needs emoticon for fainting).

Sounds like a plan HSM - hope that goes well for her, and everyone else has a good day too (last of the Christmas break here)

Hope you've all had a good Christmas and New Year, ours has been as good as could be expected in the circumstances - really very nice at times (but still hugely affected by a family bereavement a couple of years ago)
So, as usual we had our own small Christmas here first - with nice walk on Christmas afternoon - and then went on for family gathering over a few days between Christmas and New Year. DD wasn't sure if she'd join us for that bit due to pressures of art projects (or stay here with DH) but think we're all glad she decided to go for it.

DD busy with art over last few days - soooooo time consuming, but think it's going well. A nice project she's chosen but it's all due in very soon, and then they choose a second project leading towards the exam (something like that!)

Hope teta's DD gets some better news soon - you only need one after all?
Fingers crossed for her X
I shared a flat with 3 vet students and someone else on my course went on to study vet med after finishing our BSc course, so it can be done one way or the other

Glad to hear things going well for your DS namechange, that's great! We got some very quick responses too, just before Christmas. Very encouraging isn't it?

Is your DD aiming to get that personal statement done before she goes back HSM?! Mine go back Wednesday.

This thread, and the uni offers 2017 one may be able to help with travel advice.

Thanks everyone. It was a pleasant surprise that he got offers so quickly, and especially over the Christmas break - I expected not to hear anything for weeks. Now we just need to work out how on earth to travel to these far-flung places he's chosen!

Does that mean that your DD hasn't got her UCAS form in yet HSM ? In which case, sympathies from me because I know how stressful that is.