Finishing year 13 in 2017

Mine has physics tomorrow too, then maths M2 on friday.

Eucalyptus oil HSM (works for my HRT patch adhesive)!

Ds has had Chemistry and 2 Maths/Further Maths so far this week. He is happy with how they have gone.
Physics tomorrow and this is the subject that he is least confident with. He has done plenty of revision though so fingers crossed.

Yes, the fire really does put everything into perspective. So many people still unaccounted for.

Good luck to anyone doing Physics or English tomorrow. DS is feeling gloomy again. He says the only thing he can do to keep his mind off how badly he has messed up in the two exams he's taken so far is to keep working. I keep telling him to take a break but it is falling on deaf ears.

dd was ok with the two Further Maths exams (OCR).

Physics tomorrow.

Dd found maths hard and didn't finish it which is very unlike her. Luckily she can drop to Cs and still get an A due to AS mark last year but an A* may be out the question! Luckily Psychology went much better

Was it AQA HSM? DD said it was hard

NMS, the no alcohol sounfs good! Calm in the house also sounfs very good.

DD is not replying to my texts - should have come out of the Psychology exam by now

Best wishes to everyone.

Teta, we know two kids who failed CE. Both were absolutely fine. One is now at what is arguably America's most selective University. The other found, with the help of his prep, a place at somewhere slightly gentler, and within a week of starting, both boy and mother were delighted with the outcome. They had not realised how much pressure the boy had been under trying to stay in the London top Prep to top secondary process.

It must be a massive shock but I hope you find a good solution.

DD left to work in an American summer camp yesterday. She was both nervous and excited. She will have very limited access to wifi, and use of social media is barred. It was so nice when she was working in a ski resort to see friends' photos tagging her. She says she will write letters. No alcohol either...

Its still lovely to have a summer without exams. Her DB had finals but essentially got the grades he needed in his second year, so was able to calmly get on with them. She will pretty much go straight to University when she returns, so effectively the empty nest starts now.

Dd got stuck on that one too.
God, the tragic news has made exam worry seem minuscule.Those poor families.
Hsmm I hope your dd is ok.

The chemistry A level paper had a mistake too.

Exam board AQA apologises after error in A-level chemistry exam

DD was told during the exam. It didn't worry her too much. She was more annoyed about the 8 mark question she got wrong.

Ono, I keep singing "Always look on the bright side of life" to DS

Goodness HSM, your poor DD, I hope everything is OK.

The GP told me this morning I have the blood pressure of a teenager - just a shame I don't have the face and skin to match!

It is awful that the exam boards are cocking up monumentally on papers - surely the QA process should be foolproof.

Sorry to hear about your DS and common entrance teta. I am not sure what that means for you but it sounds like you need hugs.

DS is still despairing about the mistakes he made in History on Friday and in Politics yesterday - he keeps remembering them, aargh! I have the urge to sing 'Let it go'! As he says if you fluff up on a science 6 marker you can save the day, fluff up on a 45 politics marker (90 marks for the paper), you're done for. His nerves are getting the better of him. He has so much knowledge in his head that he is focussing on getting it all down on paper without actually taking time to work out what the question is asking. This bit of parenting is much worse than the sleepless nights bit, isn't it.

Has not gas... apparently it's 2 gcse papers - Chemistry 2 and 3. Just hope that goes better than today

Thanks Stranger good to know I'm not alone...

HSMMaCm the heart monitor kind of puts things back in perspective... hope everything is ok...

Tomorrow is 2x Maths papers and DD gas another gcse paper .... not much revision going on though... they're too busy taking chunks out of each other....

www.theguardian.com/education/2017/jun/13/biology-a-level-students-mark-down-exam-board-after-yet-another-error

Sorry to hear about the heart monitor HSMMaCM, it sounds serious.

DS says that OCR (his board) has issued an apology for yesterday's Biology paper. Haven't seen it myself but its paper failed to give the formula for standard deviation which they promised in the specification candidates didn't need to know. The rest of the paper was a bitch too, so the standard deviation thing wasn't the only problem it just compounded the rest. I think all the boards were dire though, not just OCR - don't know if any others screwed up specifically or if that was only OCR. It's pretty annoying but it seems to happen quite often these days. All DSs Biology friends were pretty gloomy/ pissed off last night.