Year 11 support thread - keep on keeping on!

By the way it was not the schools fault. It must have been a nightmare for the invigilators.

They have been great about the disruption and handled it really well.. Roll on Friday though.

Like Innkeeper and Laniakea we have the dreaded Maths tomorrow (I must pick her up after with both chocolate and coffee) followed by Chemistry and History on Wednesday. Cracks beginning to show now. Sick of invigilators walking up and down , naffed off with sitting next to the invigilators desk because they have whispered conversations and lost patience with the smelly boy she sits behind who seems to be a stranger to deodorant .

Yes!

Exam had to be stopped multiple times. Nothing to do with ds but not great for him. He had a thumping headache as it lasted over 3 hours.

All hell broke loose in the school - unrelated to the exam?

Disastrous English exam.

The exam paper was fine, but all hell broke loose in the school. Typical!

I just want it all to be over!

Innkeeper - dd is in the same position, it is evil of AQA to put two chemistries & the hard history on the same day. Really mean.

Dd has done an hour of history (mainly dates & stats), a C2 & C3 paper (& looked at calculations & the qualitive tests) and a maths paper. She's having dinner then planning to do the Pixl AQA predication paper ... think by then she'll be too tired to get much out of it but it might help.

No more maths after tomorrow (please Maths God).

For those who might be interested Edexcel Russian IGCSE was obviously fairly straightforward as all the candidates I invigilated today finished in under half the allotted time !

My son is panicking now. Maths tomorrow and feels he doesn't know a lot of C2 and c3 and the history for Wednesday. How is it best to target his revision

AQA was a good paper. I have been banging on about using the rich language in the Lit texts and using it in Lang...well it looks like loads of my bottom set wrote about parents manacling their DC to their homes. It was a good plan ...

DC1 has a 6th form day in a couple of weeks but it's an experience rather than induction. Going to be doing the IB, so they're having a TOK session and tasters of their new subjects.

DD has exams all this week, none at all next week (just Sixth Form induction and Prom) but then has one final hurrah with Product Design on the 26th.

Bert & cafe, do you think they enjoyed that?

AQA English here. DS used me as an example in his over-protective parenting essay, citing me getting hammered on Harvey Wallbangers on a school ski trip aged 13, and lying to my parents about an O Level revison session at a friend's house when in actual fact we'd driven down to London with some boys to watch Blondie at the Lyceum . I came to no harm and those life experiences have turned me into a fine upstanding parent. Allegedly.

We had the parenting articles too! And expecting teens to solve the housing crisis in Geography.

DD said English was OK but boring (but this is her general opinion of English lang). Geography went well too, so that's two more subjects off the list.

Dd had to compare moving house with life in a Soviet prison (Libby Purves vs Irina Ratushinskaya).

Ds mentioned this higher level construction business. He managed to make a comparison with one of the poems that he'd studied which he claims is a level 9 construction but who knows? (The comparison doesn't have to be with a GCSE text just a text in general)

English is his weakest subject by far. We're hoping for a 5 so he doesn't need to retake.

DS failed to get "hubris" into the paper, but said he used "sarcasm, which is a higher level construction" He thinks he'll get a 7, which is optimistic at best.

Well. I am confidently expecting the social services round sometime over the summer- ds wrote about the time when he was 6, and I let him do something which ended up with him breaking his wrist and nose, two black eyes and concussion...............

AQA English here. DS said the "40 marker was about over-protective parents so I knew a lot about that" 😂

Same A level choice here fleur geography, business and biology. For his first choice sixth form he needs an A in biology which he may not get so psychology is his back up. If he doesn't get the required 5 Bs for his first choice then he doesn't get in. Simple as that.

He has welcome days at both first choice and 2nd choice sixth forms. the grades in August could be very variable, at the moment I think 70/30 or 60/40 he'll get in the first choice but definitely not certain at all. Which is why I think it's important he goes to both welcome days.

Ours had a meeting in maths to be told that there may be some questions in tomorrow's exam that they haven't been taught I did wonder why I've had a flurry of revision papers to my inbox

Wjec English fine but boring. He seems so exhausted I haven't pushed to ask more. He went to a maths revision session but decided against the history, I managed to hold my tongue.
Re marks, I honestly don't have a clue. He was predicted As & A but I was told he was not expected to reach full potential as was not working. He didn't revise for mocks & got a real mix from E -A. He has done more revision than I expected but not as much as I'd hoped for. I just hope he gets what he needs for 6th form, I would guess it will prob be a range of Cs-A*, I hope!
He also is thinking he'll need to change A level courses if his mocks are anything to go by. He says he'll see what he does best in.

It already is!