Year 11 support thread - keep on keeping on!

WJEC English Lang went well, if I would go by DS's reviews of all the exams he should achieve straight A*.

It's going to be a long wait...

OCR Triple here too so next Friday is the last exam.

Not sure what happens after exams. So they go back to school for lessons?

Having just seen the AQA paper, it seems the essential revision for our DCs would have been reading MN (and The Guardian) all this time, instead of us

AQA English Lang 'went well x'
...I am not going to try and find an implicit meaning in Dd's text!

AQA - question 2 hard, and would have liked more time to get a few more points across. DD's friend agrees.

AQA English fine, quite easy, one question a bit odd, but no problems. Maths tomorrow will I'm sure be challenging - once English and Maths are out of the way, DD will be thrilled.

Edexcel English - fine, dull, writing piece was article "prized possessions"

Maths tomorrow but she desperately needs to do more chemistry & history revision today.

AQA English, 'OK but boring'

Oh right, the sciences are sit up more for OCR. Early on was B123, C123, P123, last week B456, this week C456 & P456, next week B7, C7, P7. All only one hour each, but does make it drag on. Nothing on the school's list for 26th so don't know what that is

poison - my DD also doing OCR triple science and that goes onto next week. DD says that some do have an exam here on the 26th, not sure what that is.

So we've got two weeks to go, seven exams, so exams are a lot more spaced out. DD then has her Grade 8 Violin exam and wants a distinction, so we'll start all over again.

AQA English here today. Did better in her mock than forecast. Her English teacher has had some training on how the new papers will be marked so hopefully she's given DD a fairly accurate prediction.

Same here Giraffe I am hoping the day off on Thursday will give him some motivation to revise all day.

Poison our board for sciences is AQA also triple. WJEC for English today and Edexcel for maths.

Dd's school do AQA for pretty much everything except English so all that is next week is further maths - the vast majority finish on Friday with physics.

Dd didn't seem bothered this morning (English), I should know better than be surprised by that

How come most seem to finish this week? We have B7, C7 & P7 next week - OCR Triple science.

We are exactly like Quadratilla, 5 exams left with a free day on Thurs - which is badly needed for revision for the last two exams on Friday, including Physics. We cannot wait for the end! DS is panicking about Eng Lit this morning, theoretically it should be one of his stronger subjects but he hasn't done much revision. Maths tomorrow but he has 2 separate revision sessions at school today and his maths tutor this evening so he's decided that will pretty much be it on maths!

Oops 20th!

6 exams left, English Lang, Maths, C2 and C3 finishing with P2 and P3. same here fleur

All momentum lost here, some revision going on but not enough for my liking. He is shattered.

He and we cannot wait for Friday.

Seven left to go. 6 this week with the last one next Tuesday. On the whole she thinks most have gone OK but we are holding our horses until August

Us too newday. Finish 22nd here but majority finish this week and plan to celebrate after exam on Friday so talk is already turning to prom and parties. Not sure how productive this weekend has been revision-wise, she appears to have books and ipad open but seems jaded by it now so who knows. Her dbro is back from uni so might give history revision a boost.

Only five papers here this week - last week was Dd's heaviest. She has her first exam free day on Thursday too! The end is in sight

My DS has 7 more days of exams....he is quite exhausted, finding it very hard to keep the momentum going. 😩

Ds has 9 papers this week poor thing. Is remarkably blasé though. I was always a cramming the night before sort of student!

Oo-er! Don't think DS has a clue about terms for different types of nouns/verbs, though I did teach him 'hyperbole' and 'semantic field' yesterday. Oh well, too late now. Not sure that plunging into grammatical discussion over breakfast will go down too well. I nearly had a heart attack yesterday when he gave me a practice qu 5 to mark which spelt 'seem' as 'seam' 😩. He is predicted a 7!

Top band marking , sophisticated use of subject terminology. I teach some very able pupils. If you look at the exemplar scripts they refer to dynamic verbs etc.

Six left this week, one to go next week. It's been a long slog.

I am in awe of how hard DD has worked, consistently, without a break. I will be pleased with whatever she gets. She may not get the top marks she expected, given the uncertainty with maths and English, and the careless mistakes she says she has made, but hopefully they will be good enough for her.

I do feel bad that, given the long hours we work, I haven't been able to provide the level of support that some other parents seem to have done. But she has survived so far.

Best of luck to all DCs for the remaining exams.