Gcse 2018 (10) The one with half term

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Lady has to make sandwiches. Each sandwich takes 1 bread roll and 2 cheese slices. She makes over 100 sandwiches. Pack if 15 rolls £1.88 pack of 20 cheese slices £2.15. What would be the least amount of money spent by lady?

Dgd also did another timed math paper 2. Think she may be panicking as she feels she didn't do that well in paper 1. She got me to do a 4 mark question. I got it right! But she told me my workings out were not what examiner would expect! It was a ratio question. I said just use multiplication to find the ratio you want. She said its only an hour and half paper not an all day one

P.s interview went really well. Lasted about hour and half. Lots of 'health and safety' stuff. Was introduced to mentor who will give her more info via e-mail as to hierarchy, dos and donts etc. Then a quick tour. Dgd enjoyed it very much and the interviewer commented on her knowledge and maturity. She also added she's quiet but asked lots of questions! So we shall see his it all goes! Next interview for one day a week voluntary work in a care home. I'm hoping that working in care home will give her an insight into just his hard her poor mum works!

Thanks for the tip, Loose.
Is everyone having a good day?
DS was revising for next week's Geography. We had this conversation late afternoon:

Me: How are things going?
Him (smiling): Good. Only one more hour to go,
Me (surprised): I thought you struggled with Geography,
DS: That's because I never revised for it before. I used to just do half an hour before class tests and go in and try to wing it.

I honestly had no idea but I'll be watching for it next year!

Hi all sorry I haven't been on had a busy day.
bombula my dgd has made revision cards since year 8! Every assessment, test or end of year exams she has always used her revision cards and even now she uses some from year 9 and 10. If they get in the habit if doing that it stays with them. Her blazer pockets were always bulging with revision cards!
Also we got her all revision guides textbooks etc we could. These she would go through highlighting important quotes/ points etc also she would do mindmaps too.
Dgd says she remembers by reading, then writing out longhand notes, then verbally repeating. But everyone has a different system of revision to suit themselves. Also she has always done 2-2 half hours a day ( except Fridays) homework, revision and research around subject especially geography. She has had National Geographic mag since year 5 and as it contains lots of science too it has been a great aide to her studies. They do a history one too which is good.
I'm sure your dc will do well as all whose parents take an interest in their education ( not take over).

To answer everyone's question, dgd swinging between NeuroScience/behavioural psychology/neuro surgery or geoscience. So she thought if she could get an insight into neurological workings she could make her mind up whether to go medical or clinical or opt to do geography. So complicated for DC to make their minds up hence choice of A levels to give her more options.

www.igcsecentre.com/cambridge-igcse-past-exam-papers/

Is this any good for the music?

Just alerting you - Mr Bruff has a new video on 'possible surprises' in the AQA English Language exam.
He basically is just advising students to read the questions really carefully but interestingly he is also suggesting it may be possible to disagree with the statement on paper 1 Q4 and still be able to find enough things to write about! I haven't seen that in any previous or sample paper but it's worth beating in mind. The video is good for reminding students to read the questions carefully, so I thought it's worth highlighting.

@brainmelt and anyone else doing Cambridge IGCSE Music, can anyone direct me to the markscheme for the 2016 paper? It’s the one that starts with the extract from Traviata.

Thank you mmzz.

My main tip for year 10 would be to keep their work organised so it's feasible to go back and read through it for revision purposes. DD1 has had a few issues with not being able to see the wood for the trees, when she goes back to look through a huge pile of topic work from a year or more ago. But conversely, her school has had them making "revision tools" for homework since way back in year 10 and has pointed them in the direction of lots of different resources online. She got irritated with the constant focus on revision at the time, but it's bearing fruit now that she has several different resources to use the final run up to the exam.

I was wondering if I could find out anywhere a bit of a steer on the topics that were in the AQA Geography Paper 2??

Were? Its next week.

DoinItForTheKids Look at the exam specification.

www.aqa.org.uk/subjects/geography/gcse/geography-8035/specification-at-a-glance (scroll down)
to find out in more detail, you'll need to know which options your DC is taking.

Yes I see oratory

DS did all the tests Brainmelt (end of topic tests etc) but being a bright boy at a non selective school I guess his results were never bad enough to raise alarm and the main issue was he never showed any interest in the results or showed any interest in looking at the marked paper to see where he went wrong.

I would also say check files for notes as you go along - being dyslexic and disorganised DS never had a full set of notes so for year 10 exams and mocks he probably learnt everything in his notes not realising there were huge gaps. Revision guides are useful here as you know they cover everything on the sylabus

Is there any way to find out what topics were on a particular paper (or do the exams by that board happen on the exact same day/days)?

I was wondering if I could find out anywhere a bit of a steer on the topics that were in the AQA Geography Paper 2??

DS school has them sitting exams and controlled assessments constantly throughout the year, every year. Every time they finish a science topic for example they are examined on it. At some point he was having a Latin assessment/test every two weeks. He seems to be revising for something all the time. So if something had not been understood or assimilated it would be flagged immediately. For his Y10 finals he had study leave and gcse level past papers. This pace used to drive me crazy but I now know the value, as when DS came to Jan mocks he said it was just more of the same...

Okay, I will Bluebelle . I expect he will do brilliantly with all that great preparation.

Wonderwine - my ds would definitely coast if I let him. I am going to have to be on his case!

Oh HmcAsWas please check with me how he actually did before following my DS's advice

Another similar child here!

From what I can tell from talking to other parents, this 'coasting and just doing enough to keep off the radar' seems to be quite common amongst boys. We had family stuff going on which meant that I didn't really realise that DS2 was doing the minimum in Year 10. Summer exams were a bit of a wake up call, but even then I just think he didn't have the emotional maturity to learn how to learn properly!
DS1 said he went through exactly the same thing and really only had the 'lightbulb moment' that 'effort in=output & results' in Year 12!

"I can tell you how my DS has approached y11, although I won't know how successful its been until the 23rd August!!!!
We got him all the CGP books for his subjects (schools tend to sell these at a discount) he then went through them all and made flashcards question on one side answer on the back (he has made 1000's of these). He started in September at an hour an evening moving up to about 1.5 -2hrs from Xmas and then final stages 3 hours. This was possible as his school only ever set about 2hrs of homework a week, so he had loads of spare time. Probably from around February he started to actually go through the cards. He also kept up all sport and meeting up with friends, because he started early there has been no last minute panic."

This sounds a perfect plan to me from Bluebelle and I will definitely try this approach with ds when his time comes (currently in Y9)

I wish dd had started revision in September. She started in the Christmas holidays and given quite a heavy course work requirement (history course work, Art course work and PE course work) hasn't, overall, devoted enough time to revision.

and another one that those who have had ill DC, or sudden family emergencies will agree on:
Don't leave the revision until the last minute. Start early and aim to finish early i.e. build in time for things to go wrong (or the school to suddenly issue homework that wrecks 3 weeks worth of planned revision)

Agree with all of this - in practice, most dcs seem to do a bit for mocks and then focus all their energy on the actual exams! Really agree about keeping extracurricular going as much as you can.
A good revision source for English texts is Collins Snap revision guides - they are really handy for the last phase of revision.

I absolutely agree with mmzz about never leaving a topic without fully understanding it. If extra assistance is not forthcoming at school, then take the initiative to use Bitesize, Khan Academy etc.

My advice to parents would be to really get to grips with the specification for each exam. Which board? How many topics are there? How will those topics be examined - essays? short answers? Which paper examines what? Is there any course work and, if so, what are the deadlines for submitting it? If possible, get an idea of which topics will be taught in each term. My DS didn’t really clock when he had finished one Geography topic and moved on to another one, so when it came to revision, there was a lot of sorting of notes + handouts to do.

Finally, don’t give up all extra curricular stuff - music and sport have been a life- saving release mechanism for DS this year.