Starting Year 11-GCSE2021 (title edited by MNHQ)

DDs last days of mocks is tomorrow, she had three today and is in a very bad mood!

Some who did the exams on the original timetable have started getting results, not expecting any of hers back before Christmas I wouldn't have thought.

Had an email today that the worst affected kids from multiple isolations will be offered tutoring from the governments National Tutoring Programme, she will get 15 sessions in Maths which is her weakest subject. Depending on her mock result I might also get one of our maths teachers at my school to do some weekly tutoring, it's definitely a confidence thing for her.

We have also been told we have an online parents evening in January.

Did two 6th form applications at the weekend too so something else off the list!

Dd has just had 2 weeks of mocks and very surprisingly got Music and Maths back today and is apparently getting Chemistry tomorrow.

English and History she won’t get till Jan as the marking will need to be moderated. Looking at her timetable (they only have 3 lessons a day - 2 x 2 hr and 1 x 1hr) I can’t see her getting anymore this year.

She was v stressed so it’s nice to have two back and with pleasing results.

Hoping we won't get any results until January-then we can just forget about them & face the music in the New Year.

DS doesn't get his until January either.

DD won’t get her results until January.

I hope DS gets his this week, but unsure as they quarantined all papers for 3 days before marking them.

Not yet, they are moderating the results and we are due a letter on Friday, last day of term!

Has anyone started to receive mock results yet from those who have sat them over the last two weeks?

Physicsandmathstutor is normally good for questions

BBC is a typo

No, I BBC am not a teacher. Some were emailed by the school, and I also googled and found random exampro documents on the web. Over the years I just collated them.

Portico How are you accessing Exampro, are you a teacher?

These pdf exampro qns are repurposed for 9-1 GCSEs. Older son used them in his 9-1s and he gained 8s and 9s. These along with the mark schemes really help.

It won't help with 'explain why' questions or ones where you have to manipulate stuff first, or ones where you have two similar formulae (resistors in series or parallel springs to mind), or ones where you have to know to convert from grams to kilograms first. So it rather depends how complicated the questions are with the 1-9 GCSEs compared to how they used to be with the letter ones.

TeenplusTwenties - think it will work, as nothing in our specs has changed other than Eng Lit and Spanish. This approach guarantees 8/9s

portico Don't know if it will work for the reformed GCSEs, but good luck.

Apologies for typos, typos inserted in uppercase

TeenplusTwenties - Will try your approach smile

Son finished his mocks a fortnight ago; this week we started the revision IN earnest. We use exampro topical questions FOR PRACTISe ; I made copies for his elder brother AND USE THESE. The approach worked for OLDER BROTHER, and looks promising for younger son. I see no TANGIBLE support provided by ofqual so we are going for it, REGARDLESS, and assuming the syllabus CONTENT is the same RIGOUR as 2019 - and also aiming for the same 2019 stretching grade boundaries

TeenplusTwenties - Will try your approach

Son finished his mocks a fortnight ago; this week we started the revision earnest. We use exampro topical questions practise questions; I made copies for his elder brother. The approach worked for him, and looks promising for younger son. I see no support provided by ofqual so we are going for it and assuming the syllabus is the same as 2019 - and also aiming for the same 2019 stretching grade boundaries

portico My DD1 got an 'A' for physics paper 2 in the old GCSE purely by plug and play with the formulae.

We had this method:
Write down what you have.
Write down what you are looking for.
Find the formula that uses just those things.
Plug in the numbers, rearrange and solve.

Honestly she didn't really have a great clue otherwise.

Also maths, area of a trapezium (l+s)/2 x h . Easy to forget if you aren't that way inclined.

Tbh, the formula sheet is an odd one. If you don’t have working knowledge of them, how would know how to apply them in the exams.

I’m hoping vocab in gcse Spanish is made available

Well, I think the equations sheets is a no brainer, as would for example being allowed to take in clean copies of set texts for English Lit.

Not sure how if at all you can give advance notice for the sciences or maths.

No idea how it would work for humanities. No doubt all will become clear.

They give with one hand and take away with the other hand

www.gov.uk/government/consultations/support-materials-and-advance-information-in-2021-gcse-as-and-a-level-exams/support-materials-and-advance-information-for-gcse-as-and-a-levels-in-2021-html

Really, really hope everything turns out alright for your DD's Teen and Complex ... and honestly, I hope you are both looking after yourselves too (I know it's probably very difficult at the moment).