How much work is your Y11 doing each night?

Mine had mocks immediately after Christmas so had very heavy revision all over the Christmas 'break' followed by two weeks of exams.

They haven't finished the course in any subject yet so are still getting regular homework. Sometimes that homework will be more revision based - eg questions from past papers, and they are expected to do a maths paper every week on top of maths homework.

She is still exhausted after the Christmas revision/mocks session and I really don't think revision at this stage would be beneficial - particularly having to squeeze it in after doing homework. She is also learning lines for her final GCSE Drama performance in March.

Major revision will begin after she has recharged her batteries over Feb half term.

DS did his 2 years ago and didn't really do any revision until Easter and got brilliant results. DD will start earlier because she is more conscientious.

I would definitely be expecting them to do flash cards or mind maps of everything they have already fnished. The more they do now the less hard hitting revision they will have to do later.

If they finish school at 3.15ish what time are they home by? What time do they go to bed. Remove an amount of time for dinner and some relaxing.

Once you have worked out the sheer number of hours they have at home it is not unreasonable to expect them to do at least some work towards revision at this point.

At the school where I work (but don’t teach) the received wisdom is that Easter is too late to start revising, they should be making their notes etc now. By Easter they should be consolidating that revision, doing practise papers etc. My eldest DC is only Year 9, so I’ve got two years before I need to enforce this myself, however.

Two hours four school nights a week and about four hours on each weekend day.

The 4 x 30 minutes is roughly what my Y11 was doing as revision in prep for mocks, which were just before Christmas.

We are now in the lull (ha, if you can call it that!) between the results for that set and a second set of mocks in the spring, so he is really only doing set homework at the moment which he appears to polish off in half an hour or so.

I am not pushing for more at the moment tbh. General consensus on other threads seems to suggest that if you get them to start too early they'll have burnt out and lost the plot by the time it's the real thing. So I plan to wait until the second half of this term and then get him going again on the 4 x 30 minutes a night in the run up to the next mocks. Whether it is a plan that will work remains to be seen

He is meant to be doing 4 x 30 minute slots. This includes homework (i.e. if he had homework this would count instead of revision), but tbh he is not getting much homework. he is sort of doing this (not always 4 subjects, not always 30 minutes each). He has 2nd set of mocks in 3 weeks though, so more of a focus than others will have.

They all disagree! I’m not 100% certain ‘revision’ isn’t FIFA to be honest.