GCSE Supporting - first week nearly over

Oh no, poor thing 😢. Hope he feels better v soon

How come all of you get actual information out of your DC about the exams.

All I get is "yeah it was fine" for every single one. I have no idea how they are getting on.

DD found French really easy apparently, she loved both the reading and the listening although she struggled with the listening a little. She didn't do RS but luckily only has English Lit tomorrow which is her best subject so a nice evening today

My dd loved the RS paper. Which is great considering that chemistry was a total train wreck yesterday!

Onwards!!!!

RS was yuk here, French was "surprisingly ok" but he is in foundation tier.

That's our first GCSE over- no more RS ever. Currently with his tutor for last minute cramming on An Inspector Calls and the much hated poetry. Thankfully it's the only exam tomorrow so he can give it his full focus.

Fingers crossed for your DD too. My daughter isn't hugely academic so it was nice to see her come out of an exam with a smile on her face.

She only needs to pass everything so she can stay on for sixth form.

That’s good news @Fifiellz bet my dd doesn’t say the same! She did badly in the mock RS (she got a 4) but she said she didn’t revise at all. I’m hoping she can get at least a 5.

My DD said (AQA) Judaism and Christianity was the easiest paper she's done so far.

But she strangely always gets her best marks on RS papers.

Oh dear @Hersetta427 let’s hope the grade boundaries are low. I’m waiting for dd to come out of AQA RS (Judaism and Christianity).

Oh @siriusblackcat your poor boy, that’s awful. I hope school are supportive and he feels better soon.

DD just back from edexl RS (islam) which she described as hard. two people cried she said and whilst I was waiting to pick her up I saw another girl walk down the road in tears. Paper 1 gave them a false sense of security she said !

So sorry to hear of these poorly dc. Ds eczema has flared up. Elder ds who is now 22 suddenly had a small patch of grey hair appear during his GCSE's!!

Sending my best, hope he is okay. This is so much pressure.

@siriusblackcat poor boy, hope he bounces back.

Edexcel chemistry wasn’t too bad, waiting to hear how Edexcel French went.

@siriusblackcat hope your DS improves quickly - it’s just typical isn’t it with the timing of it all. It’s rotten luck.

@siriusblackcat poor boy! Hope the anti-bs kick in soon.

No word from DS1 about french but from the look of twitter, it's a good job he went for foundation tier.

@siriusblackcat here's hoping for a speedy recovery

Oh no - poor lad! :(

Yes we've got a doctors note to cover yesterday and the other exam this week. Should help a little.

Oh gosh massive un mn hug for your son @siriusblackcat surely he meets special consideration rules?? And he he feels better soon.

Poor DS was in A&E until 2am this morning with a really bad kidney infection.
How he got through his chemistry exam yesterday I'll never know.

He's got physics on Thursday but not fit to revise right now. I've told him to rest as much as he can today and see how he is tomorrow to revise.

Doesn't help that he projectile vomited all over his revision notes yesterday afternoon 🤮

It's 4 in maths here. And they hate maths.

I felt silly saying to DH that I've been waking up in a blind panic but he then admitted he's been worried too and he barely sat any himself such was his attitude towards education.

Maths was apparently 'not as bad as Chemistry', which is as good as we could have hoped for given how poorly he was this morning. He's got the calculator paper in his last week so he's going to go all out for that to boost his marks. Physics next, then leavers' day on Friday and a week 'off' to get ready for the second half.

Also in wales and ds said maths was good this morning. He sat some in year 10 and also we have AS in year 12. I also seem to have years of exams!!

We’re in NI so AS levels here too - I’m not sure if I like them or not - takes some of the pressure off final year exams with 40% already banked (60% for English Lit because of coursework component too) but it’s 3 years of constant pressure. In my day L6th was a lovely year - a chance to work hard but really enjoy yourself, choose some extra curriculars, find out who you were, make new friendships etc - now it’s just go, go, go from day 1.

I have to admit I'm torn of the early sitting of GCSE exams in Wales - DS did this twice and also some GCSE being sat end of Y10. Felt awful at the time very early for them and meant Y10 was full on at times but now for DS has meant a more manageable exam timetable at least in early weeks and less pressure at end of Y11.

AS-level has meant DD1 started out with 4 subjects - and dropped maths she was at a disadvantage not having done additional maths at GCSE - and re-take the chemistry AS -level this year along side the A-levels.

So it's worked for her though at time workload been a lot as they also have to do The Advanced Welsh Baccalaureate as well plus the Geography A-level had large coursework/field work component which these days you have to have an adult tag along with so I got dragged in.