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Y11 2023-24 thread 4

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Techno56 · 05/06/2024 10:12

New thread for GCSE survival 🙂

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Waspie · 13/06/2024 18:46

Try www.informedchoices.ac.uk @dinomirror - you can put in the A level choices and it tells you degrees which you can take with those A levels.

dinomirror · 13/06/2024 18:31

Anyone elses DC flip flopping with A Levels? After being against STEM a level for majority of y11, apparently its Bio,Chem history??? Apparently she can get into most degree she wants this way and the previous history,politics,econ was limiting. I have no idea if right

Philandbill · 13/06/2024 18:24

One more day.....

Countrylife2002 · 13/06/2024 18:15

So, here dd is all revisioned out. She’s busy making plans for tomorrow afternoon and next week and I’ve opened the Prosecco as it’s become evident I’ll be driving tomorrow eve so I am celebrating this evening instead!

ThatGreenNewt · 13/06/2024 17:54

Braveheart35 · 13/06/2024 17:45

Email from school that rumours are not true that IGSCE to be resat. Apparently statement from Pearson imminently.

We were told it was an option that they were considering but have just had notification that it is not having to be resat and that the integrity of the paper has been upheld

Braveheart35 · 13/06/2024 17:45

Even IGCSE

Braveheart35 · 13/06/2024 17:45

Email from school that rumours are not true that IGSCE to be resat. Apparently statement from Pearson imminently.

DomingoinLittleOakley · 13/06/2024 17:30

Maybe it's up to the school to decide whether they'll email them?
I don't think there's any expectation they have to open them there and then, just that they have to go in and collect the slips in person.

AIstolemylunch · 13/06/2024 17:21

My other dc got A levels results online first last year before going in to collect. Do they really make the kids find out what they got for the first time in a hall full of people? That seems really cruel for people that havent maybe done as well as they'd have liked?

DomingoinLittleOakley · 13/06/2024 16:55

Talking of holidays, we'll be away on results day and I foolishly assumed if you weren't there to collect in person they could be emailed (DD's were but that was COVID times).

I've just had an email from DS's school and exam results will not be emailed under any circumstances. So we have the option of getting someone else to collect them for us (which in our case means grandparents I suppose, and I suspect DS really doesn't want them seeing them first), or provide a stamped addressed envelope and have them posted which means we won't see them until we get home on 28th.

Gah!

Tebheag · 13/06/2024 16:43

I forgot all about it but was told oops we have a holiday only just booked couple of weeks ago. Can't believe less than 24grs to go and DS will have finished need to remember to get a photo og him in his uniform for last time tomorrow.

MyOtherProfile · 13/06/2024 16:25

Contingency dates were explained in an early email when other dates were given out. However many parents on the school Facebook group insist they have never been told!

JustHereWithMyPopcorn · 13/06/2024 16:22

Our school makes it clear that you have to be around for that date also. My friend who has a Yr 11 at another local school has booked a holiday spanning that date also. She wasn't aware but apparently it was in their info too.

Tiredalwaystired · 13/06/2024 16:09

Can’t believe this was never once mentioned! I’m usually pretty hot on these things so asked a few parents. A couple had heard of it but it wasn’t universal. Hope it’s not needed here!!

WarningOfGails · 13/06/2024 15:52

We were also told by school.

Waspie · 13/06/2024 14:46

gingercat02 · 13/06/2024 13:21

We were told by school that the children must be available for contingency days. We have booked our holiday for the weekend after for that reason.

Same here.

BestsellingWine · 13/06/2024 14:30

I knew about contingency day from here but no one else at school seems to be aware. I’ve just checked and it’s in the exam booklet that every student was given at our school.

MrsHamlet · 13/06/2024 13:29

I've just checked our school website. It's on there that JCQ require all students to be available for those dates.

There are 3 for GCSE, one of which is now.

DominoRules · 13/06/2024 13:24

We’ve had no communication on it at all, I think we’ll book for after to make sure

gingercat02 · 13/06/2024 13:21

We were told by school that the children must be available for contingency days. We have booked our holiday for the weekend after for that reason.

MrsHamlet · 13/06/2024 13:14

You should have been told about the contingency days when you got the exam timetables. Our parents were told that they needed to ensure that students were available for those dates.

If someone needs to be in on contingency and isn't, that would just be counted as absence from the exam.

DominoRules · 13/06/2024 13:06

Another query on contingency day - if there’s been no issues for any exams are we free to be away for it or could it be called last minute?? DH wants to take DS to Cyprus for a long weekend but we’re wondering if we should do it as soon as last exam on 19th or wait a week just incase…..

steppemum · 13/06/2024 12:49

I think they introduced contingency day BECAUSE of Grenfell didn't they?
It highlighted that there was no way of changing the exams in this situation.

I have always thought though that it had ot be nationwide.
So in grenfell's case, they would have cancelled ALL exams nationally on the day after and the whole cohort used the contingency day?

Tiredalwaystired · 13/06/2024 11:46

I had genuinely never heard of a contingency day!

JessyCarr · 13/06/2024 08:29

@Newlease I think the problem with the hexagon & circle one is that the proof only works if you know, or can infer, that the larger hexagon has a longer perimeter than the circle. There wasn’t enough info in the question to know or infer that.

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