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Techno56 · 2024-06-05T09:12:11+00:00

New thread for GCSE survival 🙂

Pharos · 06/06/2024 22:29

Ds is #4, I am so so done with GCSEs, it’s actually refreshing to just have 1 set of exams as I’ve had so many GCSE/A level years never mind the one with 11+ as well…

Oldest 2 have Masters dissertations to do, not my problem 😁 (until they call for advice😱)

Tiredalwaystired · 06/06/2024 22:11

JustHereWithMyPopcorn · 06/06/2024 19:15

DS has 6 next week, Monday, Tuesday and Friday all double exam days. He’s dreading it and so am I!

Same here!

Thisisreallyweird · 06/06/2024 22:04

DomingoinLittleOakley · 05/06/2024 21:25

Another one here who thinks it's impossible to revise for English Language.
Have sent him links for Mr Bruff and another youtube lady with some excellent tips on how to structure things, but he's basically being VERY shitty and refusing to be pointed in the right direction, insisting he'll be fine, despite all evidence to the contrary over the last 5 years.
We've just had an argument about it and I'm sure he'll refuse on principle to look at anything helpful that I've suggested.
I'm pretty sure I've looked at more revision material than he has.

Oh dear, I could have written the same post word by word. I hear you!

sockoclock · 06/06/2024 21:56

JustHereWithMyPopcorn · 06/06/2024 19:15

DS has 6 next week, Monday, Tuesday and Friday all double exam days. He’s dreading it and so am I!

Exactly the same here! Also dreading it. I'll be so glad when Tuesday is over, ecstatic by Friday!

MerylSqueak · 06/06/2024 21:36

Dd is just finishing her GCSEs. DS is just starting them 😪

Muchtoomuchtodo · 06/06/2024 21:12

I’m pleased that dc1 who would be in year 13 and doing a levels is currently having the time of his life doing an apprenticeship.

Ds2 has taken all of this in his stride. English language today seemed to go to plan and now he has a 12 day gap before his last 2 papers - music and additional maths to finish on June 19th.

he’s planning a very long lie in tomorrow!

imtiredandiwanttogotobed · 06/06/2024 21:07

gingercat02 · 06/06/2024 20:50

Or just have one. We're done on 14th 😊

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I have never been so glad to be a parent of one ch I’ll d as I am atm 🤣🤣

JaninaDuszejko · 06/06/2024 21:01

Panic71 · 06/06/2024 20:27

I’m not sure I can do this all over again with child number 2 🤣😬🤪😳

I have this all over again next year with DC2. Then A levels for the next two years followed by a year off then DC3 has GCSEs (and DC1 has finals).

I've spent the last 15 years saying small age gaps are brilliant, I now officially retract that.

boredwithfoodprob · 06/06/2024 20:58

Panic71 · 06/06/2024 20:27

I’m not sure I can do this all over again with child number 2 🤣😬🤪😳

SO glad I have 3 school years between my 3. Not sure I could do this again in a year or even 2! 🤪🤪🫣

Echobelly · 06/06/2024 20:52

I think A level will be so much easier with DC as just so many fewer subjects and all stuff that interests them. Well, the Biology not so much but they need a science for the kind of degrees they are thinking of (and they are good at science, rather to their chagrin).

gingercat02 · 06/06/2024 20:50

Panic71 · 06/06/2024 20:38

I feel like maybe I should have listened to the advice of the women who went before me!! Have a bigger gap or maybe twins
Of maybe send them to boarding school 🤣I’m about a stone heavier and a whole lot more grey 🤭🫣

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Or just have one. We're done on 14th 😊

Panic71 · 06/06/2024 20:38

BlackBean2023 · 06/06/2024 20:31

I have a big gap between kids so I have another 9 years before GCSE stress again. If A Level stress hasn't done me in.

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I feel like maybe I should have listened to the advice of the women who went before me!! Have a bigger gap or maybe twins
Of maybe send them to boarding school 🤣I’m about a stone heavier and a whole lot more grey 🤭🫣

BlackBean2023 · 06/06/2024 20:31

Panic71 · 06/06/2024 20:27

I’m not sure I can do this all over again with child number 2 🤣😬🤪😳

I have a big gap between kids so I have another 9 years before GCSE stress again. If A Level stress hasn't done me in.

Panic71 · 06/06/2024 20:27

I’m not sure I can do this all over again with child number 2 🤣😬🤪😳

BlackBean2023 · 06/06/2024 19:38

tizalinatuna · 06/06/2024 19:30

Well, thanks Mr Salles for all you have done. Goodbye. School was useless for Eng, but sounds like Mr S guided my DD to do a good paper!

I'm going to miss Mr Salles and his threatening spatula

tizalinatuna · 06/06/2024 19:30

Well, thanks Mr Salles for all you have done. Goodbye. School was useless for Eng, but sounds like Mr S guided my DD to do a good paper!

Echobelly · 06/06/2024 19:30

DC has one two-exam day next week (Tuesday) but then Weds and Thurs off. DH's nephew is finished next Friday but DC has a final music paper on the following Monday, but they're pretty chilled about that so can take it easy on the weekend.

Pharos · 06/06/2024 19:24

@GlomOfNit Yup that’s it.

shams05 · 06/06/2024 19:21

Ds has 4 left so only 3 next week. His first week was very full with 3 on one day but this week it's been one a day so manageable.

JustHereWithMyPopcorn · 06/06/2024 19:15

DS has 6 next week, Monday, Tuesday and Friday all double exam days. He’s dreading it and so am I!

Countrylife2002 · 06/06/2024 19:00

BlackBean2023 · 06/06/2024 17:57

We're down to 5 now and the last weekend of nagging revising!

Lots of biology revision happening tonight which is a relief.

The revision workload seems far more manageable now with only 4 subjects next week - Monday: Maths, Tuesday: Chem and History (USA - her strongest of the 4 history topics) and then a nice break before Physics on the Friday afternoon. Like a PP I feel exhausted, let alone her!

Same next week except also geography on Friday, apparently another one you can’t revise for , except that dd says doing past paper practice is impt for that one.

DD is just too tired . She just is finishing her final biology flashcards and then plans tomorrow morning to spend 2 hours going through all her key flashcards. She seems to have a plan for how she revises now so I’m not getting involved anymore. She did a bit of biology at the weekend too so seems ok.

DominoRules · 06/06/2024 18:37

@anoukis my DS has said everything is ‘fine’, I maybe get a bit more information if I ask a lot of questions but most of my info has been from this thread 😂

Final push here, Monday he has Spanish and Maths then the dreaded 3 exam day on Tuesday. He’s going to be so exhausted so I’m really glad he then has a couple of days free before Physics next Friday.

Swingingvvoter · 06/06/2024 18:32

For our paper it was something like " do you think you should work for the common good to help people".

DomingoinLittleOakley · 06/06/2024 18:31

anoukis · 06/06/2024 16:20

Is anyone else's DD vague about how the exams went? Mine comes home and says "good", "very good", "great", "well" and says "I answered all questions". She didn't say about any exam that it was hard.

On a more positive note, 18 exams done, 6 left: Bio 2, Maths 3, Chem 2, History 3, and Add Maths. Double exam day next Tuesday.

Mine says "smashed it" for everything. When pressed he just says "it was alright", so I'm none the wiser.

He only needs 3 grade 4's, including English and maths (I think - the bloody college website now shows different requirements, but I think it's wrong), but if his mocks and levels of revision are anything to go by, it could go either way.
Biology tomorrow, which is my specialist subject,but does he want my help? Of course not. 🙄

Newlittlerescue · 06/06/2024 18:29

DS presented a 'horses for courses' view, i.e. status matters for some people but others are more motivated by altruism, so he said he flip-flopped all over the place!!

Does anyone know how the question was phrased so I can work out if that was an okay approach?!