Y11 2023-24 thread 4

My dd did Edexcel igcse geography this morning. She actually doesn’t care about the mark. I consider it a bit of a wasted gcse and she told me a few weeks ago she wished she’d done German instead. I’d advised her to do it at the time but she flat refused. Anyway she said it went ok.

She’s not looking a very good grade and she didn’t revise for it. This will probably be her lowest mark. But I don’t care. She had more important things going on. She’s finished her exams now, which is a massive relief.

We have the appointment tomorrow with the eating disorder therapy company so I hope they can start to reverse the damage she’s done to her body and keep her alive, which is eminently more important than any exam.

Good luck to everyone’s dc and try not to worry if they don’t do as well as they or you expected. There are always options and different ways forward if their current plan falls by the wayside.

1.75 x speed 😆love it, thats how I watch boring work presentations tbf.

Mine generally prefers video revison anyway as apparently its easier to watch a video on your phone that to open a book.

Mr Bruff has put a "Final Tips" video up on his YouTube channel for tomorrow's English Language AQA paper. If you watch it at 1.75 speed (DS's default) it only takes a couple of minutes to watch...

Good luck all kids for tomorrow!

AQA Geography Paper 2 was really good - but not as good as Paper 1!

7 more to go. Groan.

I have had positive feedback from Geography this morning.

DD has had three shorter exams for Geography and Latin and then the standard 4 for German . Otherwise one or two. Although Drama was two practicals and a written exam and Art was never ending coursework and a two day exam.

AQA Geog 2 was “fine, pretty good” according to DD although her favourite case study did not come up at all. Others in her class seem to have found it weird and very different from past papers but since DD hardly bothered with past papers she doesn’t seem to have noticed!

DS did Edexcel IGCSE Geography paper 2 (Human Geog) this morning if that is any help (they seem to be being very similar to friends doing the equivalent GCSE at the same time). He thought content was fine but time pressure was insane (1hr 45). He is really annoyed as had to just quickly scribble a few lines for a 6 marker before time was up, but had sensibly abandoned that one chronologicaly to answer most of a 10 marker before hand. He is also at a school where anything less than a 7 is seen as a failure 😡and needs all 7s pretty much to get into sixth form and definitely in A level subjects and he was planning to do Geography A level 😬.

I have been too scared to go online to see what consensus has been like so am only going on what he has been saying and I keep telling him that if he found an exam hard/time pressured, a lot of other people will have to and the marking and grades boundaries will reflect that. Really hope this is true!

AQA geography not too good from a strong student here as well @Newlease . Said the 9 markers were very different to previous papers

AQA Geography Paper 2 was really good - but not as good as Paper 1!

7 more to go. Groan.

DD very happy with Edexcel geog. It is her strongest subject though, so not sure how helpful that is. English tomorrow will be very different 😭

@AIstolemylunch 3 papers for maths, history and geography, 4 in total for English (literature & language) and 2 each for physics, biology and chemistry double award science.

not sure of the board on this one, but Geo was really hard and apparently kids are crying. one of DDs worst paper to score, loves the subject, but not good at writing exams. I really hope they will leave it behind and concentrate on next exam, that’s business. And No revision Lang group here as well. At this point, I also want her to concentrate on Biology, lol
anyone else heard anything about Geography ? DD’s is a high achieving GS, if that’s any indicator of the feelings

Edexcel Biology IGCSE is on Friday, and they do seem to be correlating i.e the IGCSE and the GCSE on the same day, but im not sure. Theres definitely not a correlation beween different exam boards from what I can see as DS has already done and finished English Lit and Lang (for which he did minimal revision of course).

Thanks for the new thread @Techno56

@WarningOfGails happy birthday to your DD!

DS has three papers for Maths, History, Geography and Spanish. It all seems so unnecessary!

Geography Edexcel this morning was OK but some weird questions apparently. He's now looking at AQA Eng Lit for tomorrow. Although he might just be on his phone - who knows!

I think for the very able who are strong in English you probably don’t need to revise much, but I do worry about DD’s boyfriend who might not pass it listening to DD claiming it’s not possible to revise for it! I’m sure he could benefit from cracking open his revision guide…

I can't remember which exam board geography is, and I'm not at home ( phone can't cope with downloading the exam schedule!) so can't even go online and see what students thought of it! 😂Oh well. DS was very chill about it this morning. Just hope it was as straightforward as he said it would be....

I intend to sit him down in front of some YouTube Eng Lang videos when he gets back. I know all his efforts this week are now aimed at biology on Friday though. (IS it biology on?)

Absolutely this.

DD has even implied that it's quite handy that the Eng Lang exam (AQA) is morning, because that gives virtually the whole day to revise for a Biology on Friday. It's as though the exam isn't on her radar at all!

Thanks OP

Again abother hollow laugh at 'spine unbroken' - like the Highway Code and driving theory test books I bought my older one, not knowing that its comsiderd a sign of weakness to open a book now while learning to drive and its all done on apps.

Glad it went well. Haha - that sounds familiar! We're playing a lot of trivial pursuit at the moment

Happy birthday to your daughter @WarningOfGails!

DS tried pulling the "you can't revise for English language" on me earlier but I shoved the Oxford AQA revision guide I bought him after the mocks under his nose (spine as yet unbroken) and told him that I wanted two hours before tea time or I wouldn't take him to his tennis match this evening

Pretty happy with Geography is the report. Although totally pissed off that the nine marker wasn’t on Rio as she spent aaaaages revising that. I just said at least she will be a bit of help in pub quizzes so it’s not all wasted.

Ha ha, they should actually rename it English Laguage No Revision Necessary shouldn't they?

No. The third Latin paper is an hour and maths and Geography are both an hour and a half.

However she has said she finds paper three easier in all the subjects. It’s just a shame she still can’t put any of those subjects to bed yet.

Nothing today for DD which is nice as it’s her birthday! And only Eng Lang tomorrow ‘which you can’t revise for’…