Support group for GCSE traumatised mothers; how much moodiness are you sucking up right now?

A walk is good idea. I think keeping some sort of exercise up through exam times is a good thing both memtally & physically, & combining exercise with some male bonding sounds doubly good - so well done your dh.

DS has a light week examwise this week, just Computing tomorrow & English lit on Tue. I think the week after half term is much busier.

When do all your dcs exams finish & how are you planning to celebrate (if you are)?

Keep the bin...love it!

Not much sign of work here, trying to take a step back as 'smothering' her word not mine does not seem to work.

First exam (apart from Drama which is done and dusted) is on Tuesday, I have seen no signs of revision for it!

Ours are harsh then as they have to attend all lessons (to revise for exams) even if they have taken exams in that subject.

Ours don't really have study leave either - they're supposed to go in to the subject lesson until they've done the exam in it. Truth is she will pick and choose and go in when it suits as her brothers did before her.

Roll on the end of June

After reading these I asked my DS about 'study' leave, apparently they had it for the mocks but have now cancelled it.Everyone in school - all the time.
I like that.

Study leave is fairly easy for me (I work part time too) as ds plans to go to school every day he has exams; every Monday (for cello lessons) and every Tuesday and Thursday (to spend the afternoon sailing), so he won't be home much.

His first day was today & as he had a short exam this morning he was at school - he spent some time 'revising' in the sun with his friends, had two lunches, did some piano practice and spent the afternoon helping with the year 8s doing music technology.

The main worry is that 'study' doesn't appear to be featuring prominently in his leave plans.

I've had to deal with some moodiness but I've got one who is hardly revising. I'm nagging but she needs to sort it out herself. Getting worried for her.

Shrinking Violet sorry to hear about your dds eyes ,I hope the problems sort themselves out.

Biology went OK thank goodness ,on to next week now and he has gone to band practice tonight which I think is a good thing.

How are people managing study leave by the way,I have to work some of the time and even if he intends to i am not sure ds has the willpower to get up!

so far (touch wood) we're finding ASes less stressy than GCSEs last year - possibly because now it's subjects DD1 wants to do, and finds easy(ier). Also fewer subjects so not as daunting.

But she's had to take a step back as her revision was seriously mucked up from February onwards as she's got some problems with her eyes, and hasn't been able to focus properly at times. So because there's a good chance she won't do as well as she might have done, that's helped calm her down (weirdly), and actually I reckon she's managed more productive revision than she woudl have done otherwise.

However, I might change my mind depending on how the first exam this afternoon (Chemistry AS) went...

Hey, this is a support group for traumatised parents, not students! Isaidheyhoney, glad he coped OK - that bodes well for the rest. Enjoy your massage!

None of the students doing the paper that I was invigilating looked traumatised which seems good .

There was someone who got given tissues although not by me - you're not in Bedfordshire are you?

It's not just boys, I have a girl who has handed in incomplete coursework, after repeated nagging as well!

Hope he manages it bumpsoon. Hopefully he'll have learnt from his mistake & be better organised for A-level.

he completed 90% of it ,so has scraped a C on the coursework ,so he is going to have to do really well in the exam if he wants a B . I spoke toi the teacher and she says she must of asked him about 20 times for it , i asked at home all the time and he kept ssaying 'yeah ive done it ,its at school '. He wants to do this subject at A level too

Oh dear bumpsoon, did he hand anything in at all, or just something that wasn't quite finished? Did the school chase him for it at all? I guess it's too late to worry about now, and nothing really to be gained by throttling him ... but teenagers!

Yeah good luck everyone too!

my ds casually dropped in to conversation that he hadnt completed his coursework for one subject !!!!! i am currently working out if the patio would be above the damp proof course if i buried him under it

DS in yr 10 but doing GCSE exam tomorrow. It's only 40 mins and he got an A in the mock without revising which apparently means that he doesn't have to do any revision.

I do find it hard not to nag but ultimately it's up to him. I won't be there hanging over his shoulder when he's at university so probably best to get them in the habit of being self motivated now (or not ).

ARGHHH.Thats all.

Dreading biology tomorrow as not his best subject...or at least he doesn't think so.I'm mostly worried about time management and understanding that just because Biology and rs are this week it doesn't mean you shouldn't have a look at next weeks subjects as well.

Start study leave today,can't believe this si happening only seems five minutes since he was in reception and I was worrying about whether he would be able to manage his plimsolls for PE!