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A-Level Exams In This Heat

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PersianCatLady · 20/06/2017 13:17

Hi,

My DS (17) has just left the house to go to school to sit one of his A-Level exams and I am really concerned about this heat.

He has just told me that the room they sit their exams in has no windows and there is no A/C or fans.

AIBU to be concerned about the kids who am sitting exams today and the effect that this heat will have on them and their results??

Thanks

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araiwa · 20/06/2017 13:19

The only reason i want it to stop being hot is to end all of these threads about it being hot

Alittlepotofrosie · 20/06/2017 13:22

It's always hot in the summer when the exams are on. Im sure he will survive for a few hours in a hot room. Hopefully your little snowflake won't melt.

TisGlorious · 20/06/2017 13:22

The exam room has no windows? are you sure he's not exaggerating a bit?

hackmum · 20/06/2017 13:23

Same here, OP - DD is sitting A-levels. She has two today. Yesterday she was wilting while trying to revise.

I stuck a bottle of water in the freezer last night for her to take today - it means she can sip on iced water but also hold it to her face if she gets too hot!

alltouchedout · 20/06/2017 13:23

I am going to start a tally of how many times I hear or read the phrase "in this heat" before the lovely weather ends and we go back to our normal damp gloom.

LIZS · 20/06/2017 13:24

If it is a gym or sports hall the windows are at roof level. Dd is sitting gcses yesterday and today in similar although they have promised fans etc where possible.

dingit · 20/06/2017 13:25

Another one with a dd sitting exams in a school gym which is stifling. I don't know about your dc, but mine is exhausted, I feel really sorry for her

Eolian · 20/06/2017 13:26

People seem to manage in hotter countries.

LeannePerrins · 20/06/2017 13:26

The exam room has no windows? hmm are you sure he's not exaggerating a bit?

I'd say that the majority of exam rooms have no windows. Most schools use the sports hall.

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PersianCatLady · 20/06/2017 13:31

The exam room has no windows? are you sure he's not exaggerating a bit?
I know the room has no windows in it because I remember complaining about it when I sat my GCSE exams in it 22 years ago.

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PersianCatLady · 20/06/2017 13:33

It's always hot in the summer when the exams are on. Im sure he will survive for a few hours in a hot room. Hopefully your little snowflake won't melt
It is not always this hot at exam time.

Also he is not a snowflake, luckily he is quite tolerant of the heat and this is the first time ever he has complained of being too hot.

In my OP I specifically said that I was concerned about all of the kids sitting exams today, not just him.

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Alittlepotofrosie · 20/06/2017 13:33

And yet you seem to have survived op.

pigsDOfly · 20/06/2017 13:35

What do you think is going to happen to him OP?

He's almost an adult. People have to go to work, some of them travelling in hot trains and crowded buses, and on the hot stuffy underground 'in this heat'. Most of them manage to cope.

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PersianCatLady · 20/06/2017 13:35

The only reason i want it to stop being hot is to end all of these threads about it being hot
No-one asked you to read my post, you could have just not bothered to read it but you still couldn't stop yourself having a little whinge.

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dingit · 20/06/2017 13:36

It's going to be the hottest June for 40 years tomorrow. Hotter countries are better equipped for the heat. I'm considering picking dd up after her morning exam. She has two buses to catch to come home, normally I wouldn't bother, but I shall try and make life a bit easier for her, and I'm someone that doesn't usually wrap my kids in cotton wool.

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PersianCatLady · 20/06/2017 13:37

Same here, OP - DD is sitting A-levels. She has two today. Yesterday she was wilting while trying to revise
I hope it goes well for her and thanks for posting because I just wanted to know if other people felt the same way about their kids.

I didn't realise that some people were so unsympathetic.

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JustMumNowNotMe · 20/06/2017 13:39

He's almost an adult. People have to go to work, some of them travelling in hot trains 1and crowded buses, and on the hot stuffy underground 'in this heat'. Most of them manage to cope

Exactly this! It astounds me on here how much parents seem to infantalise their teen/adult children, its a wonder theyget throughthe day unscathed 😂😂😂

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PersianCatLady · 20/06/2017 13:39

I'm someone that doesn't usually wrap my kids in cotton wool
Neither do I, but I am surprised that some people think that I am some how precious for worrying about sitting exams in this heat.

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LaurieFairyCake · 20/06/2017 13:41

Try not to be concerned as the exams are marked according to grade boundaries

The weather might mean that across the board results are down on hot days but it won't make any difference to the actual grade he gets.

MissBax · 20/06/2017 13:42

It is crap - we seem to be so unprepared for various weather conditions in the UK. When it floods we're unprepared, when there's a heatwave we're unprepared! I work in a hospital and couldn't believe the heat yesterday inside - I kept thinking, in hotter countries they'd have air-conditioning. It can't be good for children and the elderly.
Hope your DS manages OP!

specialsubject · 20/06/2017 13:44

Not fun, but has to be dealt with. Take a big water bottle with ice cubes in the water.

If he gets an office job he will have to get used to this.

Maudlinmaud · 20/06/2017 13:47

Yeah it's shit op. I don't cope well in the heat and I'm glad I'm not sitting my a levels at the moment. My teens are sitting exams at the moment but it's not too hot here.
Sods law though.
Exams = hot weather.
School holidays = pissing rain.
And don't even get me started on blazers+exams+soaring temperature cos that = madness!

Allthebestnamesareused · 20/06/2017 13:47

I am in invigilator. In some rooms the air con is better than others and usually the sports halls are coolest.

However I am surprised at the number of kids still turning up in hoodies in this heat!

grannytomine · 20/06/2017 13:48

They will survive. My DD did her finals at uni in a side room with a bucket because she couldn't stop vomiting. She had a place on a grad scheme and couldn't afford to take her exams late as she would have lost her place. It is amazing how people cope.

dingit · 20/06/2017 13:48

I thought that about the grade boundaries Lauriefairycake, but there will be places that are cooler than others. However there's not a lot I can do, other than carry on worrying about her.
I'm going to try and persuade her to rest tomorrow as she doesn't have an exam Thursday, she won't though!

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