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Anyone want to join a year 13 UCAS THREAD?

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JesusChristOtterStar · 07/11/2009 21:05

We can join in stressing about ucas forms interviews etc?

I am finding it all a very steep learning curve - we could support one another - celebrate and commiserate?

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ajandjjmum · 19/06/2010 09:01

I think it was considered pretty tough by all of DS's friends Posy - but he said he thought he'd struggled more than most. He's just been looking through what he needs to do, and if he gets a high score on the one Maths retake he did, he might just scrape an A grade overall.

Poor kid - he'd worked really hard.

Just trying to convince him at the moment that 'what will be, will be', and life has a funny way of working out for the best.

At least he can have a bit of a rest this weekend - next exam is not until Friday.

Good luck everyone who spending the weekend making cups of tea and passing on words of wisdom!

mumoverseas · 19/06/2010 09:45

got an email from DS this morning about his AS maths exam yesterday (think was statistics?) Apparently he had a REALLY bad headache and asked for tablets which they got him but didn't have any effect and he had to leave a bit early (I think?) and go to the san (med centre?) Apparently the nurse/someone said that they would make a note of this on his exam paper?

Not sure if this is right but doesn't sound promising for the grade he needs Think he has been getting a lot of headaches recently and am hoping its just eyestrain down to lots of studying. will get him checked out at opticians though as soon as I'm home.
Thank god all his exams are over now though and fingers crossed for everyone who still has some

webwiz · 19/06/2010 14:31

I think sometimes the amount of stress put on kids with these exams is so high especially if they are aspiring to top universities. I am very cross with DD2's head of sixth form who seems to do nothing but moan at them and be negative about their chances.

Hope your DS feels better mumoverseas now that exams are over, a big cloud has certainly lifted from our house. DD2's friend came out of the stats exam and burst into floods of tears, she needs high grades and has found the Maths AS harder than she expected.

I had a lazy teen and now I have a hard working one and it doesn't seem easier either way.

JGBMum · 19/06/2010 15:46

MABS thanks for the kind offer, , DS has been focussed on exams and has not managed to find any sort of work placement over the summer. Am a bit cross with his school careers who told him they would only give him information on local companies that take engineering students if he went back to them with a list of companies he was going to approach. As he was trying to revise for 9 AS module exams at the time, it kind of fell off his to-do list.
Do you know if it will adversely affect his chances of getting offers? He was chosen to take part in the Engineering in Education scheme, so I'm hoping that might "do", but obviously a summer placement would be better.

MABS · 19/06/2010 15:57

i will ask dh, where are you based?

JGBMum · 19/06/2010 16:02

MABS Wiltshire, but have friends/family in other parts of country too.

mumoverseas · 19/06/2010 16:10
Milliways · 19/06/2010 21:09

GOod luck to everyone, and hope the waiting isn't too bad

I can't believe it was a year ago that DD came crying out of her C4 exam! (When results arrived she had only got a C in that module so glad A* hadn't been invented!). She arrived home today, having finished her 1st Uni year, and we have just been looking at photos of the Balls & Parties.

PosyPetrovaPauline · 19/06/2010 22:47

thanks milliways!
A* is a real downer on this year for ds.... feels so unfair really but hey ho

MABS · 22/06/2010 07:00

Dh said that he doesn't see that not doing a work placement will make a difference, tho said that BA are setting up a new work experience engineering scheme from Sept so may be worth contacting them. He things the Education in Eng course is highly thought of though.

Mos - stupid rule re bulkhead, totally agree

JGBMum · 22/06/2010 12:33

MABS - thanks for response. Will look into the BA scheme,but tbh it's not the easiest website to find relevant information on!
DS has his last exam today, (in about half an hour), good luck to him and anyone else still sitting exams.

MABS · 22/06/2010 21:35

JGB - CAT me and i will email you the boss of the dept's email address, don't want to post in on here tho!

JGBMum · 23/06/2010 18:58

MABS - Aaargh! I dont know how to CAT!

I've signed up to send and receive them so that should help but I cant see what to do

JGBMum · 23/06/2010 19:35

Oops, I've figured it out, can I blame it on a blond-ish moment?

MABS · 25/06/2010 20:47

you get my reply jgb?

JGBMum · 25/06/2010 21:00

MABS - yes, thank you. I did send an email reply but our email is being rather temperamental so I assume you haven't received it?

Thank you for your incredible help - DS1 has worked up a draft email to send out - just needs a little tweaking over the weekend, and he will send it on Sunday. (from his PC - not mine)

Will keep you posted, and thanks again for your encouragement. And sorry again that you though I hadn't replied. jgb

MABS · 25/06/2010 21:10

no worry at all, good luck!

PosyPetrovaPauline · 28/06/2010 20:49

All done here and no real catastrophe so fingers crossed for August!

ajandjjmum · 29/06/2010 16:22

DS just finished his last exam - flags are out. Until mid August at least!!

Happy summer everybody!

JGBMum · 29/06/2010 23:02

MABS Thankyou! Thankyou! Thankyou!

Your lovely contact has replied to DS and we are taking things forward

PosyPetrovaPauline · 30/06/2010 20:44

ugh results are really late this year iirc???? prolonging the agony

Sweeedes · 01/07/2010 23:02

Just back from DS1's graduation ceremony at school. I feel a bit tearful, even though he's pleased to have finished with school now.

Thank goodness it's all over. Good Luck to everyone's DCs with their results. And don't worry too much if they don't get there. It will be a wonderful life lesson to have to ad lib and do something different should they miss their offers.

I hope they all have really brilliant summers, and don't you dare mention exams until results day to them.

Yes, fingers esp crossed to those with the new A* in their offer.

MABS · 07/08/2010 09:31

just saw this jgbmum, dh asked me about it yesterday, so is ds getting work exp at ba? if not, email me again with his name and dh said he will pull some strings :)

mumoverseas · 07/08/2010 09:50

anyone else got a stroppy teenager? Mine is awful at the moment and I know its due to the countdown to results day

pippop1 · 07/08/2010 16:22

It's not long now though is it. DS2 is very confident (needs 3 x A) for Durham. I am less so. Still insurance choice is Edinburgh with 3 x B so he's got a nice wide spread of grades. He's going to need a warm coat either way!

On results day for DS1 I bought a large plastic box and went to a large pharmacy and bought one of everything I could think of that he might need first-aid wise. Then I painted a big red cross on the box with nail varnish and presented it to him as the first going-to-uni item.