DSD is worried about how few fee periods she's go - about one a day - of 40 minutes. They've told them to expect 4 hours homework per subject per week, and as she's doing 4 subjects for now that's a lot of work, which is making her anxious. Unfortunately being anxious does not make her work harder, it makes it all overwhelming for her and her productivity goes down. The easier the work and the more in control she feels, the harder she works. Am hoping her teachers realise this and pile on the praise not the pressure. Does anyone know if they really get 4 hours per subject per week? She's doing essay subjects, not sciences.
DS, meanwhile, does not start til next week so is having a lazy week at home, on his own mostly as I'm out at work. Bought a quiche and some filled pasta to feed him what should have been 4 lunches, but he's eaten it all today 
Bloody teenage boys 
His sixth form use the aptitude tests too I think - they sound a bit like the ones they did at the start of Y7 - used alongside previous results to generate target grades. DS didn't do that well in his Y6 SATs, so his target grades were mostly Bs, which they still kept showing on his reports right up to GCSE time, and even when he'd got an A in his mock and his predicted grade was an A - that he should somehow be aiming for a "target" of a B 
I think the sixth form maybe use them for setting kids too.