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Last term of Year 13. Gulp.

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OhYouBadBadKitten · 31/05/2018 22:42

Can you believe it? Shock

last thread

All welcome no matter which path your dc have chosen.

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HesMyLobster · 06/06/2018 22:36

Oops! Good luck Biologists too! (And any other subjects I have missed)

DD1 has a break now until History 2 on Wednesday.

UrsulaPandress · 06/06/2018 22:58

I think DD is Othello and Streetcar tomorrow.

Hope she knows.

Icouldbeknitting · 06/06/2018 23:20

HesMyLobster "relief I think that the first one is done and the world didn't end" describes it perfectly. If mine can get through Friday (English Language round two) then I can start uncrossing my fingers because that will be his worst subject finished.

likelyLilac · 06/06/2018 23:54

gnome some invigilators are awful aren't they? Dd1 asked for extra paper in an exam at gcse apparently she wasn't polite enough so the invigilator decided to give her a quick lecture on pleases and thank you's in the last 5 minutes of her exam. While I appreciate manners are important so were her GCSEs!
I guess most are great because you don't get many stories about them but when they get it wrong it is awful!
Thankfully DD did good in the exam anyway (B when she expected a C).

littledrummergirl · 07/06/2018 00:02

Ds1 has biology tomorrow, he sat in the garden to revise today which was lovely.
Ds2 has maths, it's nice watching them being ticked off the list.

Good luck to everyone for tomorrow.

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OhYouBadBadKitten · 07/06/2018 07:23

Good luck people for today! Another one to tick off the calendar for you.

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UrsulaPandress · 07/06/2018 07:30

Dd enthusiastically scribbles each completed exam from her printed timetable.

I had a weird dream that I was sitting my English exam today. It did not go well.

Nettleskeins · 07/06/2018 08:05

I haven't slept at all except for a brief bit at the beginning and end of the night. Dh sent me a text in the middle of the night and then... I've identified that I'm anxious about ds1's exam!! what a surprise Hmm kept dreaming and then waking up in a panic, that I was giving him advice and then I remembered one more piece and it was too late...administers smelling salts to self...honestly must stop this..

At one point I decided that ds1 was awake and whistling and went down to tell him off (assuming he was still up)BUT it was the gentle tweeting of birds outside just before dawn, not ds at all Blush luckily I didn't get as far as waking him. He has slept well I think/hope. Still asleep.

Dd has gone off to her Maths very cheerfully (she loves Maths) and ds2 is about to emerge before he goes to his Maths exam. We had a bit of a petractor mini-crisis last night, and then ds1 decided to go on an ""anxiety overspill"wander to Tesco at 9.30pm to buy pens [all petractors sold out of course) One appeared at bottom of her bag anyway. They are really quite chilled both of them.

This morning I am thinking through various plan B's for ds1's life/retakes if he starts worrying. He is so fixed on Plan A atm that I don't want to rock boat at the moment though. We will get through the next few weeks first.

I'm beginning to realise why my mum was so calm when I failed my A levels first time around. Parents are wonderful.

UrsulaPandress · 07/06/2018 08:11

I know. I am dreading results day. Although they seem to find out the night before with an email from the Uni they have got into I believe.

UrsulaPandress · 07/06/2018 08:13

Posted too soon. I meant I'm imagining her coming downstairs in tears of joy or despair depending on who the email is from.

Aaaaaargh.

Nettleskeins · 07/06/2018 08:32

gnome just read your post about the exam invigiliators, I love the ending Grin on a more serious note I'm so glad your dd complained. Dd once told me how the invigilator was standing in such a way as to block her view of the clock and she got so frustrated that she put her hand up and summoned him and told him he was annoying her (in so many words) and he hurriedly moved..

marmiteloversunite · 07/06/2018 08:32

Ursula I think our girls are doing very similar things in English and History. Nice to hear how others are getting on. I couldn't sleep last
night but that was due to the terrible hay fever this week.

Good luck to all today!!

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OhYouBadBadKitten · 07/06/2018 08:35

I had a mini panic about results day in the middle of the night. I don't even know what triggered it. In the day time I'm fine. It is worrying about dds reaction when she gets her results.

STEP results come out at midnight before UCAS opens. Why would they do that? If they fail them they have to wait until daytime to find out if they've been pooled/taken/rejected anyway. It's just another level of cruelty. I don't know if dd knows that, I'm not raising it with her.

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Nettleskeins · 07/06/2018 08:35

just to warn you Ursula, sometimes the Insurance sends a congratulatory email too. It is quite confusing. They want you to keep them as an option in case you drop out mid term of your firm, so they positively reinforce with congratulations..

We must stop worrying. It won't make the slightest bit of difference whether we worry or not. Except to make everyone around us miserable.

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OhYouBadBadKitten · 07/06/2018 08:35

This seems like a really long week.

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lashingsofgingerbeer · 07/06/2018 08:42

DD deposited at school & will be mid-flow in Biology exam now. A little calmer than first exam & even requested my soothing song choice in the car! During GCSEs DD got rather cross about an invigilator with creaky sandals & heavy breathing 😂

pretendingtobechilled · 07/06/2018 08:43

Just found this thread belatedly.

raspberryrippleicecream - my DD was also doing History A Level - Tudors - and described the paper to me and it does sound really hard, with questions on tiny topics that there wasn't enough to write about. So I imagine grade boundaries will be low.

marmiteloversunite · 07/06/2018 08:59

Hi Pretending! Welcome to the madhouseGrinGrinGrin

marmiteloversunite · 07/06/2018 09:01

OYBBK I think it is going to be s very long fortnight!! This time in two weeks we will be done but that seems a long , long way away!

FantasyAndHope · 07/06/2018 09:33

OYBK
I hate them mini panics you have

Welcome pretending

Dd passed out last night she’s just texted to say she’s just woke up. Feeling weak and tired. It’s english lit today and apparently you either know the texts or you don’t.
Last exam of the week! Hurray. Then next week

Icouldbeknitting · 07/06/2018 09:47

I'm not even close to thinking about results day, I'll be just having a victory procession every time he gets to the end of a paper. He doesn't have a clue when the results come out and I'm not going to tell him. As soon as he's finished his last exam he will be getting a list of things I need help with and that should keep him occupied. There's an awful lot of wood in the garage that needs sawing into 8" lengths and boxes of Lego to sort.

LizzieB72 · 07/06/2018 10:09

I am now starting to panic about DS2's results, he really needs an A in maths, and after yesterday's paper, he doesn't think he will get it.. :-(
He has worked so hard.....
9 exams to go..

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OhYouBadBadKitten · 07/06/2018 10:15

Welcome Pretending! We are all quite crackers round here Grin

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TheThirdOfHerName · 07/06/2018 10:17

DS1's 'expected grades' could be anything at this point. CCD would be great, but I think CCE is more likely.

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OhYouBadBadKitten · 07/06/2018 10:18

ok. So we have the rest of this week, two more really full weeks, then a final double booked exam on the 25th. Then it's done.

The problem is, that my work is really full on at the moment (you wouldn't know it from the number of my posts today!) and I'm bloody knackered too.

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