Last term of Year 13. Gulp.

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All welcome no matter which path your dc have chosen.

presumably he finished 2 mins ago at 4.05. A long long paper. I feel much calmer now. Had a nap. Twins revising peacefully.

Waiting for DD to appear.

DS is starting his driving lesson from college today. I neglected to ask him at what time although I did remember to pay for it. This is significant because I changed the lock today to the all singing, dancing, best there is and he doesn't have the key for it. At least I remembered this before I went out.

AQA biology

He's returned in excellent spirits, slightly dazed, saying he wrote pages about Cassio and Confrontation in Streetcar and he was excited to write about Cassio/Tom Hiddleston.. He's pleased so I am pleased, but reading between the lines I think his answers were pretty simplistic, but anyway, at least he is buoyant now, and I think this will carry him onto the next batch of revision. I'm holding my tongue except on here. He even mentioned a question on King Lear and Cordelia, and wanting to answer that (except of course it is not his set text, and no "open book" to reference)

DD found English Lit hard but had a good go at it. She says there was a useless question on Cassio from Othello which was too difficult because there are no critic quotes in him.

Streetcar was hard and all of her friends seem to have answered the conflict question from different starting points.

She seems ok but not as happy as she was with the History paper yesterday.

And his parting shot was "So you See Mum, "Disgust" did not come up"

Ds used a critic quote from a TV review recently saying that Tom Hiddleston was the best thing in Othello oh dear...He decided against any AO5 elements - he made this decision earlier on. Ds1 is very literal. He took confrontation to mean arguing. And his whole essay was on people arguing, but he managed to miss out Blanche arguing with Allan, and the Varsouviana (I didn't ask about the Varsouviana but I imagine he missed it out if he didn't remember Allan) And the trimming of fingernails at the end..

C'est La Vie!

lol Nettle!

Welcome pretending and Ifancy

nettles your comment about worrying reminded me of my favourite line from a film - in Bridge of Spies, Tom Hanks' character keeps saying "aren't you worried?" and the answer is "would it help?" It's helped me a few times when I'm stressing over something I have no control over (not EVERY time - I'm only human)

Gosh it's busy today!

Pretending thank you and welcome.

Another exam ticked off. DD not happy with English Lit. Says unseen was ok but waffled a lot with the others. Laughing with friend just now so surviving at present.

I've got Tudors covered for the pub team, and will be ok on American dream by next week.

I'm on flash card duty from Saturday morning.

Re results day. DS woke up two years ago to a welcome email from his uni. Most didn't seem to get that though. We were in school at 7, and I think track didn't go on line until 8.

I remember the STEP thing though, with people getting the worst after bad STEP results but coming ok on the A*s needed

Dd said English went terrible
Shakespeare fine and loved but the second half no
She wanted a B but Said she feels like she will get EEE
She’s in tears, distraught didn’t help they only began preparing for the second half of the paper 5 weeks ago

Oh no Fantasy I am so very sorry to hear that. Your poor, poor daughter - she just doesn't seem to get any luck. to her and to you. I really hope that life is going to be kinder to her very soon.

DD pretty happy with English. Thought the Cassio question was poor so did Identity. A friend of hers who is going to Oxford had to submit some essays a while back. He chose Identity in Othello and spent a month researching it so that fell lucky for him.

She did confrontation in Streetcar. They recently did a timed essay on conflict so she just swapped the words.

Fingers crossed

Dc had Business which wAs ‘alright’. Longer 1uestions -okay. Shorter questions -okayish.

DS1 said he had no clue for the initial questions (Shakespeare?), but there were extracts so he just analysed the text that was there.

For the 'essay' part, he said he performed slightly better and was able to make two good points.

All in all, he is glad he decided to sit the paper and thinks he has probably gained at least some marks in the essay section.

He needs about 80 marks (out of 200) for an E. He already has 20 marks from the coursework, and hopes to get 30-40 marks in paper 2.

Oh no Fantasy. Your DD is having such a horrible time just now. I hope she can come through this

Ursula my DD did the same essays!! So weird!
Really sorry Fantasy!! Seems like her school has let her down in so many fronts. Really hoping the other two English papers go better for her!

marmite
There’s only one more English paper. It is her best where she gets A’s/A*s on it. Dd is OCR. The English teacher has failed them all really🙄 it was a little bit silly to prepare for the exam 5 weeks before. Seems unfair
loni
She truly is having a bad time
chocolate
Thankyou

What does your DD want to do marmite?

Evening all,

Fantasy I really would be tempted to go on Secondary Educatuon here and name and shame the school once she has severed all ties. So sorry your daughter is having a tough time.

Lashings - loved the description of the creaking Sandles and heavy breathing invigalator!

For the pub quiz team I could cover any MFL questions. Live in Europe and have to use my MFL everyday.

Ds not a flash card user. Don’t know if I should be relieved or a bit disappointed I don’t get to “help out”.

Results day is a little different here. Last exam on 2 July and results are sent out by email at 5pm on 4 July. They go to the child’s school email address and the parents emails addresses. Graduation is on the 6th.

We have to submit them online to UCAS as they don’t get them automatically. So if he misses his offer we may have a wait to know if they will still take him.

I have taken to afternoon off so I can be there when he opens the email. Less than 4 weeks to go.

Fantasy first half of your dd's paper was good though, that is something. I think ds really bodged up the second question on confrontation but he's not aware of it- I'm sure she hasn't done as badly as she thinks, if she has the insight to know she didn't write as well as she wanted to..ifysim. In some ways 5 weeks before can be helpful as the material is quite fresh in their minds, I know that ds has well nigh forgotten his Frankenstein from Year 12 and the Poems of the Decade, it is like starting from scratch it was so long ago.

Ursula, well done for your dd preparing so well with the timed essays.
Marmite - turns out ds was using Kermode quotes, I now think he must have put lots of ideas down, whether they were structured I don't know but all credit for him for his ideas in the first place, so I am feeling better about it all and am not going to pry further, tempting though it may be..

third what a relief. As you say, a few marks add up in every paper.

Checking in :)

It's a no-exam day for DS. I rushed home from work to feed him and generally flutter around being quite useless. He's sitting with a physics textbook and the dog. He is paying more attention to the dog

Fantasy sorry for your DD and you know she might not have done as badly as she thinks

OYBBK That sounds horrendous. Sorry about the STEP things - I actually didn't realise they could form part of an offer until I read the other thread. Good luck to your DD.