Thread 32 - Corona Cohort 'May' the Mumsnet force be with them for their venture to exams

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This is a thread for supporting all young people post GCSEs 2020, regardless of their educational setting. It is respectfully requested that all are supportive and helpful to each other. If you want to start a debate, e.g state vs private, please don't within this thread. Please also be sensitive when responding to threads about grades.

Some of us have been here since first thread back in yr10, some will be new. Everyone has been friendly and helpful in the past. Everyone is welcome. It is hoped this will continue.

Our DS/DD may go down various paths (such as employment, apprenticeships, higher ed) We have decided for anyone interested they will most likely find us within the Further Ed board.

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CONGRATULATIONS ZEBRACAT !

I mean I only did further maths for a year.

Yeh - I gave up further maths too. Don't think I lasted a year 😆

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I’m sorry @Monkey2001 for the limbo you are in. Really difficult.
no study leave here, just continuous revision lessons and clinics. But at his school if he doesn’t have scheduled lessons he can be at home, so he is about half in and half home which is a good mix for him I think.
Amazing how many of us did physics A level - me physics Chem Biology in 1986 and had practicals in all three. Not sure of the board - oxford & Cambridge? Was that a thing?

@Shimy They all wear their old primary uniforms. Apparently it's a thing?

She still fits her Year 6 Leavers' Hoodie, so that will do. Good thing I bought it in the generous size!

First exam for DS tomorrow (French speaking). Still waiting for him to start revising 😱 He's currently in his room gaming. I've given up!

I didn't go to a girls school or do A levels in maths, physics or chemistry. Can I still be a member of the group 🤞

That must be purgatory, Monkey. I’m glad you, and DS are able to be so stoic about the situation.

DD has had her geography NEA mark back - 62/80, which looks like an A by 2019 boundaries, so she’s over the moon.

DS got his GCSE drama coursework mark back - 58/60, so he’s happy too.

Leavers’ hoodies ordered and paid for…it’s all feeling very real now. 😮

Sorry you are still in a state of limbo @Monkey2001 , it must feel rather unsettling.
Does anyone know where to find 2019 grade boundaries for aqa history nea? Dd found out she’s got 30/40 today and thinks she might be a B?

I think that would be a B @cariadambyth as I looked it up for dd who got 32 and that was just an A.

love the golf/goth confusion 😂Dd has gone to her pub crawl dressed as a cowgirl. Her old school dress up in secondary uniform on the last day, so she had to lend hers to a friend who no longer had it! We’ve not kept primary uniform though so that would be problematic for us!

Good luck to all those starting exams this week! And @Monkey2001 i really hope Newcastle comes through for your ds.

@Monkey2001 it is just as well you know exactly what medicine entails, still fingers crossed for some good news.
@mummyinbeds there is nothing you can do. My DS2 is bored of studying, we are on the 2nd week of study leave. He’s sat 3 exams, and done his Spanish oral, and it’s still not made him worry.
DS1 continues to work hard, got all of his 3 chem results back and is right on the A border. He got C in his mocks, which was a big kick up the backside. study leave starts on Friday for him.

Here you go cariad, looks like 30 is a B but only 32 for an A so you never know

DD had her language oral exam send got her first written paper in two weeks even though study llueve doesn't study until after the whit holidays.
Who knows - by then she may have heard from Durham?

@cariadambyth I wouldn’t’ ‘sweat over’ the NEA given the percentage awarded is only 20% (?) of the overall grade.
I’d be more of the mind that ‘its done and dusted’ now and your DD just needs to ‘crack on’ with her revision for the examined papers - if that makes sense?

@singingstones she's not doing history but I'm really surprised at those grade boundaries - seems low for an A*. Things look a lot more achievable if other subjects are the same.

OMG so many typos sorry!

Thanks everyone. I’m very much of the ‘crack on’ mindset at the moment. In a way, I can’t wait for the exams to start so we can at least start ticking them off and move on. It’s all a bit much isn’t it?!

@KingscoteStaff I see. The hoodie is a good compromise, can't see how anyone could fit into their yr 6 uniform.
@mummyinbeds You sound very much like where I was with ds1. He continued to game throughout his A'levels, through exams and beyond. He also got the grades commensurate with that but good enough to go to uni where he is doing well now so don't lose hope.
Re: Physics, I went to an all girls school , the closest I got to physics is DH whose first degree is in Physics. Funny lots on this thread went to a single sex school.

Yes and remember this year is supposed to be easier than 2019 @NCTDN
This thought is what keeps me going while DS messes about instead of revising.

I went to a comprehensive and did humanities and French! I wanted to do Maths but they couldn’t timetable it to go with history and geography.

@Shimy dd could actually fit into her year 6 uniform if we’d kept it! She was tall all through primary with size 7 feet by about year 5, but she hit puberty in year 6 and stopped growing then, so now she’s a very average 5 foot 4/5. She wore the same blazer and skirts from year 7 to year 11 - saved me some money!

@KingscoteStaff we wouldn't have any primary uniform, even though my youngest is only year 8. They didn't get leavers hoodies.

@Shimy Ds would probably fit his primary uniform if we had it. I've said before he's small. @crazycrofter Ds also wore the same 2 jumpers in secondary from year 7 to year 11. I did buy him a bigger size but he said they were itchy. The jumper was huge in year 7 the pe kit looked ridiculous on him too. He grew into it eventually.

A family member of mine came over from Italy and did Physics at a very well known uni in London ...ended up still there 40 years later! I shall bask in her glory as I got a D at GCSE 😎

@crazycrofter That sounds very typical of girls. The girls in ds's class by year 8 all looked like young ladies, there were a few girls who were about 5ft 8 or 9 by yr 6. But they all stopped growing from then onwards and now don't look quite so tall.
@icanbewhatiwant Glad to see i'm not the only one with a dinky ds . DS is 5ft 5, how tall is your DS? luckily he decided early on if he can't stretch upwards he'd at least expand sideways, so he's got a nice muscly bod which he is very proud of.

@OrangeCinnamonCroissant That definitely qualifies! I didn't even do Physics for GCSE, it was an optional subject at my school and I was hopeless at Maths, so I chose Biology and Chemistry.

‘Combined science’ GCSE here - much to the disgust of my scientist dad. I think we were the pilot year for the combined science idea!

@Shimy I didn't do physics GCSE either. My sister had just got a U for her o level so I refused. I remember school calling my parents in to try and persuade me to do it as I came top of the year in the year 9 exams. I wanted to do drama; I compromised with Computer Science 🤣 DH did A level physics so maybe I qualify by default. He went to the same school as Isaac Newton ( a few years later) so physics was pretty much compulsory.