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Is it too early for an A level support thread!

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HereWeGo2023 · 04/05/2023 10:08

Hello all, apologies if there is already a thread but I can’t find one.
May had finally rolled around and the first exam is a mere 2 weeks away. Exam stress has hit our house! It’s feels like everything is about waiting at the moment - waiting for the predicted grades, waiting for the uni offers, waiting for the exams to start, and then the long wait for the results!
This is our youngest DD but the first one in further education so would love to chat to other parents going through this

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GayPareeee · 25/05/2023 15:15

I'm not sure, he should be getting special consideration anyway as I had cancer surgery on his first psychology exam. It's awfyl, I've worked in a uni for 20+ years, did Admissions for 10+ of them (ie first to see a level results on the friday/sat and worked through the weekend so by results day decisions had been taken on most) and yet he is keeping me at arms length and I'm in bits being on the other side.

So, if I can help answer any queries about what unis do please feel free to ask and I'll do my best

PacificState · 25/05/2023 16:04

Sorry to hear that @GayPareeee Sounds like you've both had a very rough time of it.

L1ttledrummergirl · 25/05/2023 16:20

Dd is home. She said today's psychology paper was OK. Very happy.

Titsywoo · 25/05/2023 16:31

Dd is doing edexcel psychology and was happy with the paper except for one question which was worded weirdly and noone understood. She answered it in full anyway and feels pretty confident with the whole paper.

Off to spend the evening with her boyfriend now having dinner and drinks - well deserved! Hope everyone elses dc are feeling ok about the exam.

GayPareeee · 25/05/2023 16:32

DS is back too and said it was better than he was hoping, he survived and is just wiped out but nothing now until after half term. Thank you for the support!

KittyMcKitty · 25/05/2023 16:33

@GayPareeee gosh it sounds like you have a lot to deal with at the moment. Hope your treatment runs smoothly. Also hope your ds was OK with the exam.

Dd cam out of psychology (AQA) very upbeat (this is totally out of character for her) and is now home and watching The Devil Wears Prada.

Hope all other dc with exams today are feeling OK.

Neversaygoodbye · 25/05/2023 16:40

Happy DD here too with AQA psychology. Much better than she was expecting. Time to chill for a few days.

PacificState · 25/05/2023 16:42

Glad our young people seem to be having less distressing afternoons than yesterday! DS happy with Further Maths and can decompress a bit for half term now.

PacificState · 25/05/2023 16:54

(I should say having seen some discussion on Twitter that DS is sitting OCR not Edexcel - lots of people saying Edexcel was quite tricky)

Plasmodesmata · 25/05/2023 17:02

Quite tricky might be an understatement. Son's comment "it was actually foul".
He didn't enjoy Physics much yesterday either. History was good though so at least there's one exam that didn't try to throw massive curve balls. This isn't really the year for curve balls seeing as they didn't even sit proper GCSEs - would it have been too much to ask to have exams that weren't weird?

Panicmode1 · 25/05/2023 17:09

DD said there was one 8 marker on the psychology paper that wasn't anything they'd done or seen - but she managed to 'cobble something together'. Seemed ok about the rest of it. She's gone straight off to the library to start the dreaded (by her!) biology revision in earnest.

MarshaBradyo · 25/05/2023 17:12

Ds did Edexcel Further Maths

Was smiling on walking in, said it was hard but good.

Feel as invested as I was with my own exams 😬

KittyMcKitty · 25/05/2023 17:20

@Panicmode1 dd is doing Biology also
but that should 🤞🏻be ok - the possible spanner in the works here is Chemistry.

GinandDubonnet · 25/05/2023 17:25

Glad it went well @GayPareeee.

AQA further maths for DD and she said it went well so that’s a relief. Her next exam is not until after half term.

@GMH1974 DD doing Chemistry at uni.

Travelban · 25/05/2023 17:43

Good to see so many getting through their first hurdles. Dd1 has to wait another 2 weeks until her exams kick in, but luckily is getting some revision in. Still not too stressed but I am sure it will come as we get closer. Dreading it ... 😫

mondaytosunday · 25/05/2023 18:07

My daughter also quite happy with Psychology, though said if she thought it ok so did many others so boundary higher! Hand aches but she didn't need any rest breaks as not as much writing as History. That's it til after half term! Having a takeaway to celebrate!

ZittiEBuoni · 26/05/2023 08:10

Glad your ds managed to make it through his exam @GayPareeee , hope he did well - sounds like you could both do with some smooth to go with the rough Flowers.

Dd had her official last A-level Music lesson yesterday - an emotional experience, as they all adore their teacher, who is leaving at the end of term. He will be very much missed.

ono40 · 26/05/2023 11:24

DS was happy with yesterday's AQA Psychology - so good to have a bit of a break now until after half term but then it is back with a bang and three exams one after the other.

GayPareeee · 26/05/2023 11:27

It is so lovely for them to have a break (have a DD doing GCSEs too - she's 12 down 11 to go) - best of lunch if anyone's sitting exams today?

DD's best friend has a clash after after half term so has to be chaperoned and stay late for her third, on her 16th birthday bless her. DS is still sleeping, he's normally v groggy after a migraine, and going to see Mark Steel tonight with DH and I

Oaktree1233 · 27/05/2023 11:03

We had a terrible couple of days with exams. My autistic son could not even understand the Shakespeare question on Twelfth night and it read like gobbygook, he said. He also ran out of time on the Film Studies A Level exam- (despite having an extra 50%) so I’m feeling really depressed, hating the whole process of exams that are so trying for non NT students.

Plasmodesmata · 27/05/2023 11:09

Had this conversation with my mum. She's 75, and can still remember, exactly, the horrible question that stuffed up her A level English Lit exam.

lastdayatschool · 27/05/2023 12:55

No break here in NI next week - full week of exams scheduled

GayPareeee · 27/05/2023 13:40

lastdayatschool · 27/05/2023 12:55

No break here in NI next week - full week of exams scheduled

Gosh, when do they finish then?

Piggywaspushed · 27/05/2023 14:05

Oaktree1233 · 27/05/2023 11:03

We had a terrible couple of days with exams. My autistic son could not even understand the Shakespeare question on Twelfth night and it read like gobbygook, he said. He also ran out of time on the Film Studies A Level exam- (despite having an extra 50%) so I’m feeling really depressed, hating the whole process of exams that are so trying for non NT students.

The timing in Alevel film is ridiculously tight so I feel for him.

lastdayatschool · 27/05/2023 14:10

GayPareeee · 27/05/2023 13:40

Gosh, when do they finish then?

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Final exam is June 23rd.

My DS will be on the "lad's holiday" by then - 13 of them going to Corfu, which will be an even more stressful week for me than these exams weeks 😭

Schools in NI will break up for summer the following Friday, which is why there's no summer half term.

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