First Year exams ( continued from prep for uni and starting uni 2015)

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Dear all,

I have really enjoyed these threads. So if anyone else wants to keep up posts on DC travelling through trials and tribulations of uni life - do post here.

Have your DC been revising at all for instance? Do you now stand back?

DS is trying to get the room relet it we are assuming that it won't be. I'm not sure anyone else would want to live with the housemate from hell though.

DS is now home, it's been a stressful week...

Good luck Horsemad and HorsemadDS

Thanks Haff, he is off abroad tomorrow to see his girlfriend, so a breather for both of us!

Not a good time here at all! My DD overdosed this weekend - thankfully medicallly she is well. Obviously mentally is another issue altogether - this is all linked to her bulimia which she has been asking for help for months from GP and uni and been turned down! She is under crises team for now and is attending the local MH unit for the next two weeks alongside meds doe anxiety and sleeping! Have no idea what's going to happen re uni - she mentioned entering a form for extenuating circumstances but as she is end of year 2 not sure if she is able to do resits in summer instead - she doesn't want to fail this year! I'm so stressed and scared and totally without any support! X

Sorry to hear your news Hadenough it must be desperately worrying and upsetting to see your DD struggling so much. The best thing to do regards uni is to let them know what's happening and they can let your DD know what her options are. They will have procedures in place for people that are ill and she won't just fail.

I do hope Uni can give good advice Hadenough. My small experience is that they move quite slowly but do have provisions and systems in place for students who need to resit etc.

Really hope your DD can access really good MH team and follow up. With time , support and patience MH issues can be beaten!!! Students/people can come out stronger the other side.

Lots of support to you in being her back up. It can be draining.

Horsemad So sorry to hear the situation with your DS. He always sounded so similar to my DS on this thread - bright but definitely not hard working!
Can't remember what I posted in here about DS. So to avoid scrolling back, will update. He failed 1st year and Uni agreed he could take a year out and resit failed modules in May 2017. Within a few weeks of this decision (and having paid exam resit fees so he could access course material) he decided he no longer wished to continue the course. Spent a few weeks considering his options and decided he would reapply for Uni in 2017 doing a completely different course requiring him to do an additional A level independently. He got a part time job and has been allegedly studying this A level in his spare time. Has offers for Uni in Sept which he has yet to confirm. We have had to do the rounds of open days/offer days all over again. We have also been paying the rent on the flat he had arranged as we could not sublet.

Whoever thought toddlers were at a difficult age hasn't had teenagers/young adults.

Wow. Bigbluebus, expensive mistake. But how great he is rethinking and more mature to make better choices for himself.
Being nosy, what did he change to?understand if you don't want to say

Hadenough wishing your dd and you strength and health to get through. Your dd's mental and physical health is more important than any uni degree or marks.

violets he's gone from engineering to history! His previous A levels were all Maths/Science so he is doing History A level to add to them - although he has got 2 unconditional offers. The essay writing practice will be good for him. Let's hope he's made the right choice this time and that his time spent working in a minimum wage job has opened his eyes!

That's funny, my DS does eng. But his passion is history but not for writing essays. Good luck to him. Just fab about unconditionals. Does he know where he wants to go?
My DS who I was sure was going to fail last year is fingers crossed doing really well. And he studies hard and now enjoys the course. Feels he chose right. Phew!!!

That's great Kdasani. Thanks. I'll put it on the aspiring medics thread too.

Sorry everyone I've been taken in by a fucking spammer. KDasani has posted that advert on every thread in the HE section. Please ignore the link.

I've reported.

Hi. How have your DCs exams gone. My DS has had 7 so far ( with mixed results). One last one on Friday

My DS has had 3 and a group project. He has worked his socks off which is quite amazing when I remember my reluctant to study DS for GCSEs . One has gone very well. One pretty well. One to go. Group project a bit worried about.

Overall, proud. Just so impressed by his independent work ethic.
Good luck to your DC.

My DD deferred 4 out of 6 to spend time at home - had 1 and she said it went well but no results yet. Next one due tomorrow but she is in a very bad way and my DH has just driven up to collect her from uni so we will get that one deferred til the summer. Some big decisions to make about next year - just so frustrating trying to get help from
NHS re - eating disorder. She has assessment with the ed service next week but they've already told her she will be wait listed for anything up to a year

dd has just finished exams. All going really well, very happy and she has a job lined up with the university for next year.

Good luck to your dd Hadenough I hope she gets good advice and plenty of help.

Keep going hadenough . Eventually, she will improve. Look for all avenues of support. Be there for her. Sometimes, i feel worn down by my kids needs of reassurance from mum but it works and passes.

Fingers crossed that your DD gets the help she needs, Hadenough.

And well done to your DD on getting a job LittleHo. Can I ask what she will be doing? A friend's daughter got an unpaid (or very low pay) job as an events organiser at her uni for the year following graduation, and led to a very good job with a hotel chain doing a similar thing. Always thought it was a sensible choice on her part!

Found the thread - how's everyone doing?

DD is back home for the summer, working and playing hard, also doing compulsory uni placements in between. What are your DC up to for the summer. Not sure mine will want to go back, she is having too much fun!

DS is working all summer - he did some work experience where DD1 works in the Easter holidays and following that they offered him three months work. He's living with DD1 while he's working so I just have to sort out the tensions when they each message me about the other one being annoying.

Good on your DC for workin ghar din the summer.

My DS is having lots of fun with friends, partying, travelling- but also researching for Yr 3 project.

We are fine with that - he worked so incredibly hard and he's on the 4 year course now because of that, when we were worried at beginning if he'd scrape a pass! So all good here at mo.

It goes quickly doesn't it.