Oxbridge applicants 2018 part 3

[OhYouBadBadKitten]

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I think we’re all in agreement that 12-14 hours a day is counter-productive. He went out again today for a couple of hours and told me it blew the cobwebs away, so here’s hoping he’s regaining some balance.

I don’t know if it’s cheeky to welcome you Au, being the last one onto the thread myself, but welcome :)

Good luck with exams next week all!

DS has physics on Monday, chemistry on Tuesday, maths on Wednesday and Physics on Friday. Tough week.

Yes, good luck to everyone for the coming week. DS did two papers a couple of weeks ago, but Monday is when it really kicks off.

Got his acceptance from Student Finance the other day. So strange (and exciting) to see 'XX College Cambridge' on it. I know it could all change, but hey.

This is it - exams really kick in now. Ds still seems calm .😊Good luck to everyone doing physics today.

Good luck everyone :) a relatively gentle week for dd, physics, FP3 (which she's dreading as the grade boundaries are stupid even if the paper isn't too bad) and then physics.

Okay blind panic here - knew this would happen!!

Good luck everybody and here's hoping for a kind Economics paper tomorrow. :)

Blind panic might well be a good dose of adrenaline alittlechampagne

OYBK it sounds as though our DC are doing the same sorts of subjects. Physics was okay today apparently. Chemistry tomorrow, then the dreaded FP3 thingy on Wednesday.

DS did try to explain how the calculations work for the grade boundaries in further maths but i think you need an A level in further maths to understand them. It's bonkers! Anyway I do understand that FP3 is a nightmare but then DS added that he doesn't need it!! i don't even understand how that works - something about having done an extra module of mechanics. So it isn't compulsory then??

Good luck to everyone - keep your collective chins up

For FM they have to get 90UMS in any two FM maths modules or something like that for the A* so it's not as bad as the normal maths where they have to get 90ums in c3 and c4 so there isn't the flexibility.

We start on Wednesday here. DD seems to be bearing up but I've got repressed panic which I'm blurting out on here. Crikey - it's time!

DS thought physics was ok today. He now seems to think he deserves a night off revision and is happily playing a game on his computer. No stress in his life!

DS for exact same timetable and subject as yours, although Wed Math seems not FP3 (dont remember what paper it is though)

DS reckoned he did well for the physics paper today! phew! one less worry off the list!

YY you are right - Wed Maths is FP2 not FP3. Good job I'm not sitting this exam, what with getting my 2s and 3s mixed up :)

It is nearly 11pm and we are only 20 percent through revision cards apparently!! This is so typical and so frustrating too. I can barely keep my eyes open for testing him. We will be completely shattered after 2 weeks of this!! Need a very strong coffee. .

it is FP3 for dd, FP2 is on the 25th. Which seems quite crackers.

I'm knackered, dd is grumpy. How are we going to survive to STEP exams? Why do they have to be in week 3?

Champagne I'm so glad it's not just me!
DD kept me up until well after midnight last night asking her questions from her revision cards.
By the end I was asking a question and having a quick 5 minute nap while she answered before the next one!

I feel your pain Lobster. Another long night here. Economics was hard to call as I guess is the case with most essay exams. Tonight we are historians!!

I've done the testing with questions a few weeks ago. We've now moved on to DD teaching me huge topics of the course to check she knows it. She tells me off if I lapse in concentration!

Not late into the night though. I have a different pain- sometimes with exams she gets insomnia due to the adrenalin and anticipatory nerves and she wants me to stay with her! So far so good but tomorrow is the first exam so I might be in for a 'sparse sleep' night !

That's the point - our DC have been so supported all the way through to get this far and to have these wonderful opportunities that no wonder us mums get exhausted too!

Wishing us all resilience!

Voilets a few weeks ago?? We are looking at many for the first time the night before!! .

Don't worry champagne they all achieve in different ways. I sympathise with your angst though. I'm also getting snapped at with my daughter's angst who misreads all I say today !! Ahhhh- a stifled scream!

DS reports chemistry was okay. He had an eventful journey home though. He was walking up a road towards our house (which is on a cul de sac off said road) when he was stopped by the police because the road was closed and cordoned off - lots of police cars and ambulances and crime scene tape.

Thing is, the walk around the crime scene would have taken a good 90 minutes or so - there's literally no way around it. Still isn't in fact - the tape's still up.

Being a resourceful and intelligent young man, he dithered for a bit and decided the thing to do was to phone me at work and ask me what he should do.

I calmly explained all the options he know anyway (ask again nicely, walk around the crime scene, phone a taxi to come and take him the long way home). Sometimes I wonder how he ever got this offer

Before you ask I still don't know what the crime was - although it was clearly very serious - and of course I'm concerned for the person/people who have been hurt.

Which way did he choose Pearls?

Well, thing is it turned out okay, he started trudging the long way around when a neighbour in a car saw him (neighbour in car had been turned around too obviously) and stopped and offered him a lift.

DS is a kindly soul and he is a bit worried about the crime scene thing and worried about people being hurt. So of course it's a distraction but he's stuffed full of spag bol and knuckling down to some FP2.

Pearls, thank goodness it was on his way home and not his way there!

Feeling rather envious of all those parents who get roped in to testing questions etc. I have not been required at all, except to make sure there is food available.

DD (who is miles away at uni) funded a takeaway pizza for DS last night 'to boost his morale'. He'll need his morale boosting: he's had two papers this week with two more to go, then seven papers in four days next week, another four the week after and the final one on 25th June, the day after his birthday.

Thank goodness for kind neighbours Pearls!

Kaiser that's so sweet of your dd. Next week sounds bonkers for your ds!

Good luck for all the mathematicians today!

Checking in :)

DS says FP2 was easy. That makes him sound big-headed which he isn't honestly - he just means that the questions were not the tricky sort that he sometimes goes wrong with.

Parental fail this morning. I was booked to drive him to school and was woken up at 8AM by DS saying plaintively "Mum, I have to be in the exam hall in 45 minutes" I don't know what got into me, I'm always up at 5!! Sheesh, anyway we got there in time

I'm no use to DS in terms of testing him or anything. I was moderately useful at GCSE for French and English Lit/Lang but I know absolutely nothing about his subjects. So all I can do is supply plenty of food and cups of tea.