EPQ

[Frostytiger87]

My DD is in year 12 and has started her EPQ last night she’s informed me that she doesn’t enjoy what she’s chosen and wants to start again
is this common ?

When you say just started, how far into it is she?
My ds did very well in his EPQ despite struggling to answer his own question!
He couldn't change the question as too far in. However, if she has just started the process she may well be able to. She can then put detail about it in her progress log which is about the process she went through to get to the finished product/ essay...

Hi Dinkydaisy they started at tur beginning of term sept so she had done a fair bit .
I think she’s struggling to find something to write about . The school have said this is pretty normal but I don’t think it’s a good idea to keep changing

Not sure how common but my daughter started with non verbal communication as her topic, researched a while, then decided after a bit to drop it. Then decided on something else summer term of y12 and is doing her presentation the end of this month!
So if she doesn't mind starting over then why not? She needs to do something she's keen on.

DD did most of her EPQ over the summer holidays between Y12 and 13 and only did final plan before end of last term of Y12. She didn’t get assigned an EPQ supervisor until after Easter. So totally doable to start from scratch.

A big part of the EPQ is recording your research, meetings with teachers, etc so don’t know if the abandoned topic would form part of that or not????

Could she continue the topic she's started but make it a bit broader? Or do something that's related and still use some of the work she's done and show how she moved from one to the other and why? Everything I've read seems to suggest it's more about the process that it is about the final thing.

DS is doing cyber security and is still having lessons on that, he knows the area he's interested in doing his project on but doesn't have a specific question and hasn't done any research yet so I really don't think that even if she wants to do a complete change of topic that it's a problem. It would probably be worth her researching things a bit before she decides so she doesn't have the same problems again though.

School EPQ coordinator here. When is the final deadline? As long as it's more than 6 months away, she can change without a problem.

My y12s have been working on it since September, but we are only just sorting titles now. They get almost 5 terms to do it so there is no rush, but I do find the final term of y12 gets very busy then y13 is all about UCAS. Good students in my school get the bulk of their research done in y12, write it at the end of y12, present early in y13 and submit around Christmas. The Learner Record is really important, and takes up just as much time.

DD submitted her EPQ just after return from half term. I don’t think she was meant to see what her teacher scored it at but she did see it and she didn’t drop a point but knows there may be moderation involved. I am not quite sure how this ends up on her UCAS form as leaving it all to DD.