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2018 Scottish Exam Support Thread

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Groovee · 14/03/2018 21:23

Practicals have already started for many, folios are being worked on... here's the 2028 thread to get us through.

I have Dd sitting 3 highers and D's sitting 6 Nat 5's. Oh the stress.

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Groovee · 09/05/2018 12:53

Ds said he was trying to calm himself down. He got a surprise A in the prelim and I think he's putting pressure on himself. He should be heading in now.

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prettybird · 09/05/2018 13:10

Ds has come in and said that he could get anything from an A to a C. The World Affairs/US question was on an area that he wasn't so interested in (despite him having wanted a US question Confused) so he had to use his general knowledge to answer it rather than the specific stats Hmm. Ditto with the inequalities question Confused

So we'll just have to wait until August to see Grin

That's him done with school now. Smile

dementedma · 09/05/2018 20:21

DS has his first exam tomorrow. he is currently on his x-box!
there is chilled and there is stupid, but ain't no cure for stupid other than experience....

WaxOnFeckOff · 09/05/2018 20:35

demented how frustrating! 7th August seems so far away and the lesson might not be learned until then - fingers crossed for you (and DS).

pb hope you are cracking open the vino tonight and raising a glass to a job well done (or maybe still half done :o)

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Groovee · 09/05/2018 20:42

Ds said Nat5 MS was okay! This is a standard answer. My young leader at Brownies said that it was a good paper but her time management needed more work.

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Lidlfix · 09/05/2018 21:37

Nat 5 MS was a good paper for DD3 less about Physics yesterday the better. ''Twas always a long shot and she'll get Nat 4. Now if we can get through my "helping" her get ready for my subject on Monday then the end will be in sight Smile

prettybird · 09/05/2018 22:16

No wine tonight as I was driving Wax - but we did go out for a meal to Sarti's, ds' favourite restaurant, to celebrate. WineSmile

Will need to find out if there is an equivalent Italian restaurant in Aberdeen Grin It has to pass a high bar of expectation Wink

WaxOnFeckOff · 09/05/2018 22:33

I took DS1 out for a meal last week when DH and DS2 were at the rugby. Stupidly forgot he can drive until we got there but I'd brought my car which he isn't insured for so he got a couple of pints and I was on the Cola!

Dh and I have yet to take advantage of this new chauffeur facility we have!

prettybird · 09/05/2018 22:47

Ds was just commenting that he's now study free until September - until I reminded him he wants to learn to drive over the summer!

WaxOnFeckOff · 09/05/2018 22:55

He might have changed his mind now that he's chosen his Uni. :) Whilst I am an advocate of them learning while young, I also think they need to spend a decent amount of time consolidating their driving skills once they pass. As you live in a city with good transport and he'll be going to another city uni and living in then would he get much driving practice?

We have shite public transport. It's a bit "all roads lead to Rome" in that you can get anywhere as long as you go via either the Uni or the bus station. It's also more expensive than Glasgow/Edinburgh.

Even to get to the train station DS would have a 2.5 mile walk or a half to one hour unreliable bus service which helpfully doesn't co-ordinate with trains and/or requires another long walk at the other end. You get forced into driving. We also have extortionate taxis. It costs more for a taxi to get to or from the train station than I've been charged to get across Edinburgh.

prettybird · 09/05/2018 23:16

I started learning the summer before I went to Uni. Sprained my ankle on the way back from holiday shortly before my driving test and before going off to St Andrews. I decided to cancel as even if I'd fluked a pass, I wouldn't have been safe, especially as I wouldn't then have had much occasion to drive.

As it was, it was 7 years before I started learning again - for the same reason that you describe: there was no need for me to have a licence. It was much more scary as I was much more aware of the consequences of mistakes - but I still passed first time and am probably a safer driver for it.

My dad is keen for him to learn (and will help pay for lessons Wink) so that he can drive him to/from Murrayfield. Although most of the time, ds will be coming down from Aberdeen to meet him now Hmm - but he could always drive him back to Glasgow, come and get a family meal and then hop on a bus back to Aberdeen (depending on whether the Scotland game is on a Saturday or Sunday).

howabout · 10/05/2018 09:47

We're not talking about physics either lidi. Was forced to look on twitter to try and cheer DD1 up - lots of very funny comments about building a hadron collider from lego and running your mobile phone on tattie power. General consensus was the SQA needs to "have a word with itself".
DD1 is spouting Carol Ann Duffy quotes at me ready for tomorrow and DD2 is in the bath chillaxing in prep for Graph Comm this afternoon.

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Groovee · 10/05/2018 12:30

Ds away to Graphic Communication. He seems ok. I need to have a wee chill out.

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prettybird · 10/05/2018 13:46

Hope the graphic comm exams go ok Smile

dementedma · 10/05/2018 20:52

Nat 5 Music was ok, apparently, but music and sound tech are his strongest subjects anyway so not too worried.
Higher English tomorrow. Not a strong subject so he is dealing with this by eating cereal and doing fuck all. sigh

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Groovee · 10/05/2018 21:14

Graph Com N5 was ok bar one question that he had a complete mind blank on

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WaxOnFeckOff · 10/05/2018 21:34

Oh dear demented Ds2 also on the shreddies but he has spent some time in the study room this evening, no idea what he has actually been doing right enough but I suppose even pretending to study is a positive step forwards...

Glad graph comm was decent Groovee.

SinceWhenDid · 10/05/2018 21:38

Yup higher English tomorrow... Flipping Philip Larkin and The Cone Gatherers!

WaxOnFeckOff · 10/05/2018 21:38

Just thinking how quiet this thread is compared to previous years, unless there are new recruits to it, it might stop being an annual occurrence when us stalwarts get through the next year or two. Only one more year for me of SQA stress. Keep trying to talk DS2 into leaving now even told him to keep his blazer in the wrapper! :o but he's having none of it so far. He might be doing Nat 5 maths again next year so I suppose that might be a treat.

WaxOnFeckOff · 10/05/2018 21:39

I see DS has abandoned his copy of The Girl with all the Gifts so I have no idea what texts he is using - he mumbled something about a poem.

wigglybeezer · 10/05/2018 21:44

I have DS3 going in to third year so I'll be around for a few more years, he's chosen very different subjects to his brothers so I'll need input from others.
Meanwhile DS2 has AH English tomorrow, a real marathon.

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Groovee · 10/05/2018 21:47

Ds says he knows all his quotes for Monday for English. Dd still has a week before Bus Man!

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prettybird · 10/05/2018 22:42

Our neighbour's ds' S3 English class is sitting their English Nat 5 this year Shock

Ds is most pissed off as the same teacher had planned to do with that his class, but didn't get around to organising it.

WaxOnFeckOff · 10/05/2018 22:48

I thought early presentations were banned? Given that technically they are not supposed to start the curriculum until S4 I am surprised this has been allowed. I know that individual children often sit some exams early (i.e native MFL speakers and Music etc) but I thought that schools were not routinely allowed to present early anymore. A school in the next council to us used to present at end of S3 for both English and Maths Standard Grade. They don't do it for Nat5.

prettybird · 10/05/2018 23:16

It's not routine - but it's evidently not banned Wink. One of ds' friends sat all his Maths exams a year early (Nat 5 in S3, Higher in S4 got the top mark in the school and Advanced Higher in S5).

I know one of the things that the school debated when agreeing to this class presenting a year early is what to do for English in S4. Do they present for Highers a year early (unlikely that the whole class would be ready), does it give them time to do something else, do they use the extra time to do more in depth Higher study? Not sure what the school decided.

It's not something that the school plans to do as standard - it is/was just (like ds' year) a particularly precocious cohort.

Ds' school starts the Nat 5 curriculum at the end of S2 (they start "S3" or at least the S3 timetable at the beginning of June).

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