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[Milliways]

Hi
Apologies if this has been done this year, but I found a similar thread very supportive when DD started the exam treadmill (not at Uni) and we are about to start again with DS.

Milliboy is 15, late Summer baby so cannot get a job until the end of the Summer hols, when they will have all gone. Good news is - this gives him more revision time

He is at a boys selective Grammar school, so the pressure is on to achieve. He also wants to aim for a decent Uni so understands that good GCSE grades are vital.

Still doesn't make the whole process any easier for him or me :)

Who else has boarded the 2011 Exam Express?

maths and business studies for ds2. Already has a maths grade C but hoping to improve on this. Its his birthday today. Sitting here reflecting worrying about exams but 16 years ago he was born 9 weeks early weighing 2lb ll0z with very little chance of survival. I can't believe he/we have come so far

aaww lateseptember, many congrats on him making 16. my dd was born10 weeks early so i can really relate.

Where does the time go? Sigh.

How was Maths for everyone? DD seems happy-ish.

ok ish dd said re the maths

hard but fine

DS says it was the hardest paper he has ever sat (Edexel, higher tier), but that he did get the majority of the Questions (was debating if they also had an "impossible" one!)

the last 2 were hardest i understand

My son said the maths was fine (AQA).

oh yes, AQA here too

Physics tomorrow. Anyone else?

Can't remember if I signed in. Am signing in. Also have DS1 taking A levels and off to Nottingham in the Autumn.

Milliways, DS said the same (same paper). He hopes that means the pass mark will be lower!

Milliways - relieved by your post, DS did 6 practice papers at the weekend (edexcel) and said he found today's harder than any he had done before.

history tomorrow

higher tier Aqa here too. Nothing now til next Maths on Friday

Hi MABS, same for us too. Thank goodness for a few days break

Maths was ok , but he is doing foundation level , so definitely needs to have a good result ( or he'll be doing it again !)
At the last parents evening the maths teacher told us of a boy in upper 6th taking Foundation Maths for the 5th time, as his Uni place is depending on a maths GCSE as well as his A level grades !
History tomorrow , Welsh on Thursday and Maths again on Friday , a busy week.

Hi my DD also said that the Edexcel Maths was the most difficult paper she'd ever done so she was hugely relieved when I told her about the comments on here. Some girls came out crying! And I was worried all afternoon about the builders using pneumatic drills to break concrete yards from the examination room which the school did nothing about.

Physics (school failed to complete syllabus), Biology and History tomorrow for her. Fingers crossed the builders aren't there.

Re the Edexcel Maths today, a friend's school is making an official complaint to the Exam Board. Not quite sure what the matter was with this paper and don't want to cross examine DD.

It`s going ok in my house. My son said Maths was hard in places - foundation - took it early twice and had D both times. So third time lucky! It took me 7 times to get my Maths O Level so plenty of hope for him yet! He too has History, Welsh and then Maths again this week! Hope everyone on here is ok :-D

To all the Edxcellers, same here. DS2 said stupidly hard (I'd have preferred he hadn't then regaled me with the ones he left out and the one his teacher confirmed he'd definitely got wrong....).

History and Biology tomorrow too. Just finished Glee and now on Facebook.

aliena the builders thing is mad. What are the school thinking of? Hasn't anyone complained?

another one here who found edexcel higher maths hard today

His Maths exam board is WJEC.

Hi Yellowstone, I have emailed the school about the builders and hope that it will be resolved tomorrow. Remarkably DD hasn't mentioned the ear splitting noise. Maybe it was because she was engrossed with this over tricky Edexcel maths paper. Or maybe I am getting old....