CALLING YR11 PARENTS! There are 24 academic weeks, until the start of the GCSE's! Come and share your top tips for revision!

[MaureenMLove]

Yes, just 24 weeks! I don't know about you guys, but I'm going to do my level best, to support and encourage DD to achieve great things.

These are the plans we have.

We have left the first six weeks of term, to settle in again and work out where we need some home support. Now the hard work begins!

We have the work books from school. We have the power to bring home plenty of passed papers, thanks to me working at a secondary school and we have the power to get all A* - C grades!!

Monday's are designated English, Tuesday is Maths & Science, Wednesday is French and Thursday is French.

We're going to make flash cards, with equations, formulae and other maths rules on them. And the same for other subjects, like key words for French and Geography.

We have identified areas that need extra attention, by doing some pass papers and we are going back to basics to get them to go in and stay in!

Sooo, do you have any other top tips to share or would you just like to join my quest to guide our yr 11's to a bright future!

Oh dear . My dd has mocks next week and tbh I'm just letting her get on with it in her own style. I occasionally offer vocab testing services but that's the extent of my involvement with her homework nowadays. I'm panicking more about impending A level choices especially after reading teh A level chemistry thread.

If I suggested flashcards I think she'd lynch me

Anyone know how seriously mock results are taken? Dd has hers next week but hasn't been into school yet this week and is now having tests done at hospital, will the school take this into account when she gets her results back?

Anybody got any suggestions for a disorganised, somewhat feckless YR11 boy who has coasted for three years. The penny is slowly dropping - any surefire way to make it drop a little faster??????

If I find the answer cat64 I reckon I could become a rich woman!!!!!

I'm not sure there is an answer! Lets face it, when we were 16, did we listen to anything our parents warned us about our future? Probably not!

I'm not doing heavy duty revision, just kinda drip feeding it every night for 4 nights a week. That's not a lot, I don't think. We've done about 2 hours tonight, but tbh, tonight was more about getting prepared.

I think the mocks will be a bit wake up call, for a lot of kids. I'm sure everyone will be just fine though.

DS1 has drawn up his own revision sheet.

He has done (of his own accord) 2 hours revision a day since a week or two before half term, including each day over half term.

My own input thus far has been a mixture of and bewilderment (so many years of nagging to do even minimal homework), quiet pride and some more .

DD has pretty much constant Controlled Assessments in most of her subjects, full Maths GCSE next week and the week after, mocks before Christmas, Science and English modules in January...

Too much stress! It feels like she is constantly playing catch-up trying to balance all the demands. Sometimes it gets too much and I think the best thing is to back off for a couple of days so she can get her head back together. Doesn't help that she has severe headaches triggered by stress - both emotional stress and physical stress caused by wroking sat a desk (she is tall).

I feel like the only words in my vocabulary at the moment are 'WHen are you going to revise tonight?"

*working sitting at a desk
DOn't know how that nonsense above happened.

oh dear I feel completely inadequate now - we are only in Y10, but really I was planning just to let her get on with it, provide food/shoulder to cry on as required and um, just let her get her own GCSEs?? I did mine years ago, not sure I could do them again...

Good grief I thought I'd finished with flash cards when DS started reception.

He is working from one controlled assessment to the next, which seems fair enough to me.
I was thinking of cracking the whip encouraging a proper revision schedule around Easter. He wouldn't thank me for interfering though, he's very self sufficient and highly motivated, just not skilled in revision techniques.

She is getting her own GCSE's. I'm helping to revise, the same way her teachers are helping her. Nowt wrong with that, I would have thought.

There was a really grim one about ex-pats where one character kept going on about the temperature on his balcony. Can't remember it's name!

OOps wrong thread
I'm going to b euseless at helping with exams, aren't I?

We have a "tool kit" this would include: paper, pens, coloured highlighters and pens, big paper, ruler, protractors etc, post it notes, revision guides. That way not having an item isnt going to stop and revision.

Also have the parent looking after the revision guides so that they cant be lost or ignored.

Let your child stick post it notes all over their room with little snippets of info on, they can read them over again or rearrange them etc and will hopefully remember some of the facts. There are loads of funky post it notes available.

Love the funky note pads. Great idea. Thank you.

Yes, for my girls colour coding is a key for them (not their brother though) - their exam and revision timetables are always colour coded.

And as DD is revising for mocks next week, she's well in the groove right now and I have control of her facebook password - at her request. After she's looked at FB in the morning, she asks me to change her password, then in breaks I log her back in. Shame Youtube isnt passworded though!

(Wish someone would control my MN password!)

MaureenMLove:

It's PAST papers, not pass or passed papers. As in "exam papers done in the PAST". Just needed to get that out.

Glad it made you feel better.

Past papers. And practice under timed conditions. Practice regularly. Google Creative Writing Magic Money Cards for English and try the endless websites for age related maths.

WJEC Maths Paper 1 on Wednesday. Bit stressed. DD doesn't seem to be, though...and to be fair she has done lots of past papers. Anyone else?

Another Maths sitter this week here. Wednesday plus next Monday.

Tomorrow plus next Thursday here for the maths. Still more stressed than my DD.

My oldest is only ten, so I don't have a clue about GCSEs etc yet, but what is all this WE. When I did GCSEs I was left to get on with it, do I really have to sit with all my children and hold their hands while they plan their revision timetables?