Year 11 GCSE Exam Support Thread 2

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New thread ..... (DD not sure about the prom dress she has bought!!!!)

Dd has spent all day today on Art. That subject takes so much time! She does need an A though, to do graphic design next year.
To make it worse, her hayfever and bad air quality ( SE london) has made her asthma bad end she is now curled up on the sofa feeling rubbish

Awww dingit, poor thing. Thankfully DD's art teacher is very on top of them and she is currently up to date! 3 days of exams in a couple of weeks though, gulp.

Hope the toe is getting better aunt P!

DD says they had a good revision session today and did P2. Phew! She says they (friend is sleeping over tonight) are going in tomorrow to do Eng Lit!

Checking in - been a while ... We're 31 days off the first exam (biology on 12th May). DS has been a star this holiday - really cracked on doing 6 hours a day (3x2hour slots) with all evenings off. I think he's feeling pretty good and that's the best we can hope for.

We've adopted a policy of making decisions about socialising requests in terms of 'how to avoid a boiling pit of seething resentment'! Its turned into a bit of a family joke now, but with good side effects - he knows where we're coming from, and we try to accommodate his social diary as sensitively as possible ... if the work is done - there's no reason to say no ...

We're about to have world war three over a couple of days out arranged with friends while not much revision is being done. Not sure how hard to push it. Have told her they're her exams, not mine, but I will be withdrawing taxi and cashpoint services.

Joining late. A social life is a minefield here, I have been trying to arrange a family day out but DD is having none of it. She's back at school next week and has had one family day out and two days where she has been out with friends. Last night she was like a bear with a sore head because she needed to relax and hasn't been; she arranged to go and see her friend today and took her revision notes
I'm hoping she will agree to go out tomorrow but I'm not holding my breath :(

Oh god, art. What a massive time eater. DS1's work is excellent but he produces it very very slowly and on top of everythinge else it is a bit of a killer. DS2 is hugely glad he isn't taking it!

Art! Yes, DD has spent ages on it. My DSis phoned me a while back about options choices - "Should DS do art because it's not much work is it?"

Oh good god no, do anything but art!

Yes, they have to love doing Art if they want to take it! DD finds it relaxing, thankfully, although I'm not sure the actual exam will be that relaxing

DD's friend did Art and Music, poor girl! DD doesn't like the music teacher so she didn't do music - she's single handedly destroyed her love of music as she kept pushing DD to perform

Reading this makes my legs go slightly weak as DD planning to do Photography and Art for A Level along with Media BTEC. She is doing GCSE photography but not art at the moment though her close friends are, so she should be aware of the workload,

Dd is in last minute panic mode with her Art. Last part of exam on Tuesday, than that is it, I shall be glad to see the back of it.
We have just had a long conversation about her not doing any of the maths papers set, one by her teacher and two by her tutor. I have cancelled next weeks tutor session, and dh is emailing her teacher.
I think dd has prioritised correctly, Art comes over maths, as she wants to do it next year ( and needs an A) -, she has already banked her A for GCSE maths. The additional maths grade will just be a bonus, but she needs to practise. Hopefully she will gain some hours at school with art out the way.
We are all feeling a bit stressed! Tomorrow is strictly a family day out, she needs it before school on Monday.
I need

Sugar, they sound like they go well together, and despite the work load, dd has enjoyed it. She plans to do Graphic Design next year, ( needs an A from her Art), I must say I am , it looks a brilliant course.

Photography and Art will go well together, as has been said, and as long as she is organised she'll be fine. DD has had to take a lot of photos as part of her art so she may find that one helps the other.

SugarPlum, at least one of the sixthforms DD is looking at won't let you take Photography AND Art. They say too similar I think I haven't noticed any doing Graphic Design - I would have liked that! And the Art-Textiles DD is doing. I chose Home Ec over Art because I thought it would be easy! So wrong - the time-planning meal making etc was a nightmare!

Dingit, is she doing the Art exams already? DD has 3 days at the end of April. Gulp! And well done her/you on prioritising!

Yes Tilly, she did a 5 hour day before Easter, and the other half this week. I didn't realise the Art teacher could pick the days, I thought it was a set day like other subjects. At first she had them together, until the teacher realised some of the class would be in Paris on the Friday, and rescheduled.

That sounds very sensible Dingit. Flipping hard work all this isn't

DD'S school and the other local one did the Art exam before Easter I think. Organised and DD are natural companions but I live in hope ! I'm working on the principle that if she is doing something she likes she will sort it and burying my head in the sand about that not happening !

That sounds like quite a good plan, splitting them up, dingit.

And at your DD being finished with Art already, SugarPlum!

Someone on MN very kindly advised me against art for DD as too time consuming!

I think if you have a real talent for it and enjoy it, then the time might be well spent? But DD would have just ended up turning it into a chore IYSWIM.

DS has had the day off revision; sport training this morning, voluntary work this afternoon. He also won almost 5o quid on the national .

Poor old DDs horse fell pretty early ( as did mine).

Sorry wasn't very clear, she isn't doing it at GCSE but her friends are. She was showing me their pieces on Facebook. Photography doesn't have the very long exam so she has escaped it (though something has happened to her dark room pictures that she is being very vague about )

Anyone dreading Monday when they go back ? It's feeling all a bit real.

Monday? . Mine have another week off.

DD has DofE next weekend I think.

I am dreading it all!

My DGodD has DOE next weekend - so close to the exams!

I keep forgetting some of them have another week. That is close to the exams BTM !

It is close to the exams and bloody stupid timing IMVHO.

But DD has worked hard and has next week off school too to get her head down beforehand. So hopefully ...

Mine are back on Monday. The 'holiday' went by too quickly. Not really a holiday though....

dd3 has a French exam as soon as she goes back.