Finishing (not starting) Year 13 support thread (number 5!)

[Littleham]

Exam season starts....

MrsB, I'm not sure I agree with your sentiment about wanting the revision finished......as DD and her friend who is here, have told me that it's party, party, party next week after Wednesday!

Lol hellsbells! My dd is not much of a partier so I don't have to worry about that. She does have prom and some other nice things lined up including a holiday to Florence with her best friend. I have reminded her that she is expected to get some sort of job once we are back off our hols!

I'd love to be included in a follow on thread please.
Re the C3, ds refuses to look at the post exam analysis on TSR, ever. He said everyone from his set found it tough and different to past papers.
Because he decided to carry on with all 4 subjects to A2, he doesn't actually have to get an A in maths to make his offer, so there is still hope. I hope the C4 paper is better for him, but this has shaken his confidence a bit.

mumsllife please count me in for next year's thread. Unless I find I need to set up an alternative one called 'Gap year - making a virtue of necessity.''

Same hear Mrs Bartlet , on both counts!

I'd like to join a new thread please ... just not sure whether it'll be a moving to uni one or with muffin on the gap year one

Another not so great C3 here. Just C4 and final Physics to go, Tues & Thurs.

Count me in on new thread too - maybe include '2015 (would be) Uni Starters' in the title?

Do we stay on Secondary until results day?

A University thread sounds great mumslife. If you made it a general university thread it could mop up those in year 2 & 3 at university (they have some really good tips). I have crashed the empty nest one anyway even though my nest is still chock full.

Count me in on new thread in Aug/Sept too. Won't be empty nest here either as eldest DC, who is disabled, will still be living here. Not sure we'll notice that DS has gone tbh as he spends most of his life in his room - although we will have more crockery in the kitchen and less money n the bank account.

Mumslife a new thread is a great idea count me in. We only have 3 weeks til DD's IB results are out, and I am sorry to tell you the waiting game is not getting any easier.
DD is in a lovely position if she does not get in her firm she has an unconditional as insurance, she has been talking up the insurance since her exams. She will be fine in either one I hope!
On a different topic I saw a car accident today (no-one was hurt) Car turned into a drive to a block of flats hit the kerb then lost control and drove straight over a streetlight carried on and hit the barrier at the end of the drive. What got me was the lack of interest, I ran over to check if the people inside were OK, asked one guy to help who said it was nothing to do with him an walked away, then the lady in the car got out and started to unload her shopping I was. I don't envy him telling his insurance company what happened or what his premiums will be.

Count me in too, DD will stay at home if she gets her firm, at least for a bit as she won't get halls.

Yes count me in too. Esp if dd goes to her insurance choice which is far away... She's up early today for a revision class at school. Have to say her teachers have really gone above & beyond

Amazing Did you mean your DD will stay home if she does MOT get her firm because of shortage / non-guarantee?

So talking to DD last night, C3 wasn't a total disaster. She had been 'confident' of getting close to full marks but it looks like she has probably hopefully scraped an A on that paper.
I think the problem is that the papers she has just done over the last week, C3, chem3 and biol3, were her 'stronger' papers and all of them have been 'weird' and don't reflect the past papers she has done. She was hoping to do very well on these papers and 'bank' extra marks ready for the harder papers still to come. Her confidence has definitely taken a hit and she said she has now got to the stage where she is bored and fed up with it all. Having a friend round for revision last night helped cheer her up, but I have said she just needs to keep the momentum going for a few more days. We are on the 'home straight' and she does have a holiday with friends to look forward to. I am not feeling very confident at all about results day.

Circular, I'm assuming Amazing said it right - she lives close enough to her firm to commute so they won't give her a place in halls. Living at home common in London area

Hellsbelles - my dd is also expecting next week's papers to be harder (doing same subjects I think). She had been reasonably confident of getting As before she started but not so sure now. And she needs an A* for her firm...
Remind me what your dd wants to study next year?

Yes please mumslife. Would you be able to start it in time for results so that we can pass on advice/support to each other re alternative courses/offers if our dcs don't get first choices? I think many unis will accept lower grades anyway but there may be a lot of angst for a while and hopefully we can help each other through it.

Oh, and maybe pop a link to this thread, or further threads in this series? Pretty please?

I've been thinking that it would make much more sense to let the students get their results first and then apply to unis with their actualy grades. It would save a lot of speculation and unnecessary worry. I wonder why they don't do it like that

Just catching up on this thread and feeling rather happy that DS didn't do Chemistry. I hope everyone's DCs did Ok, if it was a weird paper then at least it was weird for everyone (I know , I know , easy for me to say)

He is all done now so the die is cast in the Ucas household and just the pacing out the weeks until August.

It would be a lot kinder but I don't think there is a big enough window for universities to process applications / interviews between results day and the start of the university term.

It would be lovely if someone could figure out a way to do it though.

DD3 has finished GCSE's (thank heavens) but the tension is now rising for dd2 as next week her hardest set of exams.

Yep, I don't think any London universities guarantee halls if you live within the M25.

They should start first term of uni in Jan, plenty of time between Aug and Xmas to apply. Wouldn't need interviews, just go with the grades.

Can see why people have a gap year, although I'm not a fan personally.