Year 11 GCSE exam support thread 3 - the exam weeks

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New thread for those of us starting the exams.

Keep calm everyone.

hack that sounds like DDs paper. A section about the bunk house with some question about the lives of ranchers.

Or to para phrase DD. Death of the American dream, class system, hierarchy, man as animal and all that Steinbeck bullshit .

I think the Curleys wife question was the Aqa board Hackmum.
Dd has nothing today and is still in bed.I think the dog has rather naughtily crept up to the attic to get into bed with her .I don't have the heart to wake her or the dog up.
Woolly I hope you and dd have slept well and your dd is feeling better.

Geography today good luck to everyone's DC.

I am seriously impressed by all of you who seem to know what was in the papers. My conversation with DS doesn't get further than 'it was fine' or 'it was harder than I expected'.

Just catching up on Wooly's DD. What a brave girl to even attempt an exam right now! Sounds awful and I hope she gets better very soon

Hope to hear from you soon Wooley ... really keeping all my fingers crossed your DD is on the mend ...

Just woken DS up to get into his geog revision - spend yesterday swatting up on case studies, now need to get him into the zone ready for this afternoon (1.30pm for a 90 min paper)

I'm here. I didn't want to swamp the thread with my tales of woe. DD was back to her normal jokey self yesterday evening and it was brilliant to see. She's currently in bed but I've been in to check on her and she is bright and bubbly. She's got geography this afternoon but is quite relaxed about it (sustainable decision making?). I'm going to drive her over to school and stay close by just in case.

We've got more hospital appointments this week. The NHS has been bloody brilliant. The speed things have moved at has been quite overwhelming and I'm astounded at the joined up care from her paediatrician, ophthalmology and neurology.

Good luck to all our geographers today. I'm very impressed with the Latin and Greek scholars. DD1 covered both languages as part of her degree and really enjoyed them.

English Lit was ok yesterday according to DS, geography today.

melt down this morning though, couldn't find a clean school shirt, accused younger brother of taking his white shirts!!! all very dramatic with lots of flouncing and slamming doors!

Pleased to see your update Woolly and glad DD is bright and bubbly this morning.

Good luck to all those taking Geography this afternoon.

Just received a text from DS. Latin had some quite tough questions and a story seemingly that made no sense!

Anyone else have feedback on Latin?

Hackmum, I think DD said she did Curley, but not his wife

Woolly, your DD is doing fantastically! What a trooper

DS gone off to do Geography looking like he's going to the gallows!! He wants to do it a A level, so is keen to do well in it.

mother apparently paper one in Latin is always the easiest exam. Ever. Except today. When it wasn't .

I'm tempted to make a quick humble pie for DS to eat after dinner .

DD said drama was fine. All the questions were things she'd ruthlessly prepared.

Elastamum you're not the only one. I tried to get more than "ok" or "meh" out of dd about her English yesterday and she said, "I just answered the questions. "

Word, I love the humble pie!

DS said the story was just bizarre! About a girl who turned into a cow, she migrated back to the river that her father was the God of, wrote her name in the sand with her hoof then her father changed her back. He said everyone in the exam just looked at each other somewhat bemused.

He's now looking forward to a lovely hard Greek text exam tomorrow, not!

When I went to deposit the dog in DD's bed for their morning cuddle check DD was awake at 6:30, I found her busy with her iPad. One of her classmates had asked her at about 9:30 last night something complicated about operational amplifiers and feedback loops; she'd had the sense not to respond to it till the morning.

No-one else been doing Electronic products this morning? We won't know how that's gone till DH picks her up at about 4:30 after she's done the geography and drama too.

mothers - that's the myth of Io - lucky for her she had a short name amenable to hoof-writing. I had a book of myths and legends with a lovely line drawing of a pretty sad-eyed heifer scratching 'IO' in the sand. (text by Enid Blyton, so a bit more comprehensible than ancient Greek!)

Wow, that's a lot for one day Errol
Good luck to your dd for today
Mine is just starting geography - round about now!
Thinking of all the other geographers too - especially Woolley's dd?

See Errol that's what's amazing about Mumsnet, someone like you knows about the myth of Io!!! Lol. Obviously DS hadn't heard it before!

Gosh yes - extra best wishes for woolley's DD. A bit of exam clash is far preferable to what she's contending with.

I'm in my car in the school car park Woolly Hugging to distract myself after having a good cry. DD has gone into her exam. She felt very unwell and I don't know if I've done the right thing by persuading her to give it a go. She appears to have lasted longer than yesterday. The school are bending over backwards to try to make her feel comfortable.

Oh Woolly, it is so hard for you. Stressful enough without the added health worries. I really feel for you.

Thinking of them all x

Woolley - sending you big hugs darling ... put anyone of us in your shoes we'd be just as anxious and desperate to do the right thing for our dd ... you really are being a total star handling this awful situation ...

Wooly. She is an amazing girl. Just look after yourself as well. It sounds very stressful.