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.

Thanks for Matalan tip Back. The rate he is growing I don't think he will be in it for long at all.

Yes Tilly. But I was terrible. I would be-

Oh no that's four 'B's in a row that can't be right
Haven't had a D for a while....

Then there were ones where two answers were so similar I would talk myself out of the one I had chosen.

I had forgotten all about multiple guess papers. I remember trying to look for patterns and changing my answer/guess if there were too many of the same letter.
Turns out I was a pretty good guesser!

I loved multi-guess too Tilly and bebumba. Was quite surprised they don't seem to do them anymore. They seemed so modern in the 70s!

I was a great guesser and really suited my it's in there somewhere kind of brain!

Isn't some of the French reading exam kind of multiple choice?

I think I must have been too, bebumba/juggling

My secret is now out, my life has beenbuilt around being a dood guesser. Our dcs have no idea what they have missed out on. Fancy having to actually know the answer to the questions!

Sorry forgot to read before sending thus the spelling mistakes.

My son is bemoaning the change from French questions about a text in French to English questions about a French text as apparently it was easier when it was all French as easier to guess as you could find the French words in the question.

Yes that would be easier, Lotus. Is that a recent change, as in just for these exams?

DD can get to school for last minute French cramming at 8am tomorrow. We'll be there.

I used to love multi guess, but my dad said I'd better never get less than a monkey mark (25%).

DD had ICT this afternoon. The teacher told them they could revise. They all got their biology books out for tomorrow and she said noooo, revise for ICT on Wednesday (compulsory subject that no one wanted to take).

Mine with Biology tomorrow is currently having a relaxing bath!

Mine is now in the kitchen foraging.

Mine has stopped revising now. Refused to do any French - 'what I don't know, I will never know'. Shudder.

Did Biology via kick with friend (testing each other).

I've got one in the bath and one foraging .

Mine is sleeping. It was supposed to be a half hour powernap.

4 digestives glued together with Nutella. Nutellary knife glued to worktop.

Power food.

Mine has munched through a toasted teacake, a chocolate ice cream, a banana and dabbled in making a smoothie. Because 'facts sink in easier if I am doing something'. Kitchen complete mess.

Had an email from the school this evening saying it was the exam timetable, which was a worry as it's been glued to our kitchen wall for about a month already.
This new one today has the location of the exam down to the exact desk he will be sitting at though-he seemed impressed with that.

dd had rs today. School do it early for some of them. Ive been lurking in horror at what we will face next year. No idea how it went - apparently it wasnt terrible. Next one on wednesday. Then they start work on their AS

Mines making noises in the kitchen just had to remind him not to use my toaster as he was doing 2 teacakes and wanted them together layered with lemom jam and Nutella and both hot. Not one bit of revision done tonight but plenty of klingons slayed !!

Mine has eaten two mini lemon meringue pies (it's fruit, right?!) and is revising and refusing to eat a sensible dinner

DD1 hasn't done any revision tonight for the Biology exam tomorrow. Her reasoning is that she has a double science lesson before the exam in the afternoon, so that will be her chance to do some revising.

I'm at the 'foraging' going on ~ mine does that more after school rather than in the evenings. She starts at the fridge and if there's no satisfaction to be found there, goes through the cupboards.

DD is still sleeping. DH has tried to wake her up numerous times, to much screeching on her part.

Should we leave her to it (possibly to be awake in the night and unable to get up in the morning) or try to wake her (possibly to be awake in the night and unable to get up in the morning) ?