Year 11 GCSE support thread 4 - more exams

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Anyone got English tomorrow ?

German and Geography today. Good Luck everyone

DD has Geography too, unfortunately it clashes with her time to see her Maths Tutor - and Maths is tomorrow. It should be okay...

No exams for my two today.
DH is working from home and text to say he's roused the troops and is making sausage sandwiches.

I'm in sunny Salford! I sometimes think when the Beeb relocated someone stuck a pin in a map.

Could have easily ended up in Aberystwyth or Barnsley!

Geography this afternoon here, too. He is mostly revising earthquakes.

German and Geography here too. According to DD she is sitting Foundation in one of the German papers but her exam timetable says Higher for both . I hope it doesn't throw her too much. She is many things but a linguist isn't one of them

My DS is doing German today. He's still a baby as he'd doing it early (mother tongue). slaps self, he's 14

It should be over by now, and I have to wait until 6 pm to find out how it went.

DD was still in bed (no exams today) when I left, I think she needs a lazy day or she'll get ill.

Hope the German paper didn't have some weird old fashioned words we never use, like every single one of the last 5 years' past papers. Makes me want to join the exam board to get rid of "artig"

mellifera good luck to your DS.

DD has a morning in bed followed by maths revision at school.

Hope all those doing German/Geography do their best and stay calm.

Good job I rang DD - I woke her up! Hopefully she gets to her maths tutor in time, but I daren't say too much as she flew off the handle at DH and I last night when we pointed out that it was time to babysit (having woken her up quarter of an hour earlier!)

Geography here as well. Only for one of them though and he's not feeling well. The other is still in bed. He has Music on Thursday which DT2 isn't doing.

I woke up dd at 10.30 as there were no signs of her getting up.No exams today!
Healthy breakfast of Bircher muesli with fresh fruit ( if I'm doing slimming world she can do it too ).
Good luck to all doing exams today.Woolly I'm very glad your DD's feeling better.

Here dd was up at 5 to revise geography
I hope she isn't completely knackered by the time I take her in for
around 1 ish.
Hope she has some energy reserves to actually do the exam!

Poor dd has back to back exams this morning. German started at 9am followed Additional Maths finishing at 1pm. She is going to be tired.

No exams for DD today, and only 5 more left, nicely spaced.
She's more or less given up on going in to school as revision lessons are too fast, and I can help better at home.

No exams for DS today but he is revising music for Friday's listening exam and maths for tomorrow. He is good at maths but occasionally panics and then can't think, so I am hoping Edexcel don't do what they did in the IGCSE maths and make it incredibly hard!

FSMQ Additional maths for DD this morning. Just picked her up . Her only comment was 'it was impossible'.

wed99 oh dear. I hope she's done better than she thinks.

So...by now DD should have done her Germans and her stint in isolation and now be doing geography, to be followed by computing. She was annoyed that they're not allowed to do more than 3hrs in a morning or afternoon session, so because the germans came to 1:35 she couldn't do the 1:30 computing straight after hence isolation. Must be a school rule as Littleham's DD is doing the germans followed by 2hr maths (assuming same german L&R)

Still, at least this timetable overload meant that instead of the FSMQ additional maths which they were originally going to do, they're doing the Further maths instead, which is supposed to not be as hard.

Weds my dd has just done additional maths, and wasn't very positive. She didn't do a 12 mark question and thinks she will be lucky if she gets a C. She got an A in her last mock and is predicted a B so I'm trying not to show my disappointment.
Fair play to her, she has no more exams this week, and is back in her room revising. She also has niggling toothache and has an appointment at the dentist in an hour

wed - sometimes with hard maths papers the grade boundaries are pretty low. DD was quite surprised having marked an FM past paper which she thought she'd tanked on that she'd scraped an A (not an A* though!). So your DD really may have done better than she thinks.

When I came home yesterday from the school run with DS4, I did a double take at DS1's face - pale with huge dark circles under his eyes! Yet he was fine in himself ... quite happy with RS; said English was depressing - a couple of bits on child poverty and another on how spoiled western children were! Nice!

German and geography today - another two lids on subject boxes snap into place

Did anyone-else find the 'geography case study song' on youtube? In terms of a song the bloody thing is rubbish beyond belief, but its set to Bruce Springsteen's 'We didn't start the fire' which has been in my head all day!

Its here if you want a giggle!

Billy Joel ... I meant Billy Joel ...

DD has a special gift for remembering Statistics - so she can quote exactly what time the Mount St Helen's Volcano erupted etc. Don't know what "real" use it will ever be, except for surprising people in presentations, but it does help with exams.

She'll be an asset to many a pub quiz team in years to come, mummytime!

The geog case studies did seem to entail quite a bit of independent work to gen up on them - DD seemed to have given some thought as to which to focus on to give compare/contrast pairings, but it does ( or by now, did) depend what questions come up.

DD didn't like the German exam. Shame.

She couldn't do a couple of the questions in Additional Maths so reckons she has dropped about 11 marks. But.... grade boundaries are likely to be low as people seemed to hate it. I think previous boundaries for a grade A were down near 60 (out of 100) so they could still get high marks.

dingit I think sometimes if they come out of exam and don't feel it went well they can be overly harsh/dramatic with the "I'll be lucky to get a C" type of comments? - I hope so as I've had similar from dd