Year 11 GCSE support thread 4 - more exams

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Anyone got English tomorrow ?

Biology tomorrow for my DD too (AQA unit 1). She was reading the revision guide in the sunshine this afternoon - I think I was more pleased about her actually being outside for a change!

DD is in a foul mood. Said the edexcel maths paper was impossible as the questions were like nothing she has ever seen before (and she has done a lot of past papers) and that there is now no point in revising for any more exams.
She has Biology 1 tomorrow, like Errols DD.

DS has Chemistry tomorrow.....I had a great chat with DS2 just now, who told me DS1 invited him up to a classroom at lunchtime (one of the teachers lets DS1 and a few friends use his class room at lunchtimes) to give him a ride on a trolley (!), but after a while, DS1 and his friends were "revising out of booklets" and wouldn't play with DS2 anymore - so some independent revision has been done, even for just 5 minutes!

Collected DD and she said had a spare 5 minutes at the end of Maths AQA so "revised" it for me to report on MN.

Found it easier than expected up to page 15, the last 3 pages were really hard but they are apparently A* questions which she wasn't expecting to be able to answer easily anyway.
Most of the cohort found it better than expected but with some harder than usual questions.

I didn't reply to your thread Sunny as felt it would warrent a thread in it's own right. Sorry you felt overlooked.

DD is not a high achiever in accademic subjects but I make sure I boast about her other talents

oh that is a shame bigTilly.

The link is so funny OddBoots, especially the Hannah / Sweets comments. At least they haven't lost their sense of humour (which is probably just as important in life as maths).

Littleham, I'm sure that haul could form the basis of a question in the Edexcel exam. Thanks Oddboots - it made me laugh!

If anyone's feeling brave. someone has posted the answers to today's maths in TSR .

Apparently DD's maths was impossible. Rose, glad your DC weren't sitting it

Oops, wrong thread!

BigTillyMint, I could have written that post!
DD is in such a bad mood.....
She is currently claiming she's not going in for biology tomorrow because it will be too hard and she hasn't been taught anything, she doesn't know anything so it's pointless.
Nothing I can say is right.
I'm looking for some advice online about bits to focus on/ that always come up, but if can't find anything. Wondering if it's worth a shout out thread to a science teacher about GCSE twenty first century science OCR Biology A paper....

DD has found that link TWF. We have told her not to look at it...

No way are we looking! I'd much rather be in blissful ignorance.

noble Thanks for the predictions link.

DD says she is going to look. I've now added the TSR thread to the router list of blocked sites!

Spud my DD says to go on youtube and type in B1 OCR Biology GCSE channel name NottsAST , and there are others.

Thank you thank you thank you TWF.
She's just eaten dinner so I'll go up and suggest that....

noble - thanks, I'll have a look at this.

Bum. She already know about it. She's currently getting cat hair off the sofa with a sticky roller.

littleham. So glad we are not the only ones. Saw a dead rat in the street yesterday and told DD that I thought it had escaped from Her room as it couldn't stand to stay in it any longer. . Things growing in cups. Maybe it's a science experiment?

DD's primary school teacher had a rat (stuffed not live) which he put into the messiest child's drawer as a reminder that they should tidy it. My dd broke the school record for the longest rat occupancy rate. Her drawer was so bad that she didn't ever come across it! The shame of it.

Why didn't anyone tell me that Porridge is essential for biology revision. DD hasn't eaten it for about 10 years, so we don't have any.

I hope it wasn't a real stuffed rat Littleham?
Sounds dreadful - especially if she didn't find it!

No! A cute scruffy cuddly toy rat. Teacher had a great sense of humour.

I am now freaking out about a stuffed rat a dead rat in the street.

But can top trump it with a pickled baby in the biology lab at my secondary school.

Have inspected pickled animals at DCs school and nothing more intimidating than a snake.

That's OK then
Pointedly ignores Lynette (sounds grim)

• and plans oat and barley porridge (new from this week's LIDL shop) for breakfast tomorrow

Discussed IVF with DS this evening, his face was like this
Not sure how he thought it happened!