Year 11 GCSE support thread 4 - more exams

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Anyone got English tomorrow ?

Oh sugar :(

Did she answer the opposite of the question Sugar?The reason i'm saying that is dd had prepared an answer to the opposite of the question asked ,in her revision notes.( can't for the life of me remember the question!).She said she could still use most of the answer.

my DD wasn't too happy either! she said she has compared the wrong poems, Manhunt and Hour!

oh well what can you do! :(

She said that was 18 marks, the other was 36 marks. I'm hoping she will get something for it as she did get the essence of the poem but didn't mention the key word she needed to. She needed this to be a C, just hope controlled assessment plus other paper plus the bigger question are enough to scrape it . But I'm not confident about what she put for one of the OMAM questions.

Instead of answering 'how is love presented' she had done "how is the relationship presented' Not really mentioning love.

Really sorry Sickandtiredofitall - your username sums up how I feel now !

They can only do their best and she has worked so hard.... she said she thought she did great then spoke to her friends after and felt totally deflated! I feel for her.... hope your DDs isn't as bad as she thinks fingers crossed

Same here, came out happy, spoke to friends then realised.

Unfortunately DD very close to having to do Level 2 and not 3 next year so not a great situation. She just can not do exams.

Ds said the English lit was good and that they asked the right questions. I resisted the urge to ask if he had given the right answers ?

Oh Sugar surely there must be some cross over between the points your DD made and the 'love' points.

For you both

For you

Thank you Woolly, that's what I thought and the fact you have said it as well is cheering DD up. She just had a bit if a shock when she realised as was very invested in getting this one, hence getting in a state with a stomach migraine yesterday. Onwards and upwards and thank goodness for half term !

How is your DD this afternoon?

Your poor DD. Stomach migraines are grim and are worse when stressed. As you say, thank goodness for half term.

DD is still a bit tired but much perkier than earlier in the week. She has joined a support group on FB so doesn't feel quite so isolated. Her condition is quite rare in under 18s.

Ds home, English went really well apparently, and that's probably all ill get out of him tonight. He's off babysitting for my sister's kids in a bit so I'm not harassing him or he may change his mind and I really can't handle a 6 and 4 year old tonight. I need wine. and possibly but would have to shop to get gf cake so wine will do.

Revision sessions next week are school Thursday and Friday he's going to miss Saturday class as we've agreed he can go to scout camp Friday and Saturday, especially as home has no exams on Monday and hes promised to revise everyday apart from Monday when he's off to the cricket with his dad and grandad to see Lancashire play.

Trying to get the right balance between fun and work without pressuring him as he is working hard enough.

Now time for and chippy tea. and relax.

This is where the internet really comes into it's own, that's good she has been able to find some support. Thank you for being lovely when you have been through so much

DH visiting the chip shop on his way home tonight - if he can fight his way through the many caravans that were building up on the roads earlier !

I thought the same as Woolley Sugar .. love/relationship surely a fair amount of cross over there?
Glad dd's feeling a bit better Woolley and has found that support group - that sounds very helpful

Here dd literally bumped into her art teacher leaving the art room as she went in to hand in her art books at the end of the school day and before half-term deadline.
Teacher said 1 minute later and it could have been too late
Think we were cutting it a bit fine there and of course, though very relieved we made it, feeling like I should have been a bit more on the case with that one!

Ah well!
Half term
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Dd did AQA conflict poetry - she's glad that's over, she was scared about the unseen poem but found it 'easy'. I told her that it worries me that she keeps telling me the exams are easy - most people worry they've done badly and then do better than they thought. She told me is a disdainful voice that she's not a 'self-defeatist' and if it went badly she'd know.

SugarPlum - I think, like Woolly said, there will be relevant bits to what she wrote so will still pick up marks. Dd said that a few people in her class read misread the question - something about about how the poets use place to present ideas about conflict. She said they all missed the 'place' part when reading the question.

Another one here that had Symptoms for the unseen - god only knows what he wrote about it, but its over now and that's english Lit done for ever (for him). Various states of relaxation planned for the weekend, and then six days of heavy prep for a solid week of exams after half-term ...

but first ...

Sugar, on another thread where an eng. lit paper is being discussed an examiner is assuring people that they 'mark positively' - ie credit what is there. Your DD may have done better than she thinks.

Mine said that for the 'damaged relationships' question on the aqa for which the given poem was 'Manhunt', the one she'd chosen to compare it with was 'Paris' which she thought probably wasn't the most obvious (not sure she's right about that) but she wasn't sure which other would have worked. I unhelpfully said 'maybe The Farmer's Bride' - the only one she'd told me she absolutely couldn't write about (no idea what most of the others were TBH).

I certainly encourage mine not to worry about what has gone and just think about the rest. None of it is as important in a few years as it feels at the time anyway. English is usually okay for my twins. It was the maths which they are still cross about (the paper).

SugarPlum I agree with Wooly and the others - they will surely find lots of relevant points. Anyway, there's absolutely no point in worrying now. Thank God its half - term and she can put it behind her.

I am putting off going into the house as DD has her mates and they apparently made mac cheese for lunch.... planning a chippy tea too, though there may be a few extra teens there for it!

Lucky boy auntp

My brothers saw Lancashire vs West Indies at Aigburth in the 80's and I was most put out that they wouldn't take me.

Thank you all, I will relay that to DD as you are backing up what I said and she trusts MN - she asked me to run it by you and says thank you very much.

It was just one of those oh shit moments at the end of a long week, she's moving on.

Good on her for moving on so quickly - DDs not at all good at that.

Hi all, I was still posting on the old thread like Billy No Mates until Errol give me a nudge, so will just repeat what I said there.

Ds is back and happy with the poetry paper. The comparison was something to do with how bravery is portrayed which he said was fine because he's studied conflict and the unseen he was able to write 'loads' about and was writing for the whole 75 minutes. Nothing about sex though.

He's out at work tonight then going to have a lie in and bit of relax before ramping the revision up again.

Good to hear things seem to have gone okay for most today, I agree that marks can be picked up all over the place for saying some of the things they're looking for.

Glad it went well for him Fairenuff. Sorry you were talking to yourself before !

BTM, the idea of a week with no exams, chip shop supper and watching something with DH has definitely taken the edge off it for her !