Year 8 end of year exams

[Everhopeful]

DD is not great at revision. I have been gently trying to get her to do some, since the exams are now only a fortnight away, but without wrecking her holiday. I would expect reasonable performance as long as she looks at everything she's done this year, since she's got a fair memory. DH is of the view that she'll fail everything unless she spends a lot of time on revising and that will mean she drops down the sets enough to end up with the "wrong" exams (and probably a higher proportion of the more maladjusted at her school). I tend to feel it's Y8, not GCSE and she's got enough work ahead of her, but he feels I'm being too optimistic. What's the view out there?

DH and I both come from larger families. The older ones take care of the younger ones, its true. However, there has to be an age gap of 3+ years before the younger ones are willing to be guided, directly or indirectly by the older ones.

My (slightly) younger sister was so sensitive to being over-shadowed by me, that she got very angry when I had the audacity to point at the admin building on campus and tell her what it was when she arrived at the same university as me.

However, my youngest siblings would regularly ask me for homework help.

DH had similar dynamics in his family (and I can see they have continued into adulthood!)

Now I see Ds1 and Ds2 with exactly the same relationship that I had with my sister. I can only describe it as the younger one having a chip on their shoulder!