Year 11 GCSE support thread 5 - finishing off the exams

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Only another week to go for DD, but I know some of you have two weeks.

Wed, was it a good dream, or bad one?

Another one with a knackered dd, and still another week to go

ono40 as it seems to vary could you go on to instagram and youtube and search for you school's last year's prom to see if any appear?

wed, I've been having results day dreams for months! Feel knackered when I wake up after one!

No corsage here, DS not taking a particular girl just going with a mixed table of friends.

Corsages??? No, not here either. They all go with their friends, More like a school dance imo.
Am I the only one who went and booked hols over resuts day?
Oh yes I have, so now she won't even know how she did for a couple of days. I hope there is no internet where we're going.

Good idea Oddboots, hadn't thought of that - best do it myself as he won't bother!

So much for ds' s lie in. Neighbours dog has been yapping outside for the last 4 hours.

On Proms dd was pleased with the other 3 girls she's been put with on her table - telling me all about it the other day. I think here they're down-playing any boy/girl aspect so def no corsages - though I think a few pretty flowers sounds charming
Going to pick up from History in a mo. Hope the timing worked out and she liked the theme - will have been on one of three topics so she has definite preferences (Wants Women over Children and teenagers or Immigration - Teenagers would be the worst she reckons as apparently not much to say about them!)

I told DS to find out if he needed to give a corsage .. he came back saying No.

on further interrogation, I find out he asked his 'date' if he needed to give her flowers.

History paper 2 done and dusted here, I never want to read/hear about the Russian Revolution again.
Dd under strict orders to relax for rest of day ( part from tidying her shit-tip of a bedroom)

Anyone else's DC just done British History on WJEC? My DS is not happy - he's wondering if his school taught them the wrong bloody syllabus.

Thanks oddboots - very interesting. They are already an academy, but I doubt they would want an inspection - who would?! It is Inner City, but very mixed. All the other comps round here do study leave, so I'm not at all sure why they don't

No corsages here AFAIK. I doubt most of them would know what they are (I bet DD doesn't!) However, no formal information about any of it yet

LineRunner, that doesn't sound good. DD was doing Germany, not sure what board.

Oh no Linerunner, I'll check with dds boyfriend, I think that was his board.

History OK apart from didn't quite finish, again
I guess History has really been the one where she could have done with more time
Really running out of steam now History's over - saying things like "there's none left that I care about now" Must admit I'm very glad too to see the end of exams in sight on Friday. Just a double RS (philosophy) tomorrow and an hour of U1 Physics on Friday afternoon.

Which History was it, Juggling?

DS's school friends are going bonkers on FB. 'Pure bollocks' wrote one. 'What the fuck was that??' another. These are bright boys and they think they were taught the wrong paper. Disaster.

What am I like - just spent half an hour crying at pictures of other people's children at the year 11 and 13 proms over the past couple of years! They all look so glamorous and grow up . It's a good job we didn't have prom in my day as my mum would have made we wear some hideous hand-me-down from one of my sisters who were all 10+ years older or she'd have run something up from a pair of old curtains (and she was rubbish as sewing).

I saw only one corsage on a Y13 two years ago so I think I may forget to mention it again to DS (but it looked lovely).

DS home from history, quite chipper as it was Liberal Reforms (OCR) and he knew that best of all, just depends whether he was able to write a good answer to the questions.

Linerunner, the history specifications are all very complicated with lots of options. It is possible that they have been entered for the wrong thing/option or been taught an old spec (I think all the history specs changed this year).

I don't know if this is any help Linerunner but there are people on Twitter complaining that the wjec paper had a section on 'the British holiday fightback in the 1970s' which they claim hadn't been taught to them.

Well, it's done now.

DS just wants to know if other people found it hard or just his school. He asked me to ask MN!

OddBoots, thanks for that - interesting.

ono40, yes the specs changed this year but the history teacher claimed to be on top of it all. I wonder if she maybe took a punt at teaching a partial syllabus.

Or if the paper itself was 'off spec'?

Hi LineRunner, sorry your ds seriously not happy about History. Must be pretty awful if the questions asked really don't seem right

We had a different board here - OCR described on timetable as "History B How Far British Society Change 1939 - 1975" Quite an interesting area to study I'd say, but sooo much of it. Not surprised dd didn't manage to finish it

DD's just come home after her History exam. Hers was on How British Society has changed ~ 1890-1918. Her ' and What the Fudge are they on about' exam question was to do with interpreting a WW1 poster of Lloyd George playing a trumpet and saying, Keep the Homefires Burning. It sounds like she did a lot of rambling and she covered a lot of areas in the hope that one bit of what she was writing was right!

Only Maths (tomorrow pm) and Physics (Friday pm) to go now. Must make sure DD has an 'equipment check' (spare batteries for her calculator might be an idea) for Maths tomorrow.

Juggling, at least their Physics on Friday should be straightforward? (I hope I haven't jinxed it.)

I'm bloody knackered.

I'm also job hunting at the moment and sick of tailoring CVs.

DS said History was hard but not evilly so. He was revising Weimar Republic and rise of Hitler last night so I hope that came up

Woops. I fell off this thread as I haven't posted for a few days.

DS did History today and will be home within the hour.

STILL haven't got a prom suit. We were going to go on Sunday but husband is going out and there is NO WAY ON THIS EARTH I am taking DS2 (age 6) with us. Have any of you got the M&S super slim ones for £99? They seem pretty nice.