Year 12 preparing for AS levels

[HSMMaCM]

Here we are everyone.

Which board did he do?

dd3 says that everyone hated her Physics exam (AQA) but that she found it much better than the two specimen papers.

DD is dropping physics - she has wanted to since just after she started it so decided on tactical revising - ie ignoring physics to spend more time on the more important subjects. She took the AQA paper today and was really miserable - she knows she has done badly and it doesn't matter that much but it goes against the grain!

Oh no wish I hadn't looked at thread. Dd is in isolation until her PE exam, so I won't know. Bet it's killing her not having her phone glued to her hand

Oh God Dingit, DD would HATE that!

Irian, at least it's "only" an AS level, s "only" one year - I hated Chemistry after I had started (only took it because I hated my O'level English teacher) - did no work bar going to the lessons/homework. Complete waste of time

DS finished yesterday product design and maths - both difficult! He slept for many hours last night ( and this morning)

Noooo. Dont tell me some of yours have finished now. dd3's exams go on until 24th June.

BTM just catching up - wow your poor DD! You must be so proud that she gathered herself back up and did the new paper. She must have been exhausted after 3 exams in a day. Similar thing happened at DS's school a few years ago when they gave the A2 Biology paper to everyone....even those sitting A2 Human Biology and no-one noticed until afterwards. Shocking!

DS did OCR Physics.

Says it was a nightmare, so far divorced from the spec (syllabus, teaching, text book etc) that it was impossible to excel.

He's now thinking of dropping Physics.

Well done, British Government. Way to drive bright British kids out of science.

Oh dear Liney, maybe he will feel differently once the results are out. They are all in the same boat at least.

Ds has finished exams for now. He has one more in fifteen days and remains on study leave so plenty of time to revise. He's going to have a few days just doing nothing now.

I'll try and talk him into sticking with Physics but I'm getting quite despondent myself.

I don't know what the general verdict is on today's paper.

Dd did edexcel physics and said it wasn't too bad. Probably means she's done badly!

Social media is giving a resounding thumbs down to OCR Physics Liney so tell your ds not to be too despondent.

OCR maths tomorrow.

Littlehums have you got a link(s) to any social media comments?

Yes, Maths again tomorrow. Then Biology on Thursday.

So sorry to hear of despondent teens. It's crap for them at the mercy of the government whim, isn't it?

DD is having a bit of a meltdown. She was thinking about doing a psychology degree, but has not got on well with A level psychology or her teacher. I pointed out that this is only a taster and the actual degree work is probably a lot more engaging. She is looking more closely at the degree modules.

I think we might be looking at Foundation Lentil Weaving at the University of Trumpton at this rate.

To think he was once on the Gin and Tonic strand.

It makes me incredibly cross the amount of changes our lot and their teachers have been subjected to, really there aren't words.

HSM can she articulate what she doesn't like about the A level and which courses she is looking at ?

Sugar she loves knowing how people tick and why they do the things they do. I think she's just finding it a bit dry and tedious.

She's talked about criminal paychology, also psychology with counselling. She spotted a psychology with neuroscience course the other day which caught her eye.

She's still not even sure if she's definitely doing psychology, but it has been her most consistent plan.

www.thestudentroom.co.uk/showthread.php?t=4084445&page=21&highlight=ocr+physics+as (hope this is correct exam Liney)

One comment from a teacher -
Ive done the paper and I'll post up my answers and mark scheme later today. Its quite a tough one - still that means low grade boundaries.

twitter.com/search?q=ocr%20physics%20&src=typd&lang=en-gb

HSM, DD has had the same issues. However we have both heard separately that the second year of Alevel Psychology is more interesting. DD is waiting on results to decide what she drops, plus they have 3 weeks of starting the Y13 courses before the summer. And no doubt a pile of homework, knowing her school.

Yes SugarPlum, the changes have been rushed through way too fast and teachers are practically making it up as they go along. Awful

I've known a few people who are the same as your DD in liking to know how people tick and why they do things and they have said much the same as her about it being dry and tedious. I am very out of date but don't think the degrees will have changed hugely. They do go into more detail but it's kind of the same in greater depth. You have many many names and dates to remember as any argument has to be backed up.

Then there is the practical work plus stats and lots of drilling about hypotheses, abstract, methodology etc. Some courses are more science based than others but if the neuroscience caught her eye I guess that is something she'll be fine with. We used to share neurophysiology lectures with some of the medics and they were quite intense.

Cognitive psychology is the one that a fair few people on my course didn't enjoy much. . Things I personally didn't enjoy much was the visual perception and cognitive stuff but the health, social, criminal psychology plus sociology floated my boat.

Thanks, Littlehum.

I feel a bit bewildered with it all. Last year my son was being shown round Oxford. This year he's on for oblivion. I'm not kidding.

I don't know what to do. Extra year at A level? Foundation year at university?

HSM she might like to have a look at Sociology too. Some of the courses do psychology modules as part of it.

What subject does he want to take at university Liney? There is more leeway with some subjects than others.

Biomedical Sciences, Littleham.