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Help - main topics for AQA Science GCSE for last-minute revision?

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Toffeewhirl · 14/05/2016 10:00

DS1 has left his revision for this GCSE too late and now he's panicking. We have had tears and sleepless nights. This is his last weekend before the first exams (Biology and Chemistry next week) and he's finally accepted my help.

Does anyone know the main topics we should concentrate on at this late stage? (I've looked at the AQA website, but it covers everything, obviously, and I need highlights of the most important topics).

Quick background, so as not to dripfeed: DS1 has Aspergers and has had a rough ride. This is his first year back at school, so he's doing amazingly well to even be attending regularly. He is ambitious to do well and loves Science, but he has no idea how much work is required to get good grades and wouldn't listen to me when I encouraged him to revise over Easter because I'm just his mum and know nothing (obviously). I'm frustrated with his teacher because I asked him to email DS specific instructions about what to revise (which DS would have done) and all he said was that DS needed to focus on what he didn't know .

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PurpleDaisies · 28/08/2016 15:43

His new tutor is great and I'm hoping he will listen to her advice about revision (as he clearly won't listen to mine).

As a private tutor I see a lot of that! Lots of engineer parents perfectly well qualified to help their children with their GCSEs/A levels but it just leads to angst and fighting. It's a totally different dynamic with a neutral outside person. Once I had a student and his mum have a blazing row in front of me ending with him stomping off and her sobbing at me about how she didn't know what to do with him. Its much easier to solve equations than teenagers. Grin

HarveySchlumpfenburger · 28/08/2016 15:49

It's not just teens. It happens right the way down in R and Yr1 too.

Toffeewhirl · 28/08/2016 16:40

Yes, I was so enthusiastic about sharing my revision tips with DS, but he wouldn't listen to any of them. It was very frustrating. I'm very happy to delegate all of that to teachers and tutors instead, although I've told him I'm always available to help him revise if he wants me.

Purple - awful for you to witness a blazing row, but you were probably a great help to the mum.

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