Parents of Year 11s - the end is in sight

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Hello everyone, new thread for the final push.

bitoutofpractice no she did AQA history, medicine through time. She had the choice of a long question one was comparing Galen with someone else (the obvious q) and one was discussing how the govt supported medicine from 18 something to 20th century (which she did)

Edexcel English went well she thought.

Kitten DD's friend found her calculator had died yesterday too!

Must be the overuse .

Anyones DC got German Reading and Listening tomorrow? DD is saying she can't really revise for it and shrugged off my suggestion of "vocabulary".

Ah hewl that explains that then. DD said she could've answered with question on Life in Nazi Germany but decided she wanted to write about women

By the way, that curriculum sounds really dull to me and I speak as a historian

kitten I have just sweatily run upstairs to get DD to check her calculator on your advice

dd said that English language was good but she could have written more for the second reading question. She liked the writing paper though. This was WJEC English language by the way which was 2 x 1 hour papers one for Reading and one for writing. One of dds A level options is Creative writing so this should be one of her strongest papers.
Next exam is Maths on Thursday. My calculator is exactly the same as dds so that's back-up plan number one. If there is a problem during the exam, invigilators have spare calculators available.
Norbert dd revised for French listening by looking up videos in French (with subtitles) on Youtube! She also did a practice reading paper.

How does one check a calculator?

DS1 has AQA German reading & listening tomorrow morning. I don't think he's planning to
do much revision for it. Because of the marks he got in the controlled assessments, a huge range of scores in tomorrow's papers would lead to a B grade overall.

He had the same situation with the WJEC Latin yesterday afternoon. Because of his grade in a previous paper and its weighting, anything from 22% to 90% in yesterday's paper will have got him a B grade overall.

DD has igcse aqa geography paper2 tomorrow
She's revised maths geography and history today

hesmylpbster it was AQA iGCSE.

Second and catslife - reassuring to know that revision for the Reading/Listening has been a bit scant elsewhere too.

Good point too about the controlled assessments that have already happened - DD did well on those so hopefully that will balance out any blips.

Exit - just by pressing buttons if it comes on, then it works - for now.....
don't press them too often in case it then decides not to work

catslife - the calculators in dds school don't have trig functions, which is a bit shit as I defy anyone to learn all of their trig values!

Perhaps they should provide trig tables as a back up

"Their paper was all about tourism so not the most exciting subject matter"

As DD has been revising for human geography for tomorrow she used one of her tourism case studies for her English exam. She said that English went well, not brilliantly, but she isn't unhappy about it.

I remember trig table and log tables and calculators with "proper" AA type batteries that were swapped for new ones just before the exams!
i would say to check the brightness of the displayed numbers as they start to fade before the batteries die.
kitten I suspect that for mocks they give out substandard calculators to make sure pupils don't forget to bring their own etc. For the real exams I think they would have ones with all the functions present.

I bought my first calculator when I went to sixth form. I think it cost about £17.

I've still got my calculator and use it! The dcs are all solar powered so should be ok.

But how do you know if it is going to expire??? Are they battery operated?

I received a text from DS following this morning's English Language exam that simply said "MY HANDS HURT". He seems to think it went ok though. He's currently watching YouTube videos in German ahead of tomorrow's reading and listening papers.

Most of the leading brands are dual powered with a battery and a solar display. Batteries have a very long life these days (unlike the ones in the 1980s when I was taking O levels).
DH remembers having a slide rule at secondary school and using it!

DS2 seems to think his English went OK. Easier than his mock. It was about third world education? He does the foundation paper for AQA. RE also was 'OK.'

His calculator seems fine. I, too, still have my sixth form calculator, now 35 years old and still working.

Geography and computing tomorrow, we're half way through at last!

catslife, you'd have thought, but a kid I know didn't take their calc into one of the science exams and was given a rubbish one.

Sorry Exit, I didn't mean to worry you. dds did give a bit of warning today before it conked out. She kept banging it to keep it going.

"Batteries have a very long life these days (unlike the ones in the 1980s when I was taking O levels)."

Old gimmer here. We didn't even have calculators for maths when I took my O levels in 1975. We had to write rough workings out with a pencil and then cross them out.

Igcse aqa geography today once this papers done only one more geography paper left but that's one you can't revise for DD said its just maps and decision making.
Good luck to those doing German tomorrow!

*today sorry

Geography here today too.

I was rather at the storms last night for disturbing sleep, didnt they know there are exams today?

3Gs today - German, German and Geography.

I'm already looking forward to the ceremonious ticking 3 off the list later as it will bring remaining exams down to 7.

Good luck all!