Parents of Year 11s - the end is in sight

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Hello everyone, new thread for the final push.

That's a bit pathetic really. Risking failing a GCSE just to watch a football match.

I think the most pathetic thing is the assumption that only boys are interested in football as I am very excited

An hour and a half off surely won't do much harm!

Russian History here today - this has been the toughest subject for DD to revise - so many similar sounding names and dates!

Good Luck to all with exams today!

Good luck everyone today!

Russian history sounds brutal.

DD's course covers Votes for Women, Liberal Reform, and Britain in WWI

Good luck to everyone today!
Russian history - loved this at A level, but agree regarding the names and also the spelling of names.

It's Germany history here today. DD can't get to grips with the spellings of there's names etc

socks I am so sorry, there's never a good time for a loss like that but some times are more challenging than others.

Thanks to this thread I now know why it is that Y11 can go home at lunchtime on Thursday after half of the planned physics revision session. It's nothing at all to do with them having done enough and everything to do with avoiding mass sickness in the morning. Better a two hour session than none at all. We will not be watching the footie - this is a clueless household.

History today features the Vietnam war which apparently has too many dates in it and cannot be learned by anyone at all.

DS has history today and has remembered to txt me to let me know we went in to school (physics revision session before history exam). Tomorrow is physics 1, Friday is Biology 2. Next week he just has Chemistry 2 and Physics 2. WHOOP!
He tried prom suit/shirt/tie/shoes on on Saturday - so handsome (i'm biased )
It's hard to balance the "keep going you're nearly there" with the wanting to give them a break because they're shattered.

I've just tested DD on her history. She really knows her stuff and has a real feel for it. Apple apparently doesn't fall too far from the tree

Just needs to brush up on her dates

Icouldbeknitting my DD really struggled to revise Vietnam too

I'm really nervous about dds History A level!!
She's loved the topics she's studied this year and at her new school the topics look boring :-(

American History in the 1950s
East Germany
Napoleonic Wars

that list would have turned me right off

her unit today is Elizabeth :-)

she's loved it

DD's history today is

1920's America
Hitler's Germany
Civil Rights

They have really whizzed through this part of the syllabus and she does not feel remotely confident. Just hope she did enough of the last paper and her two CAs to bring her mark up.

American west here, doesn't interest me at all,

hewl - East Germany should be interesting for A level.
When I took A level history back in the early 1980s one of my topics was GB 1815- 1914 - a complete snoozefest.

So sorry for your loss sock I hope you're both OK.

DS was so poorly over the weekend - some kind of 24 hour bug. He didn't have an exam yesterday so had an extra day to recover. He was a trouper and carried on working through his unfortunate sickness bouts.

History today.

Just took my DD to school for history. Rather worryingly she told me it is about American history but not much happened in the era they are studying!! Queue a slight panic from me. Will be interesting to see what she says when she comes out!

A week today it will all be over. That is my mantra for this week!

It's history very soon DD is worried and is extremely shattered, I'm guessing it will be a late night tonight as she has R.S and chemistry tomorrow, at least tomorrow she can chill as Thursday she has no exams Friday she has 2

American history in the 50s is interesting (to me anyway!). Loads happened then.
Napoleonic stuff - yawn fest.

Good for your ds Starfleet. I hope he is fully recovered, sounds grim.

Thanks

Sorry - pressed buttons to soon and my fat fingers on this phone are rubbish!

So thanks kitten! It was a bit grim and as he's not very often poorly he was all "woe is me", by Sunday evening my sympathy had waned a little.

DS not happy with History - was writing until last minute. Seems a bit down. Unsure if it's that he didn't have time to check/he doesn't think he's answered well/he struggled in general. Shame as it's one of his best subjects. Fortunately, i'd say it's the only one so far he's not been Ok with.

Spoke to several of DD's friends as I was waiting to collect her and the consensus was that History was

OK

DD pretty pleased with it as she had crammed some of the topics last night and this morning and they came up. History is the only A level she is looking forward to, so she is hoping for a decent grade.

That's another one put to bed. She is not looking forward to Chemistry tomorrow.