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Year 11 support thread

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pasanda · 10/02/2017 09:37

I can't find a new thread, moving on from the old full one, so I thought I would create one (please tell me if I'm wrong!)

Last night ds stayed up till 4.30am doing his biology coursework Shock

This time the tsunami affect didn't work and he left it far too late to do a reasonable job. Which is a bloody shame because he wants to do biology A level and he has done so well in his other controlled assessments.

I wait with bated breath to find out his mark

Oh well, thank God for half term!!

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Dancergirl · 19/04/2017 23:41

Anyone else having trouble getting their teens out of bed in the morning??

I'd fed up with it. Dd sets her alarm for 9am and then continues sleeping throughout the blaring classical music. I go in every half an hour, she stirs, eventually gets up around 11 ish.

Thank goodness she goes back to school tomorrow so will have to get up. But I suspect the same will happen again after study leave starts on 10th May.

Do I give up trying to wake her??

AtiaoftheJulii · 20/04/2017 06:58

Fortunately I'm at work so I don't have to deal with it most days. Personally I try not to go in because it only winds me up. So my advice is do whatever you need to do to stay as calm as possible. I'm pretty sure it won't make any actual difference to them!

BlackDoglet · 20/04/2017 13:21

Luckily DCs school has decided against study leave this year. All students are in for normal school start/finish times, attendance at timetables lessons and revision sessions as appropriate. Right up to last week of exams. Takes all the nagging pressure to get up and revise away! Phew.

hanahsaunt · 20/04/2017 13:42

Popping in ... can't decide whether to take a hard line with ds1 or to sit back ... predicted A* / 8s across the board and has maybe done a couple of hours revision in the holidays (don't go back until next week). He will be absolutely gutted if he doesn't make the grades but getting him engaged in anything (other than sleeping, FIFA, and playing the drums) is impossible. Clearly he will either do well and he'll be smug or he'll not do so well and it will be all our fault for not being stricter (though leading a horse to water springs to mind in terms of actually engaging). Venting here may be the only option.

portico · 20/04/2017 13:43

"Luckilly DCs school has decided against study leave this year. "

Laudable as it is. I think students need to gave their own individual space/time to focus on revision and pulling up weak areas. Not sure how you can do that with a class of 30.

Ontopofthesunset · 20/04/2017 14:17

DS has study leave from 2nd May (day of his first exam). I always wonder about the class revision sessions too. What if they're going over something you already know? How do they make sure you're committing stuff to memory and not just sitting there? I used to revise by testing myself out loud on things so I don't quite understand how it works.

t875 · 20/04/2017 15:46

Hi Everyone

Hope all your year 11's are going along ok.

were ok here, not putting too much pressure on to revise, she is saying she is, were putting the faith and trust in her. Smile

Good revision ideas on the secondary education board just to let everyone know.

dd is a bit nervous leaving her friends behind, she has already said she is going to miss them..has anyone else dd/ds expressed this? I am going to try and organise some meet ups for her to look forward to for after the last day.

Draylon · 20/04/2017 16:53

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pointythings · 20/04/2017 17:12

DD starts study leave halfway through her exams. Before that she is expected in as normal in lessons except when she has exams.

t875 · 20/04/2017 17:22

Dd is home for her study leave that's gonna be fun! Will. Wed a vacation spa weekend when that's over Wink

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Laniakea · 20/04/2017 18:52

dd doesn't get much study leave. Which is probably not a bad thing.

I've confiscated her phone while she is supposedly revising. She hates me, I'm angry with her. She got her worst mark all year in a maths paper today - by far - not exactly encouraging. I lost my temper because I think she doesn't take it seriously. Now she's crying, she never cries. I fucking hate maths, right now it seems like it will be a miracle if she gets a 6. So much fucking stress about one fucking poxy subject. How can she be consistently getting 95+% in all three sciences & scraping a 5 in maths? She is doing twice as much maths as everything else put together. I'm sure she's going to drop a grade in French & humanities as a result.

I feel like an absolute shit for shouting at her. 10 marks lost by not reading the questions, pressing the wrong button on the calculator, writing the formula down wrong etc etc when that means not being able to do the A levels you want is just painful.

Draylon · 20/04/2017 19:07

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Laniakea · 20/04/2017 20:00

it is just awful Sad

I've calmed down, and apologised. She's unsurprisingly still pissed off with me. She needs a 6, if she'd got those extra ten marks she'd have been there I think (as far as anyone can predict blah blah). She's doing two more papers tomorrow. I'm still taking her phone while she's working though.

She's not bothering to learn any of the stuff she needs to learn - case study details, dates, formulae etc - until closer to the exams because she'll just forget it. Makes doing past papers hard. Makes staying calm hard. She hates rote learning. Sob.

Draylon · 21/04/2017 10:15

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LittleHo · 21/04/2017 10:56

ds is very bored with GCSE's.

He is getting good grades, has revised and just wishes they were over as he is finding them tedious. It seems to have dragged on for a long time.

Laniakea · 21/04/2017 11:09

56 days until it is all finished here. Her first exams are French, creative writing & biology which are either least important or easiest for her. Week 2 is horrible.

I still have possession of the phone.

She's done a B3 paper & did fine. Currently doing another calculator paper. She's planning to do the non calculator this afternoon then compile a list of topics to work on for the next week then another set of papers next weekend. Also promised me she'll produce a bullet point list of everything she needs to learn by rote for all the subjects (!) at some point today.

My sister is currently having a nightmare with her dissertation (due in on Monday) so Mum & I have been consoling each other. The thought of still stressing about dc's work in the final year of uni is a bit Hmm though, I don't think mum even knew when mine was - pushy parenting has changed over the last 20 years!)

Dancergirl · 21/04/2017 12:41

lania I feel your pain. Do you give her the phone back between study sessions?

Laniakea · 21/04/2017 13:16

yes, she can have it back during breaks and in the evening.

Maths paper went much better - 62/80 (yesterday it was 38!). She always does worst on the non calc paper though & that's still to come :/

She can't do iteration at all - I'm wondering if it worth trying to teach it to her or ignore it and work on other stuff. Everything else she can do with varying degrees of incompetence.

Draylon · 21/04/2017 17:07

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Laniakea · 21/04/2017 19:15

Why would you sell a maths revision book without answers? Pearson I'm looking at you.

More misery.

LIZS · 22/04/2017 11:29

The prom dress chat group has just kicked off in earnest here. Not a distraction at all Hmm

pointythings · 22/04/2017 15:19

Ha! We sorted out our prom dress in February.

Laniakea · 22/04/2017 15:23

thanks noble Flowers I emailed them yesterday but no-one in office until Monday. I managed to calm down & did the exercises she's doing today so we have (hopefully) the right answers! That book is pretty good I think (dd is AQA but has exhausted all the AQA material), they have an extension book too for anyone who is trying for 8/9 (I didn't get that for dd Grin ) ... you need to email that link noble put up for the answers though!

Maths is causing so much stress, she needs a 6, wants a 7. Across the three papers she's around 55-65% but does well (60+) on paper 3 and really badly (30+) on paper 1. We've decided to be strategic - completely forgetting about iteration for example - and doing lots of non calculator questions. She is so inconsistent and it absolutely infuriating for me & pretty gutting for her tbh.

I went through Venn diagrams & set notation with her this morning & she's going to do more factorising this afternoon.

She has the www.litcharts.com/ for her Eng lit texts and thinks they are pretty good (think it was $9 for a month's access) if anyone is looking for that sort of thing. It's pretty tough to get her to do revision for anything but maths & science (I'm v. worried about history & French).

We've getting through an awful lot of snack food too!

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