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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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Steggers123 · 16/05/2017 13:18

Namechange, he takes the battery out before he goes into his exams, I'm fully expecting that before the exams are done he'll lose either the battery, the phone or both. As long as he gets through the next few weeks without walking into a doorframe or tripping over his feet I'll be happy.

Fleurdelise · 16/05/2017 13:25

I went into DS' room last night telling him that I need to do the responsible parent talk and he needs to listen to me "no phones in the exam, no revision cards, all equipment in a clear plastic wallet, needs to have his scientific calculator, no talking and I'd rather you fail the exam than trying to cheat".

I got the "I know, stop telling me" but I had to do it so if anything happens I can't blame myself for not highlighting the obvious.

I am obsessively checking my emails and texts fearing I'll find an email telling me he's disqualified because he did something stupid. Hmm

TeenAndTween · 16/05/2017 13:33

DD is a forgetful. As she only walks to school we agreed no phone taken to school at all on exams days. If she urgently needed to contact me there were loads of other phones she could borrow, or go to the school office.Iit was one less thing to stress about.

One pupil got caught out in their drama performances. They had performed, and put their blazer back on from the waiting area to keep warm whilst watching the other performances. Then phone rang ...
I think it might have meant the pupil lost all their performance marks even though it clearly wasn't an attempt at cheating.

Laniakea · 16/05/2017 13:36

Fleur I got a phone call from school this morning - first time ever - I was petrified that dd had either gone AWOL or had forgotten to hand in her phone & been disqualified ... it turns out it was a reminder to return her maths textbook. Bloody hell that was a heart stopping moment.

No idea how French went - dd has ignored enquiries though she has asked for a lift home & said that her biology exam has changed from 1 to 1:30pm. She must be starting about now. I hope she doesn't come home miserable :(

Laniakea · 16/05/2017 13:38

"I think it might have meant the pupil lost all their performance marks even though it clearly wasn't an attempt at cheating."

That's my nightmare, unfortunately dd needs the phone because she's travelling :(

Fleurdelise · 16/05/2017 13:50

Tell me about it, they send an email daily about something or the other, today it was about the prom tickets being available to collect but sometimes they forget to put a subject so all I see is the school name, I freeze instantly when they do that, all I can think of is "what has he done?!".

1,30 biology exam here to, they must have changed the time nationally or our dcs go to the same school Laniakea.

Fleurdelise · 16/05/2017 14:20

Almost finished, 10 minutes left chewing my nails here

TeenAndTween · 16/05/2017 14:32

Fleur relax. You'll be a nervous wreck by middle of June. Smile

BertrandRussell · 16/05/2017 14:38

Fleur- please reassure me that you're exaggerating for comic effect......?

CrazedZombie · 16/05/2017 14:43

I think I'm more nervous than ds. He text me at 9am this morning asking if I could find the specification for this afternoon's exam on the exam board website. 😱

It's for Biology. He wants to do it at A-level and it's one of his best grades normally so fingers crossed but can't be good if he texted me that this morning right? I haven't seen evidence in the cesspit that he calls a bedroom that he's printed out any past papers.

Chemistry in a couple of days. His teacher is a superstar who has really got him interested and his exam grades have leapt from U to As.

namechange7711 · 16/05/2017 14:55

Almost had a heart-attack!

Bear in mind that both of my children should be in an exam right now. A text has just arrived from the school with the subject line:

"Important - your son has not....."

Had to click on it to get the rest of the message:

......"paid back the £3 which he borrowed from Reception yesterday"

Dancergirl · 16/05/2017 14:56

DD sat the 2 OCR Ethics papers this morning. She says there were some tricky longer questions, and the time went very quickly

Same here error dd says some of the Part E longer questions were quite hard. She didn't realise each paper would be done individually; on the first one she was trying to remember one point to go back to later but the first paper was collected in before the second paper started. She remembered her point half way through the second paper! Too late. Hopefully it would have only been one mark.

Dancergirl · 16/05/2017 14:57

Oh no namechange that would have freaked me out too!

CrazedZombie · 16/05/2017 14:58

I'd have peed myself too! My kids are at a big school and the only texts that they send are notifications that a child hasn't turned up.

Youngest is at primary school and they always say "Hello Mrs CrazedZombie, CrazedZombieBoy is fine. " first which makes my heart race too.

Dancergirl · 16/05/2017 15:00

Anyone else's dc doing Edexcel iGSCE Biology this afternoon?

Snowchaser · 16/05/2017 15:15

Dancer, my DS is doing the Edexcel IGCSE exam right now. It's his sixth exam but I'm still feeling nervous for him. Been lurking on this thread since its start. You're all doing a fine job of keeping me sane!

Madhairday · 16/05/2017 15:20

My DD also doing biology this afternoon. Think she'll be finished now. She seemed fairly chilled this morning but we'll see how she gets on.

She has RE and chemistry this week too. Starting in earnest now.

LIZS · 16/05/2017 15:25

Apparently AQA French reading and listening was really hard. Dd normally finds it pretty straightforward but says the recording sped up and there was vocab they didn't recognise.

Steggers123 · 16/05/2017 15:32

LIZS, my ds said the same, they all found it really difficult

dingit · 16/05/2017 15:33

Ds thought French hard, biology easy! Shock

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GiraffeorOcelot · 16/05/2017 15:44

DS only had biology today. He said it was stressful but easy.

Laniakea · 16/05/2017 15:46

french - harder than usual, particularly the reading, there were more constructions/grammar (versus vocab) questions than usual. Still hoping for a B.

biology - everyone seemed to think it was pretty easy. Last year the A & A* boundaries were 40 & 49, don't know if they will be higher this year.

DD had her pencil sharpener confiscated because it isn't transparent!

GiraffeorOcelot · 16/05/2017 15:49

Lanieka - was your French aqa or edexcel? Only asking as DS has edexcel Spanish on Friday.

Transparent pencil sharpener?! That's a new one Grin

Ontopofthesunset · 16/05/2017 15:52

DS has the Edexcel IGCSE Biology too - not home yet so don't know how it went. This is his 7th exam and he has three more this week, then six next week, which is going to be tough.

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