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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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Laniakea · 22/05/2017 12:39

I think the character question was Ralph & since dd decided to only revise Simon so she didn't have any choice when it came to LOTF! What is your dd doing for Friday? DD has Jekyll & Hyde.

rainbowjoy · 22/05/2017 12:45

OCR here never let me go and The War of the Worlds no reply from ds. He just needs to pass. English is by far his weakest subject but can't knock him he revised hard and is going into school on study leave to work.
Exams end 26th June so still a long away to go here.

Merrylegs · 22/05/2017 12:48

DD's igcse went OK she thinks. They have to learn 17 poems. The exam then gives them a choice of two and they have to write about one of them. The two she got up to revise at 5am this morning came up so at least they were fresh in her mind! (And there was definitely no Shakespeare!)

Fleurdelise · 22/05/2017 12:49

Finally heard from DS and English Lit was "actually good". He sounded surprised. Smile I did tell him no pressure, I am expecting quite good results in August based on his exams feedback. Grin

Geography in 10 min time, good luck to all those sitting it.

LIZS · 22/05/2017 12:49

Merrylegs was that CIE? Dd was going through her pretty depressing set of poems yesterday and Spies.

LittleHo · 22/05/2017 12:52

ds also went in with a sore throat and fever this morning. What timing!

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pasanda · 22/05/2017 12:52

Sandyballs - Shock Shock

Hopefully only a bit shit!!

My ds said it went 'alright' - stock answer for everything!! (AQA MacBeth and J&H)

He's just SO glad this one is over I think. He's knackered now though. Sleep at 11pm and up at 6am cramming. At least he's not doing Geography and has a day off tomorrow.

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keepondreaming · 22/05/2017 12:56

Like @BigSandyBalls2015 - I've just a similar text "it was bloody hard" with pictures of lots of tears...
I want to rush into school and give her big hug now.

Merrylegs · 22/05/2017 12:56

Yes LIZS - CIE. Spies also. (And View From A Bridge on Fri?)

Fleurdelise · 22/05/2017 12:59

Sorry to hear your dcs found it hard BigSandy and keepondreaming Sad. English Lit is one of the subjects that I heard a lot of DC struggling with, maybe it wasn't that bad, they may be focusing on what went bad rather than what they did well. At least I hope so...

namechange7711 · 22/05/2017 13:10

DS2 did Edexcel Eng Lit this morning - Macbeth and Animal Farm. The topics he was best-prepared for didn't come up, but he seems to be quite happy with what he wrote, so that's the main thing.

Paper 2 on Friday is poetry and Jekyll & Hyde for him.

I do feel very sorry for your DD Jufusmum having to do this brand new spec in Y10. Hope it went OK for her?

TBF, DC's school used to be like this: they would only teach English Language in Y10 so all the DCs sat that exam a year early and then only teach English Lit in Y11. The ideas was that that way the DCs could focus on one subject at a time and they did used to get very good results. They also used to put the top set Maths in for Maths a year early and then put them in for Additional Maths the following year. However, that's all been swept aside this year with the change to exam spec / grading etc as the school felt it was an unnecessary risk until they get a feel for the exam papers and how they are marked etc. So DS2 is doing all his GCSEs this year (except for RE which was still one year early) whereas DS1 did three in Y10 and one in Y9!

BigSandyBalls2015 · 22/05/2017 13:17

I've had another text .... "two years of my life studying Romeo and Juliet and they only asked questions about the first page".

unfortunateevents · 22/05/2017 13:17

DS only just phoned now. Thinks Eng Lit went well, as someone mentioned the Romeo and Juliet question was on male aggression, which suited him as he played the part of Mercutio in the school production last year! He said he wrote lots so hopefully it made sense! He was also doing Jekyll and Hyde, the question there was about Jekyll but he didn't go into detail.

His main gripe was that the extract was the beginning of Act 1, Sc 1 so he said "you read the whole play and they give you the first five lines as an extract!"

Quadratilla · 22/05/2017 13:18

Laniakea - yes other question was Ralph. DD has Frankenstein on Friday - plus the poems of course, she's doing Love & Relationships.

Iamnotminterested · 22/05/2017 13:18

Reading this I'm amazed at all the different texts, I didn't realise there were so many different combinations Blush.

DD did AQA Macbeth and The Sign of Four this morning and is happy, thank the Lord, she wants to do Lit at A-level and desperately wants good grades here.

Laniakea · 22/05/2017 13:22

ah dd is doing the conflict cluster.

Fozzleyplum · 22/05/2017 13:46

DS doesn't have a phone so no idea how Eng Lit went today. Did anyone else's DC do The Tempest and Jekyll and Hyde?

RaskolnikovsGarret · 22/05/2017 13:54

DD found it very hard. The Romeo extract was apparently ridiculous, not possible to say anything about it, and she didn't have a clue about male aggression. And she missed out important context points on Jane Eyre.

Never mind. She was aiming for a 9, but I'm sure she will be happy with a 7 or 8, as she should be. She seems to have got over it and is revising for Latin for tomorrow. No time to dwell!

Stitchintimesaves9 · 22/05/2017 14:04

Anyone else's DCs do Romeo & Juliet and Great Expectations? Not sure which board. DS's least favourite subject, but desperately hoping he'll pass. Had a text saying Gt Exp question was awful. Worried...

Tiredemma · 22/05/2017 14:26

DS1 did Eng Lit this morning. He did Frankenstein and something else. Said that he felt he had 'revised too much' which I think means that he wishes he had just concentrated on a couple of specific areas.
He doesn't sound very confident. He feels he would get a 6.

Geography this PM. Feeling much more positive about that.

Cafeconleche · 22/05/2017 14:34

Sounds like AQA Stitch - most students on Twitter seem to have found the R&J and GE questions hard, especially with the R&J extract being from the first page of the play. Hopefully this will mean the grade boundaries are low. This is all so flippin exhausting - and there's still a month to go. I've told my DS to forget about Shakespeare and Dickens and to focus on LOTF and the poems. Plus Physics and maths. At the moment he's focusing on Grand Theft Auto...

JufusMum · 22/05/2017 14:40

So DD year ten had a massive anxiety attack in English Literature, was taken out of the exam for 40 minutes, then given ten minutes extra time. She is utterly distraught saying she didn't write anything of importance. Because are is only 14 I did worry something like this might happen. Teacher assured she'd be fine. Obviously not. I have no idea if it's even worth her sitting the second paper on Friday.

BertrandRussell · 22/05/2017 14:46

Ds said the AQA Romeo and Juliet quesstion was the "I do bite my thumb" passage and the question was something like how does Shakespeare portray male aggression and the Christmas carol was an extract from Christmas Present and the question was about how Dickens illustrates the plight of the poor.

They sound really hard-more A-levelish.....:(

BertrandRussell · 22/05/2017 14:49

Jufus-will she have the opportunity to sit it again next year-will they be teaching or is that it?

Does she know what she wants to do or is she still too upset to think?

JufusMum · 22/05/2017 14:53

Yes she can resit but no literature lessons next year so fully independent study. I've been telling the school since Christmas she wasn't ready - but it fell on deaf ears.