Finishing year 13 in 2017

[HSMMaCM]

Hi all. Keep in touch with uni offers, new jobs, gap years, exams, etc. We can get through his

Poor DD Juggling. DS (doing GCSES) also fluffed up the timing so couldn't get everything he wanted to down in the 16marker.
So nervous for DD on Wed but am practisig being serene and positive.

Dd is fast asleep on her bed with her psychology book beside her.

Hi JugglingFromHereToThere, my DS also sat the Geography paper this pm. He answered the 25 marker on Tectonics and the 25 marker on Conflicts and the essay question on Development and Globalisation. He thought it was a fair paper. He's now revising Economics for tomorrow!

Teta, the Nationwide account seems to have zero fees for overdrafts (at least the student account does). It might be worth thinking about when the time comes. I think DS will go for that as I know he won't ever think about checking his balance.

DS has been emailing the English teacher about theories of tragedy (a little late in my view, surely the time to sort this out in your head is NOT during revision )

Good luck to all starting on Wednesday (for us not them).

Thanks for the (gin) and (cake) ono

Glad your DS found a good way through the geography paper goosebumps. I guess some people will always do better with a variety of options than others, and DD often finds the timing difficult to really nail. Anyhow good luck to him for the Economics - I found that quite interesting in my first year at Uni.

Geog here too today, same one your DD & goosebump's DS sat I think, Juggling.

DS said it was 'OK'. He did Ecosystems and World cities and a question about Transport, he said.

Maths FP2 tomorrow - DD has turned in, emerging to doublecheck I'd set my alarm for 6:15.

Good Luck for tomorrow Errol's DD

Chocolate milk was essential for revising tonight. No other food, so I've told her vitamin tablets are essential in the morning.

Good luck for today for Tillymint and Errol dd's.Calming soothing vibes being sent to all parents. My ds doing Common Entrance had 4 exams yesterday,3 today and 4 tomorrow.Hes Dyslexic so is very exhausted by all this!
I am feeding Ds and Dd lots of freshly squeezed orange juice and home made Chicken soup in an attempt to stop them getting ill.Its not working on me because I woke up at 5.30 feeling rotten.

DD has maths S1 this morning. She ended up with a headache yesterday afternoon and I told her to forget about revising and have an early night. She stopped trying to revise at that point, though I have my doubts about the early night

Good luck to all for today.

Good luck to all taking exams today!

Over-invested parent alert - almost had a panic attack as both Holland & Barrett and Boots have run out of rosemary oil and Rescue Remedy . Luckily I picked them up in London yesterday. I need to stop recommending them, lol. DS says the rosemary oil is helping him remember stuff, I am just glad that his room smells pleasant and not of 'boy odour'

What does Rosemary oil do Ono?
Keen to jump on any health/food bandwagon and to add it to my current Kefir/Bone broth crazes .

Ono I keep putting rosemary sprigs in DD's room and she chucks them out. Also the rescue remedy is for the parents right?

I am not sure how to do links but I will try www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-39780544

Rosemary oil is supposed to help with memory. However memory isn't DS's issue at the minute, it is nerves and fear of the unknown due to lack of past papers and for History the fact that they could ask anything about anything!

DD just came out and text to say it was OK and at least that's one done. Phew!
Next one is Friday - History.

How your DD get on Errol?

She reckoned it had gone well - nothing really nasty.

Coincidentally she was talking about rosemary this afternoon - said that the town had sold out after the head of 6th form recommended it. I told her there was plenty in the garden. we then speculated that maybe if you inhaled something distinctive while memorising something, it might aid later recall if you smelled the same odour - y'know, like Proust (shame they're not allowed to eat in exams....)

After saying psych went ok yesterday, DD estimated today she might have got an E.

Oh HSM, surely that's to do with her feeling anxious? When's her next one?

Nerves have well and truly set in here (more for me than DS). He is at the overprepared stage and I know what happens when he gets like this - he writes reams of information but doesn't apply it to actually answering the question. Roll on tomorrow.

HSM, my theory is the worse they think they have done, the better they have actually done. They tend to focus on what they got wrong/forgot/didn't do and they forget about what they actually did well.

BTM and Ono I hope you're both right. Exams are absolutely the worst thing to demonstrate anything about what she knows. She has a quiet room, but it's still not enough really.

HSM, exams are horrible

Ono, I am praying that DS isn't just writing everything he knows in his GCSES - he has worked so hard to learn it all.

My biggest worry is what if DS hasn't revised properly?

He has done a lot of work, he is very conscientious but what if he hasn't done it right??

Theres so much to worry about Horse!

Hang in there all of you. It's the worse time at the moment with nerves well and truly set in and you're having to cope with this in the context of a fair bit of the population very edgy after the attacks and pissed off with the election. It's also hard as unlike GCSE's there's the whole leaving home bit potentially but no certainty until about 5 weeks before they are due to go