Finishing year 13 in 2017

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

Good luck to everyone doing History this morning! I am in nervous cleaning mode - bathrooms tick, hoovering tick, beds changed tick, dusting tick. Might have to do some actual work to pass the time. DS was quite nervous when he went off this morning, dread to think how nervous he would be if these exams actually counted for him.

History was OK apparently but nerves got the better of him I think and he says he will have lost marks for not knowing what a non-conformist Christian was for the source question. Oh well....

Probably only 1 mark surely?

Sorry to hear about nerves, ono. Can hevtake a rest break at all? I agree thst it doesnt sound like he would lose a lot of marks.
DD was pleased with the History questions, thank god!

Thanks for your thoughtful post Mirabelle - I think those are some of the anxieties swirling around at the moment
Though I'm excited for DD for the opportunities ahead it does all add to the pressure.

I got him out for a walk this afternoon to clear his head for Monday which is politics. I am clinging to the previously cited theory of doing better than you think you have [needs clutching at straws emoji]

Ono40 sympathies !
I'm sure he will have done better than he thinks.Am I right in thinking he has a Unconditional offer?
This is such a nerve-wracking time and as parents we feel our children's pain too much.(ds2 is in wales with friends and I forgot to pack his phone charger - phoned me up in tears at 8am with only 3% charge.I currently feel so bad !).
Two days of respite before Dd exams start on Monday .I'm praying there are no curve balls this time.

A clutching at straws emoji would be a handy new one ono!

I need it for DD's Geography which is at least all done now with second paper, on Friday, going a lot better than the first 😊

It is really hard for you all and it's really important to try and take a little bit of time for yourselves in amongst it all if you possibly can to give yourselves a bit of headspace. Apologies if I sound a bit lecturing but much easier on the outside looking in.

You're right Mirabelle. Dh and I took ourselves out to the pub for a while this afternoon while dd was revising. We talked about everything except exams and uni and it was really relaxing.

Good advice from Mirabelle.

We are sort of bearing up; I feel a bit stressed today (not entirely due to exams) but have tried to keep a lid on it.
DS is fine, still doing the work. He is 2/3 of the way through, so the last push now.

I can't wait for 23rd June!

Definitely, Mirabelle!

I actually don't feel all that stressed about it, probably because
a) DS's illness this year has been so all-consuming that anything else pales into insignificance
b) DS had already started on GCSES's before half-term. Both at once seems strangely supportive rather than doubly stressful
c) DD is managing her own stress way better than she did for the GCSES

I will probably eat my words at some point in the next 2 weeks

I've found the election quite a nice distraction this week. I think it has probably been good for DD to see me focused on something other than her, with me out and about posting a few reminder cards through letter boxes, and staying up watching the election specials as the results started to come in.

Thanks Mirabelle, I think I will look back and wonder why I spent so much time fretting on DS' behalf. I am sure it is because I didn't do any work for my own A levels and I ended up on a course I didn't want to do at a uni I didn't want to go to (luckily I was able to transfer at the end of Y1). My own DM couldn't have given a fig quite frankly, her entire focus was on making sure she had my dad's dinner on the table at precisely 5.15pm each evening as he walked through the door.

Heavens Horse, can't believe your DS is 2/3 of the way through, my DS has only done 2 exams so far, one 'meh' and one 'ok'. Five more, two this week, three next.

BTM, hope your DS is getting sorted, there is nothing worse for a parent than to see their child suffer I think. Good on your DD for managing her stress.

The election has been fascinating and I am glad that so many of our young people were engaged and went out to vote.

Anyone do Aqa Biology today?
I can't believe some of you are 2/3 through.We've only just done the first one.
I'm not too stressed with Dd but it's taken the weekend and lots of wine to reduce my blood pressure after CE last week.We get the results this week and I'm nervous about that .
Tillymint that sounds very difficult and puts exams into perspective.
Juggling we all voted for different parties here!
Mirabelle thank you for the calming sensible words.

Mine is 30% done - 3 down, 7 more to go - two this week thur/fri

DH has History on Fri and two Maths exams next week, then he is finished!

DS' gf did AQA biology and thought it was quite hard. There were lots of memes on Twitter about it being like A level Maths or GCSE Art.

Errol, 10 exams, that's a lot!

DS has 9 in total but 2 were Geog re-sits.

Nothing like as many as GCSE though, and all subjects she likes.

4 exams. 1 down, 3 to go. Stress setting in about psychology paper 2 on Wednesday. Revision buddy coming over tonight.

DD has done 2/7. She has 3 more this week and is working hard and worrying about Russia (History!) as she didnt do so well with it at AS. Could have something todo with the fact that she did no revision for it

My dd who is usually really chilled about biology and got a really high A at as said it was confusing.

My DS said Biology OCR was shit. He's predicted an A*. Bloody horrible first exam.

My daughter and friends said the Edexcel Biology was a nightmare, really bad paper.