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

Yes,everyone on the Vet threads are saying their Biology papers were a nightmare.Dd said the Aqa paper was hard, not a nightmare but even the first question was difficult.Are Science students going to be used as experimental fodder?

I guess they'll see tomorrow teta, with Chemistry. I'm slightly cheered to read that others found Biology grim too, not that I wish them ill, but it's always good to be in company.

Just joining in as I need a rant...

tell me my Y13 isn't the only complete and utter numpty....

Just back from Chemistry and has apparently been revising topics that are on the other papers FFS..., do not surprising it was difficult then...

Looks like he will not be going to uni at this rate.... he needs at least a B for his reserve let alone an A for his firm place ....

Oh no! I keep saying to dd are you revising for the right paper and I have no way of knowing if she is.

Does this give him double the time to revise for the correct paper now then?

Apparently he has fairly thoroughly revised for paper 2 but he can't even guess at how bad this paper was....

Answered maybe 80% of most questions.... I think he'll be lucky to scrape a C for this paper so I guess now needs A* on the other 2 to try to drag his average up....

Not good.... and I was doing well not drinking in the midst of GCSEs and A levels... I think it may be time to crack out the

Reading this made a cold shudder go down my spine. I can't even ask if she is revising for the correct exam or I will get my head bitten off.

Exams kick off again for dd tomorrow. A black cloud has settled over our house.

hamster DD1 did exactly that in her geography A2 (physical for human, which turned out to be the surprise first exam) but it worked out somehow (not sure how). Not that I don't recommend cracking open the drink :)

Chemistry today not so bizarre as Biology yesterday but I expect they'll stick a batty one in there at some stage. Maths tomorrow.

DD is on a 24 hour heart monitor. I'm not sure that the day before and morning if her exam was the best time to do it!

Hummus with dipping bits was the requested revision food tonight. Apple, cucumber, cheese and flatbread seemed to have been eaten

I have her snickers in the fridge ready for tomorrow's breakfast.

Oh goodness HSMMMaCM. Hope she's OK; sounds like she's at home at least.

I wonder if the readings will be affected by the stress of the exam though? I know my heart has been a-flutter on and off these past few weeks and I'm not even sitting any!

Heart monitor? Bet that will show some interesting results! Hope she doesnt have to go back to redo it. The heart monitor, I mean!

My DGodD found the Biology and Chemistry awful 😓
DD has Psychology 2 tomorrow - this involves me testing her on miniscule writing!

Not a good day.
Ds failed Common Entrance and dd came home really upset after the Aqa Chemistry today.
Am knocking back the wine without any dinner .

Oh no teta.

I think it might have been more fun to see the results if she wore her monitor DURING the exam

Oh dear, sorry to hear the sciences so far sound bad. Someone I was talking to IRL was saying her Ds had found the biology tough.

Sorry about your DS, teta. Do you have any options?

Friend was saying on FB that AQA Chemistry hadn't printed the right questions, and that one of the numeracy calculations was incalculable. Sounded horrific.

Sorry Teta
What are your state alternatives like for your DS?

DD said that a formula for std deviation was missing on one Biology exam so only those doing Alevel Maths could do it

DS says that OCR (his board) has issued an apology for yesterday's Biology paper. Haven't seen it myself but its paper failed to give the formula for standard deviation which they promised in the specification candidates didn't need to know. The rest of the paper was a bitch too, so the standard deviation thing wasn't the only problem it just compounded the rest. I think all the boards were dire though, not just OCR - don't know if any others screwed up specifically or if that was only OCR. It's pretty annoying but it seems to happen quite often these days. All DSs Biology friends were pretty gloomy/ pissed off last night.

Sorry to hear about the heart monitor HSMMaCM, it sounds serious.

www.theguardian.com/education/2017/jun/13/biology-a-level-students-mark-down-exam-board-after-yet-another-error

Thanks Stranger good to know I'm not alone...

HSMMaCm the heart monitor kind of puts things back in perspective... hope everything is ok...

Tomorrow is 2x Maths papers and DD gas another gcse paper .... not much revision going on though... they're too busy taking chunks out of each other....

Has not gas... apparently it's 2 gcse papers - Chemistry 2 and 3. Just hope that goes better than today

Goodness HSM, your poor DD, I hope everything is OK.

The GP told me this morning I have the blood pressure of a teenager - just a shame I don't have the face and skin to match!

It is awful that the exam boards are cocking up monumentally on papers - surely the QA process should be foolproof.

Sorry to hear about your DS and common entrance teta. I am not sure what that means for you but it sounds like you need hugs.

DS is still despairing about the mistakes he made in History on Friday and in Politics yesterday - he keeps remembering them, aargh! I have the urge to sing 'Let it go'! As he says if you fluff up on a science 6 marker you can save the day, fluff up on a 45 politics marker (90 marks for the paper), you're done for. His nerves are getting the better of him. He has so much knowledge in his head that he is focussing on getting it all down on paper without actually taking time to work out what the question is asking. This bit of parenting is much worse than the sleepless nights bit, isn't it.

Ono, I keep singing "Always look on the bright side of life" to DS

I find myself randomly singing If Young Happy and You Know It.

The chemistry A level paper had a mistake too.

Exam board AQA apologises after error in A-level chemistry exam

DD was told during the exam. It didn't worry her too much. She was more annoyed about the 8 mark question she got wrong.

Dd got stuck on that one too.
God, the tragic news has made exam worry seem minuscule.Those poor families.
Hsmm I hope your dd is ok.