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

Edexcel physics deemed quite hard by dd. She has a friend on social media bragging he reckons he got 100% on one of the maths papers. Glad social media didnt exist back in my day ( Stone Age)

Yes,I know what you mean Ono.My normal ritual before dd exams is to drive her in to school whilst we chew Bach Remedy Calming sweeties together .
Errol is your dh still a perfectionist?
No wonder you both have such a clever daughter.Its nice to know your Dd has a practical sensible side as well as academic.I'm not convinced Dd is brilliant - clever yes and definitely hard working.I think she has her Dads really negative streak.I was once told by one of his friends that he is the most negative person she has ever known!This was when he was much younger than he is now.63 with 4 young children!And he is absolutely negative about everything.

Talking about where they get - or don't get - their intelligence from, apparently intelligence is carried on the X genes making it twice as likely to come from their mother as their father I guess. Anyway article I read suggested intelligence comes from our/ their mothers 😊

I don't understand that much about genetics so would be interested in any further thoughts on this?

I would like to take credit for dd's intelligence, but she is much brainier than I am

It seems to me intelligence is a complex set of characteristics and there must be several/many genes encoding for them. Did the article say what exactly they were looking at on the X chromosome?

I am happy to accept credit for DD's intelligence

I had lots of desperate phone calls daily from DD during her GCSES - I was a bag of nerves.
I havent had any so far for A levels!

I think its true that the most able/those that set themselves the highest targets are those that are hardest on themselves.

I'd agree with you that intelligence must surely depend on a complex set of characteristics ageinghippy

DD may have got her innate genius from me but luckily for her I think she got her excellent memory from her father or possibly others in the family. I have the attention span of a goldfish!

DD is more hardworking (when she outs her mind to it ) tban DH and I put together and will hopefully get better Alevel results.
But I do wonder at what cost - all the pressure from the government/school to achieve means that she has had at least 4 years of being WAY more stressed than either DH or I ever were

God Ive just realised that I may be needed for uni visiting again this time next year Though I did only go to one with DD!

BTM can you send your DD on uni visits as the current professional ?

I want to visit my old haunts when it's DS's turn, perhaps with DD as well.

As ever I expect I'll take everything just that bit less seriously with younger child dragged through a hedge backwards

HSM, maybe, if she is back from uni (presuming she gets there)

Juggling, the one visit I did was to my old uni

Just heard a mother from Grenfell Tower on the car radio saying her two children both had public exams today (GCSE and A Level). Can't begin to imagine how they could manage. Absolutely extraordinary.

Funnily enough this was just on my fb feed

www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4607048/Teenager-survived-towering-inferno-sitting-GCSE.html?ito=social-facebook

Bless her. I did chuckle that she also had her phone, my two would save their phones too.

OMG, that puts things into perspective. What an amazingly focused teenager. I can't begin to imagine.

History today, DS has been very tetchy these past couple of days

Hope everyone bearing up ok.

Lurker here coming out of the shadows.Double hit in our house of GCSE and A and will have the same again in 2 years. My nerves are frazzled. Final GCSE today for DD2 and History for DD1 . DD1 has just walked out of the house saying she has done so much less revision for History than Bio and Chem.......! A hard earned Vet Med offer is at stake. Can't stop myself thinking about how sad it would be to fall at the final hurdle, at the moment there is no plan B but we probably need to have that conversation.

History here too for DD. And physics for DS.

Ollie, it may just be nerves talking. Making a Plan B is a good idea, but don't lose all hope.

Gosh, good luck to you all Ollie and especially to your DD1 for today, hope some nice things come up for her in History. I imagine there's some luck involved with that?

My DD does seem to like to have her plan B in place (as do I) Hopefully she's got several bases covered, trouble is she's now said she's not so keen on her Plan C and would rather re-take. But I guess that's just an alternative Plan C. She's hoping to do Zoology possibly at Swansea. I guess one of the Biological Sciences could be a plan B for your DD? And then it can be possible to go on to do Vet Med afterwards. Anyhow it's great she has her current offer, that takes a lot of work in itself. All the best to her, and to you!

Thanks, although previously lurking had noted what a supportive community you all were.

Double hit for us today too. Good luck to your dd olliepolly

dd has A level Further Pure OCR Maths this afternoon and ds is in Physics GCSE at the moment (last one for him!)

Good luck to those doing exams today. Ds has Further Maths this afternoon.
He has had 5 exams this week and has coped well.
2 weeks to go and then they can all have some well earned time away from studying.

DD has further maths M2 this afternoon- DH is driving her now, fortunately he checked the traffic at about 10:30, the main A road is currently shut for some reason. Fortunately he familiarised himself with the back ways - he's an overthinker rather than a perfectionist but sometimes those extra thoughts are invaluable!

Hi Ollie, I remember two years ago when we had one doing A levels and one doing GCSEs

DS should be just coming to the end of his History exam...

Maths X2 next week and then he's finished ( only 2 more school shirts to iron - hurrah!!! )

Olliepolly your dd sounds like mine - also a prospective Vet student.She is also guilty of saying she's done very little revision because Dd literally forgets what she's done so far.Its so stressful for parents ( mostly mothers) though.I'm getting prepared for a miserable Dd after her Maths exam this afternoon.