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

I think I have more idea what your dc are going to get on results day than my own daughter. Absolutely no clue what to expect.

One more to go on Thursday. Light glimmers at the end of the tunnel.

I was trying to force encourage DS to look for a job today, easier said than done though as he is only available for 2-3 weeks. He said he will be ashamed to put his A level grades on his CV in the future so I had to do lots of encouragement and say that they don't really matter once you have a degree.

Teta, did the gas turn up, lol?

Hi everyone, glad you are getting through these last exams ok, although I bet there was a mad panic at the school where they timetabled it wrong

DS still checking out accommodation and getting ready for his holiday next week.

We got his suit yesterday for the Leavers' Ball

Good Luck to anyone with an exam (Chemistry?) today.

DD has bought the most strappy 4" stiletto sandals for her leavers do. She can barely stand in them for the photos, but is taking her trainers in her bag. I predict she will wear them for 15mins at the most

I've been waiting for this day for a long time , finally here ,DD1 off to school for her last exam AQA Chem.Now the social whirl begins and I start worrying about August 17 th. I know I only joined the chat recently but thanks for being here all of you.

Good Luck to your DD for Chemistry today ollie.

Chemistry today and Physics on Thursday then DS is all done too.
He is off on holiday with his mates next week then helping out at a scout campsite for most of the summer holiday.

Good luck to all those doing Chemistry today, hang on in there physicists.

DS realised at the weekend that the leavers' dinner was 'an actual thing' and that he needed a suit so I managed to persuade him to go shopping (lies down in a faint...). He also has a boat party on the Thames on Friday but isn't sure what to wear (raincoat by the looks of the forecast) and then a festival in Finsbury Park on Saturday, all of which are interspersed with a few days work also at a scout camp. Yes, the social whirl begins.

Tilly DS has just gone off to Chemistry. I've told him I reckon that this one will be utterly brutal, purely on the grounds that the exam boards have dished up some a horror for both Biology and Physics and Chemistry hasn't had a horror of that order quite yet.

I'm curious about the wrong timetabling. If the students weren't all marshalled at school before the morning exam ended at other schools (it was a short exam) then wouldn't that invalidate their papers?

I've decided to settle in for lots of low grades - seems sensible in the context :)

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Yes good luck to all doing chemistry today, including Dd.She has really bad period pain and inbuprofen wasn't hitting it this morning.
Dh also jumping up and down about the Aussie Passport so it looks as though she will have to miss the big end of exams party to make a fruitless trip to the Aussie High Comission, even though we won't have an appointment due to a 4 week wait. Where dh will predictably have a. bust up with them and dd will come home in tears. Ancient bloody Chinese relatives are being proposed to put her up in Singapore if she is stuck.Given that my kids are very English and she has a school friend she can stay with ?!

Oh god I hope not goodbyestranger. It will just about finish dd off

Sorry dingit, and very sorry to hear about your father. I was only vaguely wondering because of all the talk around leaked papers. I've no idea what happens. If the school hasn't said anything then presumably it's ok. What inefficiency on the school's part though. Did they manage to get everyone in pretty sharpish?

I hope not too.
Please let it be a good paper 🙏.
Dingit you and your family have had enough to cope with.
Did the school manage to gather everyone up in time?

I've told him I reckon that this one will be utterly brutal, purely on the grounds that the exam boards have dished up some a horror for both Biology and Physics and Chemistry hasn't had a horror of that order quite yet.

DD's 2 physics so far weren't horrific (unlike AS) - maybe hard but not weird or unfair or plain wrong as some of the biology exams have been.

Teta - oh, your poor DD, hope she can concentrate. The passport thing sounds like a total nightmare too.

Word on the street at our place was that one of the Physics was brutal Errol and at least three potential Oxford/ Cambridge physicists said the same so I'm merely deferring to their judgment! (DS doesn't do Physics). Perhaps they just meant incredibly hard. You're not wrong about the weird Biology though.

Maybe a different board.

I really don't understand why there are different boards within England - it'd surely be fairer and more efficient to have one board. It would make exam timetabling easier too.

My dd said the same as Errol's about physics. Yes they were hard, but not horrific. She is expecting horror for the last one on Thursday.

The talk last night was all about how she has no chance of getting an A* in maths due to the disastrous C3 exam and how she hopes Bristol will take her anyway. It's going to be a long wait until August 17th.

Yes may well be a different board and completely agree that it makes more sense to have one board administering each subject. That idea was floated but ditched.

DS says the same hippy - A almost certainly gone because of a really bad C4 (he liked C3, oddly) even though he got full ums in all the AS papers so was in a pretty good place before then. He said it seems pretty meh to miss an A because of a single paper so I said welcome to the world of exams! It's tough though, no doubt about that.

So many of them think they may have missed grades - mine included - that they simply can't all have done. Or grades will be lower across the board and the day before results the uni admissions people will be scrambling to adjust offers, and/or massive clearing job. The universities are not going to want unfilled places!

The last physics exam on Thursday probably is the most likely to be weird, I guess agin as its the one which includes the 'experimental' part as well as the option.

My guess is fewer top grades and the uni's adjusting. I think it's easier to tell with maths about missed grades though - DS is quietly confident he's missed the *.

dd liked C3 much more than C4. Lots of variations between exam boards.

I'm glad we will all know whether they have places before we get the results.I feel that everything is very up in the air this year.Dd was forecast 2 A* and 1A.She is not positive about even A In any of them.But she is also very hard on herself and has been reluctant to say if any exam has not been hard.

I think it's easier to tell with maths about missed grades though

yes, as it's more obvious if you know you got something wrong or missed something. And it's not been mucked around with got a new specification yet. However, DD was quite surprised by the results of the AS modules - the S1 she wasn't expecting to do that well on, having not even attempted one (smallish) question, but still got 100 ums - others must also have found it hard; otoh she'd dropped more marks on the M1 than she'd thought (silly mistakes, probably).

One of DS's friends has cracked under the pressure. Went missing for two days, parents bereft. He was located very late last night, thank goodness, but he had chemistry this morning.

None of DS's year doing the STEM subjects feel they've done ok. They are really deflated.

It's all just bollocks.