Year 11 support thread - keep on keeping on!

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Just getting this ready!

Following on from www.mumsnet.com/Talk/secondary/2936097-Yr-11-support-thread-the-scaffolding-is-holding-up-well

Good luck to those with exams today 🍀

Been watching this to soothe my frazzled nerves and know I am not alone! LIZS - good to hear there is a fellow Further Maths sufferer out there. DS has done little revision for it and I am worried it will be a huge shock to him today. He is always very uncommunicative after the exams - one word answers as to how they went - so if you get more insight from your daughter about what the paper was like, please share!

Dancergirl ds did that last question about the reason why public health reform took so long because people were the blaming poor & how far do sources support this statement.

I asked him about the answer and he said that Florence Nightingale is not so relevant but that talking about the Public health acts is good. Plus things like Booth, Rowntree and the Liberals would get you marks.

History OCR 'went well' yesterday. Last push today for final exam (DT) tomorrow afternoon. At 4pm, it's over! Bar a session in the art room on Saturday morning to hang work for marking.

Don't think Thing1 is really working at this stage. Doesn't care about the subject, and can't be bothered to prepare at this point, even though most of the marks awarded are based on work done in advance. Sigh. We're just grumpy with each other now. I'm fed up with dancing attendance, he's fed up with me asking anything at all about exams/work, but perfectly happy to soak up the special treatment lavished upon The Princely Exam Candidate. Teenager behaves in slightly self-centred and uncommunicative manner with doting but exasperated parent: who'd have thought it, eh?

Anyway, husband also finishes massive, all-consuming project at work today, so weekend will be nice. And I"m planning a good evening out (exhibition and dinner) en famille next week. Can't wait to do the book return and help clear out the exam/revision detritus. Decorators start in the house a week on Monday, and Thing1 can get going on the upgrade to his bedroom and games room that we've been promising. There is life beyond GCSEs!

Good luck to everyone in remaining exams and enjoy a great summer afterwards!

Cromwell - your experience seems exactly like mine. I can't do right for doing wrong at the moment, but son did explain yesterday what he felt the 'payment' should be for the different grades come August. £100 for an A, apparently. I put him straight on that one!

Payment?? Snort. Tell him satisfaction at a job well done is its own reward. Throw in the one about how children in many parts of the world would give their eye teeth for an opportunity at education. Those always go down well.

Yes, tried that! Doesn't help that the grandparents offered a cash incentive before everything started. Apparently, whatever the results are, they will be my fault, so I should get the cash anyway! Oh, and it's OK because 'no-one is revising anyway'.

little dd has never heard of Booth and Rowntree, they've never learnt it! She really needs an A in History, she and I are both hoping if it's just that one question she's messed up, hopefully she'll have done well enough in everything else.

I wouldn't worry as different schools will have approached subjects in different ways.

keepondreaming - snap, DS is currently at the barbers because it is extremely important to get the hair cut before the post-exam Nandos trip tomorrow! Never mind the physics revision
Ahhhhhh!!

As the exams slowly draw to end, can i be nosy and ask what kind of results are you expecting? I am sort of expecting 3A's and 5B's and 1C. I was hoping for much better but DS seems glass half full and revision was lack lustre. I just wondered how bad this is really?

What does he need, 'tisglorious?

I think for the Unis he's aiming for (RG) he should be doing A LOT better. I know a lot will depend on A'levels, BUT as it becomes more competitive, they look at GCSEs as well don't they? I think Imperial, UCL etc are obviously out of the question or I am being too pessimistic

How are all these schools delivering such precise predicted grades? Dd's school is very vague. They say it depends on how hard they work and how they perform on the day. Very difficult to predict sometimes.

Anyone else got 2nd RS paper this afternoon?

It's dd's last one, hooray! Good luck to everyone for the last few exams.

Difficult to predict really as DS has only worked much harder since the beginning of 2017. As and Bs predicted (but more Bs than As) but I reckon the tilt could be to more As given the work he's putting in. C for Spanish though, I reckon. Who can tell?

most of dd's friends have RE this afternoon (she's very grateful she doesn't!), good luck to her Dancergirl :)

DD's not talking about results beyond no 9s for English (crazy prediction imo), hopefully a 6 for maths & probably a B for French. Everything else was predicted A/A ... time will tell. She's having a nap now after a bit of work this morning (she seems unbothered by forgetting all her physics). I'd be amazed if she gets comes out with a crop of A/A. She needs Bs for 6th form.

DS had one RE this morning (in quarantine), another this afternoon followed by Computer Science (so not home until 5ish), then two Physics papers tomorrow - then that's it!

Further Maths - first half was ok , last few q were tricky. Sine of 120? Roots?

DS just back from school with his shirt signed by all the Year 11s - looks great and made me feel quite emotional!

Further Maths was OK, apparently, but last question 'impossible'.

Shame that he's got another Further Maths paper on Monday - most of his friends finish tomorrow

Thanks so much all. DD is being very stoic about it all but she is hurting. No idea why other girl is doing this but it's not the first time dds been left out of things. She's Dyspraxic and has had various social issues but in general does really well. It was just had timing with the exams.

Still. Only 4 to go then lovely holiday time for her then a new sixth form start.

Draylon

Further Maths was, apparently, 'beautiful'. But he worries that he answered one 4 mark question in about a fifth of the space that others did, so thinks he may have missed a trick! Just Physics and one more Further Maths to drag him through!

Aren't the schools' predicted grades more target grades - in other words this is what we think you are capable of rather than this is what we think you will get.