DD1's got her tutor meeting next week. In the way teens haven, she's now decided that she doesn't want to give up Chemistry. Apparently it's clicking and she's sort of enjoying it. She's enjoying the bit she teaches herself though rather than the lessons.
However she still is doing too much work, and is feeling snowed under.
I had quite a long chat with her last night when I got in, and I think it's at least partially because she's getting the bus and hates it, as it's sometimes late (and then she's late in-and the previous one gets in over an hour earlier, so not really a reasonable option when she's struggling with the length of the school day anyway), sometimes early (which they stresses her out about missing it) and she has a 15 minute walk home in the dark at the end of the day.
I have every sympathy, but can't really do much about it at present!
But part of the problem, I think, is that when she gets in at 5/5:15 she needs a break. So she plays around for half an hour to an hour, it then doesn't seem worth starting before dinner time, then she feels she has so much work she procrastinates about starting!
(there was an old man my grandfather knew/who had so many things that he wanted to do/ That whenever he thought it was time to begin/he couldn't because of the state he was in describes it perfectly!)
And add to that she's in several Whattsap groups where they help each other. Which is great when she's not sure, but can mean she's spending time trying to explain something to someone else by message, which is quite time consuming. I don't really want to discourage that, but between that and moderating The Student Room website she spends time helping others when she needs help herself.
We've had a chat though about managing time and she's agreed that she will try and get an hour in before dinner and hope to come off earlier in the evening, when she should be able to relax more.