GCSEs 2018 (9) Will we get to half term, for never was a story of more woe than this of Juliet and who is Banquo

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Ive just read that list several times & still don’t understand the asterisks.

Not weird mmzz but equally it's perfectly sensible and understandable to assume that the school were teaching the right set texts. And I think the vast majority of people would make that assumption. The parents involved are in no way responsible for this cock-up, it's purely down to the schools.

I was reading a thread on here from a couple of years back concerning a girl who was sick on the day of one of her A level exams (D & V). A doctors note was obtained and the exam board was contacted, and they agreed to award her a grade based on her predicted grade. Perhaps the exam board will do the same for the pupils in the two affected schools - since its a 'no fault' matter in this case (i.e. the pupils are not at fault)

No problem. Obviously wish I had done now, but what perfect hindsight! Hopefully they will apply some mitigation for them.

I have had my own businesses since leaving the City. You quickly learn to routinely check stuff. People make mistakes and it costs the business owner reputation and money, so if its important then you work out a series of ways that things get checked before they go out.
If you don't and the client finds it, or worse, suffers as a result of it, then you have some serious grovelling to do, and you are left out of pocket paying to put things right, when it wasn't something you did in the first place.

here it is, a few posts down from Julie8008

If they can do that for sickness they can probably do something similar in these circs

I have not checked any of ds’s syllabus. Until recently I didn’t know which boards she was doing even.

Except it was a thread about a ds and GCSEs not a thread about a dd and A levels as I remembered it

I haven't checked either.
I've looked at them though, and whilst looking you sort of notice things that you weren't originally looking for. First time I looked was to help DS list out every topic for his revision timetable.

Anyway i am not saying it is the parents job to look or to check. It isn't. I was just remarking that I'd have thought if a selection of parents looked at that section for any reason, then I'm surprised that no one at all noticed that AIC was being dropped and wondered why their DC were doing it.

I think you are slightly unusual in the depth you have researched your DS's courses, mmzz even for this thread of fairly invested parents! I haven't even read the spec for AQA physics which is my area of interest. It's a shame the 2 schools concerned didn't have their own mmzz among the parents, though.

superdoodle That's dreadful.

DS was pleased with the English Lit today - He had hoped for a Simon Question from LOTF, and the Ozymandias question he compared to a poem called Tissues. But I'm stressing now as no-one else seems to have done that.

He has 2 revision sessions in school over half term, English Language and History.

Waiting and Superdoodle how awful for your DC's. What a terribly embarrassing mistake to make

Mmzz I remember your spreadsheets so no surprise you d pick it up x need a mmzz in every school and every company

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Its just a habit I developed when i started having my own businesses (and started carrying the can for any mistakes anyone made). I don't even think about it now, I just sort of automatically compare what I happen to be looking at with what I already know, and stop and look harder whenever there is an anomaly. TBH I thought everyone did it.

I even go through contracts trying to work out what has been omitted.

I think I'll shut up now!

If your DS has inherited your attention to detail, he'll go far, mmzz!

Ooh, wonder if dd did the same, Beenrumbled? Tissues was the only poem she really liked out of the set.

I've found out the set books, and the History curriculum but otherwise I would say I have never found out the specs or even the boards for my twins' exams. I start to panic and interfere if I know too much. And ds absorbs panic as if by osmosis.

I think the CIE list is thoroughly confusing.

I think any of the poems can be compared, it is quite fun for the examiners I suppose to see what weird links can be made across the centuries...

I must admit I checked and checked the History syllabus because I heard there had been a cock up at DS school a few years ago.

But I trusted the English department and didn't check!

Whilst I haven't checked the syllabus and set books for English lit to date, I most certainly will be checking in future - for ds who starts Y10 in September

DD’s is Home (delayed train). Very happy with English Lit. The Christmas Carol extract was one they’d recently analysed in a revision session.
Set poem was ok - not a favourite but shecwas comfirtsbke with it & she found a good comparison one.

She loved unseen & ended up going into the sounds of the vowels (open & closed) using phonetic alphabet & how they affected the feel of the poems when readvout loud. Goodness knows whether that’s on the mark scheme at all.

KittiesInsane DS said he had looked over Tissues again as it was one of the more complex/difficult ones and he thought others wouldnt
use it as much. He liked it too

waiting and superdoodle that's awful I'd be hopping mad if it had happened to DS. I too hardly know what exam boards DS is doing let alone the specs - however, this actually happened to my friend back in the O level days and her mum also spotted that the school was teaching them the wrong book, in her case in was early on in the course so was rectified - funnily enough her mum is Scottish

Still getting AQA adverts on this thread...

DS couldn't believe that the poem was the Ozy one that had been on the sample paper. They had all done that as an essay. He said he started writing what he had written before but then after 10 mins he was so bored that he couldn't concentrate, so he crossed it out and started again comparing it to a different poem! Not sure if that was a good idea or not

So sorry for those whose schools had done the wrong text!

The festival we are going to is Big church day Out. Its in West Sussex, and it looks as if we have to be prepared for sunshine and heavy rain! Need to get everyone packing!