Anyone else’s Year 12 got til Monday tow write an entire EPQ?

[BertrandRussell]

Or is it just mine... ?

Oh no!

Not mine, but it's a situation I could imagine, and I'm sure others are in the same boat.
Not a peaceful weekend at your house then....

At DS's school they are not getting them externally marked so they've got the next 15-20 days in which to work up a masterpiece.

Good luck to your DC, BetrandRussell. I don't envy them the task, particularly when they could be enjoying the lovely weather.

Wow that sounds tough! DD is in a tizz about hers and first draft doesn't have to submitted until start of next term.
I hope your weekend passes as peacefully and drama free as is possible. Good luck

It's entirely his own fault- he changes his mind about his subject at the last minute! He's gone from racism in Hip Hop to whether or not we live in a Determinist universe.....

Surely he cannot be planning to do the entire thing in a weekend? You have to log every piece of research along the way to show you've been working on it for months in diary format, don't you??

DanglingMod you do, but as far as I remember the word count for that part wasn't actually very long, and a fair amount of it is waffly "why did you choose this topic" etc. stuff that can be easily added at a later than intended date 😂

Ah, see that's the reason my ds was persuaded against doing one (almost his entire year do) as school thought the pressure of keeping the log up to date would be too much for his anxiety. And reckoned they needed to be working from week one of year 12 to get a good grade.

Dangling I'm definitely not saying it wasn't a deeply stressful experience for me since I actually did it "properly" and it didn't sink in that I could have basically made it up until I had already finished it 😂 hopefully your DS isn't too disappointed at not having done one and he gets more opportunities to write about what he's passionate about in future!

DS's school has a tendency to be, as my fil would say, faithulach with rules. The text is the thing, anything else can be reverse engineered. And he has been recording his thought processes (such as they are) as he changed his mind....

3000 words and counting....

I had to look up 'determinist universe' and Google is asking me 'do you mean deterministic universe?' Just in case it matters.

3000 words in a day/two days isn't half bad! He's ready for undergrad already 😂

He's like me-works best to a ridiculous deadline.

The definition of an expert. X is the unknown quantity. Spurt is a drip that only works under pressure....

Well-he did it-just. Last pages printed off 5 minutes before he had to leave the house for the train.....

Good work!! Fingers crossed for the grade he wants, but a mammoth accomplishment anyway 😂

Hmm. I really hope he doesn't get more than a mediocre grade, frankly! It will be such a bad life lesson if he does.

That is true. Fingers crossed for mediocrity from which he learns but doesn't get upset then 🤞