GCSEs 2019 Support thread 3

[myrtleWilson]

Welcome all - just went to post on thread 2 and saw it was at 999 so quickly did this

[MaddieElla]

Oh and she said she only just finished in time. Usually she can go over her paper, but not with this one.

[AGirlHasNoCake]

DS did AQA triple chemistry. He says he did really badly - there were loads of things he had never heard of. He is in tears. Said the maths in the 6 markers was OK but the answers looked wrong to him...

Says he will never get into A level chemistry now, his life is over, he'll have to reevaluate his choices of career. All typical doom and gloom thinking.

DD did AQA combined chem - not heard back from her yet.

French and Drama tomorrow.

[doublechocadooberry]

AQA here for DS.

I hadn't heard so have texted DS to see how chemistry went. I got back, "ok". I implored for more information as surely there is more to be said about matters and received, "hard". Again I tried and said do you think you could scrape a 4? Received "maybe".

Hmm not a lot of information to work with really.

[marmiteloversunite]

AQA triple. DD texted me to say it was shit. Loads she didn't know even though she has done loads of revision.

Now she is really despondent before CS this afternoon! 🙄

[gleegeek]

Dd did aqa chemistry. She said she found it hard but others found it easy. She said the concepts were straightforward but presented in a confusing way! She's already moved on and focusing on french writing tomorrow!

[TabbyStar]

Mine just texted me asking for some money and has gone off into town for lunch. Could be good or bad, didn't think I'd ask!

[Hotterthanahotthing]

Ours aren't allowed phones at school,she has computer science this afternoon.Im wondering wether to get in chocolate incase it was all bad.

[doublechocadooberry]

Oh gosh AGirl I cross-posted with you. Sorry to read that. Hope he is okay. It seems to be a common theme with the science GCSEs so far papers that seem to be going off-topic.

[ILoveYou3000]

AGirl Your poor son, fingers crossed it's not as bad as he thought and he gets his 7.

Looking on Twitter, it seems like there was an equation on the OCR triple which was "impossible". Sounds to me that both AQA and OCR has reasonable papers for the combined but extremely difficult for the triple.

[MaddieElla]

3000 that’s the impression I’m getting too.

[Iambuffy]

Chemistry is not ds1s strong point.
Sounds horrendous

[TabbyStar]

Trying to find ammonia in the periodic table (!) and missing the six marker on the back seem to be the main issues from Twitter, and something about a badminton racket!

[MaudBaileysGreenTurban]

Not heard a dickybird from ds. Chemistry will not have been a favourite in any case.

[steppemum]

Hello, can I join in?
Ds is doing his. He is a maths and science person. He came home quite happy after yesterday's English, as the poetry question was 'really hard poem, but the question was on loss which we have done to death in class, so managed to write lots' Which was great.(I was expecting him to scrape a 4 at Eng lit, more concerned about Eng lang)
He didn't mention Macbeth, but then getting any actual details out of him is like the proverbial blood and stone.

Chemistry this morning. He has just phoned to say he is on his way home, so we will see what he says. AQA and triple.
Nothing this afternoon and then French tomorrow. ironically he hates French, we insisted he did a language, but about 6 months ago decided if he was going to do it he might as well pass, and really put some effort in. Tues french seemed to go OK.

[Iambuffy]

Ds1 doing aqa triple too

[CarrieErbag]

Edexcel igcse chem this morning, a disaster apparently, all about the practical experiments and she couldn't remember a thing.

[steppemum]

ds comment after biology was - really nice paper, loads of good questions, but that means that everyone will have done well so harder to get a high mark.
Interesting point!
If it is hard, they all found it hard, so the total marks for everyone are low. It is comparative.

[Greeborising]

Dd never texts so I won’t hear anything about chemistry until she’s home after CS and Latin, about 5pm 😬

I really hope it was ok it’s her ‘thing’

But from what I’ve heard it was a horrific paper!

[Bimkom]

Finally a text from DS regarding AQA Triple Chemistry (he did have a maths revision class right after, so chose to go to that rather than text me). He said "It was good" "Like so much maths". Then said "Our class (and the rest of the country) seemed to be split about it."
It might be that it favoured the mathmatician side of the spectrum rather than the biology side of the spectrum.

[Bimkom]

French tomorrow. And guess what. When DS took his Folder 2 for Art in on Monday, he was told he really ought to do an Evaluation of his final piece (he sort of had done one as an annotation, but a formal one headed Evaluation). So Art is not in fact completely done, and he will probably try and write the Evaluation this afternoon. Monday is the absolute deadline.

[MaudBaileysGreenTurban]

DS just texted to say he was 'fully confident with 40% of it' 🤣

[hanahsaunt]

Coming late to this party. Heartsore for ds2. English lit is his thing and to date looks likely to get 8/9; first choice A level for next year. He found A Christmas Carol fine but is devastated by Romeo & Juliet - said that his mind just went completely blank and he froze :( He was so subdued last night and still had that hollow look this morning so not the best for going into AQA triple chemistry ... waiting to hear ...

[MoobaaMoobaa]

just carching up, as had phone problems and login issues.

DS was back to being really anxious and stresses this morning pretty down again, he has CS after triple chemistry and I think the thought of staying in school was worrying him. He never does well when he's like this

Had a text of him to say chemistry was shit and the worst ever. he's usually good at chemistry too, he did say the rest of the class really struggled as well though.

I was hoping it wouldn't put him off his CS but when he went to the library to rivise they were telling them to leave site. he said he just wants to put his earphone in listen to music and revise. I don't think this afternoon going to be good.

[daisypond]

Does anyone know what allowances are made for a child who’s had an extreme event happen just before their exams? My nephew’s mother died suddenly and unexpectedly less than two weeks ago. They are sitting the exams.

[steppemum]

well, ds home. Chemistry was 'ok' which means he managed it without any disasters. He is a mathematician, so probably as Bimkom said it favoured the mathematicians.

He is knackered. Proper cream crackered. I think the adrenaline from the week is wearing off, and the reality of the long hard slog setting in. I've just made him lunch and suggested after lunch he puts on music instead of a screen and closes his eyes. I think he might sleep. He has french tomorrow, don't think there is much more he will do that he didn't do for Tuesdays exam.