GCSEs 2019 support thread 4

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The last one is almost full!

We are longing to burn all the notes, but will give the textbooks back to the school.

DS missed most of yr 10 so we have been teaching him at home for the last few months to catch up missed work. I am so sick of it all although it has been good working with him. We are covering new areas of the curriculum days before the exams.

I think I'll give the revision guides to the school too, actually.

Great idea!

I have been trying to be helpful.

I have sang "norman style" from horrible histories. I even included some dance moves.

Was ds grateful?

Ppfffft.

We are hanging on to the revision guides - DD2 has a friend in Yr 10 who will be able to use some of them.

The notes will probably be recycled.

Dd has been doing loads of revision using Seneca for the 3 sciences and thinks it’s great, is anyone else using it?

arewedone My DS loves Seneca - we did pay for Tassomai as well, and he thinks they are complimentary as they test in different ways, but says that if he had to choose, he would go for Seneca over Tassomai, and not just because Seneca is free. He also loves Seneca because Seneca is the only place doing his obscure Geography board (OCR B), so he was thrilled when they added that to their stable. In more recent times I think he has done more past papers, but Seneca has been a staple.

Ds has just finished for the night.

Good luck to all DC doing exams tomorrow 🍀

Arewedone Dd has been relying on Seneca! She says it helped in the crime and punishment history paper - she knew the Whitechapel vigilence committee question entirely due to Seneca. Whether it covers enough of the syllabus in enough depth I'm not sure but it has definitely helped my revision averse dd
Dd has gone to bed feeling really rough. Her cold is so bad she's streaming from her eyes and nose, painful sinuses, headache, shivery etc. It's such bad timing! We haven't mentioned it to school but I can't imagine she's performing as well as she could. Oh well, at least she's made in to all of the papers so far!
Buffy shall be playing horrible histories to dd over breakfast - thanks for the reminder. I'll report back after...if I'm still alive

Aw your poor dd glee

Maybe play horrible histories but not too loud in the morning :)

Never heard of Seneca!

Ds says the aqa geography paper was weird - loads of really wishy washy questions that didn't quite make sense to him. Came home completely disheartened and told me he cried on his geography teacher when she stopped him in the corridor to ask how it went! Only good thing was the Seneca video he watched this morning had gone over the positives of investment in developing countries and that came up so at least that was one positive. His teacher told him he's still got paper 3 to pull his mark back so that's at least something.

Maths calculator paper tomorrow (edexel)

I have sang "norman style" from horrible histories. I even included some dance moves.
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Was ds grateful?

Ppfffft.*

Iambuffy that make me do a very loud giggle and DH is looking at me strangely

😁
If only my child were so appreciative!
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Aqa maths and edexcel history tomorrow

Ds says the aqa geography paper was weird - loads of really wishy washy questions that didn't quite make sense to him

That's what DD said, that it wasn't obvious what you had to answer to things, so she answered everything but wondered whether she'd missed the point or whether it was the answer they were looking for.

One of the toughest days today I think, history and maths - good luck everyone!

Yes.
Ds said it was very ambiguous.

Only maths here today, but DS very, very nervous. A level choice and really wants to do very very well, and feels he made silly mistakes on the first paper. The thing is, he is a really strong mathetician, and is desperate for the GCSE results to reflect that, but he does make these silly mistakes, that have plagued us all the way through. I know that many of your DC are struggling to pass maths so they can go on to do what the want to do, whereas that is not the question here, but the anxiety about doing super well here is difficult.
We got a letter in the post yesterday from school, and DS has been awarded the math prize, and I daren't tell him, because it will put too much pressure on for today and Tuesday. He did really well in his mocks, and is now worried he won't perform like that in the real thing. I don't understand why he got the maths prize and not some of the other subjects he feels more in control of, like chemistry. I think I had better wait until after Tuesday at least to tell him about the prize (and I might have waited until they were all finished, but they are supposed to go to a local bookstore and buy a book and give it in, and the deadline in Monday 17th for that, so that the prizes can be awarded on Thursday 27th)

bimkom congratulations to your ds for winning the prize! Even if he doesn’t know it yet. Dd only starting to feel the pressure for maths now (bit late ), she’s got a similar sort of pressure to do very well with her teacher thinking the class will get a clean sweep of 9s- dd not so sure.

Maths today and last one English tomorrow, I think my son has completely shut down now regarding revision. So glad to see the back of them, ours started 7th May so it’s been a long month. Just the long wait for results day. As long as he gets what he needs for 6th form we’ll be happy.

Our revision guides will be given or sold (for minimal amount) to year 9 students. Apparently the year 11s have drawn up a spreadsheet that's been shared around, of students and the guides they're offering, and who wants them.

The same is happening for the year 13s to pass on A level revision guides to our year. I think one of mine has dibs on some A level Maths and Physics books, all for a tenner.

Still 10 papers to go for DS1, German seems to be the last subject. DS2 is down to 8 I think. Frosty at home as they've argued and are busy fuming and ignoring each other If only they'd put that energy into something more constructive!

Ds had got 9 left 😩

2 today, 2 tomorrow - all biggies.

Congrats to your ds binkom