GCSEs 2019 support thread 4

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The last one is almost full!

I never want to see another flash card after next week.

Ds wants to take history a level too.

The sheer amount of content amazes and horrifies me!

The only subjects ds had asked for help with are geography and eng lang.

I just ask questions from the revision cards for geography and eng land is pretty hard to revise so not sure how much help I've been!

Congrats myrtle great win.

History A level is so useful and a real door opener.

History itself is fascinating so why is the GCSE sooooooooo painful!?

9 to go for us too. But at least no history! It has mostly been writing practice essays for Engish lang, lots of geography case study memorisation, lots of maths. Chemistry and biology (and probably some physics, but i haven't seen any of that). DD (Year 8) has exams this coming week as well, and is emphatically NOT studying history because she will not be taking it for GCSEs. I have dragooned her into doing maths, however, which has taken up a fair bit of my time this week. Just left DS to do his thing.
Really lovely of your DS onaroll. DD did come home on Tuesday from an outing with some chocolates she was given, and gave them to DS on the grounds that he needed them as he was studying so hard, but not quite the same as the major time investment of your DS.
We won't be rewarding DS per se, but he is going on an organised overseas trip organised for Year 11s with a youth group he and a number of his friends belong to, and it is seriously not cheap. What they do is take them at the beginning of July (ie taking advantage of the fact that only Year 11s have finished school) and it is for almost a month. it is also seriously not cheap (probably not unreasonably as it is covers flights and stays and touring around), so he has that to look forward to. He certainly has been working exceptionally hard (he is acknowledge as the hardest worker in the school), so I really do hope it pays off.

Oh found you!

really touched at the ds building the computer for his sister (sorry, can't see who it was).

ds is being seriously laid back
12 more to go. So glad he did geog and not history after reading this thread, he is hopeless as writing anyway.
I am not allowed to help with revision, I think it is because he hasn't done enough.

I am worried he will not get high enough in Eng Lang, he needs a 6 to go to his school sixth form.

Thanks for all those tux links for dd. The problem is she literally will only wear boys/men's clothes at the moment. She hasn't worn a skirt or dress for about 4/5 years.

Found you.

DD has gone to bed early so she can have a proper day of revising tomorrow. She has gone off the boil a bit but exams are close enough again so she is revising more. 7 left to do. Four this week and three next week.

I am quite looking forward to getting on with it now. Can't wait for them to be done!!

That’s early Soursprout !
I would think at this stage an hour longer in bed would be of more use

Ok long time lurker here but needed to join in. Ds has just emerged muttering he thinks he understands WW1 now🤔. Slightly worried as it's an a level choice. No testing allowed by me. Who thought history geography English maths and biology in one week was a good plan. He cant decided what to study. He's a bit unusual at his school doing both history &geography thought that was the issue but I see on here it's not uncommon. Both are Alevel subjects and school are still refusing study leave! Cant wait till Friday.

Same situation here jam!

Not looking forward to this week!

It’s going to be an endurance test!

What’s everybody’s dc doing for history tomorrow? Ds is AQA with Germany (think 1918-45 maybe?) and the Cold War.

Our history is also AQA, I think it's the cold war and America.

Edexcel here.
Crime and punishment and weimar republic

Hello all again!

Ds seems to have worked steadily this half term / just geog, 3 sciences and a maths paper to go but lord is he fed up now. Needs to be over.

Bloody history!!! Seriously wish he'd never chosen it, I'd recommended it and whilst he loves history he absolutely hates the gcse. So long, dry and boring. He's doing aqa Vietnam/ Elizabethan/ medicine/ America 1920s. There's literally hundreds of years of content and it's dryer than the Sahara. It's actually totally put him off a level and degree which is a shame. I'm actually going to ask dd1 school if she can change up geography because I think the history gcse is ridiculous.

He's had no motivation all half term and seems seems more stressed now than at the beginning of the exams. Any tips for history revision?

Dd also Doug AQA- First World War and Germany 1890-1945 or something like that (it’s got the Weimar Republic and the rise of hitler in it)

Dd is now over stressing about history but stressed about all her other subjects which she has done practically nothing for as her half term has been consumed by the endless history

Any history revision strategies people have found helpful?

The best tip I have for history revision is to spend 10 minutes making a mind map for a topic (encouraging as dc will find they know more then they think) and then, with notes, go back over and add (in different colour) things they’ve missed. And do practice questions and be clear on timings- it’s a lot to do in a comparatively short time.

Luciaia that’s the Germany ds’s doing (I knew 18-45 was too short!!)

Paper 2 he’s doing Elizabeth and the massive Migration topic.

kittymckitty dd also doing migration which she finds hideous and restoration. She enjoys the paper 1 content but paper 2 has her wishing she picked geography

Let's just get to the end if the week Iambuffy (sorry no idea how to tag you) .We have pee and early WW1 and America tomorrow with the Norman's and medicine Thursday with aqa. Fingers crossed he missed the exam revision class due.to his tec exam.

Ds much prefers Paper 1. He’s doing Geography also and is not impressed that with the reformed GCSEs it increased to 3 papers. That said he’s planning on doing Geography A level.

• pre not pee. On my phone!

13 to go (counting 'entries into the exam hall' rather than papers, because otherwise the number is really quite frightening, as each History is in two parts and so is her second language)

Also has an exam the Monday after everyone else finishes, as well as a day in seclusion since she has an exam clash with 3 exams in 1 day.

DS has 5 A-level exams.

June 17th, 3 pm is what we're living towards....