Gcses 2019 support thread 5

[Iambuffy]

Hi :)
Hope this is ok as we are at 1000 posts on thread 4!

Much the same here - ds said Chemistry was fine and that German was ridiculous. Day off today, physics tomorrow and then more German on Monday. Then we can talk prom ...

DS said Geography AQA was brilliant and he smashed it. :) 4 more to go!

DD also said similar about AQA geog

dh picked ds up and dropped him off at gym.
He apparently said geog was 'fine'

don;t you love it when they communicate?

seeing the comments up thread about prom, I've just realised that means SHOES (sobs into arms on the table)
ds is size 13, which means unavailable in shops and very, very fussy about shoes, and if they don't support his arch he won't wear them.

He may be doing beautiful suit plus trainers!

DS said OCR B was OK as well. He totally predicted the question last night (sustainability in Leeds). Last night he said to me he thought it would be sustainability of a city, as they had done all the other options between the sample papers and last year. And we even mentioned Leeds, because a friend of ours in Year 12 wants to do geography at University, and apparently wants to go to Leeds as that is the best course for the type of geography that interests her.

DD beaming at AQA geography. Thank god she's confident in something.

Physics tomorrow then DONE. Wow, what a 5 weeks we've had.

DD2 doesn't drink. She tried bits and pieces and says she doesn't like the way it makes her feel. And with our recent history of having and losing her alcoholic dad that isn't surprising.
She isn't a party animal anyway.

Yes, one more, one more, one more, one more!!! Can't wait.

DS back from Eduqas geography which he said was fine. Just physics to go!

I was looking again at his final predicted grades this morning. I think science was more than a bit overoptimistic, but from what he's said, the rest should be on target.

It’s so lovely to see everyone’s DC smashing the geography🏆

From my Twitter stalking it seems many likes edexcel geography today

Happy Birthday to Master Buffy 🥳

Pointy so sorry, how awful for you all.
Glad geography seems to have gone well for dcs today

Cant wait to see ds and get his views on geography.

Happy Birthday to your DS Buffy.
Pointy things, that's dreadful. Bless you, you must be very strong to deal with that.

Question about AQA physics higher:
June 2018 paper 2, Q6.4 requires a protractor to measure the angle of the vector on the graph.
Protractor is not listed as required equipment on front of paper.

DS is concerned that his invigilator (he is sitting exams alone) will take anything not listed away from him.

Can anyone shed any light on this?
eg have schools sent home lists of equipment for exams?

Hi everyone, my DD says AQA Geography was a great paper but says she still messed it up - just couldn't finish it all in the time. She's feeling very downhearted about finally having a paper she felt confident about, but still couldn't show what she knew.

She's so fed up with it all now, the whole process has made her feel like a complete failure and it's heartbreaking to see. Roll on tomorrow afternoon when it's all over.

I think dd has taken the same pencil case with everything in it to every exam! I doubt very much that happens??!

weird, I obviously haven't seen the paper, but I wonder if the angle was able to be calculated, or did it specify a protractor?

steppe mum - the question asked them to draw the two forces on a big piece of graph paper and work out the resulting vector. It would be possible to calculate the angle but wouldn't really make sense in the context of the question!

Thanks sour - the invigilator is a bit of a stickler (rightly!)

I'll drop him off and check when we arrive.

DS said geography "ok"
Seems chipper

Well as I was going on about there being just one more day, DS, who I might have mentioned is very into musical theatre, texted me this list of songs on the subject. So for some light relief
m.youtube.com/watch?v=Yop62wQH498
m.youtube.com/watch?v=SHLC9zK5o3M
m.youtube.com/watch?v=-qkf0fLU2Ao

Apologies for those who still have German and further maths after physics. Maybe you can use them Mon/Tuesday