How much work is your Y11 doing each night?

[tactum]

Are your kids prepping for GCSEs over and above set homework yet? If so what are they doing?
DS seems to rattle off mediocre homework in about a third of the time and I think he could start prepping notes etc for final exams. He disagrees.

[KaliforniaDreamz]

Oblomov20 thanks

[Oblomov20]

Come and join the other thread:

Thread 3: Yr 11 GCSE's for summer 2020.

We are all very supportive, no matter how bright/struggling/worst grades ever ... your child is!

[Oblomov20]

Minimal. Claims he's doing some.
Ds1 has mocks after the February 1/2 term.
Once I get his grades, I'll have some evidence to stand there and say.... this just isn't good enough.

Unfortunately both ds's are bright, but bare-minimum children. Not driven. So much potential, wasted. Drives me wild. With frustration.

[KaliforniaDreamz]

Not very much at all, jsut homework at the mo. I am not applying pressure. Yet.

[JiltedJohnsJulie]

About 2 hours but how much of that he is actually revising, I have no idea.

[Lonecatwithkitten]

Apart from French Which is now dropped, DD is very organised and self motivated. I have absolutely no idea how much or what she does. She has Seneca that I pay for premium on.
Mocks went well, school think she is on task to achieve well so I leave her to it.

[Darbs76]

A lot - 2hrs at least really, more on weekends. He’s very self motivated so no nagging ever been required. Super proud of his attitude - don’t think we will be as lucky in 4yrs time with our daughter!

[ChristopherTracy]

DS is doing half an hour of Tassomai a day, maths tutoring once a week and then everyday we sit down and go through one topic, watching Youtube videos and adding to google docs notes for anything he finds difficult.

If I didnt do it with him nothing would happen but it really is exhausting. If I had the money I would just get more tutoring in for English/science and have done with it.

[amidaiwas]

Not very much tbh. But worked v hard over christmas and mock results were on the whole good.
I get the impression we're in a bit of a lull now as the teachers assess where everyone is, i'm sure it will ramp up again after half term. I'm surprised at her exam timetable, the bulk are before May half term. I thought there would be a few before and the majority after.

[lljkk]

er... nothing.
ok, yes homework, but that's it, and always very last minute, veering towards the bare minimum.
I'll always encourage but I'm not going to fret.
DS is one has to make happen whatever happens.

He didn't do that much revision for GCSE computing (finished end of yr10) and still got an A. So I think he'll get what he needs for college, doing things 'his way'.

[SlayingDragons]

My DS is 4th year (yr11 in NI - would be yr10 in England/Wales) and is doing about 2-3hrs each night plus about the same on a weekend. His school has said that by Easter of 4th year they should be doing 20hrs of independent study a week - a combination of homework and revision.

DS makes a lot of notes - because they use these booklets in class now and therefore don’t make their own notes, he writes up what they’ve done that day by way of revision. Sometimes it’s long hand notes, sometimes it’s things like mind maps or flash cards. Obviously actual homework gets done too. He’ll also do practice essays for English/History etc.

Our view is that if he works his butt off now then he can enjoy half term/Easter/the summer without having to do much work as he’s been so consistent through the year.

By 5th year the plan is to work hard during term time until Christmas (mocks are in December) and then have a month to have a really decent break and then back at it until June.

[KingscoteStaff]

2 hours of study (h/w or revision) each evening, 3 to 4 hours of study on Saturday. Nothing on Sunday (volunteering/part time job).

[Panicmode1]

It varies - probably averages 2 - 3 hours a night, but he's managing his time and did exceedingly well in his mocks. He's a very driven child, and has already got a 9 in his maths which he took early so he knows what he needs to do. He does a lot of extra curricular stuff too and for as long as he is managing to keep on top of it all, I'm trusting him to know when he needs to do more, or drop things he's doing when they get too much.

[Punxsutawney]

Good luck Com. Hope your Ds can manage the anxiety around the exams. Are his school helpful? I've not actually heard of Seneca before. Ds uses a laptop for some of his exams but they let him do all his mocks in the smaller room. This helped him feel less pressured and anxious.

I do worry when I read about those that are doing so many hours of revision! I guess we are mindful that Ds's autism means that he copes with things in a different way to others.

It's balancing what he can cope with and making sure he's not spending all his time on the computer avoiding all study as he would be more than happy to do that!

[EwwSprouts]

No revision going on here, just homework. I'm biting my tongue until after half-term. Currently does sports practice 4 nights a week & matches Sat & Sun. That will have to ease off as we head towards Easter.

[Comefromaway]

Same here pun. Our aim is to actually get ds to sit through all his exams without a meltdown/panic attack. (He walked out of two of his mocks).

One thing he does find helpful is Seneca. He tolerates that.

[Punxsutawney]

Ds is doing zero revision at the moment. School have told him he should be doing 3 hours a night. He has 26 exams in the summer.

Ds has autism though which has only recently been diagnosed. He also has some mental health issues. He still struggles to understand the point of revision and finds planning and organisation very difficult.

School don't offer any revision classes either at lunch or after school so there is no real support there.

It's been a difficult year so Dh and I are not putting the pressure on him at the moment. Ds will not reach his potential but we are more worried about him than his results.

[sansou]

The set HW takes priority since most subjects won’t finish until nearer the Easter break. HW which might include bits of revision takes approx 2 - 2.5 hrs x 4 week nights. I feel that it’s enough. DS does music Fri evenings which doubly serves as downtime. Sat is mostly sport/DoE volunteering, the latter of which he completes this month which releases some time and Sunday is the only day everyone gets a lie in! He is doing a little Tassomai on the school bus which hopefully keeps him ticking over on the sciences. So, no time for serious revision until Feb HT and even then, none of the subject syllabuses have finished yet. Some may finish mid March at the earliest but most are literally due to finish just before they break up for Easter. Have many already finished most of their syllabuses already?

[pointythings]

Last year DD2 had a revision class after school or at lunch pretty much every day from Christmas onwards. Homework was 80% revision. I trusted her to get on with it and do what was needed - she put in a lot of extra effort for Maths and the sciences, worked hard on MFL and Humanities, did very little in English Lang except practice papers. She knew her strengths and weaknesses and at 16 they really need to learn to stand or fall by themselves.

I don't think there is a magic amount of revision that will guarantee results - it's different for each individual.

[dietcokeandwine]

Another thing to bear in mind is that they are very likely doing revision in some subjects during class time already-certainly this is the case with my DS’s school. Maths for example they have finished the syllabus now so effectively every lesson is revision anyway.

Always a balance to get it right for your individual child and some will need/want/be able to cope with more revision than others! But I do agree with whoever said it’s important to keep sport or other activities going where at all possible too.

[AndwhenyougetthereFoffsomemore]

aiming for 2 hours/day, 3 over weekend: but with revision homework (they are getting a lot of that) counting towards the total. We had mocks earlier than most schools so have had the first mocks/results/parents evening round already and they have had a break and are starting prepping for some of the second mocks (for key subjects). DS is in space of making flashcards and working through the subjects at the mo - then we test 5 cards every supper time. Some subjects he's well through ito his flash cards (esp sciences and comp sci) - others he seems to have made very, very little progress (history, Spanish and English - there's a clear theme! I'm assuming Easter onwards should be testing/mock papers/recapping ....

[PatienceVirtue]

Gosh no way is ds doing 2 hours a night and 4 at weekends. In fact I doubt he's doing any revision per se. Revising over Christmas (not heavy, but consistent), followed by mocks and I feel he needs a bit of a break until after half term.

We're going away for the week and thought he should try to do a couple of hours a day then, not sure what as it does feel too early to be actually revising. Form teacher said yes, definitely working over half term but not 'full days like Easter holidays'.

Sigh, I don't remember doing any revision until May half term, but then again I'm so old I did o levels.

[estherfrewen]

Mocks were October, then a bit of a lull to Christmas. Second mocks w/c 24 Feb. Revised a bit over Xmas. Loads of homework since as well as revision. If homework then that ‘counts’ as revision for that subject. Mocks only in core subjects in feb ie all sciences, English maths and RE but French is setting a huge amount of homework. Have had to abandon geography PE and history at the moment although he is doing small amounts of those. In general revision looks like this:

Monday: science revision after school class. Sports practice 2.5 hours
Tuesday: sports practice 5am to 7am. Maths tutor after school. Evening off.
Wednesday: sports after school
Thursday: minimum two hours revision or homework
Friday: as Thursday
Saturday: sports practice 5am to 7.30 am. Revision or homework 3.5 hours
Sunday: 3.5 hours homework or revision. Gym
Rest of the time is Fifa. Not a socialiser but definitely keeping sport going. Post mocks will carry on as above but more spread of subjects.

Signed up to my gcsescience this weekend which was mentioned on another thread, which he really likes.

[ProggyMat]

Another one with a DD that had two weeks of mock exams after heavy revision over the Christmas 'break'.
She is doing about 2 hours of homework on school nights, Saturday is downtime and a couple of hours on Sunday.
No more revision planned until half term.

[Comefromaway]

He barely does his homework!

I'm trying to get him to do between 20-40 mins of Seneca a night. It doesn't always happen.