Reasonable amounts of GCSE revision

[MerryMarigold]

Ds1 is Y11. He's not naturally talented academically and doesn't really enjoy it, but he's doing fine (5s,6s and maybe 7s). Dh and I differ on the amount of work we think is reasonable for him to do after school. We live 10 min walk away from school so he's generally home by 3.45. He doesn't do any clubs apart from guitar lessons and there's an English revision class once per week after school. He doesn't seem to get much homework so has a fair bit of free time. Should he be using spare time to revise? How much should be 'up to him' to do in his own motivation and how much should we say 'you need to do x number of hours per day and x number of hours at the weekend'.

Oh, and should we go away in the first week of Easter hols or is this 'valuable revision time'?

My Year 11 DD really only revises for tests or exams. She was revising a couple of hours a night prior to her mocks and I suspect that she'll do similar leading up to the real things and probably around 3-4 hours a day in the holidays/weekends.

If your DS is doing fine, he potentially doesn't need to be doing masses.
I personally don't think you can force a reluctant 15/16 year old to work, so I think there is a limit to how much you can dictate. What helped with my DS was to sit and help devise a revision timetable that he genuinely bought into. He then at least mostly stuck to it or could at least see how long it would take to revise all the content for certain subjects.

DD's school run revision courses over the holiday and she'd want to work anyway, so going away at Easter wouldn't be our choice.