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BobBobBobbing · 24/05/2023 16:07

Ds wrote something in Lit!! He's walked out before now having written nothing before so this is good news. The inspector calls question was good apparently, seen poetry not so good and he didn't like the unseen one.

But he never, ever has to do it again which is celebration for both of us. If he needs to resit an English, he'll do Lang instead.

pinkflop · 24/05/2023 16:10

DS sad it was 'not great', but that's not a surprise. He said something about the unseen poem being about scaffolding....

Letskeepgoing · 24/05/2023 16:17

My child made a really big error today in his English Lit paper and is gutted. Please don't judge harshly but they didn't see the last question on the paper. Apparently they weren't the only one who did this. That's 30 marks lost straight away and now I wonder if it will be possible for him to pass.....

OvaHere · 24/05/2023 16:22

Had some further info from DS since he got home. He had made a calculated guess that Women would be one of the Inspector Calls themes and had revised accordingly so he is thrilled that came up.

He also felt the poems were good ones including the unseen poem so overall he is very happy with how it went. Probably the most positive response I've seen so far with last weeks Biology in 2nd place.

I'm just hoping that Maths 2 & 3 is more favourable because that's going to be more important in the grand scheme than how he does in English. It's unlikely he will get less than a 6 in either English subject but Maths is much more borderline.

ReformedWaywardTeen · 24/05/2023 16:24

Media was apparently good and they think they smashed it. There was a moment when they said they used Kendrick Lamar as an example for a question based on a Taylor Swift video but they weren't sure he was the person in it.
I googled. It was so phew!

OvaHere · 24/05/2023 16:26

Letskeepgoing · 24/05/2023 16:17

My child made a really big error today in his English Lit paper and is gutted. Please don't judge harshly but they didn't see the last question on the paper. Apparently they weren't the only one who did this. That's 30 marks lost straight away and now I wonder if it will be possible for him to pass.....

Oh that is really gutting. Probably easy to do when under pressure. I have vague memories of doing something similar on an exam once but just realising with a short amount of time left and having to scribble down something very quickly.

Worst case scenario they just resit next year. Annoying but if their other grades are good enough for what they want to do at college then it's not the end of the world.

Letskeepgoing · 24/05/2023 16:31

OvaHere · 24/05/2023 16:26

Oh that is really gutting. Probably easy to do when under pressure. I have vague memories of doing something similar on an exam once but just realising with a short amount of time left and having to scribble down something very quickly.

Worst case scenario they just resit next year. Annoying but if their other grades are good enough for what they want to do at college then it's not the end of the world.

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Its his weakest subject but I cannot tell you how much work we've put in these last couple weeks to try and get him a pass. It's the only one he failed in Mock. I said this morning, read the questions over and over, not sure how he missed our the last one. I just feel gutted for him 😢

Clymene · 24/05/2023 16:32

Letskeepgoing · 24/05/2023 16:17

My child made a really big error today in his English Lit paper and is gutted. Please don't judge harshly but they didn't see the last question on the paper. Apparently they weren't the only one who did this. That's 30 marks lost straight away and now I wonder if it will be possible for him to pass.....

Was if the Unseen Poetry? If so, it's worth 20 marks. My child did exactly the same so fistbump. But remember it's 160 marks over 2 papers so if the rest of it went okay, it won't mean a fail.

I'm trying to reassure myself that the fact he's crap at poetry means he is unlikely to have scored more than 10 marks at most even if he'd answered if.

Rowgtfc72 · 24/05/2023 16:35

@kennythekangaroo so sorry for your loss.

@Letskeepgoing dd didn't even get as far as the last question so marks missing here too.
The poem they did was the one they studied when she was off school.
It has not been a good day here.

At least that's done with now. Dd is predicted reasonable grades for everything else.

Letskeepgoing · 24/05/2023 16:36

Clymene · 24/05/2023 16:32

Was if the Unseen Poetry? If so, it's worth 20 marks. My child did exactly the same so fistbump. But remember it's 160 marks over 2 papers so if the rest of it went okay, it won't mean a fail.

I'm trying to reassure myself that the fact he's crap at poetry means he is unlikely to have scored more than 10 marks at most even if he'd answered if.

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I've just asked and he said yes the unseen poetry so 20 marks not as bad as 30. He said he had completely run out of steam anyway and if he had seen it, he probably wouldn't have done it well. I guess it is what it is now.

BobBobBobbing · 24/05/2023 16:37

@Letskeepgoing oh the poor boy, he must be gutted. I once did something similar but turned two pages over at once and didn't realise til the last second. Multiple questions left out. I cried for days.

It seems trite but it isn't the end of the world. It seems like it is now, but even if it is a subject he wanted to do at a-level, he can get there in a slightly different way. I went to a community college at 16 and was the youngest person there by miles. Everyone else had taken a slightly different path to the expected one- teen pregnancy, refugees, even prison. Those folks were amazing and by the end of the 2 years every one had achieved what they set out to do. It might have been at a different time to their peers, but they did it.

Tell him from one person who did something similar to another- it hurts now, but one day it'll become a "you'll never guess what I did" anecdote, because in the long run it's not the grade that counts, it's how you respond when life trips you up.

Letskeepgoing · 24/05/2023 16:38

Clymene · 24/05/2023 16:32

Was if the Unseen Poetry? If so, it's worth 20 marks. My child did exactly the same so fistbump. But remember it's 160 marks over 2 papers so if the rest of it went okay, it won't mean a fail.

I'm trying to reassure myself that the fact he's crap at poetry means he is unlikely to have scored more than 10 marks at most even if he'd answered if.

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Love to your child too, I hope they're OK X

TeenDivided · 24/05/2023 16:39

@OvaHere They tend not to resit anything except English Lang and Maths.

Letskeepgoing · 24/05/2023 16:40

BobBobBobbing · 24/05/2023 16:37

@Letskeepgoing oh the poor boy, he must be gutted. I once did something similar but turned two pages over at once and didn't realise til the last second. Multiple questions left out. I cried for days.

It seems trite but it isn't the end of the world. It seems like it is now, but even if it is a subject he wanted to do at a-level, he can get there in a slightly different way. I went to a community college at 16 and was the youngest person there by miles. Everyone else had taken a slightly different path to the expected one- teen pregnancy, refugees, even prison. Those folks were amazing and by the end of the 2 years every one had achieved what they set out to do. It might have been at a different time to their peers, but they did it.

Tell him from one person who did something similar to another- it hurts now, but one day it'll become a "you'll never guess what I did" anecdote, because in the long run it's not the grade that counts, it's how you respond when life trips you up.

No, it's definitely not something he ever wants to do again! Science is his thing, factual subjects. However the gutting thing is all the hard work to try and turn things around to pass it. He didn't have a lot of leeway.

MargaretThursday · 24/05/2023 16:42

Lit was the first paper ds hasn't thought was okay. He hated the poem, but said the Animal Farm was better because "it was about the 7 commandments and I could remember 4 of them".
He wrote one page (typed) on the poem and two on Animal farm which he seems to think is good.
He hopes his first paper carries him though to a pass as all he cares is never doing it again.

Piony · 24/05/2023 16:42

Letskeepgoing · 24/05/2023 16:17

My child made a really big error today in his English Lit paper and is gutted. Please don't judge harshly but they didn't see the last question on the paper. Apparently they weren't the only one who did this. That's 30 marks lost straight away and now I wonder if it will be possible for him to pass.....

easily done I imagine, it's unusual to have 3 different parts.

Mine didn't finish. It was very noisy at break time when it was just her left in her exam room (extra time) and she reached her limit.

@bendmeoverbackwards seeing what my NT child is going through with this makes me wonder how autistic DC will manage at all. Solidarity. Not long til half term now.

Clymene · 24/05/2023 16:43

Thanks, right back at your boy too @Letskeepgoing

He was all jolly jolly on the way home until I said 'what about the unseen poetry?' and he airily said 'oh there wasn't any'. Aargh!

He was really banking on a 6 in Eng Lit to stay on for 6th form so he's going to have to ramp up the effort in the rest of his science exams.

He seems ok but it's knocked him for 6 a bit - he's found the exams less awful than expected so this has knocked his stuffing out a bit.

Really hope they both pass x

Letskeepgoing · 24/05/2023 16:56

Clymene · 24/05/2023 16:43

Thanks, right back at your boy too @Letskeepgoing

He was all jolly jolly on the way home until I said 'what about the unseen poetry?' and he airily said 'oh there wasn't any'. Aargh!

He was really banking on a 6 in Eng Lit to stay on for 6th form so he's going to have to ramp up the effort in the rest of his science exams.

He seems ok but it's knocked him for 6 a bit - he's found the exams less awful than expected so this has knocked his stuffing out a bit.

Really hope they both pass x

Oh bless him. It's such a long exam I can see why their head may not be in it at the end. Onwards and upwards now X

ourflagmeansdeath · 24/05/2023 17:16

@kennythekangaroo Really sorry for your loss, so proud of you and your daughter for getting through this and perservering.

@Letskeepgoing Don't worry, what's done is done even though it's hard. Remember there's still lots of marks to grab from that first paper and tbh this paper was soo long, I don't blame the kids for missing questions near the end it's ridiculous.

ourflagmeansdeath · 24/05/2023 17:17

For my daughter, she loved English Lit today and we're happy to have a subject done and dusted!!!! DD has put all her English notes farrr off to another side of her room and is focusing on Physics and Computer Science which we are madly stressed for...Good luck to everyone.

HappiDaze · 24/05/2023 17:25

DD said she ran out of steam by the end and there wasn't enough to finish the last question, seems that was the case with a few of them

BaconAndAvocado · 24/05/2023 17:30

DS2 reported that it was “good”......it’s one of his least favourite subjects so I’m very pleased with that!
I haven’t asked him about the 20 point question on the last page yet. There’s no point really now.

Hersetta427 · 24/05/2023 17:42

Is that the same mark scheme for all exam boards as Dd said the AQA unseen poetry had two questions - one worth 24 marks and one worth 8.

BaconAndAvocado · 24/05/2023 17:45

Sorry, I don’t know. I was just referring what someone said up post. (Hope I’ve got that right).

MrsHamlet · 24/05/2023 17:49

Hersetta427 · 24/05/2023 17:42

Is that the same mark scheme for all exam boards as Dd said the AQA unseen poetry had two questions - one worth 24 marks and one worth 8.

No - different boards have different formats