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I’ve just messed up with my sons history exam

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Menopausecrazy · 07/06/2023 17:16

Ds is very disorganised and struggles with organising revision. I looked at his timetable for his exams and understood todays history exam was just Early Elizabethan. We did loads of revision. It turns out it was the Cold War too. I’m gutted as I didn’t realise. I know ultimately it’s my son’s responsibility but I said I would help him. I double checked the timetable and they have recorded several different exams for history and I misunderstood.

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SissySpacekAteMyHamster · 07/06/2023 17:23

Is he home schooled? Otherwise I would've expected his teachers to have already given him this information.

I have a child doing GCSEs and I wouldn't take the blame for his lack of organisation.

hooplahoop · 07/06/2023 17:36

In the nicest possible way , this is why I leave it to my child and the school. Am sure he will have done ok as they will have revised at school too. Try to be kind on yourself but plan to be less micro- managing going forwards.

MinnieEgg · 07/06/2023 17:42

He would have known though. My dd has her GCSEs at the moment too. I'm supporting her by making her breakfast and buying the right pens.

He'll have done the work at school and the revision he did do hasn't gone to waste.

You've just got to move on now as there are other exams to do.

FofB · 07/06/2023 18:15

There's 'helping'- e.g. gentle reminding/what have you got/do you need any revision guides/making cups of tea etc.

And there's 'helping'- e.g. you taking full responsibility for organising and child expecting you to do all the checking/leading on revision.

I don't know which one you are but it's probably best if you try and encourage your child to take the lead in their own revision. That's the last of the History GCSE's today, so just have a look at what is on tomorrow and move onto that.

QuillBill · 07/06/2023 18:22

During covid I had year two. Parents couldn't of course come into school at that time and in the online parents evening I was talking with a child and his mum.

I said he sometimes lost ten minutes at the start of a lesson as he didn't go and get his pencil out his drawer (remember when they couldn't share pencils!) and her response was...'oh, if there wasn't covid restrictions I could have come in at the start of every lesson and got his pencil out'.

christmastreefarm · 07/06/2023 18:29

FofB · 07/06/2023 18:15

There's 'helping'- e.g. gentle reminding/what have you got/do you need any revision guides/making cups of tea etc.

And there's 'helping'- e.g. you taking full responsibility for organising and child expecting you to do all the checking/leading on revision.

My DD still has a 3rd history paper to come.

WateryDoom · 07/06/2023 18:30

That's the last of the History GCSE's today, so just have a look at what is on tomorrow and move onto that.

It's not. There is still the modern depth study paper to do.

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Menopausecrazy · 07/06/2023 18:30

FofB · 07/06/2023 18:15

There's 'helping'- e.g. gentle reminding/what have you got/do you need any revision guides/making cups of tea etc.

And there's 'helping'- e.g. you taking full responsibility for organising and child expecting you to do all the checking/leading on revision.

You are right. Thankfully he has another exam next week so will try and move on.

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tothelefttotheleft · 07/06/2023 18:49

I know what it's like to have a child who struggles with organisation and how you must have wanted to help.

This must feel awful now. Would it help if I told you my child revised the wrong text for English lit? This was in Covid time. They didn't realise until the night before the exam. They still passed.

NeverDropYourMooncup · 07/06/2023 19:08

Probably did him a favour - trying to cram stuff on the night before an exam is a very effective way to make everything he read fall straight out of his head again. And there's time for what you did cover to settle into his memory.

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