Y 11 2023-2024 thread 3

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For when the other thread fills up tomorrow as we all discuss English lit 2 😁

DD currently learning her "script" for Eng Lang tomorrow.

I'm in awe of her memory....I wonder how my menopausal self would fare sitting GCSEs?!!

DD said AQA higher physics wasn't too bad.

The kids at her school are now all winding each other up saying that because the Paper 1s have been OK for most subjects, the Paper 2s are bound to be hideous 🙄

The eduquas one specifically said mr ARTHUR birling.

@Tiredalwaystired was that the one about UV light? DS teacher said that was an odd one for a GCSE question.

@Tiredalwaystired thanks 😊

Yes! Same here. My son said thank goodness for the calculator 🤪

@Lalux DS had that question, it was one of the ones that annoyed him, said he didn’t have a clue but tried to write something and see if he could gain a mark or two.

DS said the gold button calculator actually saved him with the conversations!

Is she memorising a pre planned story?

DS is saying you can't revise for creative writing. Does that sound right? He's watching a video on it.

DS thought the same. We shall see in August.

Yes my DS says the same.
But I'd say they can do a bit - revise sentence starters for Q1-4, Memorise a good generic paragraph that will work for creative writing, maybe do a practice paper but there's NO WAY my son will do that!

DD has never revised for it to be fair!

Yes!

Lol just mentioned the gold button to my son and he responded how glad he was off his too.

Oh yes sentence starters is a good one. I told him to remember the ' 5 senses' as in describe what you see, hear, smell, taste and feel in the story.That seems to be it.

Oh yes that's a good one - lots of descriptions of the senses

Dd also said lots of maths but it was OK maths.

Ds had Cymraeg (Welsh language) this morning and PE this afternoon, he’s gone to Explorers tonight for a change of scene.

Tomorrow is English language and Friday is Physics.

we’re in a minority it seems using WJEC

Dd is Edexcel igcse. She has written a story, which she can adapt. I don’t understand how this works. One of her friends said she will make it up on the spot. Perhaps it depends on how your brain works? Dd isn’t into fiction.

Waspie same here - DS was happy with his Physics paper. I had the wrong end of the stick - he was chuntering on about electricity last night/at breakfast and I assumed it was something he was hoping would come up - nope, he hates that topic and LOVES radiation (plus had managed to leave his revision notes at home this morning). And he said the Mandarin paper was 'just beautiful' and he was really happy about it.

He has, however, since had a wobbly about the mock election one of his teachers mentioned to him at lunchtime, asking him if he'd be involved with it once he was in 6th form. (This was assuming an autumn GE.) Since then, of course, Rishi has SCUPPERED his fun by calling it for July so DS is well pissed off!

He's upstairs, I think brushing up on his Psych, but DH has already walked him through it (it's his day job...) and DS claims nobody actually revises for English Language. (to be fair, he does do creative writing in his own time.) I want to sit through a Mr Salles video with him.

My DD also claiming you can’t revise for Eng Lang. She got a 9 in the mocks so I think she’s pretty confident she’s sitting pretty on this one, but her boyfriend is a borderline fail on Eng Lang so I wish she wasn’t telling him there’s no point revising as there are certainly things that can be learnt!

My dn was rubbish at english Lang. They learned a few different weather descriptions, nature descriptions and various other things and shoehorned them into their creative writing and got a decent enough grade. So certainly you can do things to help push up your grade.

My daughter is revising for eng Lang. She got a 9 in her last mock so she's really hoping for the same. She's just writing a plan for her writing and watching you tube videos about creative writing.

She's in such a better mood now physics is out the way.

DD has got PMT (period due in half term thankfully) and was all weepy this evening when I got home from work. Her Physics went OK but she's feeling emotional about leavers day on Friday and Prom and Sixth form and all the change over the summer. One of her best friends is going to the Art College and DD is worried about seeing her less. She only lives about 10mins walk away so I'm sure they'll be fine, she has a lovely group of friends.