Year 11 - 2024/2025 - Support Thread - the final stretch

[QueenMabby]

A new thread to take is to exams and beyond! All welcome.

Dd hasn't mentioned going in early...not that she would anyway 🙄😊

That's not such a bad idea to fire up the little grey cells. I guess it also ensures no one oversleeps and misses the exam!! (I set three alarms this morning just in case)

DD missed the school bus (OCD related) this morning, and my DM had to drive her in. The traffic gods were smiling on them, as they got there (almost three miles, through city centre) in 12 minutes.

Both dds have gone out this evening...I think they needed it - and I certainly did!
I'm drinking wine watching a tv show🙌

Business Studies went fairly well for DD apparently....but she said the rest of the group left the room unhappy. Was concerned she was the one who had read things wrong, but seems she went through it with the teachers and seemed she was putting the right things.

Dd felt a little like that after drama...the play extract was on a fairly minor character and it threw some of them.
It sounds like your dd did well 🙂

Well....
I think revision may be starting for today 🙄🙂

DD is apparently revising in the garden at school - which sounds quite nice. Different matron on duty today - probably as well. She'd done three past papers by 12:30 in biology and maths, which sounds relatively industrious for her

Really stressful here, at least for me. Geography and Maths revision here and it's not going well. DS keeps making the same mistakes in the long answer questions in geography past papers, not explaining himself giving basic answers. Maths is not good, he's rushing through the paper without care and ending up with grade or 2 lower than he is capable of. He seems too relaxed and passive about everything and it's doing my nut in. English Lit is even more of a uphill challenge and we are going to tackle it tomorrow, but if needs be it he might have to continue with the maths and geography as hoping to do them for A/Ls.

i sympathize. DS has gone to local library apparently. I think he wanted space. I think we just have to hope the adrenaline pushes them up on the day 🤞🏻🤞🏻

It's so hard, isn't it?
Dd was up at 8.30am but didn't even start till gone noon...🙄
I've just got home from running a few errands and I strongly suspect when I go upstairs she'll have finished...sigh.

....
As predicted.
Finished 🤷‍♀️

And older dd is in a vile mood because she's struggling preparing a presentation.
It's great fun! 😬

Bleagh @destiel00 - I have teens everywhere making a mess of my kitchen. Why do they have to EAT so much when revising?

That’s a good tactic! Will get mine to find the poem and revise it too.

@Daffodilpup..
I thought so! :)

@minisnowballs
Oh, God. I know. The fridge was full to bursting yesterday.
I looked at breakfast and 2 punnets of blueberries and raspberries eaten already...
How!?
Are they sleep eating!?

The spirit is (fairly) willing, but the flesh is weak here. My DD looks completely exhausted and drained. She had a morning exam yesterday, but was then too shattered to do any revision at all, so the whole day was wasted. She's done some Biology today, but the papers are SO difficult. A lot of the questions are application of knowledge and whilst she can "remember" stuff, she can't apply that knowledge in the sciences.
The last paper she attempted she got 36% ! It was a grade 5/6 so obviously others must have found it equally hard, but it's neverthelsss very demoralising.

Is it really a problem with them having a lie-in at weekends and starting revision after noon? Teens need loads more sleep for brain function so it seems counterproductive to want them out of bed loads earlier right now. Mine slept til 11, got up and had a potter until 1pm, then has done about 3.5 hours with regular breaks. Any more than that and she won't take it in.

Yeah DS was the same. He was exhausted. Had business on Friday and was up very early. So I think today he was up around 11 but I saw no evidence of revision until around 2.30 and he seemed to work until around 5.30.

@SuperTrooper14 - I think it depends on the child. Mine loves a lie-in but for her it translates to not being able to fall asleep on a Sunday night so we have had to adjust to school nights, every night, to keep a routine. She has Morning exams every day next week and her brain needs to function optimally first thing so she is getting up at a reasonable time on the weekends too, for now. But taking the evening off to relax. So doing more like a 9-4 every day, with plenty of breaks, of course. But mine is in a grammar school and they are all pretty much high achievers and support each other with revision. It’s team
work here. I have zero involvement. I hope the friendship groups know their stuff because my feeling right now is even the teachers don’t get that much of a look in. They are marking their own papers and simply claiming it’s all 80 per cent plus.

I just don't recall getting 90%+ in my day, I just recall an A being 70%-ish and that was that.

Amazed at my DD's knowledge of exam boards and grade boundaries. So much pressure to get 7+.

If a Biology question asks to name one thing, but the candidate writes two things, only one of which is correct, do they get the mark?

We now have a star chart…

My understanding is no, If one is wrong they get no marks. If they put two and both were right they get the mark.