Year 11 - 2024/2025: It’s all downhill from here!

[QueenMabby]

New thread to help us get through the next week or so!

Yep the government impact on health thing was the big 16 marker - I have decided not to press DS on what he answered because it's too late to go back now - i asked about the questions but not what he said! He totally missed out the Pasteur question which is annoying because i know he knows it - but he ran out of time, i think it was only 8 marks

History ( The Lizzies and Cold War) and French today.

Can't figure out how it was. It was a 1 word response when zi asked how it was. The word was "tough".

Not doing any revision for English Language tonight. Says they will re-read about structures tomorrow.

Getting very short answers from DS. He usually does well in mocks for history. Went good (I did correct him to 'well' as he has Eng Lang tomorrow). Said couldn't use any of the revision he did last night as Battle of Hastings didn't come up. Said he is sure he did enough for a 6, then hastily changed it to a 5.

That's history done then. His school books are going in the box.

@CakeFace1234 I’m glad you have the good/well conversations. She’ll say an exam went good. I’ll correct her and then congratulate her.
Now DS is watching Paddington in Peru. Apparently Peru may cone up in geography alevel tomorrow so this is revision!

History - medicine and Elizabethan something or other - was "pretty good". Wrote 4 pages for a 16 marker - seemed pleased with that, I have no idea. Hoping quality as well as quantity!!!!

DS said history ‘not great’ Edexcel Elizabethan and A West. Said Elizabethan good, A West not good. First time said that. Everything else ok, decent, not sure.

Edexcel Liz and Cold War just ok today. Not as good as P1.

History went as expected – "not my best" was the verdict. DD said she poured everything into the questions she knew she could answer okay, which was a good strategy. Hopefully she can pull some her mark up on the third paper.

I think that's what DS did too. So fingers crossed

He is currently playing FIFA and had a good couple of hours English revision. He promises to read the cheat sheet before bed and at breakfast so I can't ask any more.

What kind of revision has he been doing for English Lang? Slightly worried that DD hasn't done enough.

English is the weakest subject and he doesn’t know how to revise. We’ve practiced some Q5 plans and he said he just can’t think. Just hoping he can scrape a 4 and never have to think about it again! Not convinced though! Not sure how to help with language revision though.

@Pinkflower100 AQA?

Yes it is.

@Pinkflower100

He needs to know:

Q1 - check all the options to make sure he's got the right ones
q2 - it's not a language question. He MUST use comparison words
q3 - is the same as q2 on paper one. "How" just means "what methods does the writer use?" Make sure he's got a few methods up his sleeve to look for
q4 - it's about the writer not the reader. Needs to include methods (see q3) and comparison words.

q5 - stick to the question, only use vocab he knows and can use accurately, spelling is less important than vocab, 3 sides max. Craft it.... don't waffle on.

He had a lesson this afternoon. Then I looked up some resources online, I shared them on the last thread. I will see if I can dig them out.

It's basically ba paragraph structure for each question. Let me have a look

@SuperTrooper14 here you go, it's a random school I found online

https://www.stokenewingtonschool.co.uk/asset/4333

Even if DD looks at the structure tonight and tomorrow morning it may go in. It's a skeleton to get them started

Thank you. What kind of methods do you mean? I assume he will know but he’s not in the mood to ask right now 😬

Just got home! Full on panic mode now, as haven’t even been able to read this! How are we all?! 🤯🤷‍♀️🙄🤷‍♀️?!

verbs
similes
metaphors
personification

That sort of thing

I bloody LOVE this!!! Thank you!! DS has agreed to read things I send to his phone ( doesn’t want to interact re GCSES at the moment!), so he’s hopefully currently reading this…… 🤞🤞🤞… it’s certainly set it out clear enough for me to understand what he should be doing …🙏🙏🙏

As ever, thank you @MrsHamlet.. he is currently about to try this out …. It so helps to see it bullet pointed 🙏 🌟

@Sisublondie my pleasure. I know this one like the back of my hand!

I just terrified my Dd telling her she should write 3 sides for q5 and it was worth 40 marks. Turns out that even though they do AQA for every other exam they do Eduquas for English language for some unknown reason and their q5 is completely different.

3 sides MAX! 😂