Year 11 - 2024/2025: Heading down the home straight towards that finish line!

[QueenMabby]

Next thread. 10 days of exams to go. Looks like we’re all heading into a busy week this week - good luck!

My friend is head of MFL and said that one year they have a boy in the headteachers office completing the exam with a sick bucket next to him

If she can go in she really should - they will fill out a special circs form - I hope she is ok though x

Glad to hear your DD is feeling better @Xmasfairy86

So Spanish listening/reading was... "OK" (makes a difference from "fine"). Sound quality was terrible, apparently - but I think that's a problem with the school sound system not the exam material.

I'm now wondering what this pre-exam booklet for Geography P3 is, DC have never mentioned it!

Thursday looking a bit stressful with Geography in the morning and Further Maths in the afternoon. I wonder which subject they will prioritise pretending to revise for.

Great news, good for her!

I cross posted @Xmasfairy86 thank goodness - at least she can smile about it

Spanish "listening was good and reading was a teeny bit evil but okay" and she seems in good enough spirits for this afternoon. This time tomorrow we'll definitely be on the home stretch!

Spanish (higher) was "alright" which I think means not good but not bad. DS said the listening exam - some words were slurred so not great - school or recording I don't know! there was a consensus of opinion amongst DS and his mates.

Five exams left!

I got an "alright" for spanish too. 6 exams left here, ending with Food Tech on Tuesday afternoon. Roll on Tuesday!

DD says Spanish (higher) was "really bad" 😬and she had to guess at a lot of it, especially the listening. Oh well, maybe the speaking and writing will pull her up a bit. It was always the weakest of her subjects, and one less-good grade than she might like won't be the end of the world.

18 down, 4 to go

History v good. Spanish hard. Spanish was on the A level list. Hoping speaking & writing pull him up, have been stronger in mocks

Maths tomorrow! Not long now 💕💙

I asked how it was - he pulled a face - and said well it’s Spanish isn’t it .

offered him cheesy chips from the chip shop for lunch - he negotiated a dominos - at least he is smiling now …. We will get through the rest of this week one way or another

I had an “alright” for Spanish too and just had “pretty good” for history - Weimar/Nazi Germany - but felt the paper was quite repetitive.

Bien hecho to all the spanish-ers out there! I'm tetchily trying to get DD2 to revise music and chemistry via whatsapp from 100 miles away. Shouldn't imagine it's having much effect. Why is that blessed Edexcel music paper so difficult?

DD1 has finished politics A-Level and today was better than expected and foster dd has finished two out of three A-Levels with only maths to go.

Feeling like we're getting somewhere...

Just had a "cooked it" text after History, which is a relief after last week's paper which didn't go well. Hopefully DD has done enough now to pull her grade up.

History was ‘fine’ - another one ticked off. Lots of Nazis and not so much Weimar Republic apparently. Just 3 more to go now.

re History "it was good I think"

I'll take that.

Ds wasn’t impressed with Edexcel history, apparently mostly about living conditions and he didn’t feel he could get his knowledge across- disappointing!

History was "alright tbh".

Think she's just desperate for it all to be over now!

My DD was Edexcel too and said the paper was heavy on Vietnam with hardly anything on civil rights.

Mine did Nazi and Weimar and can only assume ( as he stomped off not v happy!) that the living conditions related to Nazi Germany. He said there was very little on anything else. Oh well, history done at least!

Edexcel History ok but narrow and 16 marker a bit tricky.

AQA Spanish Higher was always going to be least favourite out of all exams.

Edexcel history (Russia) good for dd although she did say that one of the longer questions was about something that was only 1 side of the textbook! She’s very glad that subject is done. A day off now for her (she does IGCSE maths so only 2 papers) before FM non-calc on Thursday.

Yes - the source/interpretation questions which make up a big chunk of the paper were about nazi germany. Think there was a short question about hyperinflation and DS also muttered about a choice between youth resistance or Nazi popularity in the early 30s.

Dc was delighted with the Montgomery bus boycott question for 12m. We’d gone over that a lot and he’d compiled a model answer so I’m pretty sure he would have done well on that.

Question 3 was not as good. He thought he’d lucked out at first, he misread it and thought it was why they got involved in the first place which he would have loved as he’d revised that hard and had several good paragraphs. He said it was on involvement in the 60s I think..? Which he wasn’t as prepared for. He said it was ok, but not as good as he’d hoped.

Interesting seeing how Spanish and History has gone !! High five to those happy…,, 🤗 and it prob wasn’t so bad, to disheartened DC… ( and there is always Domino’s!!)

Waiting to pick DS up from maths tutoring…. He took along a past paper he had few struggle on questions, so hopefully he’s come out happier than he went in 🤞

DS had a bit of a to do in history. Needed the loo massively before he went in and couldn't find a spare cubicle because of everyone vaping in there! Threw him into a huge panic, he rang DH saying he was going to pee himself and couldn't go in. DH talked him down and told him to go in, and request loo once in there and we would pick him straight after exam. Then he went into full blown panic with light headedness, feeling sick the lot. It's such a shame as history is his best subject.

School dealt with it brilliantly. He was taken out to calm down for 25 minutes on a "stop the clock" basis (which he does get for diabetes), let him sit down outside, go to the loo, have a drink, sort out blood levels and then took him into a smaller room where he finished the exam. I am so proud of him for getting it together and finishing it.

He is beyond tired, as I suspect everyone else.

I had a lovely email from the exam head who said she'd been very concerned about him, and was going to put in for special consideration.

I can't even think about maths tomorrow, I think it won't do him any favours to revise tonight. He's already anxious about feeling anxious tomorrow if that makes sense. He's flopped on the sofa watching crap on youtube at the moment and we have suggested a walk this evening rather than revision and/or endless scrolling.