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Original poster

Good Luck to everyone whose exams start this week!

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Milliways · 04/05/2009 19:50

DD has her first French A Level Oral exam tomorrow.

I know a few exams are kicking in now.

Good luck to all the students, (and their Mums in supporting them)

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senua · 04/05/2009 21:46

Thanks Milli. DS has Y9 exams this week; DD doesn't have her A2s until next month.

Bonne chance to Milligirl.

mumblechum · 05/05/2009 11:42

Good luck to everyone. DS has KS3 Sats, end of years and an early GCSE all over 7 days.
He has revised for the SATS but not yet the GCSE - should hopefully do that this weekend. It's only RE and looks pretty easy.

senua · 05/05/2009 11:48

Eh? There aren't any KS3 SATs this year.

Lilymaid · 05/05/2009 11:53

DS2's A2 exams start on 1st June - there are old exam papers and notes all over the house and a list of theorems stuck over a picture in the breakfast room. Roll on 17th June, when he has the last exam.
Good luck to all DCs and their parents.

mumblechum · 05/05/2009 11:55

DS's school are still doing SATS but they're being marked internally for setting purposes.

senua · 05/05/2009 12:03

OK. I don't think we are doing SATs, there is plenty enough other evidence for setting (termly grades, end of year exams etc) and there aren't many sets anyway because we are a small school.

badhairmonth · 05/05/2009 13:34

DS doing GCSEs - v stressful for everyone.

Good luck to everyone suffering....

twentyoneagain · 06/05/2009 08:11

Oh boy - DD had french orals this week and they went well (so she says) but she is getting totally stressed about what's ahead. Exams don't usually worry her and she had been preparing well but I can see it's getting to her.

badhairmonth · 06/05/2009 09:53

yeah - its tough - getting to all of them - AND us ..

Pimmpom · 06/05/2009 11:05

DD has French oral on Friday. Roll on 11 June

mumoverseas · 06/05/2009 13:29

DS had arabic oral just over a week ago and that was very stressful. Not helped by the fact that it was due to be a few days before but when the kids turned up for the exam the school discovered that the tape recorders were all broken so they had to postpone. Thank god that one is over.
ICT exams were a few weeks ago and the rest start in the next week or so. Funny how they all have them at different times.

Good luck to all MN's DCs.

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Milliways · 06/05/2009 17:36

Does seem to be just the orals this week then.

DD has German next week too, then all her written papers squashed into 1 week in June!

At least they will have a long summer to enjoy / earn funds / annoy parents etc

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mumoverseas · 06/05/2009 18:43

The annoying parents bit has started already!
Can't believe my DS had his last day at school today and is now on study leave. Makes me feel really old

twinsetandpearls · 06/05/2009 20:04

Good luck my GCSE group have there first exam on Tuesday - RE GCSE with OCR. I feel like I am spending every spare moment doing revision classes at the moment.

Mumblechum the RE exam does look easy but there is a fair weight of subject knowledge if they are aiming for one of the top grades.

mumblechum · 07/05/2009 15:22

Twinset, Oh-oh! Any tips on which bits to revise particularly? It's only the first bit which I think is called Unit B

twinsetandpearls · 07/05/2009 18:34

It sounds like OCR option B which is the philosophy and ethics paper.

this school portal has material for every unit on the course. If you go to the folder miscellaneous the following are useful
Unit front covers
How to answer exam questions

If I can do anything else to help I am happy to.

mumblechum · 07/05/2009 18:36

Thanks you so much Twinset!

twinsetandpearls · 08/05/2009 22:26

I found this website today, you need to go to the shortcourse area

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Milliways · 06/06/2009 14:39

How are you all doing?

DD will have finished all her exams this coming Thursday (after the dreaded C4 Maths exam).

She is finding them all very hard/stressful. We will be VERY glad when this is all over.

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mumoverseas · 06/06/2009 18:23

only 2 more exams to go, one on Monday and then the final one on Friday thank god, can't cope with the stress much longer

Pimmpom · 06/06/2009 20:23

Only 2 left Science on Wed and History on Thursday.

DD is very laid back. Me on the other hand.......

snorkle · 06/06/2009 23:39

Ds is yr10. He had his first ever public exam exam this week (ironically an AS module) and has 3 GCSE science modules over the next two which he's not too worried about. I guess this is the first of 4 years of summer exams with each year getting worse than the last from the sound of it. It's a shame the exam season means they don't properly enjoy the lovely weather.

Hope they've all done well and got the grades they need (especially the year 13s).

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Milliways · 07/06/2009 07:41

Good luck to them all and us Mums!

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marmitebabe · 07/06/2009 16:16

Thanks! Fortunately we only have 2 left Tues and Weds - trouble is DS feels like its already over and has stopped revising - fab - real stroppy when "encouraged" to do a bit - well actually - real stroppy all the time but that's another story!

ChampagneDahling · 10/06/2009 17:17

Well we're all finished - can't believe it after all the stress. Hurrah.

Good luck to everyone still working