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GCSE Easter revision question for Y11s taking them this summer *title edited by MNHQ*

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OneSugar1 · 02/04/2023 09:25

Could I ask how much revision your dc will be doing each day?

i can’t remember how much I did as I dud mine about a thousand years ago but I know I was a bit of a swot. DS, not so much!

not sure what’s reasonable.

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diflasu · 04/04/2023 13:28

Only reason I'm involved is DS asked for help as he feels overwhelmed - 16 exams coming up across 9 subjects.

I think it's worked out at most 3-4 hours a day so far - it's a battle and there's no point having a revisions timetable because sometimes getting anything done means doing subjects he favours most - and usually ones he going on to take at A-level. Plus there's a fair bit of variation in amount needed to be done for each one and when the exams are.

We were told there would be lots of revision session on over easter but he's only aware of one tomorrow - having said that revision sessions generally have been very confusing clashing, not happening, alternating when in different weeks or him not being told about them at all. There's also soem teachers leaving and being replaced happened as well.

I'm trying to get him to tick of topics and spend time doing past papers rather than focusing on actual time spent.

Unhelpfully DGP are insisting on visiting last weekend of holiday - one child sitting A-levels another GCSE - so have to try and make sure they do as much as needed before that.

OneSugar1 · 05/04/2023 11:26

Right. We’ve made a loose plan based on 50 hours over the rest of the Easter hol so roughly five hours a subject (some more, some less). Chunked into 5 sessions a day without a few days off for r&r here and there. I’ve cleared out the spare room (also previously known as the ‘room of doom’) and have a laptop and monitor in there which crucially doesn’t have anything like discord/steam on it.

Creating The Plan (which is pinned up on the wall) seems to have energised him a bit and there’s less arguing (so far, only day 1) about when to start/stop etc.

it means I’m feeling a bit better about it all too and can focus on my own work which is never a bad thing!

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