How to get DD to do schoolwork?

[cyberbeeb]

Hi, my DD about to take her GCSE mocks and it has been extremely wearying to get her to do the slightest bit of revision. She has been predicted all A*s based on cognitive ability tests in Year 7 and while I am not sure how accurate these are I do know she does the absolute minimum of school work she can get away with. She spends her time on the usual teenage stuff - thinking about boys, clothes, spots, etc. Is bribery the only answer?

I would use bribery personally plus reiterating that her friends will get to stay on at sixth form to do a levels and she won't if she doesn't study
I think those two things are the only things that work!

If its mocks then maybe a lesson in 'what happens if you don't do any work' is in order. I would save bribery for real exams and hope she gets a bit of a shock.

Op?

Dd1 made a hash of her mocks and had the shock of her life, school work had come fairly easily to her upto that point, to be fair she did knuckle down afterwards [I said she needed to do an hour each night]. With a financial incentive thrown in she did really well in the real exams.