Revision for mock GCSEs during study leave

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How much are your DCs doing??

Mine insists that 15 minutes revision followed by 15 minutes gaming is a good balanced set up ???

Aaaaagggghhhhhh

It's a battleground here

Not sure what your school set up is but I'm trying to get mine to revise for his gcses most nights from now until the actual exams start (May or May not have more mocks, it's all up in the air).
I got quite upset with him tonight, he lied about English intervention being cancelled he just couldn't be bothered to find the right room, he massively messed up in his mock in November so it's vital he attends, I'm just losing the will to live.
It's easy to say let them fail but how can any parent actually do that?
Any tips gratefully received!!!

Oh and I'm trying to get 10 hours revision per week out of him 😒

My dd is averagely bright (if that’s a thing) but to get her to revise is bloody hard! Because she did better than expected in her nov mocks she things cramming the night or two before is enough and I’m worried! Hopefully these Jan mocks will show her she needs to put more work in. I don’t know what the answer is

Mine is onto A Levels now, but what I will say is when exams were cancelled in 2020 and mock grades/teacher assessments were used, there were a lot of kids who failed horribly. And these were kids who no doubt would have pulled it out of the bag for the real thing, but couldn't be bothered to revise for the mocks simply because they didn't think they had to. I very much doubt exams will be cancelled this year, but then we thought that 2 years ago. Might be worth putting some fear into them as a 'worst case scenario' !

There’s a specific thread GCSE revision on the Education page, but I hesitate to recommend it because everyone on there seems to have kids that are destined to get 14+ 9s, if you know what I mean.
Although I have had a child who achieved those sorts of grades, with my second dd I feel much more at home here, as her idea of a good revision session is taking 5 minutes away from TikTok

Well, you can't revise much or get very into your game in 15 minutes! Maybe two hours of study then two hours of leisure time would be a better schedule.

DD’s Higher prelims start tomorrow. She did no revision before or during the holidays (she did have covid from New Year’s Day tbf so was feeling a bit crap for a few days).

She has studied well the past week, but has had a complete meltdown today over her fickle ex boyfriend (who’s been trying to win her back for weeks but has now gone back to his more recent ex 🤦‍♀️) and she has done very little.

DH has done a great job calming her down and trying to get her back on track so fingers crossed she can keep it together for tomorrow 🤞🏼

It’s going to be a loooong couple of weeks 🙈

🤣🤣 I told my dd2 to trout her science book and read it for a while after about 10 minutes
Dd1 rang was finished work so I needed to go collect her, dd2 said I'll bring my book and read it in car with my phone light, She chattered the whole way about her Formal in February on the way down and way back so that was the end of science.
I'm trying to tell her if she would study now she could get science finished in February we are in Ni. It's taken no affect and she wants to do Alevels and she is very average.

Mine is doing as little as possible while claiming she is doing loads. On the plus side, her room is spotless, she's rearranged her bookshelves and has listened to a lot of music.
I have nagged, pleaded, threatened, bribed and am now treating it like toddlerish behaviour and trying to ignore.

Thanks for your comments- trying hard here to drop the gaming and move to 2hr blocks followed by gaming/ break 🤞🤞🤞

Who has study leave?

They don’t have this anymore at DD’s school

This is why most schools have got rid of study leave!

I wouldn't do 2 hour blocks, way too much time in front of a screen. Plus lessons aren't even that long.

Schools here have stopped study leave instead using it as catch up, working on the practical work etc so if individual pupils are off due to illness it won't be as devastating.

If he’s on study leave, he should be spending at least as long on studying as he would during the normal school week.

Personally I’d want him doing 6 or 7 hours a day minimum (which he’d be doing normally when you include homework)- I’d have him earn his gaming time by doing this.

Another here thinking 2 hour blocks too long. DD did her mocks in December. She was doing 40 mins per subject and trying to do 3 per night.

How I did it, and how I have told my kids to approach it is like a job. 9 to 5 with a lunch break. Then stop and do whatever until the next day. One is really good at this, the other, flakes by about 4 pm.

They are girls though. I know my boy will be a nightmare!