help needed really quickly dd has just sat the wrong GCSE paper

[lilibet]

today is science higher and foundation paper two

dd is doing foundation but for some reaon got it into her head that she was doing higher

they gave her a foundation paper, she told them that she had given her the wrong one and asked for higher

on;y when she talked to her friends after did she realise wha t she had done

I'm going into school at lunch to see if anything can be done - she says that they will not mark the paper as they have no record of her entering for it

She needs science to do the course that she wants to at college

F**K

I had an invigilator for my A' levels who knitted all the time - click, click, click. I was ready to strangle her with it after 3 hours.

has any pupils fallen asleep?

My cousin has a great invigilation story. She was standing on the stage of the school hall, looking out at a sea of faces, just before an exam began. She noticed something hanging out of one of her trouser legs and absent-mindedly pulled at it. It was the foot of a pair of tights. She pulled some more, and more of the tights came out. She says she felt committed to pulling by then and kept on pulling and pulling until a whole pair of tights came out. She had taken off her trousers and tights at the same time the night before and hadn't realised that she had left the previous day's pair inside the trousers. When she had finally pulled the tights all the way out, she shouted 'Eureka.' The funniest thing was that nobody laughed, because they were all so nervous about the exam.

Our French teacher fell off the stage at the beginning of an exam and pulled the huge speaker he'd been fiddling with in inept teacher sees technology for the first (umpteenth - doesn't matter which, is all a puzzle) time manner.

V funny. Mind you, a pencil dropped at the start of an exam is hilarity-inducing. Tis the nerves, dontcha know.

And what is it with clicky heels?! RS teacher used to wear them. Wanted to trip up her prim little backside and spike her in the head with her noisy shoes after three hours!

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God, no, misdee! They are all full on!

Lots of wobbly desks though, hmb. I think some people have put a wedge under one leg to make the other leg wobble to give them something to do!

Also one of our exam rooms has outside doors the other side of a lobby on both sides, and every time someone goes through the outside doors our doors bang. So now there is a lump of folded paper on the desk with "door wedge (it rattles)" on it. Very high tech!

Remember one girl had a full on panic attack when I was doing my A levels. Completely lost it and slid to the floor in a gibbering heap and had to be carried out. She never did get to uni as this was the mid 80s when people had no truck with narcissistic psychobabble and excuses.....

Love your games. Can't you play spot the fanciable lads or are they a bit young? (My friend is in admin. at our university and says this gets her through hours of invigilating.

This may be apocryphal but when I was sitting my finals a story went round that a bloke sitting one of his Law finals had suddenly stood up in the middle of it, stuck his arms out and gone "I'm an orange tree...see my branches...would anyone like to taste my lovely oranges?" and had had to be taken out.

martha...
Bet you heard the one about the student who got scurvy because he only ate porridge to save money,too!

OMG, fanciable lads, there was a tall-dark-and-handsome half-Chinese one in today, phwoarrrrr.

However DS1 (year below) tells me he is completely up himself, strolls around school stroking his own arms and is always getting thumped for luring other lads' girls away - my line of "well maybe the girls want slapping for succumbing" didn't go down well.

Did I ever tell the story of the 15 year old I used to flirt with in the library?

Jan,that is shite pay for a responsible job (although evidently some perks...)

JanH - stroking his own arms?

Er...?!

Go on martha (could this be slightly dodgy..../>>>>/?)

I am merely reporting my son's remark (verbatim), hm!

Hand on opposite elbows, fingers on upper arms? KWIM? Obviously deeply significant for a 17-yr-old!

Well...briefly. I was working in a large public library which shall remain nameless. It was just before I had ds1 so I was 27/28. This utterly gorgeous young mayaan used to come in every week and take out a stack of CDs. We had similar taste in music and would flirt shamelessly over the counter.

One week he came in - no CDs - took out a pile of text books instead. I asked and he said he had exams.

"Finals?" says me, sympathetically.

"No, mock GCSEs," says he.

That was the end of my flirting, I can tell you.

Oh, moo! That did make me LOL. These young mayans are so mysterious, aren't they?

lol!!! My dh was talking to a bloke in the barber's in Turkey the other day and ended by saying that they should go out for a beer sometime,to which the 'bloke' (huge muscly hairy thing-well he was there for a shave which tells you a lot!)stuttered 'Er,I'm only 15!'

(Hope dh wasn't flirting as well!

Mayan?

Mayan comes from from the heady days of lou33 and spacedonkey/monkey - "Young Mayaaan!"

Gotcha! Was thinking about exotic South Americans......

It actually originates with Harry Enfield and his 2 old biddies who would grab any nubile young thing and stuff him into the back of their car/drag him in the front door/shove him round some convenient corner, going "ooooh! young mayan!"

Oooh - the other old biddy was Kathy Burke, I couldn't remember but would have sworn it was Paul Whitehouse!

heehee moo, i remember you telling me that

and it's mayaAn!

Janh, how did today go?

I had 50 mins of a Russian paper to monitor. there were two of us, and only 4 of them. And the paper was in Russian, so I couldn't even pass time by reading it!

Lilibet, any news re your dd?