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[Phonix]

Hey guys....

Just need to vent I think....

 

Coursework is such a pain!

I got 3 bits to do by the 11th May and then an exam on the 14th and im soo stressed!

 

The discrimination one is fine cos its a problem qu and very similar to stuff we're been doing but the other two are so random and even though there's a choice of qu's they're a very different style to anything we've done previously and sooo broad i havent even started them cos im soo worried about going off on a tangent!

 

Anyways - just thought id let you all know so you can share my stress ha - no - its just nice to be able to tell someone who doesn't (basicially) just say 'thats nice' (mum) or 'well im nearly done' (snotty girl on course) or 'well ive got 5 bits and havent started yet so youve got no problem' (stupid girl on differnt course!).

 

Stacey

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[Looney]

Poor you

 

I remember being faced with the stress of coursework.....the anticipation and dread before actually starting used to be enough to nearly paralyse me (not literally), sort of like a mental and physical block Once I'd managed to force myself to make a start it used to get a bit better....a couple of times i nearly left it too late to get started!

 

Good luck. And come on here to de stress!!! Big hugs xxxxxx

[kitbag]

yeah - i can relate to that! Ihave got 2 pieces in by friday, and i have no time to do it! this is in between revision for my GCSEs, practising for my grade 8 bassoon and grade 8 piano!!

 

Just keep going, and you will look back and be happy that you did it!

[Cinnamon]

My girl is bogged down by it at the moment too, & is getting very stressed.

 

I think the teachers make it worse by saying that they will fail their exams & so forth......she is hating going to school at the moment which is most unlike her

 

Luckily she is a conscientious pupil & wants to succeed - I fear it will be a different matter when my youngest daughter comes to take her GCSE's

[kitbag]

I think the teachers make it worse by saying that they will fail their exams & so forth......she is hating going to school at the moment which is most unlike her

 

My teachers keep saying that too! My music teacher said i was going to fail in life yesterday! My mum is going to school to complain!

[Cinnamon]

Yep, Dev has heard similar comments too, thankfully not to her directly,but to friends.

I think its shocking that they can say such things - go Megans Mum!!!

[kitbag]

lol she says thanks!!

[Looney]

Oh my How horrible some teachers are I can understand that some pupils may need a gentle prod (kick up backside ) to motivate them but I think such hard threats and comments can just panic pupils even more and make them even less responsive or able to perform

 

Thank goodness not all teachers are like this.

 

Good luck Kitbag and Devon with your work too.

[Phonix]

I loved school and never found it too much hassle to get the cwk even in between working, gymnastics and whatever else I had going on but uni is sooo different.

 

The discrimination on ive started and im quite enjoying it - I like problem (scenario)qu's! I can see exactly where im going with it even if I can't understand and see why i need all the details!

Its the essay qu's that are causing me problems - just because theyr so generalised and vague and qute hard to pinpoint which aspect of the module they're supposed to be covering or if i can identify the area, its hard to see where to start because it wasn't covered in that sort of way in lectures - my explanations really aren't helpng

 

The two im struggeling with are Human Rights and Contemporary issues in EU social law. Human Rights is frustrating because all teh work we've done for tutorials was soo case focused - on indiv cases and how they were decided etc but the cwk questions are soo wide and general. The EU one is even worse because there are no textbooks really that deal with the issues because it is so upto date and textbooks aren't and usually they would be my first port-of-call for general background info so I need to reeveluate my usual working ways with that one!!! Eugh! Stress!!

 

And then there's the medical law and ethics exam - don't get me started on that or on the number of lectures we've had cancelled and not rescheduled!!!! Im sure ill be ranting on that closer to the exam!

 

Kitbag - what have you got to do for friday? how's it going?

 

Cinnamon & Kitbag - don't worry about GCSE's and tell your daughter too - teachers make out like its the end of teh world if you dont get the best grades but you sound like an intelligent girl and as long as you do OK and get to do what you want at 6th form then its your grades there that are important. Yes you want to do as well as you can but teachers push you to do well because it makes them look good at the end of the day. Enjoy school and the variety of subjects and the time with your friends while you can and dont stress out about it too much. Wait and see and in a couople of years you'll be saying the same and ill be saying it about uni! lol

 

As for your second daughter Cinnamon - she sounds like my brother. He was never a big fan of school and didn't put in quite as much work even though I know that if he did he could probably have gotten better grades than me. He passed his GCSE's with better grades than anyone expected because when it got close to revision time even though everyone thought he was doing nothing he was secretly revising.

He's in year 12 now and is doing ok but has decided that school really isn't for him anymore. BUT he was sensible enough to look for a job first and then when he was offered one to start in May he told them he couldn't cos he wanted to sit his end of year exams in June or it would be a waste of the year. The job people were really cool and thouht he was being really grown-up about it and offered him the same apprenticeship to start in Sept without the need to apply again. SOO we're all really chuffed for him and I think my parents are really impressed with his attitude etc when it was sooo unexpected! So basically - let her be, dont push and she might suprise you. If not - she's being herself and she's got all the time in the world to look back and retake or study for them again - some people just need more time than others.

 

Sorry - sooo long!

 

xXx

[kitbag]

 

Kitbag - what have you got to do for friday? how's it going?

 

Cinnamon & Kitbag - don't worry about GCSE's and tell your daughter too - teachers make out like its the end of teh world if you dont get the best grades but you sound like an intelligent girl and as long as you do OK and get to do what you want at 6th form then its your grades there that are important. Yes you want to do as well as you can but teachers push you to do well because it makes them look good at the end of the day. Enjoy school and the variety of subjects and the time with your friends while you can and dont stress out about it too much. Wait and see and in a couople of years you'll be saying the same and ill be saying it about uni! lol

 

xXx

 

 

Its just music and physics! I am expected to get an A in both and the teachers arn't making it too easy, but i am doing what i can! I have got another chapter to write on physics, and a whole essay for music! The good news is that today i got confirmed for 6th form!! Yay!!

 

Well done to your brother as well!!!

[Phonix]

[quote name="kitbag

Its just music and physics! I am expected to get an A in both and the teachers arn't making it too easy' date=' but i am doing what i can! I have got another chapter to write on physics, and a whole essay for music! The good news is that today i got confirmed for 6th form!! Yay!!

 

Well done to your brother as well!!! [/quote]

 

Honestly dont stress too much, just take and deep breath and relax and it'll come much easier.

 

What's the physics on if i can remember back that far. it was never my strongest science But ours was double module and I got AA and i think when it came back physics was the highest mark - maybe cos I wrked sooo hard for it cos i found it difficult.

Music id be no use at all - im tone deaf. My Yr 9 music teacher wanted me to take GCSE music so I think she may have been tone deaf too! lol

 

What are you doing at 6th form? all the stress people seem to have at the minute about getting in or not is getting almost as bad as applying to uni. I know that since the introduction of EMA soo many people at my old school have been staying on for 6th form that wouldn't have been that the children who really want to learn and be there are suffering so much all because the school has lowered the enterence criteria to get more people staying - its sad because it was soo lovely when I was there .

[Guest]

Spare a thought for us teachers - we get targets to meet and hauled over the coals when "we" don't meet them!

 

To meet our targets YOU KIDS have to pass

 

We teach you

 

We mark the work

 

We give you feedback

 

We stay lunchtimes

 

We stay after school

 

and WE get it in the neck when YOU don't finish the work on time!!!! And if YOU fail - that's our fault too.

 

I had a good day today, "Ooops, word censored!"ody swore at me, I was shoved out of the way by a year 10 though and had to deal with a fight between two year 7 girls in a corridor, and I'm struggling to deal with my worry over some sick pupils.

[Phonix]

Sorry Penguinmad i know there are some good teachers out there and I did have a few amazing ones at school myself.

 

Im just hating at the mo because we're supposed to have 2 lectures of a subject a week since jan and over half of them have been cancelled and most with no warning and no rearranging and teaching yourself medical law an dethics isn't easy because I dont DO biology! lol

 

As for the others well if magical disappearning tutors are your thing then your in luck and i can give you the names of a few that ignored by emails, phone calls, discussion boards - the lot. And now they reply saying they can't answer as we have the cwk titles when i emailed the qu when we done the topic long before the cwk came out!!! Not only that theyr never around when they state that their office hours are and for the amount we're paying you think theyd be a little happier to help!!

 

And lets not forget - teacher/tutors/lecturers chose to do those things so when you get one who is a little less than nice/helpful you do wonder why the *bleep* they decided on the job in the 1st place!!!

 

Oh to go back to the days of school and my nice teachers but by my brothers reports they've all left and chaos reigns and those there won't help the good ones cos the bad ones need the attention and theyr so fed up at the end of the day they wont stay to help at luch/break/after school cos they just want to get away.

 

I have alot of friends who are teachers and I respect them alot - not an easy career choice but that said they're the kind of teachers I would want and from what you post Penguinmad your one of teh good uns too - we need more of you!!!!

 

 

xxx

[Plum]

Feel for you all, it's such pressure for you.

 

Stacey it's hard doing so many at once. I've found that it's best not to concentrate on the one that's easy but to get a plan so you allocate time to each whether that's one at a time or so many hours each day or day for each. Make sure you keep extra time later for whichever you need to revisit.

 

Good luck to you all. and you Pengy

[Geoid]

i done my last piece of coursework yesterday, handed it in today. All I have to do now is REVISE. People say I'm too relaxed about all of this, but in reality I'm like a duck, look calm on the water, but under the water, I'm kicking like mad.

[Sheilaz]

Phonix, it sounds daunting & it's shocking about the lack of lectures and even more so about the lack of educational support.

 

I'm a great believer in breaking tasks into manageable chunks starting, as suggested, with the hardest first. The rest will get easier once you've started.

 

How about jotting down on first instinct half a dozen bullet points, a sentence each, in response to the medical ethics one, then reassess and see if those points do actually answer the question.

 

Then, research some examples to quote (if that's appropriate, I've not studied this subject!)

Next, expand on each of those points to make the main structure of an essay. Add bright ideas that flow here, but check that they still answer the question. Still using the bullet points, add an intro & final summary which say what your doing & what you found (if that's how essays look on your course, I don't know!) and there you go.

 

How about 6 points that answer it now, then sleep on it and tackle the expansion tomorrow.

 

Or ask Jeeves.

 

Best wishes & keep us posted!

[Guest]

Good advice Sheila - as usual!

 

DD2 is having to do 'A' level music composition (which is coursework) in supervised conditions. She is allowed 15 hours to compose and cannot take the work away with her. When it is handed in, she has to give in a recording of the piece with it. BUT, it cannot leave the classroom ever. It is so totally ridiculous.

1. You should be able to compose when you feel like it, not when the timetable says you have to.

2. You might be on a roll, but your time is up and you have to pack away.

3. How can you rehe"Ooops, word censored!" the piece (DD2's piece is for SSATB) if it can't come out of the classroom?

 

Starting next year apparently, GCSE music will be done the same way. The poor teachers, who already run orchestras, choirs, bands, shows etc at lunchtime and after school, have somehow got to find another 10 hours or so for about 90 pupils to do their supervised composing. Life is becoming impossible for everyone concerned.

 

Good luck with all the coursework going on. Keep plodding on and you will get it done. The stress you feel now is almost worth it for the RELIEF you will feel when it's all handed in and finished!

[Cinnamon]

I have just found out that Devon gets no study leave until the final week of the exams.

So, in effect, she gets no leave at home to study for any exams apart from the 2 she has in the final week - madness!

[Guest]

How very strange Cinammon. That's really not nice for someone like Devon who is so diligent. I'm sure she'll cope anyway and the school will do revision sessions. Good luck to her!

[ubereglu]

Good Luck, I'm sure you'll be fine and will be able to get in done and in on time. At least your first exam isn't until 14th May, I have my French oral on May 5th!

[kitbag]

I have just found out that Devon gets no study leave until the final week of the exams.

So, in effect, she gets no leave at home to study for any exams apart from the 2 she has in the final week - madness!

 

i dont either! i have 'aim higher'instead! i work better on my own, instead of with all the people that dont actually want to learn, or do well at school!

[Cinnamon]

So does Devon,Megan.

She has one of those useless CPHE days next week on parliament , so is taking an executive day at home to study,revise & generally knuckle down instead.

[kitbag]

good for her! it will be more useful to revise!