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[Alis girls]

Just wanted to wish "Good luck" to those young people doing exams. ES started GCSE;s today and YS - sats. Both came in grumbling re "it was hard" or "French women speak tooo fast" well good luck to all. And of course also to those not so young doing exams too.

[Ain't Nobody Here]

YS has one down and two to go. I, for one, will be so glad when they're over (a week on Wednesday) - trying to force a reluctant teenager to revise when "he doesn't need to get these exams" is very stressful .

[Alis girls]

I feel your pain - there are so many more exciting things to do when revision comes a long.

[Chucky Mama]

GCSEs and A levels here plus some setting tests for next year for YS. Went out at the weekend to top up on ingredients for revision snacks and hot chocolate which tends to keep them going. DD had French and Preparing for working life today (pointless exam )

[LolaLayla]

YS hasn't started yet. His first one is on Monday. Studying is not easy when there are parties to go to

[pips_pekins]

DS had biology AS today. First exam which apparently was 'fine'. Good luck to everyone doing exams.

[Duncan08]

Oohh I have it all to look forward to. Couple of years left for me.

Good luck to everyone!

[bluekarin]

I'll add my good lucks to everyone too!

 

My ED is doing 3 GCSE's and lots of mocks over the next few weeks and DS is doing a week of end of year tests in a couple of weeks. She has been revising for weeks though as she has set herself very high marks and DS has luckily started to revise *phew*

[chickencam]

Good luck to all from me too.

 

We have both DS doing GCSE's, first one next Monday, and ED doing A levels and YD doing end of year exams. the revision atmosphere in this house has helped YD get into hers. DS has been on study leave for a week and seems to be doing pretty well, although I am struggling to get him up this week, still in bed as I type, he is a late night reviser, but will have to be up early next week especially on Thursday because we have to get him to school by 8am to avoid road closures for the Olympic torch relay.

 

ED is a very hard worker who has set the bar high in this family, DS realises that he has to work hard to reach her standards, his pride has now kicked in and hopefully he will do well, he is very bright, but very lazy. Poor YD is going to have to work so hard, they have left her very little room for error.

 

ED needs 3 A's for her uni place, she is taking 4 A levels and is predicted A's in all of them, so fingers crossed.

[Chucky Mama]

Oohh I have it all to look forward to. Couple of years left for me.

Good luck to everyone!

 

I am now reaping the rewards (NOT) of having 3 children each 2 years apart. It means that there are years of someone having serious exams

[chickencam]

I feel your pain, mine are two and a half years apart, so the older two are in this exam cycle, but fortunately YD is only in year 8 even though the age gap was the same, the time of year that she was born has given us a 3 year school gap between her and her brother so he will be first year of uni before she does GCSE's (scarey thought)

[bluekarin]

My three are 14 months apart So it's going to be a manic few years

[chickencam]

By the sounds of it you have already had a manic few years

[bluekarin]

Oh yes, we certainly have. The last two were meant to be 16 months apart, but DD decided to come 2 months early

[percy049]

"French women speak tooo fast"

 

I know! French people need to speak slowly and clearly, half of us thought she swore at one point

[LuckyChickenLover-]

I've had exams for the past two weeks. I was on study leave, but I had so many exams that I only got one day 'off' out of school. They were only mocks, thank goodness, but I have four proper maths exams coming up in less than a month, which I'm not looking forward to

 

We've been getting our results back this week, which is scary stuff They may be only mocks, but it's still pretty stressful. So far, I've got an A in RS (two marks off an A* ), an A in Science (again, two marks off an A* ) and an A in Maths. I wouldn't really say I'm happy with those, but I still have a year to improve until my real exams next year so at least I've learnt that I really do need to stop procrastinating when it comes to revision. At one point last week I seriously began reading a dictionary to get out of revising

 

Best of luck to anyone else with exams coming up!

[freddie]

Es has started his, after me reaching nearly boiling point re revision(or the seeming lack of it)

This will now go on until the 20th June, then he's done with school!!

A levels next, I can bearly contain my excitment.

He has got good grades so far, and I'm wondering what to get the teaching staff as a well earned gift to thank (apologise to) them, for the effort they must have made, he's v bright, but a real 100% teen male

[Willow]

ES has his first exam tomorrow and last isn't until late June. I've put them all on the kitchen calendar as with 12 GCSEs with multiple papers I'm worried we'll lose track of one. He's calm , I'm trying to hide that I'm a nervous wreck

 

I feel your pain, mine are two and a half years apart, so the older two are in this exam cycle, but fortunately YD is only in year 8 even though the age gap was the same, the time of year that she was born has given us a 3 year school gap between her and her brother so he will be first year of uni before she does GCSE's (scarey thought)

 

I'm in the same position with my two. Glad they won't both be doing major exams the same year but it does spread it out

[Alis girls]

YS is full of cold - snotty, snuffly and coughing (hes asthmatic) so trumpet lesson out I think tommorrow - dont think he could blow a raspberry.let alone a trumpet. Hes barely eating and packed lunch comes back 1/2 eaten. i will have to resurrect packed lunch post in "all things nice " bit of forum.

[Lewis]

Had ma first exam today... Nutrition + Breeding.

 

Wasn't good but could have been worse I guess... Wanted Minerals to come up but of course Vitamins came up instead so just made up most of it then had to waffle about sheep breeding and inbreeding in horses.

Fun times

 

Good luck everyone

[sparkysmum]

My Ant is in the middle of Highers. Chem - "OK" grunt, English tomorrow, groan, groan "why did I choose this", then his secure subjects - maths, graph comm, and Art.

 

Jonathan doing advanced highers, but like your son Vicki, doesn't need them so not studying.

 

Have to say it's been one of the most stressful time that I can remember.

 

Good luck

[Willow]

My ES came out of his first GCSE exam happy but said that one boy hadn't turned up for a maths A-level. He was expected to do well so they assumed he'd lost track of the the exam date rater than a no show. The school tried to get hold of him but couldn't. Night before my ES first exam I had been dreaming we'd got the day of one of his exams wrong and he;d missed it

Apparently someone does that every year My ES is going to humour me and every evening let me do a check for the next day to double check whether he has anything even if he thinks (knows) he doesn't - he is a bit at me

[chickencam]

That is such a shame, I live in dread of this happening to one of my children, I have a copy of their timetable and all of the dates and times are in my diary. I also dread them getting ill or worse still me giving them food poisoning the night before, not that I have ever made my family ill with my food, but there is always a first time

[Chucky Mama]

My ES came out of his first GCSE exam happy but said that one boy hadn't turned up for a maths A-level. He was expected to do well so they assumed he'd lost track of the the exam date rater than a no show.

Oh no that is awful ES did have to phone a friend up last year to remind him that he should be in a Maths exam. he was still in bed

 

DD has written French GCSE today and thinks she has blown it. That's her finished with French now, no more lessons.

[Alis girls]

Dreadful - I cant remember anyone doing that at O level all those yrs back. YS has finished SATS unless they have to do level 6 English (TBC) next week. Proud of him as hes had a stonking cough and cold and I want him to rest at home tommorrow. We will see. well done to all who are nearly at end of week 1.