The Final Push - how's it going for your dc (and you) ?

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stroudydad
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Re: The Final Push - how's it going for your dc (and you) ?

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KS10 wrote:Just in case there’s anyone who did the same chemistry paper that DD did, a very experienced teacher at my school said that it was the hardest paper she’d ever seen and that DD was not to worry about it. OH said that if there’s a mistake to be made, DD will make it :). He said that to me though, not to her.
Interesting to hear.. which board??
buzzybee
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Re: The Final Push - how's it going for your dc (and you) ?

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Intriguing. Dd's exams are pretty much all AQA apart from English which is Edexl.
stroudydad
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Re: The Final Push - how's it going for your dc (and you) ?

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buzzybee wrote:Intriguing. Dd's exams are pretty much all AQA apart from English which is Edexl.

I believe DDs are all AQA except DT, which is edwqas
Tinkers
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Re: The Final Push - how's it going for your dc (and you) ?

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Mostly AQA here (maths, sciences, german and textiles). Edexcel for Geography, ICT and music. WJEC for English Lang and Lit.
Reading Mum
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Re: The Final Push - how's it going for your dc (and you) ?

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Tinkers wrote:Mostly AQA here (maths, sciences, german and textiles). Edexcel for Geography, ICT and music. WJEC for English Lang and Lit.
and OCR for Latin (not many choices on that one)
doodles
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Re: The Final Push - how's it going for your dc (and you) ?

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8 out of 23 done and a well deserved exam free day on Monday.
Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit, wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad !
Miltonkeynes1
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Re: The Final Push - how's it going for your dc (and you) ?

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DS found the French tough this morning. At least French and R & P are over now. He seems quite positive about chemistry and Biology though, apart from the Chadwick question!
KS10
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Re: The Final Push - how's it going for your dc (and you) ?

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AQA combined science Trilogy Chemistry, stroudydad
stroudydad
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Re: The Final Push - how's it going for your dc (and you) ?

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KS10 wrote:AQA combined science Trilogy Chemistry, stroudydad

Love that name - it's like an action film...

Thats what DD is doing/done also.
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Re: The Final Push - how's it going for your dc (and you) ?

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We had French too this morning. Dd said it was 'quite good'....? Who knows what that means?

Sadly no day off on Monday as dd has Latin.paper 3.
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