Revision!

onlyroz

Have you tried bribery? E.g. £xxx for every grade A*, £xx for every grade A and nothing for anything lower?

PS - the best form of revision is doing past papers under "exam" conditions. Perhaps you could encourage this and offer help with "marking" them?

**Patty**

Speaking as someone who was under horrendous pressure to achieve A's across the board (9 subjects) when the only pass grades were A, B and C.......i'd say back off a bit.

My DD is in year 11 & doing her GCSE's. She spent friday night making a revision timetable, an exam timetable and yet more revision cards. They now adorn her bedroom walls....even the Flawless poster has been taken down (sorry Oddie lol)

If the ability isn't in question and she wants it badly enough......she'll get there......shoving her will not end well.:o

daisiegg

ViolaLass wrote: »

At my school, those teachers can be and are asked to do other things. My department tend to refuse because they are constantly being visited by students with questions.

I think he meant "can't be a*sed to do anything else". Really bugs me when people put 'asked'!

daisiegg

thegirlintheattic wrote: »

Bennifred wrote: »

A lot of schools now are getting rid of study leave. In my LEA students stay in school until the end of May when the exams start in bulk, they then keep going to lessons until they have had the last exam for the subject. Time gained from that is then used for private study in class with the class teacher supervising. So teachers get very little 'gained time' those who do are expected to cover or be planning for September. We are expecting to have our year 11s until the end of June.

Our Year 11s don't leave until half term (by which point they've already had loads of exams - including all their English). I think it's better to keep as close a hold of them as possible for as long as possible! Particularly when passing performance management is dependent on your Year 11s achieving their target grades..

Bennifred

thegirlintheattic wrote: »

Bennifred wrote: »

A lot of schools now are getting rid of study leave. In my LEA students stay in school until the end of May when the exams start in bulk, they then keep going to lessons until they have had the last exam for the subject. Time gained from that is then used for private study in class with the class teacher supervising. So teachers get very little 'gained time' those who do are expected to cover or be planning for September. We are expecting to have our year 11s until the end of June.

I wish this happened in our school!

Bennifred

daisiegg wrote: »

I think he meant "can't be a*sed to do anything else". Really bugs me when people put 'asked'!

Nope, I meant "asked". We have been told by SLT that teachers cannot be ASKED to cover/help with exams/etc.

Maybe THEY meant a*sed?:rotfl:

I'm female, by the way.

VJsmum

thegirlintheattic wrote: »

for many students a lower grade is the best they can do and they should be proud of that. Obviously the OPs DD is not one of those students but it bugs me when people dismiss lower grades completely.

This is true as I have a younger DS who is very much borderline C/D. If he ended up with, say, 5 c's I will do cartwheels down the street. That's why I don't like league tables - a school that will only take A* students and produces A* students, surely isn't as effective as a student that takes D grade students and gets them C or above?

onlyroz wrote: »

Have you tried bribery? E.g. £xxx for every grade A*, £xx for every grade A and nothing for anything lower?

PS - the best form of revision is doing past papers under "exam" conditions. Perhaps you could encourage this and offer help with "marking" them?

My in laws did the bribery thing but I don't like it myself. I really think she has to do it for herself. THere will be somehting when she gets her results, but I am not telling her about it now.

One reason I don't want to use bribery is because DS is unlikely to get any A* grades or even A's

Definitely past papers are the way forward. I have written exam papers for 15 years and tell my students that you can only ask a question so many ways, once you have done a question on a subject 2 or 3 times it isn't so much "remembering" as "knowing". Trouble is few papers have been made available for DD.

She has actually done an amount of revision tonight after having a lovely day shopping.

Thanks again.

Dunroamin

Molly41 wrote: »

A B is fine by me!

Nothing like aiming high!

Dunroamin

thegirlintheattic wrote: »

Dunroamin there are not just 3 pass grades. Anything from G up is a pass. For league tables and most A Levels you need a C or above but for many students a lower grade is the best they can do and they should be proud of that. Obviously the OPs DD is not one of those students but it bugs me when people dismiss lower grades completely.

You missed the point that I put "Pass" in inverted commas.

Of course a D represents an achievement for less able students but that doesn't mean that it's an acceptable grade for many courses and jobs. In fact, as I'm sure you know, many schools and colleges won't accept students for an A level course with less than a B.

jinty271

My daughter ( fastidious studier, straight A's) is courting a young chap in the year above, who is at this serious level of study. He is also a very bright boy. His parents have paid for additional tutoring, and he has a revision timetable that he has stuck to religiously.

They have now decided that , despite the compromise of " do the study, see the girlfriend" - he is now banned from seeing her till after his exams. I appreciate that a teenage romance is not the be all and end all, and ultimately his future is more important - however all they have managed to achieve is a resentful teen who chats on skype to my lass, or plays his X box when he is meant to be studying.

My point is - by all means set a strict timetable for revision - but , assuming the work has been done, please allow these (essentially) kids, to let off some steam and enjoy themselves, now and again too.

I hope all your children too well in their exams.