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Hahaha, this pretty much sums up the majority of TSR.
johnsmith1914
Well my 'friends' are the kind who dont care about education as much as i do and they'll be happy with all C's but i wouldn't. when i retake an exam becuase i got a B the're always saying like ' ohh your really weird and your such a geek' i need motivation to Ditch them and concentrate on my education

Year 11 and aiming for Straight A's

They don't sound like very good friends to me. Sure, i get a bit of banter about being such a geek, but if they genuinely want you to do worse than you can then screw them.
If you really need to ask this question - if you can't do well in your exams and have friends, you don't deserve to do well in your exams :yep: That said, GCSEs are so important, they're the be all and end all, fail these and your life is absolutely, 100%, undoubtedly over, so ditch them. While you're at it, abuse and torture them and lock them inside their houses and burn their houses down, make sure they never darken your doorstep again. Burn their families too, as punishment for creating them, and to stop them making any future potential-hindrances to your education.

Do you really think it'll do yourself any favours if you tell your friends you're ditching them because they're too thick for you? They'll make your life such a misery (well, I know I would), you won't be able to focus on your exams and you'll fail anyway. :yep:
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Reply 23
i had the sme problem, during gcse i hung around with two differen groups of ppl one group being like ure frinds who i had know for years but the others i had become frinds during the year, i chose to hang aorund with the 2nd group and came out with good grades at gcse not all As but about 6 plus so it was not bad but i made the chosice education was more imporatnt at i saw thoe was i lost contact with those other frinds i wud stil day high in corridors but wud never go out with them but now im in year 13 my old friends r having to retake year 12 cus they gt Us now im lookin at AAB at A2 hopefully dnt get me wrong it is hard to get rid of friends jus do it slowly if ure gonna do ti and mix with the right ppl
Don't ditch. Just put them by for a while.
LOL you don't have to completely ditch them.

Sure, maybe socialise a bit less if you want to work harder, but you can still be friends with them.
I used to hang around a group of friends back in Year 7 and 8, since Year 9 and as time gradually passed, I started to hang around with different people and within another friendship circle. Even though I got good grades, my friends haven't exactly been the most supportive of me, my friends just always end up criticising me and everything I do, and I started sixth form earlier this Monday, and I've gone back to my old friends who have gladly accepted me back, and I enjoy being around them more.

At the end of the day OP, make the decision, find some new friends that also care about their education. The friends that I ditched just always seemed to talk about Call of Duty, and "Oh that girl looks fit, I'd do her", and nothing else...

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