Confused with my AS results, need advice

I ended up getting quite bad results ,

Biology - D
Chemistry - D
Psychology-C

However if it resit some of my practicals for biology and chemistry my grades can easily be moved to C's however I doubt my teachers would predict me ABB from those grades and even if I did carry on with those grades(C,C,C) I doubt I could handle my A2 exams and 3 AS re-sits exams in June .

If I do resit the year most then Uni's that do pharmacy say they expect higher grades than the entry requirements and I doubt I'll be able to achieve that.

So I'm currently very unsure on what my next move should be, all advice would be greatly appreciated.

Reply 1

moonziggy

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Finally someone in the same boat as me! Does your school have a careers team or something? My school does, I'm waiting till we get back to school, I've arranged a meeting with one of the ladies to see what advice she has to offer. I got CCDE in Bio, chem, maths and psych :/ The worst part is that im an aspiring medic. What I'm planning on doing is retaking a couple of exams and working my butt of this year. I'm also thinking of possibly taking a gap year.. (P.S. for some reason my enter key doesn't work on TSR, so excuse the lack of spacing :P)

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Reply 2

qr95

20

Im not entirely sure but predicted grades don't really matter its what you get in the end. You could also resit the year if the college let you

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Reply 3

yousefshah77

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Original post by moonziggy

Finally someone in the same boat as me! Does your school have a careers team or something? My school does, I'm waiting till we get back to school, I've arranged a meeting with one of the ladies to see what advice she has to offer. I got CCDE in Bio, chem, maths and psych :/ The worst part is that im an aspiring medic. What I'm planning on doing is retaking a couple of exams and working my butt of this year. I'm also thinking of possibly taking a gap year.. (P.S. for some reason my enter key doesn't work on TSR, so excuse the lack of spacing :P)

Our school does and I will probably end up seeing them even though all they'll do it slate me lol , I guess we could rely on clearing and adjustment but it's way to risky and doing about 10 exams in June seems like a nightmare ! Re-sitting the year is also painful , Uni's are much more demanding.
I also have the same mindset that I'll work extremely hard this year but I had the exact same mindset from January and I still sort of messed up lol

Reply 4

moonziggy

11

Original post by yousefshah77

Our school does and I will probably end up seeing them even though all they'll do it slate me lol , I guess we could rely on clearing and adjustment but it's way to risky and doing about 10 exams in June seems like a nightmare ! Re-sitting the year is also painful , Uni's are much more demanding.
I also have the same mindset that I'll work extremely hard this year but I had the exact same mindset from January and I still sort of messed up lol

Likewise, ours just tell us that we should think about other options blah blah, I don't want to see them but I really have no choice. I can't resit and I really wouldn't want to either :/ At the start of year 12 I was like 'Im going to work my butt off this year' but it didn't happen. I didn't work all year and then crammed two weeks before exams, im not proud of myself :/ So what are you going to do?

Reply 5

yousefshah77

OP

Original post by moonziggy

Likewise, ours just tell us that we should think about other options blah blah, I don't want to see them but I really have no choice. I can't resit and I really wouldn't want to either :/ At the start of year 12 I was like 'Im going to work my butt off this year' but it didn't happen. I didn't work all year and then crammed two weeks before exams, im not proud of myself :/ So what are you going to do?

Most likely going to carry on and probably rely on clearing and adjustment but it's going to be a mighty task , 9 exams in June but I've got a year to prepare for it. If I don't do as well I'm going to take a gap year and doing a few exams in that year. Moving to different colleges would be a hassle as getting use to different exams boards would be annoying. The only thing nudging me to re-sit the year is I'll doubt my school would predict me ABB.
I've got a lot of friends who are also hoping to go in to medicine/dentistry and they all plan on taking gap years if they don't do as well in year 13, so I see it could suit you.

Reply 6

moonziggy

11

Original post by yousefshah77

Most likely going to carry on and probably rely on clearing and adjustment but it's going to be a mighty task , 9 exams in June but I've got a year to prepare for it. If I don't do as well I'm going to take a gap year and doing a few exams in that year. Moving to different colleges would be a hassle as getting use to different exams boards would be annoying. The only thing nudging me to re-sit the year is I'll doubt my school would predict me ABB.
I've got a lot of friends who are also hoping to go in to medicine/dentistry and they all plan on taking gap years if they don't do as well in year 13, so I see it could suit you.

I need AAA predictions at the least and I'm going to have to beg my teachers, I don't think it should be too difficult seeing as my teachers are quite fond of me :P. My work ethic doesn't seem to be working, I tried doing some work yesterday, didn't really do much due to a lack of motivation, or rather non existent motivation. :frown:

Reply 7

yousefshah77

OP

Original post by moonziggy

I need AAA predictions at the least and I'm going to have to beg my teachers, I don't think it should be too difficult seeing as my teachers are quite fond of me :P. My work ethic doesn't seem to be working, I tried doing some work yesterday, didn't really do much due to a lack of motivation, or rather non existent motivation. :frown:

Haha same for me , just need to get back in the mood. Good luck anyway for the year.