I know that I already made a thread about this, but for some reason I cannot access it so I thought that I would re-post it and perhaps get some new responses.
Fun fact: I did twelve GCSES in high school; I only passed six of them though. Why you are asking? Well, I would d sum it up to low self-esteem leading to poor revision ethic. To be honest, I hated my three years in high school. I did not get on with a lot of people, this of course lead to me being picked on quite a bit and not having a lot of friends. Unfortunately, I took what all of these people were saying to heart, which lead to me not being very happy a lot of the time and having low self-esteem and confidence. Come GCSE revision time, I was quite frankly down in the ditches. Once I had got my results, which was one of the worst days of my life, I applied at another college to do GCSE re-sits. I remember wanting to do AS Art, AS English Language and AS Media Studies or AS photography. Of course, with my grades, that wasn’t going to happen, so thus I wasn’t allowed to stay.
By the time I was doing GCSE re-sits, I felt so depressed and useless as all of my friends were moving onto higher education and I was basically repeating year eleven. I just didn’t care about it all and I didn’t put a whole lot of effort in. Sure, I did decent during tests in classes and what-not, I am not a total idiot. I just did not do a lot of revision ultimately, nor did I properly understand Spanish to do a higher tier paper. So, GCSE re-sits results day and I had gotten all Ds. No shocker really, I knew that I had not done well. To be completely honest, high school is not hard; I just didn’t apply myself as much as I wish that I could have looking back at it now. I wasn’t on good terms with a lot of people so I didn’t have the best experiences being in classes full of people who I either did not like or they just seemed adamant on tormenting me non-stop. I do not think that I showed my full potential in high school, nor was I emotionally stable enough to show my proper potential with my re-sits.
Thankfully, with my six GCSES between grades A and C, I managed to get onto a BTEC Level 3 Extended Diploma course in Health and Social Care. In my first year doing the course, I got 120 UCAS points. I’m predicted to finish the course next year with 200 UCAS points, so that altogether I will have 320 UCAS points (A2 grades AAC). I would love to go to university and study Social Work so that I can pursue a career in Youth Work. I would genuinely love to spend my life having such a rewarding and challenging job when I am older. My question is though, will my good A-Level grades cover up my poor GCSE grades, or should, I just pursue another career which doesn’t involve higher education at the risk of being rejected by every university that I apply to?
Also, my GCSE grades are as follows:
Grade B – English Literature
Grade C – English Language
Grade C – Core Science
Grade C - Maths (Had to re-do the bloody thing three times)
Grade C – Art and Design
Grade C – Half Course Classics
Grade D – Media Studies
Grade D – Additional Science
Grade D - Spanish
Grade D – Religious Studies
Grade D – Design and Technology
Grade F - History