Starting College/6th Form in September THREAD

Hello, sweethearts! :3 This is a thread for all of us who are starting college/sixth form in September 2015. Where are you going? What courses will you do? Are you excited to start? Well... Let me start off! ^_^

I will be going to Richmond Upon Thames College or Gumley Sixth Form (can't decide, oops), and I want to do A-levels in Psychology, French, Polish, History and probs English Language + EPQ. I am soooooo excited to start, I can't wait for September! ;3

Current sixth-formers, free welcome to discuss, give advise and whatsoever to all of us newbies. :> Hope you'll enjoy! xx


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Hi, I've just finished my AS year, doing Psychology, Sociology and Film Studies! Just out of interest, do you know what exam board you'll be doing in Psychology? Just curious cause I've done both OCR and AQA.

Hello! :3 Both of the schools which I've applied to follow the AQA syllabus, and it looks quite interesting. :-) I am actually trying to avoid any OCR courses as much as I can, as I found their syllabus for Geography B (GCSE) so boring (and the Controlled Assessment was a nightmare) that it has literally killed my passion for that subject.. Long story short, I just dislike OCR... I would actually say that I hate them <(^~^)>

How did you find Psychology at AS? :-)


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Hello, sweethearts! :3 This is a thread for all of us who are starting college/sixth form in September 2015. Where are you going? What courses will you do? Are you excited to start? Well... Let me start off! ^_^

I will be going to Richmond Upon Thames College or Gumley Sixth Form (can't decide, oops), and I want to do A-levels in Psychology, French, Polish, History and probs English Language + EPQ. I am soooooo excited to start, I can't wait for September! ;3

Current sixth-formers, free welcome to discuss, give advise and whatsoever to all of us newbies. :> Hope you'll enjoy! xx


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Hi! I will be studying biology, chemistry, math and English language and literature!!!!

I am super excited 😃. I was actually supposed to go last year but I went for two days and then got sick and had to miss the year out so hopefully that wont happen again lol.

I just finished Year 12 and did Biology, Chemistry, Maths and English Literature and I absolutely loved the combination!! English is such a break from the others


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Hi!

Thanks for replying. Do you have any advice per subject? I'm excited but also really worried about the jump.

Thanks!

Well I'm from Northern Ireland so I do CCEA for my exams, so our English Literature courses are probably quite different!

But with English, I would say read the texts you're studying beforehand so you have an idea of what you'll be covering. I studied The Tempest and we had questions to do after each part we studied, and I made them quite detailed so the coursework was easier and gave me a bit more time to actually work on the essay rather than trying to find everything! Also, the best way to improve is just to do essays or essay plans! They're so helpful

I did further maths for GCSE, so the maths this year was pretty similar and just basically built on that, but if you didn't do further don't worry! You cover everything from the basics again really, but just make sure you do questions from time to time to keep it fresh in your head

Biology is fine as long as you make revision notes as you go along and understand it as you do it! It makes the revision of the course a lot easier

Chemistry I absolutely adore - but it requires a good bit of work. Initially you build on GCSE knowledge so you are eased into the course, but after that I would definitely definitely do a lot of pat paper questions for revision! The only lengthy learning you need to do is mechanisms and maybe some reactions like preparation of primary alcohols, but the rest is just grasping the theory and applying it

Sorry that was long! I hope I helped you out a bit, but as long as you keep on top of your work you'll be grand! Try not to let the work impact on your liking of the subject, because liking the class makes everything so much easier
Good luck and if you need anything else feel free to message me!


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