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with gcses done, this blog focuses on my journey through year 12! i'm studying maths, further maths, economics and computer science a level!

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Reply 1

scar-the-queen

Year 10 grades:
Maths - 8 (9 wasn't possible to achieve)
English Language - 6
English Lit - 6
Biology - 9
Chemistry - 7
Physics - 9
Spanish - 9
RS - 6
Computer Science - 9
Drama - 80% (weren't given actual grade)

Maths - 9
English Language - 9
English Lit - 7
Biology - 7
Chemistry - 9
Physics - 9
Spanish - 9
RS - 6
Computer Science - 9
Drama - 9

To be honest, these exams probably weren't the most accurate representation of what I could do because I've been struggling with my health over the past year unfortunately :frown:

But now I'm finally on the mend! It would be so, so amazing if I could get everything up to a 9 but I would be happy with some 8s in subjects that I'm worse at like English Lit. Hopefully I'll get there! I'm also studying FSMQ but we haven't had any exams for that yet because we only recently started the course.

Also for context I plan to study Maths, Further Maths, Physics and Economics at A Level!

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Reply 2

scar-the-queen

I procrastinated loads today and only got 1 hour of revision done. I feel rubbish about it but I'm determined to be more productive tomorrow.

Today's summary: 1 hour, 2 minutes
FSMQ: revision of numerical methods - 1 hour, 2 minutes

Reply 3

scar-the-queen

Important dates
Days until Spanish oral exam (worth 25% of final grade): 9 days
Days until start of GCSEs: 78 days

Ok, so today wasn't perfect, but it was definitely better than yesterday. Improvement is improvement. I'm working on my procrastination, and I'm hoping it will get easier with time. I'm working on my discipline, and even though I wanted to study for way longer today, at least I studied for a bit. Something is better than nothing.

Daily Summary: 2 hours, 15 minutes
English: read through the rest of the anthology texts that I needed to read for my coursework, finished planning the commentary, wrote the introduction of my essay - 55 minutes
Spanish: revised some vocab for topic D (world of work) on Quizlet, began to write down and record verbal answers to questions given by teacher - 1 hour, 16 minutes
FSMQ: one question on numerical methods - 4 minutes

Reply 4

scar-the-queen

Important dates
Days until Spanish oral exam (worth 25% of final grade): 8 days
Days until Drama monologue exam (worth 15% of final grade): 17 days
Days until start of GCSEs: 77 days

Daily Summary: 48 minutes
Chemistry: revised topic 6 (groups in the periodic table) - 30 minutes
RS: 12 marker on homosexuality (homework) - 18 minutes

Ugh, I had an absolutely rubbish day. Wasn't feeling well. Hopefully I'll feel better tomorrow.

Side note: I might start writing a daily to-do list the night before just to remind me of all the work I need to get done!

Reply 5

scar-the-queen

To do (28/02):
- Finish RS homework
- Finish Computer Science homework
- Finish Maths homework

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Reply 6

5hyl33n

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Good luck. 🙂

Reply 7

scar-the-queen

Original post by 5hyl33n

Good luck. 🙂

Thank you!

Reply 8

scar-the-queen

Important dates
Days until Spanish oral exam (worth 25% of final grade): 7 days
Days until Drama monologue exam (worth 15% of final grade): 16 days
Days until start of GCSEs: 76 days

Daily summary: 2 hours, 29 minutes
Just a little bit of improvement with my procrastination!
Computer science: revised topic 7 (relational databases, SQL) - 57 minutes
RS: finished homework - 14 minutes
Computer science: finished homework - 1 hour, 18 minutes

Reply 9

scar-the-queen

To do (01/03):
- Maths homework
- English Lit unseen poetry revision
- Work on Drama monologue

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Reply 10

scar-the-queen

Important dates
Days until Spanish oral exam (worth 25% of final grade): 6 days
Days until Drama monologue exam (worth 15% of final grade): 15 days
Days until start of GCSEs: 75 days

Daily summary: 1 hour, 18 minutes
Drama: worked on monologue - 9 minutes
English: unseen poetry practice - 54 minutes
Maths: started working on homework - 15 minutes

Apart from Maths, all of this was done at school. I feel like I procrastinate less in the school library, maybe because there are less distractions. I don't know. I might have a look at changing the screen time settings on my phone...

Reply 11

scar-the-queen

To do (02/03):
- Chemistry homework
- Bio homework
- Drama homework
- Spanish revision for oral

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Reply 12

scar-the-queen

Important dates
Days until Spanish oral exam (worth 25% of final grade): 5 days
Days until Drama monologue exam (worth 15% of final grade): 14 days
Days until start of GCSEs: 74 days

Daily summary: 3 hours
Biology: finished homework - 29 minutes
Oxbridge workshop (hosted by school): how to get into Oxbridge - 58 minutes
Spanish: revision for oral - 54 minutes
Chemistry: finished homework - 14 minutes
Drama: picked costume for monologue - 25 minutes

Improvement! I think maybe I was a bit burnt out after mocks because my motivation is finally slowly returning and my procrastination is diminishing (or maybe I'm just terrified of the fact that my Spanish oral is next week, lol).

Reply 13

scar-the-queen

To do (03/03):
- Maths revision of numerical methods
- Spanish revision for oral

Reply 14

scar-the-queen

Important dates
Days until Spanish oral exam (worth 25% of final grade): 4 days
Days until Drama monologue exam (worth 15% of final grade): 13 days
Days until start of GCSEs: 73 days

Daily summary: 22 minutes :frown:

Maths: revision of numerical methods - 22 minutes

Awful, awful, awful procrastination. Why am I like this? Thank goodness some of my friends said we can revise for Spanish orals together this weekend because that will actually force me to revise.

Reply 15

scar-the-queen

To do (04/03):
- Maths revision
- Physics homework
- Computer science homework
- Spanish oral revision
- Work on English coursework

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Reply 16

scar-the-queen

Important dates
Days until Spanish oral exam (worth 25% of final grade): 3 days
Days until Drama monologue exam (worth 15% of final grade): 12 days
Days until start of GCSEs: 72 days

Daily summary: 4 hours, 40 minutes
Maths: revision of trapezium rule, self-learning binomial expansion, factorials, Pascal's triangle, starting homework - 1 hour, 9 minutes
Physics: homework - 47 minutes
Spanish: revising vocab, calling friends to practice for oral exam - 2 hours, 21 minutes
Computer science: finished homework - 23 minutes

Was going to study for longer but started feeling sick. A cold's been going around recently in my school and I literally can't afford to fall sick. Sore throat and Spanish oral exam? No thank you!

Reply 17

scar-the-queen

To do (05/03):
- Spanish oral revision
- Finish English coursework

Reply 18

scar-the-queen

Important dates
Days until Spanish oral exam (worth 25% of final grade): 2 days (no i'm in denial :s-smilie:

)

Days until Drama monologue exam (worth 15% of final grade): 11 days
Days until start of GCSEs: 71 days

Daily summary: 2 hours, 47 minutes
Spanish: oral revision with friends - 1 hour, 43 minutes
English: continued writing coursework - 1 hour, 4 minutes

Wasn't feeling that well in the morning but things picked up later today. I also procrastinated quite a bit because I've got some sort of mental block about English. It's one of my worst subjects and I literally dread writing essays. Like, no offence Wilfred Owen, but I don't know why you used sibilance in that one line of your poem. (in all honesty, though, I actually quite like reading the poems, just not analysing them :tongue:

)

Reply 19

scar-the-queen

Important dates (moving this to where I put my to do list)
Days until Spanish oral exam (worth 25% of final grade): 1 day (omg it's fine don't panic it's ok)
Days until Drama monologue exam (worth 15% of final grade): 10 days (not really stressing yet but that'll change soon)
Days until start of GCSEs: 70 days (it is what it is)

To do (06/03):
- Rehearse drama monologue
- Chemistry revision
- Maths homework
- RS homework
- Finish English coursework draft
- Spanish oral revision

A lot to do..I'll try my best.