Bad AS results to great A2/A-levels results - success stories?

OCR for biology and chemistry and AQA for maths.

Hi

What modules did you take for math AS and A2?

I got BCDD in my first year (Biology, Chemistry, English Lit and Physics) and came out with ABB in Biology, Chemistry and English Lit yesterday. It was a lot of hard work, and will be harder without January resits but it can still be done

ABBC at AS is psychology biology maths and chemistry respectively
Dropped the A in psychology for A2 and ended up getting A*A*A in maths bio chem.
First year wasnt too good since i thought i could doss around in lessons and still come out with A*s just like GCSE by getting out the textbook a week before the exam. Second year I paid attention in class and actually did homework, with a decent prep before the exams I raised my grades.
Pretty chuffed to go from BBC to A*A*A, it is possible.

EDIT - A little update. im going to be studying dentistry in september

I went from ABCD at AS to A*A*A at A2!

During my AS year I got DDDE in Biology, Chemistry, Physics, and Maths. I was really lazy during my AS year and hardly put in any effort or attended lessons. Those results were a big wake up call. I started working harder, retook almost all my AS modules along with my A2, and I got my results back yesterday. I got A*A*AA in Maths, Biology, Chemistry, and Physics.

SO YOUR LIFE ISN'T OVER! You can still get the grades, you just need to be willing and hard-working.

Well my story isn't so great as others - and neither are my final grades - but I'm happy with the outcome so why not share (*brag).

AS: CDDD (Business, Maths, Economics, German respectively).

Dropped German. Retook every single AS exam apart from German along with my A2's (in one exam session). 14 exams total.

A2: BBC (Maths, Economics, Business respectively).

Went through UCAS adjustment. Scraped my way into an ABB Economics course at Uni of Reading due to well written personal statement.

I suppose going from CDDD to studying Economics at Reading is a decent achievement.

I got CCCDE in Maths, Chem, GenStudies, FMaths, Physics respectively in my AS...I decided to retake the year for many reasons, dropping FMaths and picking up Biology.

Upon my retake I got ABBBBC in Maths Chem Bio Physics GenStudies FMaths with 99% in the A for maths. My FMaths grade also went up as I didnt want a D on my record so I retook one module and got an A in it pushing my low D to high C.

During my first year I was very relaxed, having achieved only 1A*6As6Bs at GCSE and coming 2nd in my high school with 0% effort. I literally just attended class and didnt even know what past papers were. Coming to AS I wanted to do well but had the same attitude of "my time" never bothering to complete homeworks set as I had no homeworks at high school so wasnt use to it and generally didnt work till like in some cases days to my exam where I pretty much learnt the syllabus. I got DDUU in my mocks before the exams and this was literally like 2 weeks before the real exams. Although I think the hardcore revision I did in those few days enabled me to learn a lot of what we've been taught, a lot of silly mistakes and minor slip ups due to lack of practise killed me in the exam.

Retaking the year I did significantly more work, trying my best to complete homeworks even though not all homeworks where still completed. I however did work this time around but couldnt be bother practising things I thought were basic. For maths I completed the exercises we are normally meant to do in class and the past papers before the exam. The only difference this time was close to the exam I didnt work as hard as I did last year and as a result ended up with the results I got. All my Bs were 78% which was weird but I am currently at A2 aiming for A*AA in Maths, Chem, Bio respectively with an A in FMaths....resitting an extra module.

Got BCU at AS-level. Thought all hopes at uni were over, however I swapped my U for a new subject, which turned out to be my passion. Failing AS-levels was the best thing that happened to me as I found politics. I did the new AS-level in my A2 years and secured AAB. I then had to finish the a2 in my gap year, and secured an A in politics again. That year out got me work experience in California and the chance to intern for Parliament. I'm now off to Warwick.

The important thing about failing, is to get up and assess why you failed. Don't ponder and don't give up!

How the hell did you talk your way through? ? ...BBC' grades didn't exceed their requirements

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General studies?? People say you don't need to revise, but then why are there textbooks solely produced for it

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I didn't really revise for general studies, but people do revise for it...by looking at some previous essay questions and seeing what the marks are awarded for is enough revision for general studies. I didnt really do that either last year tbh. We have one lessons a week in general studies but its so unrelated to the exam, discussing about art etc