good kid, maad city - a small-town kid's A-level journey

Thanks (that's why you didn't get a reply to your PM, sorry! Wasn't in the mood. I'll reply to it at some point.) - you're awesome.

Not quite, got some really bad news concerning family and things just haven't been going good today. Oh well.

I haven't even started revising the FPs yet...

The good news is that I've gained some confidence in Physics Units 4 and 5 over the weekend. I should do a few past papers to see where my knowledge is right about now. However, the bad news is that Chem 5 is still at a disastrous state - I tried a past paper and have observed severe lack of understanding in certain topics, so once again, it's back to basics. Mocks starting from the week following this, so I have to be in tip-top shape with everything. I haven't even started revising the FPs yet...

I'm starting to forget how to do FP3 and S3 things already... darn.

I'm starting to forget how to do FP3 and S3 things already... darn.

When you have an FP3 mock in a week and you haven't revised at all

Whoever said that you should be practising FP3 consistently throughout the year was right. My Chem 5 and FP3 mocks are on the same day next week, ****. It's a'right boys, there's a good 3 months till the real thing, right? ...right?

You guys are so lucky you haven't done/don't need Chemistry for your offer - I don't think I'll ever need organic chem past A-level. My teacher said it'll take me 15 days to get to A* level.

I'm gonna try some physics tomorrow morning

As a few of you know, I've done my AS-level in Further Mathematics this January since [for reasons unknown to me back then] I didn't do it with my other ASes. I decided to sit F1, M2 and S1 so that I wasn't bombarded with exams in June 2016. My target was to achieve as high as possible on F1 and M2 so that I had a strong base to work with for my A2s.

My first exam was F1. I was getting consistent 74-75s in my mocks, but this exam was absolutely dreadful. To start off with, I was very unconfident about one of my "show thats" and then followed two nasty coordinate geometry questions which I absolutely ****ed up. To top it off, I wasn't very confident about my proof by induction either. I was sure I needed to retake in June, I was so upset. What was I getting, 58 tops? Boundaries made me even more unconfident seeing as they weren't any lower than before.

S1 was a nice exam - I didn't really do much for it either, just 2 recent IAL papers the night before the exam. I messed up one 2 marker in the exam for sure, though. Boundaries looked nice once they came out, not that I minded high ones in S1 since it'd go to my Maths anyway.

M2 ended off the session nicely; I definitely felt like I had an A* unless the boundaries were 70+ since I knew I was getting 69-72 raw. It felt like a synoptic paper seeing as many M1 topics came up, such as pulleys and impulse with collisions. Unfortunately, I didn't reach the correct answers for one 4 marker and one 2 marker, but I hoped to be awarded some method marks for it.

So, how did I end up doing, you ask?



Overall, I'm satisfied - this means that I need 89 and 90 in my next best A2 FM modules and roughly an average 76 marks in the other 4 modules to get an A.

Definitely need to pull my **** together for this June!

Yeah I hope so And ahhh that's unlucky. We believe in you though

Gratz!!!

The positive part is that I got 84/90 in Unit 4 after my teacher rechecked it again. Do you think I should be trying to go for the A* in Chemistry or utilise my time with the other 3? I mean, I only need 210 for an A and module 5 is killing me xD Maybe I'll try to get it perfect over the next 15 days like my teacher told me to.



Thank you!!!

What's your offer again? Terrific job on Unit 4

This offer of admission remains valid provided you write the examinations for which you have registered and are expected to maintain your current level of academic achievement.

This is it:



So basically, get 4 As or above, I think.

Oh okay. Then I'd put equal attention on all that need work. I think you're good in maths and physics. Just put some added effort in to FM/Chem

Just what I was thinking. I'll stick to a rigid plan, but I'm catching myself procrastinating more often than not Thanks man! What are your mocks on, the whole syllabus or just a few chapters? Just for FM or for everything else as well?

Sounds great

Mocks:
-M2/S2 joint
-D1
-C4
-FP2/FP3 joint (aka satan's paper)
-Physics Unit 6
-German

It's like C34 on meth... Oh god. Haven't you done D1 already at AS?! SM2 also sounds like a pain

Looks like we'll be suffering mocks together, old pal

More like on steroids which have been on steroids Nah we do it at A2 for some reason.

SM2 will be alright I think. M2 I find really easy and S2 is quite intuitive unlike it's stupid younger brother.

Indeed - and we shall emerge stronger