jamestg's AS success!

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Reply 120

richpanda

Original post by jamestg

No problem! Good luck with your exams and hopefully see you at Cambridge?! :biggrin:

Haha that's a long way, but it's the dream. Good luck to you too. Are you going to the general open day in July?

Reply 121

jamestg

Original post by richpanda

Haha that's a long way, but it's the dream. Good luck to you too. Are you going to the general open day in July?

Probably not because I've seen all I need to see! However I may go to a college specific day for Peterhouse or Queens'.

Reply 122

richpanda

Original post by jamestg

Probably not because I've seen all I need to see! However I may go to a college specific day for Peterhouse or Queens'.

Yes I'm not too sure about college specific days

Reply 123

Rajive

What grade did you get for GCSE Maths?

Reply 124

jamestg

Original post by richpanda

Yes I'm not too sure about college specific days

I would strongly recommend it.

Basically choose one or two colleges you are really interested in after researching.

Then if you want to see any others, go to the Porters' Lodge and say you're a prospective student and wanting to have a look around for those colleges that are not having an open day.

Reply 125

jamestg

Original post by Rajive

What grade did you get for GCSE Maths?

Reply 126

richpanda

Original post by jamestg

Is the best place to research colleges the cambridge website? Or is there a better, more neutral place?

Best of luck!

Original post by richpanda

Is the best place to research colleges the cambridge website? Or is there a better, more neutral place?

Yeah the main website, individual college websites and prospectus.

I'm sure there are more neutral places, although having a look around on TSR for people's opinions on colleges current undergraduate students are at is a good idea!

Reply 129

jamestg

Original post by thehistorybore

Best of luck!

Thank you!!

Reply 130

richpanda

Original post by jamestg

Cheers, will do

Reply 131

jamestg

Got bored while doing some revision so looked to see at how my exam timetable will look for Y13.

Exam = possible retake

C1 -17th May
FP1 - 19th May
C2 - 24th May
S3 - 24th May
G&P1 - 5th June
S1 - 7th June
G&P2 - 8th June
Germany - 9th June
G&P3 - 12th June
M1 - 14th June
Italy - 16th June
G&P4 - 20th June
C3 - 20th June
Tudors - 21st June
C4 - 23rd June
S2 - 26th June

Looks vile.

Reply 132

Ayman!

Original post by jamestg

You won't be retaking anything; keep grinding.

Reply 133

jamestg

Original post by aymanzayedmannan

You won't be retaking anything; keep grinding.

I really hope I don't have to! But I can't rule it out :redface:

Reply 134

jamestg

I think doing daily posts is going to be quite unattainable over the course of the next few months. Therefore I'll be doing weekly posts of Sunday evenings!

Sunday 10th April - 37 days left!

Tomorrow is the beginning of the final stretch! It's the summer term and we all know what that brings... EXAMS! This term I have got the following exams - C1, C2, Bio1, Germany 1918-89 and Fascist Italy. However I will be working for my other 4 exams until early May.

The Easter holidays haven't been as productive as I would have liked, however I have a got a solid foundation to build on. I know what I need to do. Maths papers, biology posters, history powerpoints and politics notes. I just need to get into the routine of doing solid amounts of work over a long period of time. If I study smart and not let the pressure get to me, I'll be just swell. But I am finding it stressful - I cannot deny that.

Today has been very productive. I completed my history essay on whether the Nazis solved the economic problems of Weimar Germany, they did not. Was pretty chuffed with the essay. It may be one of the essays I send off when applying to unis (after a bit of polishing!). Also revised statics, trig (both applications and equations) and moments.

Do I feel ready for exams? No. That said I can't expect to be ready for them when there is still more than a month to go!

I'll just keep swimming...

Reply 135

CSL123

Good luck! :smile:

My GCSE grades were 8As and 5Bs from an underachieving school and I am predicted AAAB at AS level in Business, Literature, Sociology and French.

Reply 136

CSL123

Original post by CSL123

Good luck! :smile:

My GCSE grades were 8As and 5Bs from an underachieving school and I am predicted AAAB at AS level in Business, Literature, Sociology and French.

Does anybody have any advice for these subjects?

Reply 137

jamestg

Just did my first C2 paper! However because I haven't done integration or geometric series yet, I skipped those questions :redface:

Didn't go too badly, out of the 55 marks available to me I got 51 marks. 2 marks were lost because I didn't realise something really simple and another 2 for accuracy goddamnit.

Even if I include the questions I didn't do because I couldn't, I would have got a B on the paper!

Reply 138

jamestg

Sunday 17th April - 30 days left!
This week has been up and down.

It started off really productive and turned into... a mess if I'm honest.

I'm getting really bogged down the the scale of everything. I've made notes for about 3/9ths of history, 3/6ths of politics and biology is just awful. I don't know what to do. I'm going to start doing work at the kitchen table again, hopefully that can improve productivity.

It's not like I haven't been working. I've got plenty of stuff done, just not enough and tomorrow is a month until the first exam! Some things have really knocked my confidence this week and it's not really going well.

I can just see all the hard work unravel and all the effort I put in from Sept-March count for nothing. :frown: