Meg's 2017 Attempt at Grow Your Grades

Hey nice thread! You look like you're doing pretty well atm. Hope to see you stay on track and get them grades!! 😆😆

Thank you! I've just been reading through your A level journey I look forward to seeing you progress too

hoping this will be a good year for the both of us!!

Well done with your current grades! I stumbled across your post and I thought I'd just pop in to say hi because I'm a fellow Psychology nerd (Developmental and Neuroscience are my faves) and I'm also a fellow Grey's anatomy, PLL, OITNB and Sherlock fan. I'm doing Psychology, Sociology and Biology and applied to Psychology at uni (Got all my offers yay) and also aiming for A*A*A (A in biology). Basically I want to follow your thread because I'm aiming for similar things Good luck in your mocks!

Thank you! Ahh you have a very good taste in tv shows
What exam boards are you with for psychology and sociology?
Ah that's amazing, congrats on your offers! What unis did you apply to?
Thank you! I think with a bit of hard work we'll be able to get those grades no problem💪🏼
Hopefully we can help each other out along the way

I'm with AQA for both psych and sociology, how about you?
I applied to Exeter, Warwick, Nottingham, UEA and Kent - still not sure what i'm going to firm. Yes hopefully we can

Me too! What topics are you doing?

Ah I nearly applied to Kent but I wanted to get further away from home so I decided against it in the end but those are some really good unis!

GREEEYYY or should I now just call you Meg? You made yor own gyg thing! Can't believe you like Freud. I actually enjoy the psychodynamic theor but honestly can't with Freud . Anyway, of course I will be following this as we study the same subjects and are applying to 4/5 of the same universities. I mean. I would still follow this if we weren't . It looks like you have a great academic record and are more organised than me! So yeah hopefully the offers that you are waiting for come soon

In sociology I'm doing Education, Culture and Identity (literally like the only school which does that one), Crime and Deviance and Beliefs in society.
For Psychology I'm doing all the compulsory topics (Memory, attachment etc.) and then for the optional ones - aggression, schizophrenia and cognition and development.

I had the same thing about Sussex, I nearly applied but decided I wanted to be further from home

This is an amazing thread !! I will be following this Haha I also go to a grammar school in Kent

Thank you!! I was totally just stalking your account (in a non creepy way) and found your a-level journey which I will definitely follow!!
Haha that would be crazy if we went to the same school! Good luck on your a-levels, I look forward to seeing your progress

Hi guys, I'm Megan (or just Meg) I'm currently a Year 13 student studying English lit, Psychology, Sociology at A-Level at a grammar school in Kent.

I am a complete Psychology nerd, I could go on and on about the subject forever and I wish to study this at university. Three of my most favourite areas within Psychology are Clinical Psychology, Forensic Psychology and Developmental Psychology. I also have a particular love for Freud and the theories of the Psycho Dynamic approach as some of them are so bizarre but so intriguing.

Aside from school I'm a lover of so many TV shows including Greys Anatomy, Pretty Little Liars, Once Upon a Time, OITNB, Sherlock (there are so many more but I won't list them all, we'll be here for days).


sidebar: I literally only joined tsr a few weeks ago and I still have no idea what I'm doing but this might as well help me learn. If I suck at this/ make any mistakes please let me know

History of my grades:
-GCSE: 8As (maths, English lit, English lang, French, German, RE, Business studies, Geography) 3Bs (Biology, Chemistry, Physics)
-AS levels: C in general studies, rest are all Linear A-Levels
-Pending A Levels: (Predicted grades) A* - Psychology, A - Sociology, A - English Lit, B - General Studies

A Level Psychology: I'm taking the 2 year linear course with AQA
Year 1 Topics studied:

Year 2 Topics studied:

A Level Sociology: again a 2 year linear course with AQA
Year 1 Topics:

Year 2 Topics:

A Level English Literature: 2 year linear course with Edexcel
Year 1 Topics:

Year 2 Topics:

Mock Results Last Summer:
Psychology - A (so close to an A* I nearly cried)
Sociology - A (again like 4 marks from an A* which I'm so pleased with considering I left revision until the night before oops)
English Lit - B (contemporary poetry will be the bane of my life I will never understand it)

My Goals:
-A* Psychology, A* Sociology, A English lit
-Get an offer from my two aspirational uni choices for a psychology course:
Bath (with placement year) or UCL
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Current offers: (since 12/12/16)

Waiting for: (todays date: 3/1/17)

My mocks for all of my subjects are coming up very soon:
Sociology: 9th of Jan
Psychology: 23rd of Jan
English lit (paper 1): 24th of Jan, (paper 2): 31st of Jan, (paper 3): 7th of Feb

I'll constantly be posting little updates on how I'm progressing/ any reminders of homework or things to do to help me keep on top of my work (which I'm currently slacking behind in so this is very relevant right now)

until next time

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Lovely thread and gooood luck

thank you!!