Sturdy Swifter's Journey to A*A*A (Maybe Impossible)

13/11/2017 - Time To Sleep... Oh wait, I'm at School!

As suggested by this weird and not funny title, I didn't have much sleep and I wanted to sleep at school but you know, I can't (SAD TIMES!!!). I'm getting worse at sleeping nowadays. I actually don't know if it's stress or some crazy circumstance that involves me possible to never sleep ever again (I overexaggerate a lot ). Today was really just a boring day but then I did get some exciting news half an hour ago (Wait and see!!!)

Double Study: As I said in my last post, I wasn't bothered to go to the primary school and I've just realised that I forgot to call them. Hopefully, I remember to do it tomorrow. So yeah, my friend told me that there actually was history homework so I just did that at study. Literally, it took me two pages for a mindmap.

Double Economics: How does a teacher make you hate a subject so much? I don't hate the subject (obviously as my future careers are based on it) but everyone else does and are planning to drop it cos of her. My class just irritates me so much. They were all talking and I had some good points to say about externalities but she was too busy 'shouting' at them. I was fed up; this is a career I want to undertake but there are so many blockades. From now on, I'm just going to revise everything by myself at home and write notes and if I have questions, I can hopefully ask her during the lesson. In today's lesson, I was just organising my folder and dozing off.

Double History: It was meh. We were learning about James' financial circumstance and I guess I understand. I feel like my teacher doesn't like me because he never picks me to answer the questions even when I have my hand up. It's actually such a small class as well. However, I finally asked him at the end of the lesson about my problems with essay structure and he was quite helpful.

After school, I was basically relaxing because I was so tired and now, I'm about to do some psychology.

MY BIG NEWS: When I went to Tenerife in the summer holiday, I did this random survey (don't know why). They called me today and said 'You have won a 7 night all expenses family trip (up to 6 people) to Tenerife.' I was so excited and I still am. Me and my mum are gonna pick the tickets next week and we are going next summer holiday. SO EXCITED!

I slept badly last night too but coffee kept me going haha
Such a shame about your economics teacher! That sounds like a good plan really, probably in your best interest too as you can't fully blame a bad teacher for
getting the grades you get? If that makes sense

Ooooh! That holiday sounds so
exciting congrats!

Hello there! I’m a Year 13 student doing:
AQA Lit
OCR History
AQA Psychology
(and then drama)

Who is also aspiring for Law and top grades.

Feel free to pm me if I can be of any use in the subjects we share!

Hey. Definitely will. I just struggle mainly with how to write an effective essay for history.

So Im doing Tudors and america and dont understand those PEEL
paragraph. My teacher keeps on talking about them but I just dont get wwhat she means, she says that for my intro, i need to define my question, use criteria and and a judgement but i just dont get it.

PEEL paragraphs:

Point - Make your statement.
Evidence - Include whatever useful case studies or figures or historical opinions support the point you’ve just made.
Explain - Evaluate your point. Refer back to your original essay question, and evaluate things like the validity or usefulness.

Stick to this structure for each paragraph, alongside a strong intro and conclusion mixed with specialist language, and you’ve met the criteria the examiners are looking for.

I’m afraid I don’t know what the L stands for. Perhaps Link, as in link back to the original essay title?

Stick to this format and you’ll be golden. ☺️

I’m gonna start drinking coffee instead of tea. But when my mum does it for me, she makes it so weak and it’s barely enough but I don’t want it as my friend who had six teaspoons of coffee powder.

Yeh I can’t blame the teacher. She’s alright I guess but she needs to be more strict and controlling (not too much tho).

Also, I’m so excited about my holiday. I’ve already started thinking about what to do!!!

I'm really impressed with your updates! you're doing a great job of creating a detailed and interesting blog. That driving programme sounds so sad!

And congratulations on your economics grade, you're smashing it! keep it up

16/11/2017 - Tragically Normal Thursday

So basically, as suggested by the title, it was a normal day. Nothing much but I'll try to keep it interesting. First of all, how am I still tired? I think I had a good sleep but I was so tired the whole day. Yesterday night, I must have been legit dead as the second I closed my eyes, I was gone; I woke up at 7:20 and only had ten minutes to do all the morning activities (apart from breakfast - which I didn't have) as I had to get to the car at 7:30 am. Also, I have to talk about lunch today because it was significantly sad (not as sad as Trump being elected - let's not do a debate, please ). Everything was fine as me and my friends were casually having lunch and just talking bantz. However, it all changed as we suddenly started talking about criminals (Especially rapists). Then, we started talking about personal matters based on heartless people. It's just absolutely ridiculous and I am baffled of how people can just commit crimes - isn't there an ounce of guilt. I started talking about Jyoti (India's infamous rape case) and how her main rapist was proud he had done that. What the hell is wrong with these people? Why are they still alive? Ok, I am getting to deep in this update. Let's just talk about my day.

Double English: Again, it was meh. We were looking at Act 3 Scene 3 and answered some questions whilst we individually got our tests and some verbal feedback. I got a high B/low A, which is quite good but I really want to improve though. However, my teacher is saying that I am improving so much. The problem with me is that I don't structure my ideas well and write it clearly even though I have apparently excellent ideas (Band 5 worthy).

Core Religious Studies: When you go to a Catholic school, you have to do compulsory core RE. The good thing about it is that I can rest in a way and chill because I won't get tested for it. On the contrary, today, I GOT A TEST ON IT. I mean, why? I had to write two stupid essays; I already have four essay subjects and I don't want to write more (DON'T THEY UNDERSTAND?).

Double Economics: My teacher is confusing me. We were learning about positive externalities today and did a practice 12 mark question. When I wrote my evaluation, she's like it's wrong. I know it was right though because it was an effective evaluative point based on the extract but she's like 'It's not in the mark scheme so it's wrong." Seriously! There are so many evaluative points based on the extract and the mark scheme only has two of them. No offence but it's not like the examiner is going to mark your evaluative points wrong because it's not in the mark scheme even though it is valid. I was fed up and somehow I dozed off and slept for 10 minutes (it's weird because I was sitting in the front so how did she not notice me.) Also, I was looking at revision materials on youtube and found out that I can't get A* unless I apply info from current firms. She legit never told us this. I'm just fed up, you know.

Double Study: As form captain, I need to make sure that my class has finished their powerpoint slides for the presentation. I forgot to do my own one (so stupid) so I spent most of my study doing it. My head of the sixth form was very wary about my form's idea of assembly (glorifying violence in media) but he still accepted it. I wanted to use a video so that I can explain the importance of this but my form tutor said to make sure the video is not extreme or something as my head of the sixth form is very strict. Luckily, I found a video of a scene from Spongebob Squarepants where Spongebob is strangling Mr Krabs. After that, I did a bit of economics revision and then chilled.

When I got home, I just watched Riverdale (turning out to be my favourite show but might not watch it anymore due to my cancellation) and The Apprentice (I still don't get how Charles is still not fired). Then I did some economics revision and tried to find a history tutor. Hope this was interesting (I try my best)

Strange how such discussions can come about during break/lunch have had it happen to me quite a few times and everyone gets so heated! I remember during the General Election too, god...

Well done with English! sounds like your teacher is impressed, and you're only gonna go from strength to strength Compulsory RE RE tests that sucks how they sprung that on you! I wouldn't have even tried if I were in that position What's up with your Economics teacher?? Sounds pretty dodgy to me! But I suppose so long as you know that in the real thing it's not just the examples in the mark schemes that get credit you'll be okay, as at the end of the day that's all that matters really!

Hey!

First of all, how am I still tired?