My (very boring) GCSE GYG -- Year 11

Fair enough. I mean after learning about houseflies and disease in Bio, I can't stand the creatures (not that I liked them in the first place but you know).

If you think an apprenticeship is the right route for you, then go for it. Think over your options, but if it's what makes you happy then that's what you have to pursue. Yup you overestimated quite a bit on Uni, to go to a top Uni such as Oxford it costs £9,000 ish per year. And you don't have to pay it back straight away either, I think you have the option of paying back when you are earning £25,000 (around that sum) per year. Anyway, don't quote me on that I've probably got most of if wrong lol but just go for the option you'll enjoy most. You have plenty of time to choose.

I’m gonna do my research now and have a look at the options.. I could come out of this with a completely different plan... For my uni costs, I was also factoring in accommodation (IDK like £6000) and then general living costs etc etc. I’m sure there’s also interest 🤮 or something that will increase the price too ☹️.

It’s really annoying that apprentices don’t have the option of a maintenance loan and only HSBC are nice enough to give them student bank account.. it seems they have been kind of forgotten about just because they have a job

Fair enough but it still wouldn't be £20,000 per year I don't think. Never heard of Unis with interest but perhaps it exists. Perhaps there are cheaper Unis too, you never know. And if you are eligible you can apply for a bursary or something.

That sounds annoying. But defo look at options available and we'll see where they take you. Best of luck!

BTW, does anyone have any ideas on what things I could do first that will be helpful for next year but not like hardcore revision?
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Basically for like the sciences or something i would make sure you understand everything you’re being taught by like reading the specification and making sure you actually take in the stuff and watching Free science lessons [ MY GUY ] and then making notes on it so you basically have your own personalised little specification if ygm. it’s kinda dead ngl but like you can make them proper colourful and use pastel highlighters and stuff to make it kind of entertaining 😂😭 really can’t persuade can i

and then to revise my teacher told us this idea to once we’ve done writing the specification in our own notes that we should put it alll away and get like a big a3 paper and make a mindmap ( or whichever way you learn notes bullet points lists whatever ) of everything you can remember from a certain topic e.g. electricity in physics. do all this in one colour like blue and once your done and can’t remember anything else you can look at your notes and add the rest in another colour like purple. this normally takes me like an hour or two but if you do this say weekly you’ll see that the mindmaps will become more black and less purple meaning you’ll know a lot more of it. It sounds so dead like i’d much rather be watching netflix but yh. And btw i have no idea if any of that made sense so sorry

I think that is a good idea, but I know I will tell myself to do it then give up 😂 .. I kinda have made something similar but only for C7,8,9+10 and IDK where I put them 🤦🏼*♂️... Also, the black/purple pen thing is a great idea! I think in November/December time when I start proper revision I might try that for the sciences as well as other subjects. Thank you

Same i’ve done it for the paper 1 stuff because that’s all we learnt last year and i fully have 0 motivation anymore 😂 and there’s still allllll the paper 2 stuff to go and i cba. the purple / black thing was an idea from my teacher and he’s such a legend he got all a*s in whatever he did a few years ago

Sameeee, I have absolutely no motivation 😂 .. Are you going into Y11 too?

Omg omg I just got 2019th post on https://www.thestudentroom.co.uk/showthread.php?t=6092684

Congrats!

@RyanC Take geography. It's the best suited for economics. The human geography portion is especially important.

Good luck!

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I'm also going into year 11 and I barellyyyy revise so I'm hoping to make a gyg so I can keep track. we could tag each other when I make one tomorrow.