6 Months to Get into University - Will I Ever Become A Teacher? Grow Your Grades Blog

Happy New Year and good luck with your studies! What pets do you have?

Happy New Year to you too! I have 2 horses and a dog

Good luck with your blog!! Do you think you'll go into primary or secondary teaching?

I’ve applied to do primary, purely because I love the fact there’s more variety in what you teach, you don’t have to teach just one subject every single day, and that way I can keep working on my knowledge! Plus with work experience I’ve found that younger children tend to be more enthusiastic about learning and that if you want to make an impact and encourage a love of education you need to do it while kids are young

I also do English Literature but the board Edexcel. I'm also in year 13 and it's not going so great. My grades for the subject are looking high, so I wondering whether you had some tips on how I could improve and gain a high grade in the short time we have left before exams.

I'm assuming that the exam structures are quite similar for this but here's what I'm doing:
I'm starting to do practice essays for my teachers and asking them to mark them, they probably won't get back to me straight away and a little nagging won't hurt. I have a teacher who is a lazy marker and doesn't really give any constructive feedback so I have to rely on the feedback from my other teacher - which is why my mock result was low - so i'm planning on speaking to her about it
Today one of my teachers suggested sitting in on her year 12 lessons since they're about to start learning one of the books we need for our exam, so that way we can go in, get fresh interpretations and revise the content - i'm not sure if your school could do this but make sure you see! I unfortunately can't sit in on any due to my timetable but i'm doing it in history and it's more helpful than you'd think!
these are the only things i'm doing right now since school's only just started back and everythings a bit of a mess at the minute, but if you check back on this thread regularly and look under the English Literature spoiler I'll be recording any techniques and resources in there if you need to find something else to help

Hi!
As its half term now, I thought i'd bump this thread so people can see the progress made so far and what techniques are currently working for me in my subjects
Remember - all updates are made to the ORIGINAL post in this blog under the respective headers, so check back every now and then to see what's changed
Feel free to comment any questions

Hi u should add posts underneath here so it's not just one loongg post at the top.
Good luck with your studies ☺️