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I'm 22 and thinking about redoing my A-levels...

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I'm 22 and thinking about redoing my A-levels...

Basically, back in 2006 I royally messed my AS and A-levels. I was the youngest in the class and for some reason this psychologically held me back. Plus my college went co-ed for the first time when I joined 6th form and man was that a distraction!!! Now looking back I feel I was rather a slow developer, I had no ambition in receiving good results, no deep interest in any subject and just wanted school to finish!

However, after doing 2 years studying musical performance (got a High Merit, 2 marks off distinction grr!), a fair amount of traveling and work experience (snowboard instructing, bar work, PA at Music production company) over the next 2 years, I'm thinking of redoing my GCE exams...but I'm TWENTY-****ingTWO...aah the humiliation!!

Apart from the huge guilt of taking more money off my unbelievably supportive and generous parents, I guess education comes first in securing any sustainable future.

Do you think I could do it in one year since I'm more mature and more willing to study?

Do any of you know of any mature students redoing A-levels?

Would it be wiser to have private tuition?

Or should I just stick my head down, lock myself in my room with copious amounts of text books and past papers and study like hell?

Thank you so much in advance for any responses!

Regards

Willy

(edited 14 years ago)

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madden1999

im 22 now looking to do the same thing ahaha, how did you get on 11 years ago then aha?

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