Current Year 12 Thread Mark I (2013-2014)

Welcome to the new current year 12 thread, our home for the next year. (We’re now in the A Level forum )! that must mean we have matured This is the start of 2 very important years for us and A levels can be hard but that won't scare us! We have a high target to beat last year’s year 12s so let's all work hard

Below is a list of subjects and exam boards that we are all taking, I'm sure it will be useful when you need somebody to help you (Newcomers please quote me if you wish to be added )



Make sure you work your hardest all year and I'm sure the next results day will be fine, and in order to work hard here are some useful links below ( I'll add some more as I find them

http://www.examsolutions.co.uk - For Maths
http://www.Chemguide.co.uk - For Chemistry

And Finally if you have any query about A-level Choices or University choices make sure you ask/quote L'evil Fish or drop him a PM I will also answer any regarding Medicine or direct you to more helpful thread

Best of luck for the forthcoming year!

Oh wow, that must be tiring! Are you self-teaching Biology then? If so I am in awe, you must be very determinated! Ah, I was supposed to be doing Critical Thinking, but our head of year decided that only people who were free in a certain option block could do it, so my friends and I are pretty annoyed :/ Our lunch is only forty minutes, it used to be 45 but got shortened I may have to, they really need to get books that we can actually use to study from. I looked at my local library too and there weren't any there either, so I may have to order some from Amazon.

German, Psychology and Sociology. You?

Oh wow, that must be tiring! Are you self-teaching Biology then? If so I am in awe, you must be very determinated! Ah, I was supposed to be doing Critical Thinking, but our head of year decided that only people who were free in a certain option block could do it, so my friends and I are pretty annoyed :/ Our lunch is only forty minutes, it used to be 45 but got shortened I may have to, they really need to get books that we can actually use to study from. I looked at my local library too and there weren't any there either, so I may have to order some from Amazon.
I'm doing Tsarist Russia too, and Stalinist in year 13

Cool; psychology must be interesting! I'm doing Biology, Chemistry, Maths and English Lit.

Yeah I think it's really interestting. Oh God, good luck with English Lit hahaha.

Jolly good Haha thanks; for some reason I think i'm gonna need it...

I've not really done loads of extra work yet, but I've done a bit. My subjects are different but I may as well explain some stuff for others too. Today for French I've been writing some grammar notes into neat to put into my huge arch lever file. I will need to refer to these throughout the course so I thought it'd be good to get ahead of it (also it's revision writing them up before we go over them again in class.) And then I wrote some vocab lists too. I might also read ahead in the textbooks/look over what's there so I'm ready before each lesson.

I'm going to do the same for Spanish, and then for English Literature I think I'm going to do some research on the plays we're looking at to get a wider idea of context, and maybe look at some essays online to get a better idea of what mine will need to be like for the coursework. For English Language I don't really know yet, we haven't done much but I think I might go get a revision guide and learn all the technical terminology because the examiners like to see that in the coursework.

I think I might organise into a timetable when I'm going to do independent study for each subject because I want to make sure I do it in every subject instead of just focusing on one or two.

There's like 30 kids in my year.

Totalitarian Ideology for unit 1 and Sixties Social Revolution for unit 2 What about you?

I think I'm going to develop an addiction to collecting records...

A whole week? Why did you need a whole week? Surely a day is enough. Hm, maybe guys are them same, but I don't know, I can sort of start creating 'banter' with a guy straight away, whereas I don't really want to come across as a dick to a girl...

Yeah I FINALLY start tomorrow. You?

It is, but I completely clear out my Sundays of any studying which is fine for me ^_^
Yep I am doing self-taught bio, but I go to the bio teachers whenever I need help with something although this website I use is great! http://asbiology101.wordpress.com/
Wow, that's completely unfair :/ - it really only needs about an hour of teaching a week if it's similar to general studies
Nooo, don't buy them - use the internet! If you're going to buy anything, buy a couple of revision guides for each subject but otherwise keep nagging the librarian until you get better books XD

Might begin writing my Prefect-application ooh, how wonderful.

Don't be most people on TSR would probably agree that General Studies/Critical Thinking are a waste of time-they aren't respected at all by virtually all universities these subjects make Business look a facilitating subject and they are really just league table points boosters for Colleges.

Nothing wrong with that! I have a record player and a cassette player in my room alongside my CD player, I’m very retro. I volunteer at a charity shop and it’s great because I have first pick of the records, and they’re all absolute bargains

We didn’t need a whole week, it wasn’t fair. A whole week including ‘alternative sports day’ and player games in our forms, it was a bit of a waste to be honest, I would have rather spent the whole week in lessons (we had three days of lessons). Don’t put the words ‘dick’ and ‘come’ in the same sentence, please. I’m immature. Yeah I guess, I personally just want to come across as well as possible to everyone WOO YAY FOR YOU! Excited?

Seems we're on the extremes I love having 999 other people in my year though, it's perfect!

That would be awesome. You could wear clothes over again and nobody would notice because there's so many of you!

For History I'm doing Tsarist Russia, Stalin's Russian and the British Empire in India. Not bad.

I still need to get a record player... Ah man that must be cool. There's not a lot of older stuff that I'd like to get on vinyl though.

To be fair that sounds alright, I wouldn't mind doing that. Hahahah, sorry. Well, so do I, but hopefully you know what I mean. Oh yeah I'm buzzing!