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AspiringUnderdog AS level grades

I got my AS results today. I was so damn nervous in the morning and my heart was racing from the moment I left the house until I opened the results. Then I said yessss! I got four As in maths, further maths, physics and chemistry.

My physics marks were 48 and 44, adding up to 92.
My chemistry marks (I may be remembering wrong) were 51 and 54, somehow adding up 109.6. I asked my teacher what that means but she had no clue.

But most importantly the UMS!!!

FP1: 89
M1: 100
M2: 78
C1: 98
C2: 100
S1:98

I'm happy with all of these marks apart from M2 as this could have been what gives the A* next year for further maths. I am considering remarking to aim for the 80 and money back but then resitting anyway to get the A*.

But overall I'm happy. I don't know what I'll be likely to be predicted but my physics teacher said he expects an A* from me next year, my chemistry teacher said that my marks would reach an A* if there was one and maths should be an A* prediction. Further maths might be an A but I can live with that.

I think I came third in chemistry and physics in the year, of course the same two pricks beat me. (rofl) One of which spends a huge amount of time revising and the other who only really put in effort towards the end of the year.
And this point I think really tells a lesson. I see people here claiming that to do well in A levels you can't have a social life and you need to spend 3-5 hours a weekday revising and 8 hours on a weekend revising. The fact is that that's not true at all. After all, you do A levels to get into a university where they WANT you to be a member of their society, not to be a recluse and study 24/7 as it's depressing.
There comes a point where the amount of revision you do doesn't mean anything. Revision doesn't guarantee success. Being apply to answer questions does so. Revision increases the chance of success but to have success requires care and perseverance. The thing that we, and my other friends who achieved high grades had was that we wanted to learn more,
to know how to answer questions and knew when to move on from an issue and come back to it when we're ready.

Although it seems that all my friends need to resit M2 now :tongue:

I'm very happy today and I look forward to applying to Cambridge in October. :biggrin:

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Now I have to wait for my GCSE English Language resit result next week.

(edited 6 years ago)

Reply 1

Cubone-r

Anyone who is constantly revising and always studying will never be a well adjusted human being and will unlikely be successful in life.

Congratulations on your results by the way!

Reply 2

AspiringUnderdog

Also I noticed that at my school, the people have 10+ A*s didn't get as high grades. My friends and I that got top grades have loads of Bs, them Cs too and none got above 5 A*s. My friends said that it's because we're more specialised in our subjects whereas the high GCSE achievers are too generalised but I thought that good GCSEs suggests good A levels usually.

Reply 3

AspiringUnderdog

Original post by Cubone-r

Anyone who is constantly revising and always studying will never be a well adjusted human being and will unlikely be successful in life.

Congratulations on your results by the way!

Yeah exactly it's not healthy. A balance needs to be found.
Thanks a lot! D

Reply 4

Cubone-r

Original post by AspiringUnderdog

Not necessarily as A levels require a complete set of different skills than GCSEs - it all depends how well the student transitions from so called "black and white" thinking to more critical thinking.

Good GCSEs suggest a student is good at memorising information, but not necessarily critical thinking.

Reply 5

AspiringUnderdog

Original post by Cubone-r

Hm yeah definitely. It's quite sad for them though. They have more of a reputation to live up to.

Reply 6

AspiringUnderdog

@Reality Check

Do you think that these marks are good? And what do you think about resitting and remarking M2?

Don't need to read the rest if you're not interested dw.