Attempt at passing A-Levels

Friday
With all hopes to get everything done today absolutely ruined, I feel there’s a long weekend of homework ahead. My plan for 2018 was to use all my free periods wisely and to hopefully reduce the stress of having to do it in the evening or weekends, leaving that time free for work or just to relax. So far I would like to say this has gone well except for today that is... of the 7 hours I had at school when I could’ve done my homework, I spent one hour in the library furiously cramming notes.

Weekend
It feels like I’ve done so much work this weekend although nothing comes to mind, despite this I have still covered nearly everything on my to do list. Saturday was spent finishing my chemistry homework, writing more biology notes and reorganising all of my notes as I had a pretty massive stack of random papers that had accumulated on my desk over the last term-before I had to go to work and today was spent catching up on my extended project work as I didn’t quite do as much as I wanted over Christmas but I’m now nearly all up to date and on target for finished my research at the start of February. I also made some chemistry notes to refresh myself on module 2.1(atoms and isotopes). Now it’s time to target set for tomorrow- I don’t have any free periods but I have an hour after school when I can go to the library and I’m planning on getting some more EPQ research done then. For anyone wondering I’m doing my extended project on to what extend badgers are responsible for the bTB outbreaks in the early 21st century, if anyone else is doing it then comment your topic 😊👍🏼

I go back to sixth form on Tuesday but managed to get all my school work organised so there is no need anymore I'm doing an EPQ on how do antibiotics affect the rate at which mastitis occurs in dairy cattle.

Lucky! I went back last Wednesday ☹️ how are you finding it?

I bet you didn't have to stay in school to the 22nd though I'm finding it okay, I wanted to get my first draft of EPQ done this holidays but I was ill the first week and have crammed work the second week so I'm still stuck at just over 1000 words.

Luckily I didn’t, my last day was the 15th😊 that’s still pretty good though, I wanted to start writing mine much earlier on but my EP tutor wants us all to spend more time researching as it makes the dissertation so much easier to write but hopefully I’ll still have a draft at the start of February.

My tutor wanted us to do our research but start writing it up as soon as possible as he didn't want us to get a ton of research and not want to write the dissertation (I still have a lot of research). We have to get ours finished by the end of Feb half term, is that the same for you?

No we don’t have to finish until July but we have weekly meetings with our tutors so I guess if he thinks we aren’t likely to get anything written in time then he’ll just tell us to start writing even if we haven’t collected all of our research.

We've been set an early deadline to get it out of the way before exam season

I’m really sorry about the fact that I’m really bad at updating this, I would love to say that it’s because I spent all my time working and being productive but honestly... Netflix. Fortunately yesterday I managed to get my physics notes done last night so that means I have all day tomorrow to get everything else on my to do list done although that does mean spending all day in close proximity of Netflix. So how’s the New Years resolution of using my free periods productively going? Well... today I went to whetherspoons in my free periods and that’s a pretty accurate summary of how they’ve gone. So today started with double biology and I’d already written the notes for it so I started by writing next lessons notes and then I finished my homework for my other biology teacher. I had physics last and we made notes about laminar flow, turbulence and streamlines.

So I like to keep my notes neat and pretty so that when I come to revise it’s a lot easier. My top tips on keeping your notes near and pretty are;
1. rewrite them after lessons if you need to
2. Use colour!
3. Use bubbles to separate information
4. Make your titles look pretty but switching up the handwriting
5. Use cute little banners to write subtitles

Hope this helps you keep your notes looking cute😊

Hi, are you thinking of applying to a Sutton trust summer school for vet med this summer?

No, I’m going to south east Asia for 3 weeks and Sri Lanka for a week and then I’m going to get work experience for the rest, you?

I’ve just finished tidying my desk and organising my pens into colours- I used blue for physics, yellow for chemistry and green for biology. This may seem productive but it’s a hopeless attempt at trying to feel like I’m on top of my work and that I’m organised, reply of you do the same👍🏼

Today I had the day off school and so naturally I settled down in front of Netflix, after a while I brought out my iPad and sat doing quizlet. After about an hour of key vocab, I wrote up a chemistry pag from before Christmas. I then started making notes on Huygens’ construction of waves and then some about catalase. I then went on to trying to catch up on EP and I somehow managed to get quite a lot done.

I’m now cleaning out the cupboard under the stairs- another form of procrastination.

Hiii! Been reading your posts and loved it! I've never made a mindmap before and would really like to try it out, can you please give me tips on how to make one? Thank you