I am a 19 year old man who spent the best part of the past 3 years dealing with a chronic disease. It surfaced after my GCSE'S and affected me throughout my 3 years of A Levels. I did the second year twice as I was hospitalised for months before my exam the first time and was only out of hospital on October. I was supposed to sit my exams this summer but once again my health prevented me from achieving this and like the year before I was once again on my death bed. I had missed over 12 months of school over the past two years.
My school has been so helpful and kind to allow me to finally sit my exams the next summer (2019) but they are not allowed to teach me. This means I will have to learn the syllabus myself. Even though been doing A Levels for 3 years I am a very poor student who has only rarely managed to get grade B’s in class test. Usually I get U’s and E’s. I am not present when the topics are being taught, I am unaware when the class tests are, I felt as if I barely go to school. I just turned up when I was able to, only to just fail miserably in class. I am very much frustrated with my education as I have blaming my health for my shortcomings with exams. I had to spent hours every day to address my health even when I am able to go to school. I still feel like I could have done more. Even if I was able to sit my exams this year, I honestly thing I would have gotten all E grades as I have do not put in the extra effort to catch up with the work I have been missing. I have been depressed for as long as I could remember but the past 5 years have been very bad. I do not go out. I have zero friends. I had no one at school to help me catch up.
But all that is over now. My recent medication has been working well. I haven’t felt this physically well in years. Mentally I still have a long journey ahead. But I do know one thing though, I want to continue with my A levels and pull of top grades. I have wasted 3 years on this qualification only to get nowhere. But this year I must learn the whole syllabus on my own. My health is still an issue but it’s a lot better as I only have to spend less than an hour with my medications every day. Main thing is that I have more energy to do thing now than I have done for the past few years.
I do the new AQA Biology and Chemistry and the old Edexcel Maths (the one with C1 – 4, S1 and M1). Please give me advice on time management and how to tackle the new AQA Biology and Chemistry specification. Any good websites and other resources you can think of? As I will have spent 4 years on A level when I finally sit my exam, I want to get at least 3 A grades. So, any advice on achieving this will help me greatly. I apologise for the long backstory for this thread, but I felt it was necessary to understand what I have been doing for the past 3 years and where I am coming from when I enter this final year of my A level education. Thank you all for reading.