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The First Cohort of IAL In My School - A Year 12-13 Journey

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9/3/2020- 70 days left
The countdown is reinstated as my school has decided to use the externally set materials as our last mock. We are going to take them in the third week of May. I am taking 6-8 units, depending on appeal results for the two Unit 4 papers. My benchmark is 106 to withdraw, as it is quite close to an A* and can be easily complimented by the other papers.
Today is my last day of school, as study leave starts tomorrow. This should be a lot of time, right?

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13/3/2021- 66 days left
I completed three papers this week. They are:
C3 Solomon B (74/75)
C4 Solomon A (65/75)
Physics Unit 5, January 2015 (67/80)
I got 120 UMS in the unit for the third time in a row. I don't know what really happened to me.

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15/3/2021- 64 days left
I did two papers over the weekend, alongside some PMT exercises. Here are the marks:
C4 Solomon C: 72/75
Chemistry Unit 6, January 2019: 46/50, full UMS
I hope to aim for perfection in U6, so that it can compliment a bad U4 mark and still get the A*!

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17/3/2021- 62 days left
I did a lot of work over the past three days. My scores on papers are:
C3 Solomon Paper D: 72/75
C4 Solomon Paper E: 75/75🎉🎉🎉
Physics Unit 5, June 2019: 67/80, 120/120 UMS
Physics Unit 5, January 2016: 72/80, 120/120 UMS
Physics Unit 6, January 2016: 34/40, 60/60 UMS
Chemistry Unit 4 (appeal not successful), January 2015: 78/90, 108/120 UMS
Chemistry Unit 5, January 2019: 72/90, 102/120 UMS
Chemistry Unit 6, January 2018: 44/50, 58/60 UMS

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28/3/2021- 50 days left
I got 120/120 (72/80) in another Physics U5 paper, 271/300 for a full June 2019 A2 Chemistry, 115/120 (79/90) in October 2018 Chemistry Unit 4 and 71/75 in a C3 Solomon paper.
My IAL revision has stalled due to my DP final last week. Now my focus is back on IAL.

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I have my final exams over three weeks in May, taking 7 papers, with two of them resits.
I am now getting 120 UMS in almost every Physics Unit 5 paper I did, and comfortable A*s in Unit 6. In terms of Chemistry, I am getting A*s in Units 4 and 5 with a few 120s in between, and 60 almost every time in unit 6.
For Maths I am getting A*s in C3/P3 and a mix of A and A* in P4.
I just got full raw marks in a Physics paper for the first time, which is the Unit 6 paper of June 2018 with 40/40.

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I have just taken three of my seven exams. I took them after the Edexcel schedule, so I got the papers on a discord server beforehand. Edexcel has expected such leaks to happen. However, the mock marks are still enough to pull up to my target grades.
By the way, I am quite happy with about a borderline 2:1 equivalent in a physics module taken a year early from a local uni. The course covers half of unit 5 in a more advanced manner in a large proportion of lectures, which made me smash unit 5 papers all the time. I got full UMS in all but one paper in the unit.

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Hi, it's a long time I haven't posted here!
It has just announced that I have gotten a Highest Distinction in Academic Achievement. It is really great!
It seems like my final grades will be very high. I will definitely get increased amount of scholarship in my first year in uni.
To reward myself for my efforts over the year, I turned to my hobbies.
I treated myself to seven rides on the Light Rail, a system I haven't ridden for three years. This made me complete something which took me 15 years: to have travelled on all 11 routes! I will have my All The Stations run on the LRT soon.
In addition, it's the opening day of Tuen Ma Line tomorrow. After visiting the open days of the two new stations, I will be back at one of them tomorrow after my haircut. I will be getting a train to Diamond Hill as my first ride of the new line. It is the first time since 2016, when the Kwun Tong Line Extension opened, that I will take a ride on a new train line on its first day of service.