Hold Your Horses ! Macy's Yr 12 GYG 2020/21

It's been a while hasn't it 🙃

With all the work i've had in this past month I've just about had enough time to make a couple posts on TSR every few days, but I figured if I don't update now I never will XD
Before I go on about how I've been finding every subject I'll just speak about sixth form in general.
I haven't been hating the new timetable system as I thought I would've, on the contrary I do enjoy the new lesson timings and how free/study periods work, as I've found it easier to grasp every topic we go through in lesson because we do not have to rush through anything. Although some people probably hate the new timetable structure with a passion, I've found that it does benefit me quite a lot as I don't feel overwhelmed by covering a lot of content in lessons. However, what I really need to improve on is what I do within my study periods and days off. I thought starting sixth form would kind of wake me up and make me realise that there's no time to mess around, but I still find myself procrastinating a lot more than I should, especially as I have probation exams very soon (my school is very strict about them ) and they cover all the new things we've learnt in year 12 instead of recalling prior knowledge.

Going back to the positives I also enjoy having two separate teachers for every subject (especially as I really like all my teachers) as I get to be taught things in different ways/methods, for example a couple of my teachers use handouts a lot, whilst others prefer us to write everything down instead.

Extra: In the last two weeks I found out that the 'award' (the £500 I'm receiving) is in fact a scholarship and I've had a few meetings with the headteacher explaining more about it and I was quite happy to find out it looks really good on your CV and Personal Statement XD
A few of the meetings with the headteacher and deputy headteacher were also to congratulate me and tell me about how I'm a great person and that I never complained even when things were tough and they'd like future students to be like me etc. which I found really nice and quite heart warming (cheesyyy ik XD).

Biology

Starting off with biology because who hates biology? (the right answer is no one ).

Overall, I've really enjoyed the course so far and although some lessons are really wordy I have managed to enjoy all of them without much difficulty. So far, I have completed 3 biology PAGs all related to food tests, so fingers crossed I passed them My exam board is OCR A and so far we have covered the majority of 2.1.1 and 2.1.2, which include cell structure and biological molecules (and their many sub-topics within them ). I've found it quite interesting and not too hard to grasp, however, from the first lesson I've had (not only me obviously) to adapt to new terminology, such as the cell membrane now being a plasma membrane etc, which was a tiny bit weird for the first couple of lessons, but I soon got the hang of it. I've also really enjoyed expanding upon gcse topics and seeing how much exam boards simplified things just for gcse level.

I have my first probation test for biology on Wednesday, so not really looking forward to it XD
It will be covering microscopy (light and other types), magnification, calibration, biological drawings and eukaryotic cell structure, whilst my second probation exam will be the week we come back after half term and will cover water properties, carbohydrates, lipids and proteins. I haven't really done much, if not any, revision so I should probably start going over my notes this weekend, luckily the topics aren't too challenging nor does the test cover everything we've covered up to now, so in a way I'm kind of lucky

Chemistry

Ah chemistry, once again a subject I reallyyyyyy like.

In the past month I've liked what we've done in chemistry quite a bit, although bits of it included recalling prior gcse content, and I've especially enjoyed it because of the teachers I have. **rant** one of them being the one who selected me to do triple science for gcse's, who also happened to teach me in year 9 and funnily enough he remembered me and I was the only one he'd taught in my class + he always asks about how I'm doing with cricket etc.. **rant**

Anyways, once again my exam board is OCR A and with one teacher we have already covered 2.1.2 and are towards the end of 2.2.2 having covered shapes of molecules and ions, electronegativity and polarity (including bond and molecule polarity) and intermolecular forces. Whilst with my organic chemistry teacher we have covered 2.1.1 and are currently doing 2.1.3, having covered everything up to waters of crystallisation. So far I've found the course really intriguing and it's been quite satisfying being able to gain more knowledge and apply it to previous gcse understanding in order to explain theories in more detail or understand processes a lot more etc.

My probation exams for chemistry are both after half term and they will also test us on everything we've learnt so far and what we'll be learning in the next week too..quite nerve racking since expectations from my teacher are high
I know it is still early days, however, I've been enjoying the sciences quite a lot and at some point the idea of a chemistry or biochemistry degree did creep into my mind Although vet med is still the clear winner, I'm hoping I'll be able to make my mind up very soon and clear any doubts I may have.

Maths

Hm good old mathematics, a bit of a bumpy road it's been this past month

I cannot truthfully say I enjoy maths like I do with chemistry and biology, however, I am coping alright so far and I do come out of lessons understanding the content and even enjoying some of it. My problem with maths seems to always be understanding the content and theory behind everything whilst in class and being able to complete exercises/exam questions/starters really well, but then getting home looking at practice questions and not knowing where to begin. As stupid as this may sound it is not the actual maths that's causing the trouble for me, but it is me not being able to apply what I've learnt and understand onto questions consistently. I should probably exaggerate the word consistently here because, don't get me wrong, I've been scoring 100% on homeworks and doing well on questions, however, sometimes I just feel dumb and not know what method to use
Although, thinking on the bright side I haven't failed or flunked anything yet, nor have I completely misunderstood or not understood a topic 🤷🏻*♀️
Adding onto that I do think constantly practicing exam questions should help me and my teachers are brilliant in the sense that they've given us all kinds of resources, now it's my turn to procrastinate less 🤦🏻*♀️

So far in maths we have covered chapter 1,2,3,4,5,7,11 moving onto chapter 12 with one teacher and I'm not sure about the other (exam board is edexcel). Therefore, as you can see, a few of the chapters involved a lot of gcse knowledge recap, but overall, my class has already learnt a fair deal of information/formulae and methods to use to solve for specific things such as long division on polynomials (which I ended up enjoying a lot since it's quite easy 😆), what a discriminant is, the 'general form' of a straight line etc...

In conclusion, AS maths is making me dislike maths quite the bit more and yeah that's it 😂

EPQ

My school is a bit weird when it comes to EPQ, just due to the simple fact that they make every single student in Year 12 make a compulsory presentation project, or mini EPQ if you'd like, up until January when it is presented and explained to teachers and a group of pupils. This is not an actual qualification, but the school chose to do this so students who do not wish to continue through with the actual EPQ will have something extra to talk about during interviews.
This means that I have to choose two separate topics, which do not link, as I will be following through with the actual EPQ afterwards. I have already picked my topic for the small presentation and it will be about the Italian Mafia and will somehow include Matteo Messina Denaro
I've also started to think of ideas for my EPQ (a bit early) and I'm currently debating between something to do with equine ophthalmology or the USSR (the topics couldn't differ any more than they already do ).


NOTES TO SELF


Moooooving on, I've spent too much time writing this, sorry for the rant and the lack of updates I'll try harder
Have a nice weekend everyone and stay safe Here are the TAGS^3 (for those who know about the 'tags tags tags' )

It's been a while hasn't it 🙃

With all the work i've had in this past month I've just about had enough time to make a couple posts on TSR every few days, but I figured if I don't update now I never will XD
Before I go on about how I've been finding every subject I'll just speak about sixth form in general.
I haven't been hating the new timetable system as I thought I would've, on the contrary I do enjoy the new lesson timings and how free/study periods work, as I've found it easier to grasp every topic we go through in lesson because we do not have to rush through anything. Although some people probably hate the new timetable structure with a passion, I've found that it does benefit me quite a lot as I don't feel overwhelmed by covering a lot of content in lessons. However, what I really need to improve on is what I do within my study periods and days off. I thought starting sixth form would kind of wake me up and make me realise that there's no time to mess around, but I still find myself procrastinating a lot more than I should, especially as I have probation exams very soon (my school is very strict about them ) and they cover all the new things we've learnt in year 12 instead of recalling prior knowledge.

Going back to the positives I also enjoy having two separate teachers for every subject (especially as I really like all my teachers) as I get to be taught things in different ways/methods, for example a couple of my teachers use handouts a lot, whilst others prefer us to write everything down instead.

Extra: In the last two weeks I found out that the 'award' (the £500 I'm receiving) is in fact a scholarship and I've had a few meetings with the headteacher explaining more about it and I was quite happy to find out it looks really good on your CV and Personal Statement XD
A few of the meetings with the headteacher and deputy headteacher were also to congratulate me and tell me about how I'm a great person and that I never complained even when things were tough and they'd like future students to be like me etc. which I found really nice and quite heart warming (cheesyyy ik XD).

Biology

Starting off with biology because who hates biology? (the right answer is no one ).

Overall, I've really enjoyed the course so far and although some lessons are really wordy I have managed to enjoy all of them without much difficulty. So far, I have completed 3 biology PAGs all related to food tests, so fingers crossed I passed them My exam board is OCR A and so far we have covered the majority of 2.1.1 and 2.1.2, which include cell structure and biological molecules (and their many sub-topics within them ). I've found it quite interesting and not too hard to grasp, however, from the first lesson I've had (not only me obviously) to adapt to new terminology, such as the cell membrane now being a plasma membrane etc, which was a tiny bit weird for the first couple of lessons, but I soon got the hang of it. I've also really enjoyed expanding upon gcse topics and seeing how much exam boards simplified things just for gcse level.

I have my first probation test for biology on Wednesday, so not really looking forward to it XD
It will be covering microscopy (light and other types), magnification, calibration, biological drawings and eukaryotic cell structure, whilst my second probation exam will be the week we come back after half term and will cover water properties, carbohydrates, lipids and proteins. I haven't really done much, if not any, revision so I should probably start going over my notes this weekend, luckily the topics aren't too challenging nor does the test cover everything we've covered up to now, so in a way I'm kind of lucky

Chemistry

Ah chemistry, once again a subject I reallyyyyyy like.

In the past month I've liked what we've done in chemistry quite a bit, although bits of it included recalling prior gcse content, and I've especially enjoyed it because of the teachers I have. **rant** one of them being the one who selected me to do triple science for gcse's, who also happened to teach me in year 9 and funnily enough he remembered me and I was the only one he'd taught in my class + he always asks about how I'm doing with cricket etc.. **rant**

Anyways, once again my exam board is OCR A and with one teacher we have already covered 2.1.2 and are towards the end of 2.2.2 having covered shapes of molecules and ions, electronegativity and polarity (including bond and molecule polarity) and intermolecular forces. Whilst with my organic chemistry teacher we have covered 2.1.1 and are currently doing 2.1.3, having covered everything up to waters of crystallisation. So far I've found the course really intriguing and it's been quite satisfying being able to gain more knowledge and apply it to previous gcse understanding in order to explain theories in more detail or understand processes a lot more etc.

My probation exams for chemistry are both after half term and they will also test us on everything we've learnt so far and what we'll be learning in the next week too..quite nerve racking since expectations from my teacher are high
I know it is still early days, however, I've been enjoying the sciences quite a lot and at some point the idea of a chemistry or biochemistry degree did creep into my mind Although vet med is still the clear winner, I'm hoping I'll be able to make my mind up very soon and clear any doubts I may have.

Maths

Hm good old mathematics, a bit of a bumpy road it's been this past month

I cannot truthfully say I enjoy maths like I do with chemistry and biology, however, I am coping alright so far and I do come out of lessons understanding the content and even enjoying some of it. My problem with maths seems to always be understanding the content and theory behind everything whilst in class and being able to complete exercises/exam questions/starters really well, but then getting home looking at practice questions and not knowing where to begin. As stupid as this may sound it is not the actual maths that's causing the trouble for me, but it is me not being able to apply what I've learnt and understand onto questions consistently. I should probably exaggerate the word consistently here because, don't get me wrong, I've been scoring 100% on homeworks and doing well on questions, however, sometimes I just feel dumb and not know what method to use
Although, thinking on the bright side I haven't failed or flunked anything yet, nor have I completely misunderstood or not understood a topic 🤷🏻*♀️
Adding onto that I do think constantly practicing exam questions should help me and my teachers are brilliant in the sense that they've given us all kinds of resources, now it's my turn to procrastinate less 🤦🏻*♀️

So far in maths we have covered chapter 1,2,3,4,5,7,11 moving onto chapter 12 with one teacher and I'm not sure about the other (exam board is edexcel). Therefore, as you can see, a few of the chapters involved a lot of gcse knowledge recap, but overall, my class has already learnt a fair deal of information/formulae and methods to use to solve for specific things such as long division on polynomials (which I ended up enjoying a lot since it's quite easy 😆), what a discriminant is, the 'general form' of a straight line etc...

In conclusion, AS maths is making me dislike maths quite the bit more and yeah that's it 😂

EPQ

My school is a bit weird when it comes to EPQ, just due to the simple fact that they make every single student in Year 12 make a compulsory presentation project, or mini EPQ if you'd like, up until January when it is presented and explained to teachers and a group of pupils. This is not an actual qualification, but the school chose to do this so students who do not wish to continue through with the actual EPQ will have something extra to talk about during interviews.
This means that I have to choose two separate topics, which do not link, as I will be following through with the actual EPQ afterwards. I have already picked my topic for the small presentation and it will be about the Italian Mafia and will somehow include Matteo Messina Denaro
I've also started to think of ideas for my EPQ (a bit early) and I'm currently debating between something to do with equine ophthalmology or the USSR (the topics couldn't differ any more than they already do ).


NOTES TO SELF


Moooooving on, I've spent too much time writing this, sorry for the rant and the lack of updates I'll try harder
Have a nice weekend everyone and stay safe Here are the TAGS^3 (for those who know about the 'tags tags tags' )

It's been a while hasn't it 🙃

With all the work i've had in this past month I've just about had enough time to make a couple posts on TSR every few days, but I figured if I don't update now I never will XD
Before I go on about how I've been finding every subject I'll just speak about sixth form in general.
I haven't been hating the new timetable system as I thought I would've, on the contrary I do enjoy the new lesson timings and how free/study periods work, as I've found it easier to grasp every topic we go through in lesson because we do not have to rush through anything. Although some people probably hate the new timetable structure with a passion, I've found that it does benefit me quite a lot as I don't feel overwhelmed by covering a lot of content in lessons. However, what I really need to improve on is what I do within my study periods and days off. I thought starting sixth form would kind of wake me up and make me realise that there's no time to mess around, but I still find myself procrastinating a lot more than I should, especially as I have probation exams very soon (my school is very strict about them ) and they cover all the new things we've learnt in year 12 instead of recalling prior knowledge.

Going back to the positives I also enjoy having two separate teachers for every subject (especially as I really like all my teachers) as I get to be taught things in different ways/methods, for example a couple of my teachers use handouts a lot, whilst others prefer us to write everything down instead.

Extra: In the last two weeks I found out that the 'award' (the £500 I'm receiving) is in fact a scholarship and I've had a few meetings with the headteacher explaining more about it and I was quite happy to find out it looks really good on your CV and Personal Statement XD
A few of the meetings with the headteacher and deputy headteacher were also to congratulate me and tell me about how I'm a great person and that I never complained even when things were tough and they'd like future students to be like me etc. which I found really nice and quite heart warming (cheesyyy ik XD).

Biology

Starting off with biology because who hates biology? (the right answer is no one ).

Overall, I've really enjoyed the course so far and although some lessons are really wordy I have managed to enjoy all of them without much difficulty. So far, I have completed 3 biology PAGs all related to food tests, so fingers crossed I passed them My exam board is OCR A and so far we have covered the majority of 2.1.1 and 2.1.2, which include cell structure and biological molecules (and their many sub-topics within them ). I've found it quite interesting and not too hard to grasp, however, from the first lesson I've had (not only me obviously) to adapt to new terminology, such as the cell membrane now being a plasma membrane etc, which was a tiny bit weird for the first couple of lessons, but I soon got the hang of it. I've also really enjoyed expanding upon gcse topics and seeing how much exam boards simplified things just for gcse level.

I have my first probation test for biology on Wednesday, so not really looking forward to it XD
It will be covering microscopy (light and other types), magnification, calibration, biological drawings and eukaryotic cell structure, whilst my second probation exam will be the week we come back after half term and will cover water properties, carbohydrates, lipids and proteins. I haven't really done much, if not any, revision so I should probably start going over my notes this weekend, luckily the topics aren't too challenging nor does the test cover everything we've covered up to now, so in a way I'm kind of lucky

Chemistry

Ah chemistry, once again a subject I reallyyyyyy like.

In the past month I've liked what we've done in chemistry quite a bit, although bits of it included recalling prior gcse content, and I've especially enjoyed it because of the teachers I have. **rant** one of them being the one who selected me to do triple science for gcse's, who also happened to teach me in year 9 and funnily enough he remembered me and I was the only one he'd taught in my class + he always asks about how I'm doing with cricket etc.. **rant**

Anyways, once again my exam board is OCR A and with one teacher we have already covered 2.1.2 and are towards the end of 2.2.2 having covered shapes of molecules and ions, electronegativity and polarity (including bond and molecule polarity) and intermolecular forces. Whilst with my organic chemistry teacher we have covered 2.1.1 and are currently doing 2.1.3, having covered everything up to waters of crystallisation. So far I've found the course really intriguing and it's been quite satisfying being able to gain more knowledge and apply it to previous gcse understanding in order to explain theories in more detail or understand processes a lot more etc.

My probation exams for chemistry are both after half term and they will also test us on everything we've learnt so far and what we'll be learning in the next week too..quite nerve racking since expectations from my teacher are high
I know it is still early days, however, I've been enjoying the sciences quite a lot and at some point the idea of a chemistry or biochemistry degree did creep into my mind Although vet med is still the clear winner, I'm hoping I'll be able to make my mind up very soon and clear any doubts I may have.

Maths

Hm good old mathematics, a bit of a bumpy road it's been this past month

I cannot truthfully say I enjoy maths like I do with chemistry and biology, however, I am coping alright so far and I do come out of lessons understanding the content and even enjoying some of it. My problem with maths seems to always be understanding the content and theory behind everything whilst in class and being able to complete exercises/exam questions/starters really well, but then getting home looking at practice questions and not knowing where to begin. As stupid as this may sound it is not the actual maths that's causing the trouble for me, but it is me not being able to apply what I've learnt and understand onto questions consistently. I should probably exaggerate the word consistently here because, don't get me wrong, I've been scoring 100% on homeworks and doing well on questions, however, sometimes I just feel dumb and not know what method to use
Although, thinking on the bright side I haven't failed or flunked anything yet, nor have I completely misunderstood or not understood a topic 🤷🏻*♀️
Adding onto that I do think constantly practicing exam questions should help me and my teachers are brilliant in the sense that they've given us all kinds of resources, now it's my turn to procrastinate less 🤦🏻*♀️

So far in maths we have covered chapter 1,2,3,4,5,7,11 moving onto chapter 12 with one teacher and I'm not sure about the other (exam board is edexcel). Therefore, as you can see, a few of the chapters involved a lot of gcse knowledge recap, but overall, my class has already learnt a fair deal of information/formulae and methods to use to solve for specific things such as long division on polynomials (which I ended up enjoying a lot since it's quite easy 😆), what a discriminant is, the 'general form' of a straight line etc...

In conclusion, AS maths is making me dislike maths quite the bit more and yeah that's it 😂

EPQ

My school is a bit weird when it comes to EPQ, just due to the simple fact that they make every single student in Year 12 make a compulsory presentation project, or mini EPQ if you'd like, up until January when it is presented and explained to teachers and a group of pupils. This is not an actual qualification, but the school chose to do this so students who do not wish to continue through with the actual EPQ will have something extra to talk about during interviews.
This means that I have to choose two separate topics, which do not link, as I will be following through with the actual EPQ afterwards. I have already picked my topic for the small presentation and it will be about the Italian Mafia and will somehow include Matteo Messina Denaro
I've also started to think of ideas for my EPQ (a bit early) and I'm currently debating between something to do with equine ophthalmology or the USSR (the topics couldn't differ any more than they already do ).


NOTES TO SELF


Moooooving on, I've spent too much time writing this, sorry for the rant and the lack of updates I'll try harder
Have a nice weekend everyone and stay safe Here are the TAGS^3 (for those who know about the 'tags tags tags' )

It's been a while hasn't it 🙃

With all the work i've had in this past month I've just about had enough time to make a couple posts on TSR every few days, but I figured if I don't update now I never will XD
Before I go on about how I've been finding every subject I'll just speak about sixth form in general.
I haven't been hating the new timetable system as I thought I would've, on the contrary I do enjoy the new lesson timings and how free/study periods work, as I've found it easier to grasp every topic we go through in lesson because we do not have to rush through anything. Although some people probably hate the new timetable structure with a passion, I've found that it does benefit me quite a lot as I don't feel overwhelmed by covering a lot of content in lessons. However, what I really need to improve on is what I do within my study periods and days off. I thought starting sixth form would kind of wake me up and make me realise that there's no time to mess around, but I still find myself procrastinating a lot more than I should, especially as I have probation exams very soon (my school is very strict about them ) and they cover all the new things we've learnt in year 12 instead of recalling prior knowledge.

Going back to the positives I also enjoy having two separate teachers for every subject (especially as I really like all my teachers) as I get to be taught things in different ways/methods, for example a couple of my teachers use handouts a lot, whilst others prefer us to write everything down instead.

Extra: In the last two weeks I found out that the 'award' (the £500 I'm receiving) is in fact a scholarship and I've had a few meetings with the headteacher explaining more about it and I was quite happy to find out it looks really good on your CV and Personal Statement XD
A few of the meetings with the headteacher and deputy headteacher were also to congratulate me and tell me about how I'm a great person and that I never complained even when things were tough and they'd like future students to be like me etc. which I found really nice and quite heart warming (cheesyyy ik XD).

Biology

Starting off with biology because who hates biology? (the right answer is no one ).

Overall, I've really enjoyed the course so far and although some lessons are really wordy I have managed to enjoy all of them without much difficulty. So far, I have completed 3 biology PAGs all related to food tests, so fingers crossed I passed them My exam board is OCR A and so far we have covered the majority of 2.1.1 and 2.1.2, which include cell structure and biological molecules (and their many sub-topics within them ). I've found it quite interesting and not too hard to grasp, however, from the first lesson I've had (not only me obviously) to adapt to new terminology, such as the cell membrane now being a plasma membrane etc, which was a tiny bit weird for the first couple of lessons, but I soon got the hang of it. I've also really enjoyed expanding upon gcse topics and seeing how much exam boards simplified things just for gcse level.

I have my first probation test for biology on Wednesday, so not really looking forward to it XD
It will be covering microscopy (light and other types), magnification, calibration, biological drawings and eukaryotic cell structure, whilst my second probation exam will be the week we come back after half term and will cover water properties, carbohydrates, lipids and proteins. I haven't really done much, if not any, revision so I should probably start going over my notes this weekend, luckily the topics aren't too challenging nor does the test cover everything we've covered up to now, so in a way I'm kind of lucky

Chemistry

Ah chemistry, once again a subject I reallyyyyyy like.

In the past month I've liked what we've done in chemistry quite a bit, although bits of it included recalling prior gcse content, and I've especially enjoyed it because of the teachers I have. **rant** one of them being the one who selected me to do triple science for gcse's, who also happened to teach me in year 9 and funnily enough he remembered me and I was the only one he'd taught in my class + he always asks about how I'm doing with cricket etc.. **rant**

Anyways, once again my exam board is OCR A and with one teacher we have already covered 2.1.2 and are towards the end of 2.2.2 having covered shapes of molecules and ions, electronegativity and polarity (including bond and molecule polarity) and intermolecular forces. Whilst with my organic chemistry teacher we have covered 2.1.1 and are currently doing 2.1.3, having covered everything up to waters of crystallisation. So far I've found the course really intriguing and it's been quite satisfying being able to gain more knowledge and apply it to previous gcse understanding in order to explain theories in more detail or understand processes a lot more etc.

My probation exams for chemistry are both after half term and they will also test us on everything we've learnt so far and what we'll be learning in the next week too..quite nerve racking since expectations from my teacher are high
I know it is still early days, however, I've been enjoying the sciences quite a lot and at some point the idea of a chemistry or biochemistry degree did creep into my mind Although vet med is still the clear winner, I'm hoping I'll be able to make my mind up very soon and clear any doubts I may have.

Maths

Hm good old mathematics, a bit of a bumpy road it's been this past month

I cannot truthfully say I enjoy maths like I do with chemistry and biology, however, I am coping alright so far and I do come out of lessons understanding the content and even enjoying some of it. My problem with maths seems to always be understanding the content and theory behind everything whilst in class and being able to complete exercises/exam questions/starters really well, but then getting home looking at practice questions and not knowing where to begin. As stupid as this may sound it is not the actual maths that's causing the trouble for me, but it is me not being able to apply what I've learnt and understand onto questions consistently. I should probably exaggerate the word consistently here because, don't get me wrong, I've been scoring 100% on homeworks and doing well on questions, however, sometimes I just feel dumb and not know what method to use
Although, thinking on the bright side I haven't failed or flunked anything yet, nor have I completely misunderstood or not understood a topic 🤷🏻*♀️
Adding onto that I do think constantly practicing exam questions should help me and my teachers are brilliant in the sense that they've given us all kinds of resources, now it's my turn to procrastinate less 🤦🏻*♀️

So far in maths we have covered chapter 1,2,3,4,5,7,11 moving onto chapter 12 with one teacher and I'm not sure about the other (exam board is edexcel). Therefore, as you can see, a few of the chapters involved a lot of gcse knowledge recap, but overall, my class has already learnt a fair deal of information/formulae and methods to use to solve for specific things such as long division on polynomials (which I ended up enjoying a lot since it's quite easy 😆), what a discriminant is, the 'general form' of a straight line etc...

In conclusion, AS maths is making me dislike maths quite the bit more and yeah that's it 😂

EPQ

My school is a bit weird when it comes to EPQ, just due to the simple fact that they make every single student in Year 12 make a compulsory presentation project, or mini EPQ if you'd like, up until January when it is presented and explained to teachers and a group of pupils. This is not an actual qualification, but the school chose to do this so students who do not wish to continue through with the actual EPQ will have something extra to talk about during interviews.
This means that I have to choose two separate topics, which do not link, as I will be following through with the actual EPQ afterwards. I have already picked my topic for the small presentation and it will be about the Italian Mafia and will somehow include Matteo Messina Denaro
I've also started to think of ideas for my EPQ (a bit early) and I'm currently debating between something to do with equine ophthalmology or the USSR (the topics couldn't differ any more than they already do ).


NOTES TO SELF


Moooooving on, I've spent too much time writing this, sorry for the rant and the lack of updates I'll try harder
Have a nice weekend everyone and stay safe Here are the TAGS^3 (for those who know about the 'tags tags tags' )