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Quacking the case to A*s - Y13 GYG 20/21

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Helllloooooooooo :wavey:

(warning: I overuse that emoji tooooooo much),
I'm here - I've entered my final year of compulsory education :headfire:

Would I be lying if I said it has flown by - no, I can still remember my first day of primary school, but the end is in sight :redface:

Looking back on the curve balls that the last 13 years have thrown at me (including corona, like who would have predicted that?!?!) I think it's fair to see I have no idea what the next year is going to be like, but hey, I've made it this far - so why not go out with a bang?

Yes I know the next 10 months of my life are going to be full of ups and downs (or smiles, stress and strops as I put it in my last GYG), but hopefully this blog will help me keep sane and motivated to get to the end :biggrin:

Soooo just a bit about me:

GCSEs
Year 10 was probably my hardest year of my life (mentally) due to your typical high school friendship issues, but I didn't let this affect my GCSE grades and came out with grades that I was (nearly) over the moon with :woo:

for anyone that is really that interested in what I got, I've listed them below. (hint: I am not your typical straight grade 9 TSR user)

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Year 12
Well, I made the big jump of moving to a college for sixth form, and as cheesy as it sounds it was the best decision I ever made. I manage to fit in with a good group of friends and put behind all the stuff that happened at my previous secondary school.

I do 4 alevels, which yes is tough, but I (just about) enjoy them all, and I am not planning to drop one. I do:
Maths (AQA)
Further Maths (Edexcel)
Physics (AQA)
Geography (OCR)

I did an EPQ for about 4 weeks but dropped it :smile:

Due to corona we didn't have end of year 12 exams, but we will be having them in October instead - so I will probably put my results here once I receive them. :eek3:

Year 13
I am going into Y13 doing the same subjects I did at the end of Y12 (I might drop down to an AS in Further Maths, but I am not currently planning to).

Don't really know what else I can say about Y13 apart from - stay tuned! :idea2:

Ohhhh yes I would quite like to achieve A*AAB but A*AAA would be amazing :biggrin:

Post-18 plans
This may end up being split into 2 sections as I am not 100% sure if I want to do and apprenticeship or a degree yet, but currently edging towards a degree at uni.

Uni stuff
I am planning to study civil engineering at uni, I am yet to decide on the 5, but I do have a good idea about where I want to apply.

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Uni updates here: https://www.thestudentroom.co.uk/showthread.php?t=6680478&page=73#post92515720
Updates ('Big' updates are in bold)

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Anyway that's enough rambling for now, if you want to be tagged (you must be mad) but let me know :tongue:

I will try to do updates every few days...

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Reply 1

Becca216

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Yessss tag moi :woo:

what are your ucas predictions?

Reply 4

neko no basu

I'd like to be tagged too!

Reply 5

Becca216

Original post by royalty1702

what are your ucas predictions?

Don't know yet as our end of year exams got cancelled but I think the will be around A*AAB

Reply 6

josie71202

Tag me so we can suffer together

Reply 7

royalty1702

Original post by Becca216

Don't know yet as our end of year exams got cancelled but I think the will be around A*AAB

I did maths further maths and physics too lol

Reply 8

Becca216

Original post by macy_m

Yessss tag moi :woo:

Will do

Original post by neko no basu

I'd like to be tagged too!

Of course

are you doing one this year?

Original post by josie71202

Tag me so we can suffer together

Woooo, lets do this :redface:

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Reply 9

Becca216

Original post by royalty1702

I did maths further maths and physics too lol

Ahhh nice, I am hoping for and A* in Maths, A in Physics and not too sure about how further maths will go....

Reply 10

neko no basu

Original post by Becca216

Will do

Of course

are either of you two doing one this year?

oui oui
just haven't made it yet :rofl3:

it'll be my first gyg so feeling kinda clueless haha

Reply 11

Becca216

Original post by neko no basu

oui oui
just haven't made it yet :rofl3:

it'll be my first gyg so feeling kinda clueless haha

Honestly, this is kind of my first one (we don't talk about last years....I kind of gave up 5 posts in).....feel free to tag me when you make yours :biggrin:

Reply 12

royalty1702

Original post by Becca216

Ahhh nice, I am hoping for and A* in Maths, A in Physics and not too sure about how further maths will go....

I think to do well in maths you have to focus on enjoying the subject. I found that if I tried to enjoy the exam (I know) and stop caring so much about achieving a certain grade and then I tend to do better.

Reply 13

Becca216

Original post by royalty1702

Ahhh okay thank you :biggrin:

The way my college teach maths/further maths is that you do the whole of maths in Y12 and then the whole of further maths in Y13. I have already done quite a few past papers for Maths which is why I feel a bit more confident...

Reply 14

neko no basu

Original post by Becca216

Honestly, this is kind of my first one (we don't talk about last years....I kind of gave up 5 posts in).....feel free to tag me when you make yours :biggrin:

ohh, hopefully your GYG this year will be more successful! :yeah:

i'll make sure to tag you when I've got my GYG up and running :nyan:

Reply 15

royalty1702

Original post by Becca216

Ahhh okay thank you :biggrin:

Yeah I get that. Also as I did more further maths, normal maths looked a lot easier!

So did you get a grade for a level maths then? Or is your college like my school in the sense that we sit both maths and further maths at the end of year 13?

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Becca216

Original post by royalty1702

I'm doing all my exams at the end of Year 13 - my college believe we'll get better grades if we sit it then - I guess this makes sense as you have more time to learn skills and that.