Official Year 13 Chat 2023-24

Woo-hoo!!
We've finally reached the final year of our further education!

How are you all feeling? Scared, nervous, excited?

Year 13 can truly be a nerve-racking experience but this thread has been created to encourage each other to get through the lows and celebrate the highs.

Here are some questions to introduce ourselves:
-What A-Level subjects are you studying?
-What course are you thinking of applying for?
-Do you have to take any entrance exams?
-Favourite food?
-What are you looking forward to doing after year 13?
-Hobbies and interests?

Here's to a successful year ahead of us!
Work hard and look after yourselves, we can do this!!!

i’m applying to newcastle, manchester, bristol, UEA

Oh wow you must have a really high UCAT if you're going for Bristol - well done!

I know right! I had a lesson back on Friday and already have a write up due this coming week 😭

heyy,

I'm focusing on the essay for the most part right now since I haven't written one in forever. I had a look at section one earlier this week and wanted to cry, and haven't looked at section 2 at all yet so I would say it's going swell!

I'm not stressing or anything because I have a lot of time and I spoke to my teachers to let them know I'm focusing on the BMAT (do do this especially if you have any trials in the time between now and the BMAT).

I don't really have a revision plan since I just do what I struggle with but I'm planning to finish all the official past papers by the exam date. Also, one thing someone else told me is to do all the papers from 2018 onwards since they changed the format of it after 2017.

But definitely reflect on your weaker sections (I'm basically just doing what I did for my UCAT just on paper if that makes sense).

There's also this document which I found super useful (I hope it attached below). It's either in this document or somewhere else where I read that people tend to make the mistake of researching the BMAT too much and not actually prepare for it... which I definitely did for the UCAT.

I wrote a whole lot (i hope it's helpful and not just waffle) but I mean I still have a lot of stuff to improve so I don't know if I'm even the right person to answer your question on how to prepare lol

just want to pop in and reply and say i do un secret for my book and un long dimanches de fiancialles for the movie <3

oh cool! I'm doing un sac de billes for the book and l'auberge espagnole for the film, how are you finding the course so far??

honestly i though i was doing really well with getting 650 in each sections and constant band 2's, but i just did 2 mocks and i got 2330 with band 2 which is a big fall. kinda scared on whether ive burnt out. also QR and DM are killing me .

how are you finding it?

hi everyone! currently studying maths, chem and geo and im applying to medicine!
i pretty much enjoy playing games and listening to music + watching extremely long youtube videos

What exam board are you for chem? Also, where are you looking to apply to medicine? (I'm also applying to medicine)

our school does aqa! what about u?

im thinking of applying to UEA, ARU, Manchester and Liverpool! what about you! have u sat ur ucat?

year 12 was not enjoyable in terms of the course haha
i want to study modern languages at university though, i also speak french and probably took it very easy last year.
but the year 13 content is actually really fun, especially learning about culture
i just think A level French is probably very limited, but idk i definitely want to study it further. wbu?!

Woo-hoo!!
We've finally reached the final year of our further education!

How are you all feeling? Scared, nervous, excited?

Year 13 can truly be a nerve-racking experience but this thread has been created to encourage each other to get through the lows and celebrate the highs.

Here are some questions to introduce ourselves:
-What A-Level subjects are you studying?
-What course are you thinking of applying for?
-Do you have to take any entrance exams?
-Favourite food?
-What are you looking forward to doing after year 13?
-Hobbies and interests?

Here's to a successful year ahead of us!
Work hard and look after yourselves, we can do this!!!

wow modern languages at uni sounds nice!
I quite liked the course in yr12 in comparison to gcse, as I thought that the step up was quite good as some of the topics were more detailed. I have to say though I'm very quiet in lessons so I always get a bit nervous for french lessons because speaking is obviously quite a big part of lessons 😅
I bet it's very helpful that you already speak french too!

that's very fair! speaking in another language can be quite daunting.
gcse was the most boring for sure, but even if your a french speaker, A levels still humble you haha
do you want to go university? what do you want to study?

Which core practical is it? I have to do research for the brine shrimp one and I think we are starting the actual practical this week

back again, i'm currently studying criminology and photography only this year, as i got my History a level last year. i'm debating on applying for either photography related courses or criminology as i still dont actually kow if i want to attebd uni but will be aplying regardless just to have the option. so far i'm looking at birmingham city, manchester uni and west london.