CleverFrog? ThrivingFrog's A-Level Diary!

Good luck with A levels and your application to Oxford! I’m also applying this year and I feel the same but it’s worth giving it a go!! What course are you applying for?

I have a lot of work to do but I've decided to give myself the night off because I haven't had a day off in the past 10 days so I am drained

Edit: I take it back. Time to revise biology

Do pace yourself if you can, don't want you burning out

Yeah I ended up stopping after like 20 minutes because I just couldn't do it, slightly annoying but tomorrow is another day

Yeah I ended up stopping after like 20 minutes because I just couldn't do it, slightly annoying but tomorrow is another day

Just try and do what you can and make sure you have evenings off – you don't want to be burning out in September

Please do schedule in downtime - you won't be able to work effectively if you're tired all the time

Don't worry, today has been a much better day had my meeting with the Oxbridge admissions guy and only need to add 1 thing to my ps now and then its done Caught up on all my biology work in my frees and now about to summon the last dregs of my energy and head to the gym

Gonna post a week plan once I'm back

Update! I did a TSA paper and have spent the past 15 minutes in tears so I don't think oxford is on the table for me rn

Update! I did a TSA paper and have spent the past 15 minutes in tears so I don't think oxford is on the table for me rn

Update! I did a TSA paper and have spent the past 15 minutes in tears so I don't think oxford is on the table for me rn

I have assessments next week which is upsetting but I've started revising so hopefully they'll go well

Make mindmap on biodiversity
Make mindmap on investigating populations

Recap natural logs and exponentials- for some reason my brain just cannot comprehend this topic

Woah woah woah, you've still got a month to get yourself better practised and prepared for it!

As above, you've still got a month to prepare for the actual thing. Don't yet lose hope - on the day, you could absolutely ace the actual thing for all you know.

Just like any other past paper you would do during your GCSE/A level studies, make sure you've marked it and found out where you've gone wrong so you can iron out your weak points.

Also it's been years since I've properly followed any GYG blogs, perhaps I will give it a go again

We all have those topics. For me it's the Tudors and religion. Really don't like teaching it.
The trick is, for those really unpleasant topics, is little and often. Start really small and just keep chipping away.

Can I ask about the mindmaps - are you doing them from memory?

And as for assessments next week, forget about them. Eyes on the prize: May and June.
I apologise if this rhetoric becomes annoying, but I've never seen the hype around mock exams/assessments etc. they're far more for the benefit of teachers than of pupils in my personal view.

You're both on prsom think it just overwhelmed me because my score went down from last time and I was really hoping for it to go up so I was lowkey (highkey) disappointed with it. Turns out I just cannot do problem solving, which you'd think I'd be fine with given I do a-level maths but apparently not

I took a break and then went and did some questions just from the problem solving section so hopefully if I woke at that for a few days when I go to do another paper I'll have actually improved this time