grow your grades - year 12 journal

hi ! My name is Sara, I’m a year 12 student and I’m starting a gyg because I feel like I procrastinate a lot so I just wanna hold myself accountable. Also I did lower in my GCSEs then I wanted and expected so a levels will be my academic come back era. hopefully.

I study maths, fm, bio and chem. ( predicted a/a* for all of them). Want to study medicine for uni so will also be doing ucat revision and supercurricular stuff on here.


some things about me :
~maths lover
~ Pinterest lover
~ love to bake and read in my free time
~ amateur chess player but I want to improve

if you’ve got this far thanks for reading and good luck

Welcome to Grow Your Grades! Hopefully it will be the first step in your Academic Comeback Era! Have you started thinking about which unis you might want to aim for?

Yes I’ve been to one open day so far but right now I’m thinking :

1) Cambridge ( my GCSEs are too low for Oxford 😿)
2) a coastal uni
3) a London uni
4) a Scottish uni
5) Liverpool or Manchester just because they seem nice

Sorry if this is random I’ll probably choose specific ones based off accommodation and courses

also thinking abt Australia bc I kinda wanna travel but it’s an extreme jump so just thinking abt it 😭

Ah that sounds like a nice mix! Australia would be a real adventure - have you been there before?

hi ! My name is Sara, I’m a year 12 student and I’m starting a gyg because I feel like I procrastinate a lot so I just wanna hold myself accountable. Also I did lower in my GCSEs then I wanted and expected so a levels will be my academic come back era. hopefully.

I study maths, fm, bio and chem. ( predicted a/a* for all of them). Want to study medicine for uni so will also be doing ucat revision and supercurricular stuff on here.


some things about me :
~maths lover
~ Pinterest lover
~ love to bake and read in my free time
~ amateur chess player but I want to improve

if you’ve got this far thanks for reading and good luck

Hi there! I'm a y12 doing same subjects who wants to study medicine too 😂 How's it going?

its going okay . so far my lowest score has been 35% and my highest has been 100% so its a bit all over the place but thank god my predicteds cant go down. rn though im really struggling w finding work experience. wbu how u finding it

Mine is ok too, work experience is so difficult to find 😭 Also my school is fairly small and so they haven’t had many med applications and don’t know how to get any either. My tests have been alright at the moment I’m just worried that I won’t be able to get the wex/volunteering in time. I’ve got mocks the next few weeks which should hopefully go well

Oh damnnn good luck for mocks lmk how they go. Yeah I called like 20 gps today and need to email half of them. What is wex ? I think for volunteering I currently do 1hr a week w elderly people and 1hr every 2 weeks teaching maths then I signed up to help kids read. And I’ve signed up for a charity shop job. I thought this might be enough atm considering I have no work experience but work experience is acc just annoying me so much at this point. If ur school is small it might be better bc u might rank higher grades wise if that helps

Wex is just a shortened way of saying work experience. I really need to call some GPs, I emailed some work experience person at my local hospital but they haven’t replied and it’s been a month 😭 It sounds like you’re doing loads! I’m also doing reading with younger years, thinking of tutoring after mocks as well but we’ll see if it actually happens 😂 I think I’ll have to leave my part time job soon because otherwise I’m doing too much in school and barely have any free time, let alone any for volunteering.

Do you have any friends parents who work in the NHS? Worth asking them if they know who to contact for experience.

Sorry forgot to press send on my reply !!

I rang like 20 GP’s and sent emails to 10 so let’s hope they reply. Damnnn u work part time as well, well done for that. I need to get a job soon. Nah no one in our family is in the nhs same for friends but hopefully it will all work out 🙏🙏 I have a cells test tomorrow so I’m a little scared for that !!