Jieay's Year 13 GYG - Actuarial Science applicant (2023/2024)

Decided to start one of these as I need some extra motivation for A-Levels and I have been slacking on revision recently.

Looking to apply for Actuarial Science (2024 entry), I will be applying to:
-UEA
-York
-Kent
-Essex
-Leicester

The A-levels I'm taking are:
-Biology
-Chemistry
-Maths
-EPQ (Complete)

Predicted grades: BBB

Goals:
Predicted grades of AAB (by January 31st),
Final A-Level grades of AAA,
Get into university.

I'd be happy to answer any questions about A-levels and I'd gladly accept any relevant feedback or advice!

Thanks

hello! well done for starting a gyg journal! i'm going to definitely stay updated with your journey <3! i am also in year 13 and im also thinking of applying to york for bsc linguistics ! i also have a gyg forum if you want to follow my journey: https://www.thestudentroom.co.uk/showthread.php?t=7404622&p=98899172&page=1

good luck

Thanks! I have started following your thread, maybe we can help motivate each other haha.

If not celebrating halloween to revise, or other festivals for that matter, is what it takes to reach your grade goals, do it.

I didn't - it caused me underachievement in grades.

Day 2:

I'm starting to believe that these gyg posts will help me maintain focus and motivation throughout the year. Hit a mini depression session earlier thinking about the grind that this year is going to be, however the thought that anything can happen in 8 months is really keeping me going.

Today I completed my Maths and Chemistry homework as well as my Module 5 Chemistry flashcards in preparation for my unit test later this week.

I'm definitely finding Chemistry the hardest subject right now, just with the volume of information to get my head around and all the different reactions and pathways to keep track of. Today I started using chemrevise to help my revision and it definitely seems to help, but if anyone has some other tricks to help understand the content I would be soooo thankful

On a better note, I also finished my personal statement today so I have that going for me.

Tomorrow, I'm going to revise more biology as my test is on Thursday, although that is the subject I am least worried about right now. Other than that, I am really enjoying maths right now, I just need to master differentiation and the chain rule, which I am going to continue revising tonight. Which will make integration so much easier when we cover than in a few weeks.

Anyway, on a more personal level, I've been listing to d4vd music all day and I think it's starting to become a mini-addiction. Also, didn't really do anything for Halloween and spent it all revising because I'm an academic weapon - boring I know.

See you all tomorrow

how did you add that spoiler?

I'm not sure how to show you but its one of the buttons at the top in the text box, it looks like a face with a scrunched mouth, next to the video icon.

I totally agree, it's a sacrifice for a better future at the end of the day. I don't normally celebrate Halloween and none of my friends were having parties so luckily there was not much I was interested in doing other than studying which was nice for a change because I'm usually the first to jump at every plan formulated in the group chat

That's the right attitude!

But it's tough - don't burn out. You're in the flow now - keep the momentum going, because it can be rather difficult to start again especially for some people.

I guess a goal could be to increase the predicted grades from BBB. If you can increase them, that opens more options, especially for more prestigious unis, or at least unis better than mediocre Kent.

on web or on mobile?

I was on web

weird that feature is not on there for me

It's not showing for me now either, it might only be an option when you post instead of replying.

how do you just post instead of reply? dont understand that either

Thanks so much! I find it really hard to start revising to be honest and that's why I feel so behind after year 12. Hopefully I can just keep it going until my actual exams now.

I added Kent as a sorta backup option if it all goes wrong because I can get in with CCC but if I can improve my predicted grades then I'm hoping I can get an offer from UEA or York with contextual and EPQ reduction.

We'll see I guess but thanks for the kind words 😊