aarc's gyg blog - my treacherous battle through y13

hi all!
i know we are already in november but i've been lurking and observing in gyg for a while now and felt motivated to make one for myself :h:

hopefully this will help me stay on track & motivated ... we'll see

year: 13
subjects: english language, french and philosophy
predicted grades: A*AB
dream grades: A*A*A
main goal: staying on track with revision and not procrastinating!
uni status: applied - 3/5 offers so far from cardiff, bristol & ULIP, not heard from st andrews or UCL yet
uni course: french/french + ab initio italian

my problem subject is philosophy so this will be my main focus for now - i'd love to get an A in the real thing but currently working at C/B level, completely due to my own lack of revision and motivation, but hopefully this blog will help me a bit to overcome that!

but anyways, thank you for reading and i hope you enjoy watching the progress that i will (hopefully..) make :biggrin:

Reply 1

aarcs

friday 10th november 2023

strong-ish start today - had english this morning which meant an hour of coursework. currently making good progress, working on having my justification, hypotheses and methodology finished by next week, and most of my theory research done.
in my break i got a couple of the things i wanted to do done which included finishing my topic mindmap for la marginalisation and doing a topic mindmap for the design argument, which i want to create for each philosophy topic for revision (eventually).
had philosophy this afternoon and got one of two of my exams back, i got a B which i was okay with, i wasn't expecting much because i barely revised out of fear lol

overall.. feeling ok. have a couple of homeworks for tuesday to finish off but that's all that's urgent.

(edited 10 months ago)

Reply 2

aarcs

monday 13th november 2023

i don't tend to do any work over the weekend so nothing to report there - maybe this needs to change in the future
didn't have a lot to do today - finished off philosophy homework due tomorrow and started some IRP research, v interesting so far

general tasks for the rest of the week will be

•

continue IRP research

•

continue english coursework (justification, hypothesis, methodology, then source analysis)

•

make philosophy topic mindmaps

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maybe continue missing french speaking q's

(edited 10 months ago)

Reply 3

TiBFS

Original post by aarcs

friday 10th october 2023

strong-ish start today - had english this morning which meant an hour of coursework. currently making good progress, working on having my justification, hypotheses and methodology finished by next week, and most of my theory research done.
in my break i got a couple of the things i wanted to do done which included finishing my topic mindmap for la marginalisation and doing a topic mindmap for the design argument, which i want to create for each philosophy topic for revision (eventually).
had philosophy this afternoon and got one of two of my exams back, i got a B which i was okay with, i wasn't expecting much because i barely revised out of fear lol

overall.. feeling ok. have a couple of homeworks for tuesday to finish off but that's all that's urgent.

Is there a reason you're telling us about 10th October?

Reply 4

aarcs

Original post by TiBFS

Is there a reason you're telling us about 10th October?

it's a daily grow your grades/study blog 🙂

Reply 5

erin11

Debate & Current Affairs Helper, Study Forum Helper

Original post by aarcs

monday 13th october 2023

i don't tend to do any work over the weekend so nothing to report there - maybe this needs to change in the future
didn't have a lot to do today - finished off philosophy homework due tomorrow and started some IRP research, v interesting so far

general tasks for the rest of the week will be

•

continue IRP research

•

continue english coursework (justification, hypothesis, methodology, then source analysis)

•

make philosophy topic mindmaps

•

maybe continue missing french speaking q's

hi, hope your studying was successful! how is your irp going?

Reply 6

emm4nuella

Debate & Current Affairs Helper, Study Forum Helper

Original post by aarcs

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continue IRP research

•

continue english coursework (justification, hypothesis, methodology, then source analysis)

•

make philosophy topic mindmaps

•

maybe continue missing french speaking q's

its november 🙂 - would be fun to go back in time haha! oooo im definitely watching your gyg forum <3!

Reply 7

aarcs

Original post by emm4nuella

its november 🙂 - would be fun to go back in time haha! oooo im definitely watching your gyg forum <3!

omg this just shows how crazy a levels are driving me hahah thanks for pointing that out

Reply 8

aarcs

Original post by erin11

hi, hope your studying was successful! how is your irp going?

thanks !! my irp is going well ty, so far my teacher has just told us to begin research on our topic so that's what i've been doing, it's been pretty interesting
iirc you do french too right? how's yours going 🙂

Reply 9

aarcs

friday 24 november

i have obvs failed at keeping this up every day. but let's try this again
today will be coursework in my english lesson and then in my break i'll finish off french hwk & hopefully get started on making revision stuff for metaphysics of god module. and then finally the wkend !!

Reply 10

erin11

Debate & Current Affairs Helper, Study Forum Helper

Original post by aarcs

yep, fellow French student here. id say mine is going pretty well, I have done most of my general research and am now zoning in more specifically into my question.