Im not sure about finishing A levels

I don’t know if I should keep doing A levels

I’m going to give some context first im year 13 studying math, computer science and photography at a college. In year 12 I went to a sixth form but I transferred for my second year due to me being very depressed there and most staff and students effectively bullying me due to lies spread by an old friend there was only one teacher in the entire place who I liked who actually supported me but because of that I had to transfer I tried transferring last year in October but because they hated me they purposely screwed over my reference to the college saying I’m predicted all Us and at the time on all mocks I didn’t get below a B. Anyway, because of me transferring that also meant switching exam boards for computer science and photography and due to the head of the sixth form also being my photography teacher she basically didn’t prepare me at all everything I know about the theory of photography to analyse photographs with I know from myself teaching it to me years ago which is a big problem when its a 100% course work topic with most marks on the new exam boards (AQA) coming from analysis. On top of all that I had surgery recently so I’m off until after Christmas which is meaning I have even less time for the course work which is due for the end of January and I can hardly walk so I can’t even take photographs to analyse even if my analysing skills are very poor and to top it all off I’m still quite depressed everything makes me miserable and I have no motivation to work ever not even in lesson I absolutely love maths normally but even picking up the pen and calculator feels so hard for me and because of this is the most recent tests we did I got a D and I also got that for Computer Science, the photography teacher was nice enough to give me the grade i need for the uni i want to go to even though he said its not there yet but I don’t even know if uni is for me what I really want is an apprenticeship doing something somewhat maths related like accounting because I feel so miserable with the pressure put on me to be constantly studying whereas i feel with an apprenticeship I can just go to work, earn some money, go home and relax. The only reason why I actually want to go to uni is just to move away from home but i know my mum would never let me drop out no matter what too because she’s a firm believer of A levels and uni is the only option for a good life but I don’t even really care if i never earn big money like she and the rest of my family want me to id be happy with a modest salary and small place to live with a tiny bit of money for savings but right now im just so miserable does anyone have any advice.

I also want to say im so sorry this is a mess of grammar and probably hardly makes sense its late and im just getting it all out sorry about poor grammar too i only got a 5 in my english language gcse

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Basically, depressed at sixth form in year 12, transferred to college for year 13 because couldnt transfer earlier due to bullys of staff, still very miserable here not as miserable due to constant pressure to study and cant bring myself to study therefore failing and different exam boards causing me to have gaps in knowledge, want to do apprenticeship instead, mum and other family would go mental if i dropped out because “you need a levels and uni for good life”, only considering uni to get away from family.

Sorry again the tldr is also a bit of a mess i just wanted to sum it up a bit because i know i wrote way too much for the main bit

Reply 1

TSR Jessica

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Reply 2

efficient-river

If I was you, apprenticeships require atleast a minimum of 96 ucas points, and as you’ve only got 6 months left I’d push through, cause in the end it’s ur own benefit, not ur parents not your teachers, yours. Also I must say degree apprenticeships if you’re going for that, you still have to study even for a normal apprenticeship. You have to balance working and committing to ur studies, for this they usually give you a study day to do this. I’m sorry you’re old school did this to you, this is absolute despicable behaviour, they should’ve been helping you not throwing you in the mud. I wish you a well recovery and I hope to see you thrive in the future.