──★ Liqht's A-level Journey ★──

Following along
Also with UCAT I wouldn’t stress too much about it right now. I looked at the format of it once in may, started revision end of july, did it mid September. And that’s was two months ish of about 2hrs per day (and I had an extra subsection to revise for). You run the risk of burning out if you start too early or even just forgetting your strategies. So just be cautious about that but it’s good that you’re aware of what it’ll be like at least

HI
I'm also in Y12 doing Bio, Chem, Maths, FM and an EPQ (same exam boards apart from chemistry) and I want to go into medicine as well. What's your favourite subject so far?

I would say my favourite is either bio or fm rn. I also like bonding specifically in chem. Do you read a lot and if so what genre do you like? And also i like how you've structured your GYG, and the first post as well, mine is just like big titles, small everything else loll

Over the summer I read a lot of thrillers and I absolutely loved that, but a lot of the books had cliff hangers which I hate lol. But that was all fiction and I'm trying to get into non-fiction as I think it's probably more useful, but the book I read (On Being Mortal) hardly felt different to fiction, it was like bits of people's lives mixed in with real cases and issues which was super interesting to read! And thank youu, I love making things look nice because it makes me feel accomplished for some reason 😅
I took a quick look at your GYG and it's amazing, love the life updates and congrats on being prefect! (ik i'm a bit late hehe)

Hello. I'm also a Year 12 but I do Geography (AQA), History (Edexcel) and Sociology (AQA). How are you finding Year 12 so far?

Over the summer I read a lot of thrillers and I absolutely loved that, but a lot of the books had cliff hangers which I hate lol. But that was all fiction and I'm trying to get into non-fiction as I think it's probably more useful, but the book I read (On Being Mortal) hardly felt different to fiction, it was like bits of people's lives mixed in with real cases and issues which was super interesting to read! And thank youu, I love making things look nice because it makes me feel accomplished for some reason 😅
I took a quick look at your GYG and it's amazing, love the life updates and congrats on being prefect! (ik i'm a bit late hehe)

Tyy, OMG I love thrillers as well! I do have a non fiction reading list of books for medicine but I keep putting off starting it loll. I also need to try posting on my GYG more regularly

That’s an interesting choice of subjects, what are you planning on doing post 18?
So far I’m liking it, I think I’m not very good at remembering to go over things I’ve done already, so I might end up forgetting about some maths that we did at the beginning of the year but that’s what this GYG is for. I’m liking all my subjects and so far it’s not too stressful. How are you finding it?

I want to do a BA in Geography (or something similar)
It's going quite well so far but I'm still a little confused how to do History essays but apart from that it's going really well.
I'm going bowling tomorrow so looking forward to that.
Are you doing anything over the weekend?

Ooh sounds interesting! I’m sure the essay writing will be the kind of thing you’ll pick up as you go along, like the more you do the easier it’ll be.
Bowling sounds great, are you good at it would you say? I haven’t really got any plans this weekend but I need to revise for the tests next week so there’s that 😅

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Hi there! I've decided to start a GYG to motivate myself to study and hopefully incrementally improve my performance and maybe enjoy studying! I hope you'll join me on this journey (and nudge me if I start slacking a bit).
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About me
❀ I'm in year 12
❀ I love listening to music when studying (even though it can be distracting)
❀ I play the violin (on track to my grade 7 💪)
❀ I play tennis 🎾
❀ I'm doing my Gold DofE
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Subjects
✎ Biology (AQA)
✎ Chemistry (OCR A)
✎ Maths (AQA)
✎ Further maths (AQA)
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Desired grades : AAAA - A*A*A*A* (yes it's ambitious 😭)
Predicted grades (in the subject order from above) : A*AA (no separate fm grade was given)
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2025 Goals (non-academic)
⚘ To read books (mostly non-fiction and relating to medicine to deepen my knowledge)
⚘ To bake something once a month (at least, I'm rubbish at baking lol)
⚘ To be more active, go on more walks and get better at tennis
⚘ Volunteering (I've applied to both charity shops and my local hospital)
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Future aspiration : To be a doctor 🩺
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📖 Books 📖
Read:
✩ On Being Mortal - Atul Gawande
To read:
✩ The man who mistook his wife for a hat - Oliver Sacks █ 1%(I can't find a smaller block 😬)
✩ When breath becomes air - Paul Kalinithi
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Going to start with biology, doing the homework and writing up some notes then flashcards. I'll also try and go over some flashcards I made on water and ATP as it was only briefly looked at before the hols (but it is only a small bit we were taught)
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I've decided to stop with the lyric music and I'm putting on some 'epic soundtracks' - really recommend studying with this, makes my whole life seem more cinematic lol