Vent about my future

so sorry for what ure going through... i hope your grandad gets better too. but firstly, gap year is completely not "unrealistic" tons of people even get into oxbridge after gap years and do just fine, so your mum is definitely wrong in that regard. but it does really suck that you arent doing the subjects you wanted at alevel, so if i was you id try beg your heads of department or even headteacher to give you a chance to take the ones you want. but either way you should start studying your actual subjeccts at home and gcses too so you can be ahead when you restart year 12 next year. theres one thing for certain that is a worst case scenario and that you never want to happen is you going to **** uni to study for a degree that you couldnt care less about and just bleed money and go into debt.

Tysm for ur advice, im already 2 months in sixth form so not rlly possible to change subjects anymore(did try to chat w head department). And my case is quite diff since its rlly not a gap year but like an extra year in sixth form , so i doubt i would have advantage than gap year student coz they got achieved grades and i would be year 13 with predicted grades. I would defo focus on the my gcse content and alevel content and already start doing so!

yeah i guess its not really a gap year. i still think youll do just fine though my main concern is just you going to a course that you dont like and wasting time and money, so i would really do everything to just avoid that. but i would still ask again the head of department.... maybe its just me but i just wouldnt let it go cuz this is serious and i would escalate it to the headteacher if i had to, so ig i recommend you do that lol. well done on starting the gcse content again tho! also another thought thats prettyyy far fetched but you could try emailing other schools to see if they have free spaces and would accept you if they have lower gcse requirements..