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Quitting an A-Level

I decided to quit my Ancient History A-Level because I have been struggling with it for the entire year and a half I’ve been studying it and it is bringing down my mental health (and possibly subsequently my physical health). I know nothing about the course and if I were to want to pass I’d have to essentially teach myself the entire course in a couple of months - I am passionate about my other two subjects and would rather spend the time working on getting better grades for them. I feel apathetic towards History at best and don’t think it’s worth the effort. However, I am still overwhelmed with guilt about my choice; I feel that I am lazy and just taking the easy way out rather than doing what would be morally right and working my socks off to get better. I don’t think that only having two A-Levels will impact my uni offers or life in any way, but I still feel a sense of obligation towards the subject even though I am mostly happy with the decision to quit it aside from this guilt. Am I a lazy person for doing this?

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by FroggyStar
I decided to quit my Ancient History A-Level because I have been struggling with it for the entire year and a half I’ve been studying it and it is bringing down my mental health (and possibly subsequently my physical health). I know nothing about the course and if I were to want to pass I’d have to essentially teach myself the entire course in a couple of months - I am passionate about my other two subjects and would rather spend the time working on getting better grades for them. I feel apathetic towards History at best and don’t think it’s worth the effort. However, I am still overwhelmed with guilt about my choice; I feel that I am lazy and just taking the easy way out rather than doing what would be morally right and working my socks off to get better. I don’t think that only having two A-Levels will impact my uni offers or life in any way, but I still feel a sense of obligation towards the subject even though I am mostly happy with the decision to quit it aside from this guilt. Am I a lazy person for doing this?

Totally prioritise your mental health! It’s really important - I totally understand you, picking a level chemistry is probably my biggest regret despite needing it. I think the best course of action is to talk to a school advisor/counsellor. This is to make sure what you want to peruse at university is definitely not affected by this. You totally aren’t lazy at the end of the day it’s your decision and the reasoning behind it is not immoral if it really is impacting you negatively.

Just double check this doesn’t affect your Uni application etc. And make sure you are 100% for this decision.

Wish you the best of luck! 🙂

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