The A* Grade Challenge Mega Update!

It has been some time since I did an update about the A* grade challenge.

Well my academic work has been a real rollercoaster ride over the past few months. As explained before, I was facing a lot of difficulties with many personal issues and it did have a major knock-on my studies. As a result of this entire bonanza, my motivation hit rock bottom fast and I couldn’t get out of that mindset for some time. Situations at school seemed to make life much worse for me.

Due to the fact that I didn’t want to work at all, I had 9 weeks’ worth of work sitting at my desk when the Christmas holidays came around, and I just remember thinking “how on earth am I going to get through this in just two weeks??!?! *heart attack*”. Resultantly, I worked at my wits end during Christmas – which meant that I didn’t get to watch Home Alone or any other Christmassy movies that come on, which I have to say, is pretty sad. I may have been ambitious with my work plans over Christmas, but I managed to get on top on 70% of the work that I had to do! Some of that work that took the majority of my time was writing 5 English essays, writing up detailed biology notes on 6 chapters. By the end of it all, I was completely burnt out and I seriously wasn’t, in any way shape or form, ready for another term of school.

Due to all of the difficulties I had faced during these few months, I’m currently in the process of emailing universities to see whether I’m eligible to apply with extenuating circumstances later on this year.

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Now, let’s move on to the great things that have been going on:

·         For my Religious Studies Unit 4 mock exam, I managed to achieve 60/75, which is 4 marks of an A*! I was absolutely elated when I received this mark and it really did start to display that all the effort I was putting in was starting to pay off. I really wasn’t expecting to do this well, but it’s motivated me so so much more to hit that A* in the actual exam. To add, it’s also my strongest subject thus far, which explains my determination to excel in it.

·         I’m starting to get an A grade in my History essays. I was initially really worried that I was writing the essays in a completely wrong way as I was just writing them the way I did at AS. Seeing as I want to study this subject as university and eventually become a historian (my ultimate dream), I would absolutely love to get an A* in this subject as I’ve said many a time, as it is a subject that I hold immense passion for. The technique is quite hard to grasp at times since I self- teach this subject, but I’m getting there, gradually.

·         Biology is also going great as I’m finding the topics so much more interesting than last year. However, I need to start attempting past papers so that I can check my progress.

And last but not least…

·        English. The subject that has made me cry so so much. I have to say, I am improving. I’m finding this year’s specification a lot easier than last year and the essays are a lot more simpler to write. I can see that the quality of my essays and ideas are becoming better.  Since I’m just doing AS the highest I can get is an A, but will I get it? That is the question. I’m currently on a B- grade but I still have a long long way to go before I hit that A.

After all this, I’m so much motivated to get up and work towards my dream grades. The minimum I need to apply to universities is A*AA and I'm absolutely determined to achieve them all, and better if I can. 

So that's my update for now. Hopefully positivity will prevail over the next 3 months I have left of A-Level craziness.