[tbhmatt]

Originally posted by Roc

What extracurricular activities are you doing that you'll include on your UCAS form/have done and added to your UCAS form?

I had absolutely zero extra curricular activities I still got in to Uni though

[keshaspearsxo]

Originally posted by Roc

I'll be living proof for the mess he's causing.

There's going to be such a drop for us Year 13's grades from AS to A2 because of this

[bluth]

Finished my A-Levels last summer in Maths, English Lit and French

I actually really miss them. My experience was that second year went a lot better. I got complacent after my GCSEs and so I didn't do as well as I could have in Year 12, but I really gave it my all in Year 13 and it was so worth it.

You don't even realise how far a little work goes, I remember my teacher grading two practice essays I wrote the day before my English lit resit as both grade C's, but that night I just had the best epiphany ever and came out the exam with full marks. I really loved A-Levels

Originally posted by FreeAsMyWeave

I remember the night before my GCSE geography exam (my last exam) Cheryl Cole's new album leaked and I listened to it non stop

Omg, I remember two days before my final French A-Level exam Yeezus leaked it was such inappropriate timing

Originally posted by lousaysthings

Anyone ever hear the story of AQA publishing a poem called Education for Leisure by Carol Ann Duffy in an anthology a few years ago, accompanied by a large image of a knife? They got complaints about it and then had to withdraw all anthologies, destroy them and send out another bunch with a page saying 'This page is intentionally blank' in the poem's place at a cost of millions of pounds

Yeah I remember that. The poem itself isn't really that sinister, but she's a shite poet anyway so glad I don't have to study her any more. It's not as if anyone in my school took her poetry seriously anyway.

[jackieshann]

Originally posted by Beethoven

I slayed my GCSE's but flopped my A Levels . Still got a great job, tho!

what did you study for your a levels and what did u get? what's ur job sis and what's the salary?

[debutante]

Originally posted by Roc

What extracurricular activities are you doing that you'll include on your UCAS form/have done and added to your UCAS form?

I didnt do any extracurricular activities. college's put a lot of emphasis on them but they arent that important to universities as long as you get the grades

[KESTER]

Originally posted by Roc

What extracurricular activities are you doing that you'll include on your UCAS form/have done and added to your UCAS form?

I lied D:
I said I did work experience at a school (which technically I did, but it was only for 2 hours and I never went back) and I said I worked at a multimedia company (my uncle owns the company so I could blag that). I still got 5 offers tho so #yolo

[Suede]

Originally posted by keshaspearsxo

There's going to be such a drop for us Year 13's grades from AS to A2 because of this

Yeah I can imagine! Ugh, mess.

[Javan]

Originally posted by Roc

What extracurricular activities are you doing that you'll include on your UCAS form/have done and added to your UCAS form?

Ugh Nothing. I'm too lazy
I'm doing this expressive arts thing. Not sure of it translates into UCAS tho. I think I will take a general studies exam. I just looked at one past paper today actually. Looks easy as **** + I have a lot of common knowledge

[KESTER]

Originally posted by Jack. Bauer

Side note: Freshers year will make you the laziest you've ever been.

Side note: Any lecture before 12pm is considered an early morning

[Queen Bea.]

Originally posted by Roc

What extracurricular activities are you doing that you'll include on your UCAS form/have done and added to your UCAS form?

I had a Prefectship, 2 choirs, grade 7 instrument and as I was applying for Zoology I put in a lot of stuff about the work I've done with animals, try and be as relevant to your courses as possible.

I ended up declining all my offers but I did get them.

[bluth]

Originally posted by Roc

What extracurricular activities are you doing that you'll include on your UCAS form/have done and added to your UCAS form?

Loads of people lie on their UCAS. I actually did a lot of voluntary work in a charity shop and I was lucky enough to have had the opportunity to do a week's work experience in France. My course isn't competitive anyway so that helped.

[lousaysthings]

Originally posted by bluth

Yeah I remember that. The poem itself isn't really that sinister, but she's a shite poet anyway so glad I don't have to study her any more. It's not as if anyone in my school took her poetry seriously anyway.

Unfortunately, she forms a third of my English Lit coursework, along with Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale and A Streetcar Named Desire

Which prompts this question, those doing Eng Lit, which texts are you studying?

[jackieshann]

Originally posted by bluth

You don't even realise how far a little work goes, I remember my teacher grading two practice essays I wrote the day before my English lit resit as both grade C's, but that night I just had the best epiphany ever and came out the exam with full marks. I really loved A-Levels
.

i pray this happens to me

[Suede]

Originally posted by KESTER

I lied D:
I said I did work experience at a school (which technically I did, but it was only for 2 hours and I never went back) and I said I worked at a multimedia company (my uncle owns the company so I could blag that). I still got 5 offers tho so #yolo

Originally posted by debutante

I didnt do any extracurricular activities. college's put a lot of emphasis on them but they arent that important to universities as long as you get the grades

Hmm... I'm doing everything I possibly can IN school because I really cannot be arsed to dedicate my time to **** outside of school; I'm a biology prefect, a senior prefect (like the government of sixth form ) and I do paired reading with a bunch of illiterate cockroaches.

[chjw]

Originally posted by KESTER

Side note: Any lecture before 12pm is considered an early morning

Even post 12 is an effort tbh.

[Doogle]

Originally posted by KESTER

Sorry if you already know all of this but I feel like my school didn't help me either so I hope this will help a little

Getting a B at A-Level is really good. Obviously not if you're going to be going to Oxford or whatever but there are plenty of good universities that will take you with 3 Bs!!

http://search.ucas.com/

go here^ and search for the course you're interested in and when you find ones you like at unis you're sort of interested in, click on it and find 'entry requirements'.
I'm sure you already know this, but UCAS points work out as
A = 120
B = 100
C = 80
D = 60
E = 40
So you might get somewhere with an entry requirement of 300 which would mean you need 3 Bs. Sometimes unis will require you to get like 320 UCAS points, but will specify that they want an A in a certain A-level.
If there's anything you ever want a hand with legit just message me and I'll help cause I know how ****** schools can be at this stuff.

Thank you SO, SO much, all of that was really helpful.

I basically didn't know like any of that, so that's made me feel a lot better!

Originally posted by Roc

My school kicks people out if their attendance is below 95%

OMG

Mine refuses to enter them if attendance is below 95% in any subject but they're really bad at sticking to the rule.

[Suede]

Originally posted by Javan

Ugh Nothing. I'm too lazy
I'm doing this expressive arts thing. Not sure of it translates into UCAS tho. I think I will take a general studies exam. I just looked at one past paper today actually. Looks easy as **** + I have a lot of common knowledge

I did this creative writing thing related to publishing from September last year to January Like the ****?!?

[Suede]

Originally posted by Doogle

OMG

Mine refuses to enter them if attendance is below 95% in any subject but they're really bad at sticking to the rule.

I bunk a shitton but I always manage to get my ass out of ****.

[Queen Bea.]

A little advice for anyone being pushed into medicine, do not do it unless it's a real passion. I know so many extremely intelligent people who dropped out after the first year because they realized it was not for them, most were doing it for the prestige.

Also regardless of your grades and intelligence bear in mind that for some careers you are better going to tech and getting as much work experience as physically possible, lot's of employers care more about WE than degrees so not going to uni is not labeling yourself as a failure or as being unable to get a good job. Some people are a lot happier with hands on courses too.

[KESTER]

I had no idea there were this many British people on this site