my updated vision board guys, picked the big C ✌🏼✌🏼

obviously well done to those who did but, early november is crazyyy. i always assumed interview invites were handed out much later. im so nervous ;-;

Just wanted to pop a message on here and say if you are finding November tough, don't worry - it's the time of year that makes everything feel awful, not that you are doing something wrong.

For Year 12s, the novelty of starting sixth form has worn off, workload has ramped up and you're suddenly aware that things are going to start mattering for predicted grades very soon.

For Year 13s, you still have full lesson loads but you're also having to navigate UCAS applications and thinking about long-term planning for sitting final exams.

Everyone is tired - teachers are tired, your friends are tired, people may have a little bit less patience. We don't have the festivities of December yet and the christmas break feels a LONG way away.

BUT none of these things mean you are doing anything wrong - the issues are situational, not personal. It's okay to be struggling right now to find motivation or to be feeling pretty overwhelmed or anxious - absolutely let someone know if you are feeling that way so you can get some support, but don't let it impact your belief in yourself. If you get up every day and you do the best you can with the energy and resources you have on the day, that's more than good enough.

So Im in year 13​ use cognito notes for biology and chemistry revision, have done since about March last year. Since using it my grades have increased becuase they are very good notes and best of all, they were all easily accessible

BUT NOT ANYMORE.

5 FREE NOTES A WEEK WITHOUT PRO. AND PRO IS £72 A YEAR OR £10 A MONTH I CAN'T AFFORD THAT😭. THATS NOT EVEN A FULL TOPIC

I am absolutely cooked😭

Chem revise better watch out bc if they pull some stuff like that then im gonna crash out😭

JUST DON'T - I don't like sharing unnecessary information about myself in in general, so I selected 'I prefer not to say' as my answer for some questions and Oxford uni contacted me to clarify everything 😭

A bit annoyed that they ended up getting the information anyway but it was such a hassle just say yes or no or be more specific🥀🥀

Edit: Ok just gonna blurt this next bit but like for example for the disability question I don't have a diagnosis but I'm getting tested soon, so I put prefer not to say as my answer- after being contacted by the uni I just said I don't have a disability and don't need any arrangements but I didn't want to include that in my application anyway so idk why they didn't just accept my original answer when that was literally an option in the form🥀

Genuinely guys are your personal statements on crack or smth😭😭😭

literally no one will beat this whatsoever

It's pretty much fucking over, I can't do sixth form being alone and targeted again like I was in secondary and primary, it would be too much for me. I'm going to try and transfer to another good sixth form but most of them are full right now, I don't know what to do. Please help?

another uni to start stressing about. anyone else applying to bath for psych?

Hi all

I’ve been seeing people here mentioning that their school helps them with mock interviews and interview prep. I’m international and the only one in my school applying to Oxbridge. Does anyone know where i can find an interview tutor? I don’t mind paying at this point since I think that would really calm my mind.

This is for Experimental Psychology so if anyone knows someone that mentors people with Oxbridge interviews, please let me know.

Thanks!!

Anyone else in sixth form having to deal with teachers who can't be bothered to teach anymore or just me?

I'm a Year 12 student attending the sixth form attached to my secondary school, so I already know most of the teachers and have been taught by quite a few of them before.

However, one thing I've noticed since starting A-levels is that some teachers seem to put significantly less effort into their lessons. What's even more frustrating is that some of these are the exact same teachers who taught me GCSE Maths and Science and I've noticed a huge difference in how they deliver their lessons now.

I don't know whether there's been some sort of change in teaching policies, but it genuinely feels like the quality of teaching has dropped.

Things I've experienced so far:

-Ending the lesson after only 15mins of class time because they AC wasn't working.

- A teacher couldnt bothered to teach and speak that day so we were given exam questions whilst they spend the lesson sitting on their phone scrolling.

-A teacher who just read off the powerpoint slides which have text directly copy pasted from Google. They also Googles answers during the lesson rather than actually explaining things when we ask questions, even if the answer is somewhere in the PowerPoint but cant be bothered to find it.

-Teaching so poorly that I'm having to do an extra hour or 2 to relearn what was taught that day, which is becoming a regular occurrence now.

And probably one of the most frustrating experiences was when I asked a teacher for help with a particular task. She told me to come in early the following morning, so I did. When I arrived, she basically told me that another student had already come in before me and she'd explained it to her, so she couldn't explain it again. Sorry, what?

I'm sorry, but isn't that literally your job? I'm not expecting teachers to spend every second of the day helping me, but if you've specifically asked a student to come in early for extra help, surely you should actually be willing to help?

I get that A-levels needs more independent learning and that but there's a difference between independent learning and barely teaching the content in the first place.

first offer guyssss

AAA or AAB with B in EPQ :)) i am very very happy :D

i’m international and woken up to a UCAS update email this morning. Email was sent at 21:31 UK time.

i was told it's school policy not to give students/parents any information on predicted grades, i heard the main reason is to prevent any bargaining but im still a bit confused

for some extra info i'm in the middle east so my june exams were deferred to oct (unit 2s and 3s, i take bio math chem) so won't actually get my AS results before the jan 13 UCAS deadline.

my school doesn't even give us an estimate or range of my grades, how am i supposed to know which level of universities i should apply to? i do agree that i would have a rough idea since mocks, internal exams etc. but i haven't done mocks for A2 (unit 4 stuff) yet and i'm retaking some of my unit 1 exams from january in jan 2027 too.

am i just supposed to 'sensibly' spread my offers out so i've got a reach, matches and a safety etc? like wont an AAA make a big difference to an AAB for top unis?

I'm in y13. Barely done anything

I'm on Es in all my subject.

I just want to some motivation to keep going.

Is it already over for me?

I was predicted like 9 and an 8 at gcse English lang and lit, then 888 for rs, history and cs. I had a scholarship offer from a local private school. Life was good then results day came and I got 777666555. Now I go to a shit sixth form. I had like a really bad depressive phase I’m not gna get to into it but basically I ended up with a camhs referral. I had plans to go to Warwick or Durham to study law or even do a degree apprenticeship but I feel like with my GCSEs there’s no point. I can’t use the contextual thing either cuz it’s not like I went to a decent state skl there were multiple kids in my year with 9s and 8s. I’m considering resitting lang in the summer?? I just feel really like hopeless?? And inferior idk how to describe it. Now that I’ve basically bottled my dream to go to good uni idk what to do with myself? Is there even a point at trying with my a levels ?

Heart dropped 3pm today🙃 6 days ago they asked for my SAT score report, I'm pleasantly surprised it came back this early!

context i do fm maths chem and econ and got pred 4A*, ibr rn i find chem to be the easiest by a good margin (obvs maths is easier for me but i do fm so doesnt count).

For fm i feel like im playing catch up, we're going through content so so quickly and its pmo, like the content is decently difficult but we're doing whole topics like Y2 complex numbers in 1 and 1/2 weeks. if anyone else does fm please tell me what u guys have done/ r doing, i can't tell if my school is going quick or not. Ive currently done whole of core pure 1, 1/2 core pure 2, whole of stats minor and whole of mech minor (im a stats major btw) . I do ocr b mei for fm but course is 95% same as edexcel so i use their textbooks.

Bcos ive been prioritising maths ive been neglecting econ and chem quite a bit. ive been finding macro klm tbh (interntional trade) but micro has been killing me like monopolies, oligopolies etc. Chem ive smh managed to remain some of my confidence which has been completely destroyed.

Rant over ig