i've reached a bump in my school career || ramblings and e.c.t - Comments

No problem!
Also, that's alright, haha.

@ targaryen.
Well if you're looking at going abroad, I'd suggest starting to look into it now. Most British unis offer a semester abroad in the second year, so you might be interested in that. And that's a lot of courses. They'll all ask for different subjects so I'd suggest narrowing it down to two or three different courses so that you can get the subjects required.

@ castiel's vessel
thank you for the advice and good luck with your own application!

I would love to go to uni but I'm edging towards a uni aboard perhaps but I dunno, I've got so many in mind! I would love to take a course which is either technology-related, media-related, history-related or costume design-ish or film production I haven't even ruled out things like marine biology or medical I'm so lost

@ targaryen.
I absolutely understand. We didn't get much help, never even in the shape of the careers advisor, so I wouldn't know that some subjects require English Language A-Level, which wasn't on offer for me, or will only take joint Lit+Lang. Thankfully, I didn't want to take any of those courses, but still. Do you have an idea of whether you'd want to go to uni, and if so, which course? I'm really UCAS/course savvy because in December I sent off my UCAS application and have a conditional place at a university so I'll be able to help if you need it!

No one in my year really cared about the mocks because y'know, just mocks, but that's a really bad mindset and I do not encourage it.

@ castiel's vessel
gosh thank you for the UCAS hint because I have NO idea and school is pressuring
Wow, I guess mocks are always worse than the real things! I know exactly what you mean, languages are just... nope.

You have to choose your A-Level choices by Feb? I only had to give a rough guesstimate of what I might take in year 11, and it was only when year 12 started that I actually made my choice.

Do you have any idea if you want to go to university? If so, any idea what course you'd like to do? Most of them require a certain subject at A-Level that had to be taken, so if you look courses up on UCAS even though they're for this September's entry, it'll give you a rough idea of what to take.

I remember my mock GCSEs. I got a G (worse than an F - ha!) in Welsh and three Es in Science because I just didn't care for them. In the real exams, I got Cs in Science (highest I could get - sat foundation tier) and a D in Welsh which wasn't bad considering I fail at languages.

@ dyke
thanks!
and yup, tbh I don't know what they mean universally or whether they change depending where you live

Ohh I love game of thrones and your username! Also, are the letters the marks you received or what?