Update

Morning all!
It's just occurred to me that it's GCSE results day today (ok, I was watching the news), so I'll take this opportunity to say good luck to everyone getting them.

On the topic of results, I thought I'd give you an update on my AS results and compare them to my GCSEs (and if your starting them in September, motivate you to work your socks off).

GCSEs:
History - A*
Biology - A
Chemistry - A
Physics - A
Statistics - A
Geography - A
English Language - A
English Literature - B
Maths - B
Humanities - B

Now, I was pretty happy with those results and was confident for year 12, and remained confident until around February, when I realised I wasn't retaining the info as well as I had at GCSE.
This led to me revising non-stop from just before Easter up to exams, and this took its toll on me.
You need to go over your notes, and perhaps condense them, EVERY DAY (I know you might have planned to do that, but the chances are, you won't.) Because, if something happens during the exam period, such as falling ill, that can drastically affect your results, and special consideration won't make up for what you've lost, you need to have as much information as possible in your long term memory by reading your notes throughout the year.

These were my overall results:
History - C (from an A* remember, I was confident in these exams.)
Biology - C
Geography - C
Psychology - B

And a breakdown of papers: to show the difference between when I was healthy, and when I was ill.

PAPER 1 - HEALTHY
Biology - B.
Geography - B.
History - B.
Psychology - A.

PAPER 2 - ILL
Biology - D
Geography - D
History - C
Psychology C

So basically, work hard! :D

Alons-y!

I'm still here - honest!

I can't believe it's been over 2 weeks since my last post, it's all got a bit crazy here with exams and whatnot, but I am still here - honest!

Totally snowed under with Biology and Psychology revision this week as I was ill during the first exams and messed up big time, so I need to ace these ones to bring my grades up.

Snowed under Psychology

Those of you that are observant may notice that i'm wearing shorts - DO NOT BE FOOLED! I'm only wearing them to convince myself that it is in fact, summer (it's not working). At 10am this morning, it was 10 degrees celcius, on the 30th May...less than a month before midsummer...

I've rediscovered a childhood love - My parents are aliens, I've actually ended up scheduling revision breaks for 14:30 and 17:30 just so I can tune into CITV and watch it! I know, I know, It's a bit sad for a 17 year old to be watching a kids TV show, but it makes me laugh and there's so much humour that I didn't pick up on 10 years ago!

I also spent a good few minutes exchanging "miranda memes" with a friend - and formed an entire conversation! (This was before settling down for revision)

In fact, all this Miranda talk is making me want to watch it, I'm going to have to dig out the DVDs any minute now! (Well, I have powered through todays revision and I need a good laugh!)

In fact, I can't contain myself any longer, I must leave now while I still have time before dinner.

Alons-y My hearty reader chums! (Anyone see what I did there...No? Just me then.)

Time goes by, so...quickly?

Hello all, (If you've redirected here from my old blog - welcome!)

Today, I somehow managed to come across the blog I started to write in 2010 (it was quite short lived, hopefully this attempt will be a little better). Some of the posts were really cringey, but they also gave me a chance to reflect on everything that's happened since then, and it was strangely rewarding.
I like to think i've grown up a lot from that sometimes moody, often immature, utterly impossible to maintain a civil conversation with 15 year old I was back then (funny, I seem to remember saying a similar thing back then about my 13 year old self...).

Now that I have a clear path ahead of me (well, besides the obstacles such as exams, making the grade, decisions about universities..), i'm a lot more focussed, and, as such, much more aware of what I need to do to get where I want to go!

This is turning into a bit of a life coaching post.....

Anyway, just in case anyone is wondering how my day went:
I woke up, as usual, at 6:10am, had breakfast, got dressed, got ready for school etc.
Got to the bus stop at 7:20 and arrived at school around 8am.
Here, i spent 40 minutes researching universities and doing a bit of biology revision.
Form time was the usual - register, notices...
9am marked first lesson, geography for me, this consisted of planning an answer to an exam question.
10am - second lesson, free period, I spent this doing biology revision and teaching my friend standard deviation.
11am - Break time!
11:20am - biology - We're in the middle of an ISA and were drawing our graphs today.
12:20pm - history - filling in a table about various US presidents.
1:20pm - Lunch
2:00pm - Form time - notices, chilling
2:25pm - Free period - I spent this doing the geography homework i'd been set 1st lesson.

at 3:25 I took a slow walk to the bus stop, finally arriving home at 4:30, where I almost walked straight into the plumber (our boilers packed up and we've had no hot water since friday!)

This evening i've done some more biology revision (i'm pretty determined to do well in this ISA, in case you hadn't guessed).

Now i'm typing this post - obviously.

Well, that's my day, pretty boring when you look at it like that, but it was actually quite enjoyable.

Hopefully, it won't be long before I look less like this:

Revising, summer 2012

 Although, i'd much rather be revising outside in the sun, than inside listening to the rain as I am now!

And more like this:

Oh, just in case any of you want to see my original blog with all those cringey posts, here it is: http://jodzter-life.blogspot.co.uk/
And with that, I shall depart.

Alons-y! x