u/FearlessPen6020

I remember opening my gcse results in 2025 last year and then seeing preposterous numbers on that page. Since I‘m South Asian everyone around me were getting 8s and 9s and my parents lectured me nonstop to the point I cried a lot. But ultimately my results were enough to get my into sixth form and study a levels. My advice would be, if you open your results and dont get what you want, then you have every right to be upset about it. You should channel that energy and take it into sixth form/college.
Use it as a lesson to learn from your mistakes. Learn what revision techniques did and didn’t work. You may or may not find out a levels may suit your style of thinking more than GCSEs did. Or Btec if you do them.

Dont assume these gcses define you. They only show a fragment of what youre capable of, especially since the courses themselves test you on limited information. Someone could get a 9 in a gcse subject and then suffer a levels (trust me I know that firsthand).

So all in all, there’s no right or wrong way you should react or feel. Feel it all when you get them. But remember there’s always a path ahead.

good luck

Ok so basically we have to do coursework right? Well since I don't have much to do over the summer, I decided to speedrun an entire draft in 2 weeks. I chose to do the principal cause of the outbreak of hysteria in salem, so like the witchcraft unit. Anyways one of the historians I chose was Cotton Mather. I did an entire draft and compared him with 2 other historians, one is 19th century one is modern. And then literally last night I found out that Cotton Mather doesn't count as a historian...Yikes!

Anyways I stayed up until 6am going through 5 stages of grief.

And then I got up in the morning and decided to change my historian.

So then I rewrote a good chunk of my sections, mainly the ones that had Cotton Mather.

So hopefully now I have a decent draft 😭

And I also realised smth. After finding out Mather doesn't count, I read through my coursework again and realised the problem anyway. So if ur still in the process of finding ur historians or writing, pls make sure to choose ur historians right 💀

A) wish me luck

B) that is, if my teacher does predict me an A* for history

C) Ik the chances of even reaching interview is unlikely but what if I regret not applying

D) I’m not planning to go uni anyways cause humanities degree is already shaky with prospects

E) therefore I’m applying to Oxford history and politics because I love history and I wanna study it further but I also want prospects

F) wish me luck ☠️

Btw guys. It’s not like I’m on a C for English. I literally got 91/120 for my mock papers but since my writing was crappy before my teacher isn’t budging. 😭😭idk what yalls want me to do atp

I mean it could be a high C but it was quite literally one mark off a B like come on

Update: I take back my words I’m not applying anymore ❤️

I wanna do a law degree apprenticeship. Ik they’re extremely competitive but it’s either that or a humanities degree at uni with lesser prospects. Has anyone else practiced the tests and actually improved or managed to get in?

That scene where Dorian murders Basil. It was shocking, repulsive even…But there was something about the way Wilde wrote that scene that has me feeling a range of emotions. First of all, it’s as though the dignity of Basil was completely stripped away when he was just left there to rot inside that room. And it’s especially devastating given he acted like a moral anchor to Dorian. He was like the only person who still saw hope in him rather than corrupting him. And then he just gets killed like that. But what I think is more disturbing is just…The imagery. Theres just something so gothic about the aftermath of the murder. Like yeah, I know it’s gothic literature but I find it so strange how aesthetic and artistic that whole moment was. And then the way he just continued to be deceptive and carry on life as normal…It’s almost admirable in a way. I hate how Wilde created that effect for me. Now I can’t get it out of my head

All I ever see is maths kids on here or physics or whatever. Come here and yap to me abt politics or sociology, I wanna know how its like (I take the trad humanites like history and lit so)

Eg, I open the paper, I plan my part b for Hamlet and then make a plan for drama and poetry and then go back to part a to annotate and answer the question?

I’m a Muslim but I have to study Christianity at school as part of the religious studies course…Honestly I find both religions equally as appealing, but I just don’t really agree with the trinity