r/6thForm

I dont know if its just me being slow, but personally I think my school is operating at a ridiculously fast a level maths pace: we've covered chapters 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 9 10 (excluding chapter 8) of pure year 1 edexcel content and are given an hour of homework per lesson so 5 hours weekly, (but obviously I have to do so much more to stay affloat) and we spend roughly 1-2 lessons per chapter.

I have an end of topic test on chapters 1,2,3,4,5,6,9 next week, and ive covered using madasmaths and bicen maths to cover so far 1-5 really in depth, but its so hard to consolidate when we jump to new chapters frequently. Also, we get exam questions weekly on the stuff we covered 2 weeks earlier, but I don't have time to consolidate; I feel like I'm just curating a superficial understanding of the content.

Is this just my school, or is this normal, and I need to adapt?

I would greatly appreciate any advice.

why is the damm tmua so hard, does anyone have any insane revision tips when ur loosing motivation.

i struggle a lot with keeping focus as i have autism and 50 things going on in my head all at once makes it impossible to sit and do something when i feel umotivated by the fact that im so bad at it. I feel like I definitely understand and know how to do a lot of the questions but then i come back and forget how which then fustrates me and its impossible to get back into the grind. Ive done sm past papers i really dont know what i can do and how to properly sit down and lock in for it. I can get a 7.8 ish if ive revised the paper and maybe a 6.8 7.1 if not but sometimes ill get like a 5.4 and I cant tell what my weaknesses are becuase each paper varies so much.

my exam is on thursday any tips or even just anything to make me stress less is appreciated cheers

So guys I applied for maths and I got 3 A* in maths, physics, cs and an A in fm originally. But I was 2 marks away and looked through the papers and thought I could get extra marks in two papers. I sent those two for review but I only got 1 mark in one of the papers and the other stayed the same. I was upset because the other paper was the one my teacher agreed I could get 2 marks on. After this, I appealed the paper I did not get any marks on. Now I finally get the two marks last week and got an A*.

Before I sent the two papers for review, I emailed Warwick who gave me a deadline of 2nd September. I got the review back on 20th August. I sent appeal much later as my family said to also review other two papers and the school was very hesitant about the appeal. It took 17 days for the appeal to come back anyway so it wouldn't have been in time. Now idk what to do as I am already going to Southampton (which was my insurance). I am only posting this because so far I don't like the course at Southampton. If you have any advice please help.

I’m currently a year 13 doing Politics, French (big regrets) and English Language. I have a part time job working at a retail shop. Dull as hell basically.

The problem I have is that I’m on a 8 hour contract however I’ve been scheduled to work 20 hours a week for the next 4 weeks. I’ve messaged my boss asking him to change it but he hasn’t so I’m stuck having to go in for 20 hours for the next month. I’m hoping he’ll change it for the month after back to 8 hours a week but like I won’t know until the schedule is out and by then it’s too late.

I want to go to Uni next year so I do need money saved up for all of that but I’ve had a job since start of year 12 (used to be a waitress on a 0 hour contract WHICH WAS SO MUCH BETTER) so I’ve got some money saved up. Having this job has really not been good for my school work as I never have enough time to do anything above the bare minimum, I’ve still not properly started my personal statement, and I’ve got coursework due next week that’s not done yet so I’m screwed basically. But obviously I can’t quit the job without giving a 2 weeks notice and I’m like should I really quit the job as I know how hard it is to find these part time jobs nowadays (basically impossible).

I need AAA to get into the uni I want which I know for a fact I won’t be achieving if I stay at my current level. So, should I quit the job ASAP, should I cling onto it until I’ve found another job (which will probs not be for ages), or should I just wait until the next schedule comes out to see what my hours are there? (But then there’s the issue of my resignation being pushed back further if I’m still at 20 hours and then that’s more school revision lost)

ADVICE NEEDED PLS

OR am I just using the job as an excuse for why I’m suddenly doing shite at school and quitting won’t even see me improve at all anyway??

I wanna do medicine at UCl/KCL/ Imperial and I’m taking bio chem maths.. idk if I should do an epq. Anyone who takes it, is it really that time consuming and does anyone know if u need an epq to get into a top uni (like to stand out or smth)

i started year 12 a month ago now and have literally 0 friends, im not in any group chats etc, barely had a conversation with anybody past small talk, i feel so terribly lonely. i go to a sixth form college where i know nobody from my secondary, and im genuinely considering dropping out and taking the year off.

also i slack in all my subjects and all my teachers
hate me( for good reason because ive skipped days due to having no friends and dont hand in hw) please i need advice , will it get better/ how can i make friends without being a beg?

I'm struggling to understand exactly how broad of a category "piece of art" is so if you did an EPQ could you please show your lovely artifacts and hopefully I'll get a bit of an idea.

ESAT preparation during Y12?

for context, I just started Y12 and I really want to get good on the ESAT next year (2027) (math 1 and 2 and physics) . apparently its helpful to start practising for it throughout Y12 so I can be a bit more prepared when the exam comes around but Im not sure how to actually prepare for it since I haven't learnt all year 1 a level content and idk how much to actually do , what resources to use whether i should just focus on getting good at a level content and general problem solving skills instead of practising for the ESAT. I am open to any advice on this and uni applications in general.

In esat lab mocks you dont get a timer per question while in the practice mode you do get it. My question is how do i track my time spent per question in the actual esat as without the timer per question i am not sure how much time ive spent or even when should i skip the question(guess). Due to which i end up spending 200s on the hard questions and run out of time. So how can i prevent this and like manage properly.

Sorry before hand is its a dumb question, i am just really anxious that i would end up blundering the whole thing.
Thankss for any helpp.

Im currently doing Maths FM Econ and CS and I am considering dropping CS so I can focus on getting A*s in my other 3. I plan to go into russell group unis (LSE, UCL, Woxbridge) for Econ and want to know if dropping cs will negatively affect my application for any of these.
Achieved 3 9s 5 8s 2 7s in Gcses
Looked around on AI and Google and have been told that it won't affect me at all really but just wanted to make sure through actual real people.

Hi, I'm resitting an A level, I do have extenuating circumstances, but do they actually make a difference, or do they have to be extreme? Because I decided to apply to Cambridge, but I am not really sure whether extenuating circumstances would help or not

i wanted to ask that how to guess and when to guess. Firstly by when to guess i mean when should i start guessing as on average on esat mocks i can answer up to 20 questions before running out of time. So should i just do 18 qs and then in the last 4 mins just scroll through and guess the rest by process of elimination or do 20 questions and then in the last 30 seconds just guess randomly all remaining answers?

Also by how to guess, what i wanted to ask was how should i eliminate options quickly ( i know it sounds really vague) but what i heard was just see what options that are most common and then guess between them. For example in a table the most occurring options for each column would be the row i guess and a bit of stretch but for some maths questions the most similar answers.(e.g same number but different signs between them or same surd). does this actually work?

Thank you for any help. Also i am doing m1 m2 phy if that helps

Im applying to politics/international relations at UCL, KCL, St andrews, warwick, and edinburgh.

I have a 3.7 gpa, 1440 sat, and 5 AP's taken. I scored a 4 on three of those, and a 5 on two of them. I am also taking 2 APs this year, both of which I am predicted a 5. I was wondering what my odds for these courses would be, as i meet the entry requirements but from what I understand you typically need to exceed them by a bit to be accepted. If anyone has a good estimate for my odds of acceptance I would appreciate it.