Well, I’m generally most pleased with my AS results, which came out a week or two ago – while I was at Soul Survivor, so I had an agonising wait for my mum to text me on that morning! (As it turned out, I had just started doing the Macarena with 10,000 other people when I got a “can we ring you?” message)
I got As in Maths, Physics and Computing and a B in Chemistry. And an E in General Studies. I’m not too bothered about this at the end of the day because all the university courses I’ve looked at so far don’t count it in their entry requirements but if it’s a choice between offering me a place and someone with exactly the same grades as me except a C/B in GS then that might tip the scales towards them. As it stands the school think I should’ve done better than that (especially the U aka fail on the second unit paper) and have requested a copy of my paper from the exam board for scrutinising.
This brings me to that time when I’m supposed to decide what I want to do at university, and where. Apparently I’m supposed to make five or six initial choices which is slightly daunting because I’ve only looked at three or four universities so far. However, I went on a little road trip with my dad today and visited the universities at Warwick and Nottingham, both of which I think look very nice! Obviously it was a lot quieter there on a bank holiday than it would be in the middle of the term but both places looked to be just the sort of place I’d like to go: on a campus, with lots of facilities and modern buildings, etc.
I’ve now set myself a target to write a draft personal statement this week, so I can hand it in as soon as I go back to school. The work never ends!