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Handed in 250+ pages in few months ago. Tip: just follow the checklist. dont bother adding anything cool. if youre going for grades just do something along the lines of a program which teaches the a level algorithms in the checklist.
Can confirm, all is true. Got As and Bs in sixth form assignments, mock papers and past papers. Revised, ended up with CCD, the actual exams were fucking horrible.
lol what, no way is that true of A levels. Then again, I did maths and physics, which I think outsiders don't realise are non-coursework subjects (maybe this has changed, I'm 34)
@@alexsmith-fg6wh Omg I forgot about this comment. Anyway I'm now revising like 2-3 hours everyday, so it's not even as hard as I thought 😭 no wonder those year 10s are doing it.
Biggest regret of my life. First year got fucked by absences and a shitty teacher. Second year we had to learn the entire course in a year and it destroyed my interest in game design. My mental health genuinely got worse. I’m doing a degree in sound engineering at the moment and Idk if I can get a job in future lol.
I had a teacher who said we had to do 2-3 hours a week studying PER SUBJECT. If anyone actually followed that then they would be doing 2-3 extra hours of school work everyday from august till may.
I did my A-levels a few years back (gosh that makes me feel old) but I can still relate to the video lol. At my school it was standard to do 4 in AS and then drop to 3 for A2 (second year). Some did 4 the whole way through but not many. I used to do my homework during free periods so I wouldn't have to do it at home 😂which I would argue is revision. Work hard (and smart) enough to get the grades you want and you'll be fine. And ironically enough, with most jobs (i.e. not requiring Uni degree, at which case I suppose they would just look at your degree...), they just want 5 good GCSEs (grade A* - C, or I guess that's 9 - 5 now?) including English and Maths. All of my jobs have not cared one bit about my A-levels 😂 alas, my work there was in vain, but still glad I did them. Word of advice from someone who's been done with school and has been working for a few years - I had no idea what I wanted to do then, but I do now. Once you start working, you will find out very quickly what you do and do not want to do as a job. Don't stress too much over it, but don't stagnate either. Don't worry if you can't / don't want to go to Uni either. Unless you have a specific or set career goal in mind, Uni might not be very useful for you in getting a job. Don't forget college courses / night classes can help with other professions (HR, accounting, other vocational work) at a much cheaper rate. And most importantly, enjoy your time during sixth form 🙂it's one of the last few periods of life that you will see friends so frequently.
What job do you have now and what led you to getting it? I'm currentlyin yr11 and i have no idea on what to do in the future or even for my work experince which we need to do soon. There's teachers that say GCSEs and A-levels are important as each otehr but what do you think is more important?
This is somewhat relieving, but I still don't know how to feel... I was a good student my whole life, but things happened, and I became really demotivated before my O levels; so I didn't study much and ended up scoring bad. Now for my A levels; I picked 3 subjects: Business Studies, Bio and Physics but am contemplating on taking a 4th one (most prob English). But the thing is, I'm not from the UK, and the education system is different here. Students under Cambridge curriculum tend to do coachings (after school) for O/A levels. So eventhough I'm pretty confident in English, I'd still need to join a coaching (because 1. I'm not a pro, 2. It might be risky, and 3. We need to pay A LOT to give these exams, so I have to be really sure about what I choose). But there aren't many coachings for A levels English here (because most students take either Science, Math or Commerce subjects). Besides that, I've always wanted to study law in the UK (preferably Oxbridge, or any top 10 universities), but my family is planning (not confirmed) to settle in Canada. I don't know how to feel... is it okay for me to do my undergrad in Canada and then do my master's in UK? But then there's this LSAT thing... I've always taken IELTS (training) classes at school, and have never touched a SAT book in my life... so I really don't know how to feel. It's sad that we have to take on so much pressure and make these big decisions for our future... We're only teens, we're supposed to just start discovering more about life at this age, not make settlements for our future... I wish education systems were a bit fairer and made our lives easier instead. I mean, all I've ever wanted was to be happy, successful, and make my parents proud. Anyways, please pray for me; and if anyone has any advice, feel free to share it :') And goodluck to everyone, I hope none of you face any troubles regarding this. I know it's scary, I'm scared too, but future's gonna be okay 🤍
In first year of uni and I’m missing A levels already tbh. Easily the best years of my life, I’m already getting nostalgic thinking about it. Enjoy spending every hour of the school day with your close friends, try to really enjoy the subjects you picked, and appreciate how much your teachers do for you.
A levels were fun for hanging out with friends for sure. I went out with my mates for lunch every day, and we’d often go somewhere after the end of the day too. Ultimately the only subject that I thought really benefited from the way A levels are taught is Geography, probably because I had good teachers and we went out for quite a few field trips and practical work (which wasnt even required).
im in the same boat, although my a levels were hideous. german and biology aged me 50 years but at least psychology was alright. i barely managed to get on my course with my shit grades but that means wasting all my time was actually just an investment that paid off
That drama one is surprisingly accurate. I’m doing A-level drama and you have to do multiple practitioners styles and one of them is called Artaud, famous for the Theatre Of Cruelty. And the first lesson of learning this type of theatre was my teacher sitting on the floor in the spotlight and having a mental breakdown. I asked my teacher if I could do an Artaud piece for the year 9s as I hate them and would love to give them PTSD acting a mad doctor, but seems like that’s not going to happen.
I'm doing maths at uni and you definitely do not need the CG50 calculator at all, not even at uni. A regular £30 scientific calculator is more than enough. If you really need the CG50 then there's an entire website that replicates the functions for you. There's nothing that a CG50 can do for you that somewhere on the internet doesn't already do for you.
I got one for regular maths because I was initially struggling with graphs Half a year later I walked into my room to find the calculator face down with out its case. The screen had a crack Over time the crack grew beht it was still usable even in my final exams this year Yesterday I took the calculator apart, salvaged the interesting stuff and destroyed the screen for good
I finished my A Levels in 2018, and honestly… grades are not that important when it comes to getting a career. It’s experience in the work place that is most important. Even after University, employers don’t really care (obviously it depends what career you’re going into - law or healthcare etc ofc). Get work experience and references and that is the most important is building up a good work ethic and résumé.
Yeah I agree. It’s a shame that schools make it seem like academia is the end goal of everything when academia itself is riddle with all sorts of lies. I’m currently at university after taking a hiatus for like 2 years and I see through the nonsense a lot better. University is still far better than college, more freedom (but more responsibility) but also more freedom in voicing your opinions.
The reason why grades exist is solely to demonstrate academic prowess. It exists assuming you'll keep climbing the academic ladder all the way to the top in hopes of doing high level research. That's the only place grade matters..
amazing curation of memes, thank you! unfortunately a lack of A-level languages slander... but fair enough, because you don't expect anyone to do them... as someone taking Latin, French, Philosophy and Computer Science... yeah, idk either... but I do pity the poor saps doing sciences or maths lmao
@@Kornonthekobb oh yes, I'm the only one in my sixth form taking Latin, but yeah, it exists! half language and half literature, it's sort of like English but, you know, fun! oh wow, you must really hate urself!! engineering hopeful?
I picked 4 a levels but luckily I was able to drop the one I hated, the class was so dead and for some reason all I could think about was the song "in the meantime" Similarly in my history GCSE mock all I could think about was the garfield show theme song. Idk whats wrong with me🤔
Its not useless it is worth half an A level tbh so can boost your grades (ucas points) if you end up doing shitter than expected but we were part of the 2021 covid cohort so did school based assessments and most people just dropped the EPQ pretty much had to coz there wasnt much time. If i did it i wouldve probs got more points though
Add Maths is really useful for that, I'm in AS and I still haven't learned anything new in Maths. If you think A Level Maths is a big jump, you should see Further Maths lol.
Funny looking back on this after working and having finished uni a while back haha. These days really were good with your mates. You did really have the time it was just a matter of prioritising and being efficient with your revision ans studying. Took me till second year of uni to crack it for me.
Sixth form actually did me in and I still have no idea how I came out with the grades I got. I'm not far into uni so there's plenty of time for the stress to increase there, but already this is so much better than A Levels
Halfway through A levels and god damn that’s accurate. Also there’s physics students able to use SUVAt to calculate the exact speed and distance of their mental decline
Just gonna say dont worry about A levels too much. The most important part is whether theyre good enough to get you into uni etc. Honestly a lot of the stuff I learned in A levels ive never used again.
i'm in my 3rd months of A Levels- law, psychology and english language. everyone warned me that i wouldn't be able to keep up my straight A's from O Levels. so far i've been getting A's in the english and psychology tests. law... it's so much to write wtf i got a C 😭
damn, i'm in Y13, most of the people i know who took law either dropped it and took something else or resat the first year 😭 even people i know who got all 9s or all 9s and 8s at GCSE, it was just too much to handle
I take Law, English Lit and History and Law is like the only one I'm able to handle at the moment 😭 Law is definitely so much to write and learn but I feel like it's actually doable? Then again my teachers r crazy bc we aint even started paper 3 yet. History however, bane of my existence. I am gonna be coming out in the end of A level with a big fat U - regretting not doing a BTEC or apprenticeship everday lmfaooo.
Yall would not believe how much better uni is compared to sixth form. I havent actually had any assignments yet to be fair but so far its been chill af, basically is just like school but with hardly any rules
Finished my alevels in the summer. It was a fun and horrible time. Free periods and good times with friends but a level maths kill me. I was doing alright, getting As and Bs in all my assignments and even got 3 Bs in my mock exams, i put the effort in, actually revised during free periods for most of year 13 and guess what, it paid off, nah I'm fucking joking, i did all that hardwork to go sit the actual a levels for the exam paper to be 3 fucking times harder than the all the mock/past papers I'd ever sat and got 2 Cs and and D. Was 5 marks off a C on the one i got a D in, and 3 marks off a B on one subject, spent £100 getting 2 papers remarked to them to say they found only 2 extra marks and i just missed getting a B by a single mark. So many people suffered, unis reducing offers, i almost lost my planned degree apprenticeship job, so thankful they let me join anyway. So honestly, just enjoy yourself, it's all a fucking joke anyway. Some people planned their UCAS applications thinking they'll get As and Bs, and got nowhere near. And don't be a uni snob either, that was one other thing that pissed me off too. People bitching about the best unis, blah, blah, blah, I'm gonna kill myself if i don't get into X uni 🙄 etc etc.
I was predicted 3 A's and got BCC 💀 still got on my secure choice. i think right now a lot of unis are quite generous, there are some that give out unconditionals for just applying pretty much so even if its the shittest uni ever you can still get a degree most likely
Nah the way this reminded me to finish off my ucas applications 😭😭 it’s 85% rn I only need to fill 2 more things and I’m done. I did my personal statement first thing in September 💀 but imma go finish it thanks for the reminder lol Edit: I finished it ‼️‼️🗣️🗣️
The same people who will joke about art not being necessary as a subject will mourn the degeneration of modern art…not realising that art being shit these days is a result of a lack of funding and educational development in the arts. No wonder no one can paint or draw when there is no money allocated towards developing these skills & its just ‘draw your feelings’
theres plenty of skilled artists out there! id argue there's more than ever due to more people being able to afford art materials and have access online recourses. while i definitely agree most schools art classes suck and don't teach much, i wouldn't say that effects the quality of art being made today. those who wish to create will do so without a teacher, and will learn simply through their own practice and hard work. every artist i know got to where they are from their own motivation, not school. and honestly, i find gcse and a level art are quite good for building a portfolio for uni, due to the large body of work needed for the course, so it's not all bad! they're also good at pulling people out of comfort zones as there's a strong emphasis on experimentation :)
@@sourblue3812 I admire your resourcefulness and do have a similar outlook with regards to my art practice, trying to be the art teacher that I never had and teaching myself things. its true that there are plenty of skilled artists out there but the art world can be so painfully unmeritocratic and nepotistic. i went to a marina abramovic institute exhibition at the Southbank and saw this guy just bashing the wall with a baton...thats what it takes to get a show at the Southbank... meanwhile in my own practice I taught myself architecture to design a baroque graffiti sculptural installation for a highly intensive piece of calisthenics performance art that I did dance choreography and strength trained for for months...and yet I'm more or less unknown as an artist. I think many artists share this frustration the general population, i.e. this content creator, has a barely disguised contempt for modern art with its elevation of mediocrity and derivativeness - and I sort of don't blame them, just wish that they would realise they actually have more in common with the average artist on the street than they think.
Agreed, GCSE art focused a lot on learning different skills, but A levels was basically “do what you want”, you basically just had to make 2 projects on whatever themes you liked. I dont think I really learned anything, even if I made a lot of art in the end. Now im doing Games Design at Uni, and having to study anatomy etc on the side.
@@Big-Chungus21 yea it's a shame they don't teach more specific topics.. but i think there would be too much to teach, and everyone's interested in different areas of art. i sort of used my art classes just to get feedback and work on more realistic stuff, and then did stylised stuff at home. that's so cool that you're studying games art!! i'm actually studying animation rn, and we worked closely with games art students in our first year! looks like a terrifying course but i hope you're enjoying it!
@@sourblue3812 Youre right, it did sound pretty scary, but so far im doing fine. If you enjoy something enough, it becomes a million times easier than it would be otherwise. To me, animation sounds absolutely terrifying, its a lot of work from what ive seen. I wish you luck :^]
EPQ one is so real. Also word of advice, I went to carrers and 1to1 tutor to get help making a UCAS application, ended up using GPT and all the grades of my unis (top 10 in UK) got lowered by 2-3grades. It’s dirty but you gotta do what you gotta do.
I remember being in the library during a free period and randomly putting on Pingu episodes (they had unblocked TH-cam for us lol), within minutes all my mates and a few others were crowded round my PC watching intently. The TA on duty was very confused!
I can really relate to the Further maths meme, I am literally the only person in 2nd year doing it. Sometimes I ask myself why the hell I chose it, but then I realise I can't do anything much to change the situation 😥
What about computer science and their teachers? There’s pre-work, homework, classwork, recommended work and the teacher insults everyone and threats to put them into trouble! 🤣
"Rushing your UCAS application the night before the deadline" "walking into your career's advice session with absolutely no aspirations" okay these two hit uncomfortably close to home lmao
Ah yes, I remember the recommended home work hours. If you did that, plus the recommended 12 hrs per week job, you would get 30 minutes to yourself per day.
I do biology A-level in college and I can confirm I am 💀. I get bursary so I get £3.75 a day for food💀 my hungry ass ain’t gettin nuthin. Geology is cool and fun tho.
@@suzumi111 same but I get the government funded taxi transport so my bursary just goes for stationary and food. Which I barely eat considering my 3 A-levels require constant attention.
@@OmniversalInsect omg😭😭. We only just got our lanyards last week. But before we had to write our names and time before we could leave and it would acc take agess
I did sixth form at a nearby grammar school and ive just started Uni this year, studying games design. I took Geography, Computer Science and Art. I love it when you get a Computer Science teacher in A level who STILL doesnt understand the subject. The entire course was basically copying notes from someone elses TH-cam videos, I ended out getting a D in the end despite being expected an A / A*. We were regularly correcting the teacher throughout the entire course, and from what I heard despite my class including a lot of incredibly smart people, the entire class did pretty bad in the end. My favourite part was that he literally marked my about 200 page Computer Science project in about 5 minutes, said “yeah you get a C cus you didnt write this or this” then I proceeded to point to him the 30 or so pages I wrote on that thing and he was just said “oh, yeah”, recorrected the mark but didnt bother checking to see if he missed anything else. I kind of left thinking that I was a total idiot for getting a D, and I kind of went into the Uni course thinking the same thing, but Ive been doing pretty damn good, especially on anything related to programming and documenting. I dont think A levels really give a good representation of peoples skills, especially when its trying to be something in between GCSE and University, but the actual structure of it all is much closer to GCSE. Most of the courses focus on remembering terminology rather than actually developing the appropriate skills you need for a career or university, and it’s not helped me at all in university. Edit: oh, and theres a plan to make maths and english mandatory at A levels in addition to whatever 3 subjects you pick. Theres gonna be a whole generation of people who think theyre worthless after doing that…
You were able to get straight into first year on a games design course with a D in Computer Science? I guess your other grades were much better then. Not sure how that teacher is able to do that stuff
@@Stallzyx Honestly not sure myself. I thought I was screwed, but my CV was pretty solid and I think I did a good job demonstrating a passion for games design. I got Bs and Cs in my other subjects though, nothing insane. I think its a shame because my year would have still been heavily affected by coronavirus, our grades were based off of mocks in GCSEs besides BTEC courses, so we didnt really have any clue whether we would do good or not. I mean, in all of our mocks most of us seemed to be doing good, but in the final exams it was quite poor. My guess is that the grade boundaries might have gone up a fair bit, or the specific sixth form i went to just wasnt able to handle everything. I mean, I technically never learned everything I needed for my Geography course, a pretty large amount of stuff was missed.
I finished my a levels and now I’m doing computer science… these are very accurate I ended up doing computer science, psychology and maths and actually enjoyed the first 2, even if unity was a nightmare
You forgot law students having to copy every single possible question they could give you when you damn well know you're only getting 5 questions per exam
i love how half of these are about having no free time, and the other half are about having too many free periods or not doing work in them the best part is it's 100% accurate
5 A level students realising they won't have any free time? I'm doing 3, if I revised the amount I'm meant to I'd have pretty much no free time. I feel like the education system has failed us, we went from easy COVID-19 GCSEs to normal super-difficult A levels in the space of a year. Oh and 0:44 is so true for biology
4 a levels is so hard I actually can't imagine doing 5. The workload of 4 is getting to me in term one of year 12 so imagine what 5 a levels will be like for the two years oh my life
Here's a piece of advice from someone doing 4 A-Levels: DON'T (unless you are super- organised). On an unrelated note, I do Further Maths and I have the fx-991ex for about £30 and the only thing the CG-50 would be useful to me would be graph sketching and maybe some vectors but imo it's not worth it.
@@TheFawfulExpressMustardO-cx6mwfor further maths, the ability to quickly rearrange complex equations is really useful. There are so many scenarios in which you might know exactly how you should approach solving a question (e.g. differential equations) but the exam paper splits the question into parts and to solve the question you first need to prove something. This caught me out so many times in the exams it was annoying!
@Fyr35555 Rearranging... Definitely not my favourite part of maths, but if thats what it takes... I really appreciate the advice! 👍 Thank you very much, sir.
Not british but as a Grade 12 Canadian student I feel your pain. Edit: I went on Wiki and found that Sixth Form for us is basically our senior years. So technically I am a sixth form student
The beginning one is me but I actually do have free periods. It's just that my school wanted us to come in to make sure we're doing work and if they see us playing games, they ban is from the computers after the second warning. if you have a reputation for being good, maybe the 3rd. Hence why everyone in my computer science class was always messing around with the computers as the teacher was nice, although at least half of us were already way above in level compared to the lesser scorers who thought comp Sci would be easy but kept failing and thus gave up.
Doing AS lvls rn, Cuz im the only FM student i have to do online courses, bro my teachers wifi is so dog that all i hear is "So obviousley" and "Therefore", and watch the working out go from Some vector to a plane i didnt even know existed lol
When I was in College I had a lesson at 9 a.m. for 2 hours and then another lesson at 2 p.m. I just straight up had nothing to do for 4 hours. So that was fun.
I cant imagine even doing 4 tbh. I did geography, comp science, and art. Already requires a pretty wide variety of skills, if i did a 4th subject id probably have failed everything. I really hope hes ok, that sounds insanely stressful. Its a horrible thing to go through if he was planning to go into uni right after as well, since he would be completely burned out.
one of my friends gets 6-7 free periods a week bc he's taking 3 A levels and then there's me with 3 full days each week and lunchtime lessons too, the annoying thing is that I'm not even taking 5 A levels lol, just 4
Start of Year 12: okay i have a free lesson lets do all the work my teacher asked me to do Year 13: Only ever playing games on my phone or the school computer (my teachers dont even care at this point as long as i got my maths hw done the lesson after the deadline i would be alright)
cant believe we went from watching gcse slander to sixth from slander. we really grew up together 😭 😭
for real 😭
It’s dead wholesome. Like we forged our own community across the country
Damn you guys are in the same position 😂
fr was surprised the video was made by this channel lmao
😭😭😭😭😭
Computer science students writing a 200 page NOVEL to explain what their code does:
200 pages is an underestimate!
Nah fr😭 I'm boutta start my CS Project and you got me nervous😐
my project was atleast 50 pages lmao
Handed in 250+ pages in few months ago. Tip: just follow the checklist. dont bother adding anything cool. if youre going for grades just do something along the lines of a program which teaches the a level algorithms in the checklist.
FR my NEA was like 14K+ words, did some Face Recognition AI, could have done it stress free but spent the lessons watching Killing Eve
As someone who finished sixth form a few months ago, I can confirm this is accurate
same
Can confirm, all is true. Got As and Bs in sixth form assignments, mock papers and past papers. Revised, ended up with CCD, the actual exams were fucking horrible.
so fucking real@@squeakers27
@@squeakers27 Yeah. It literally went like:
- Mock papers and everything before: Wow!
- Exams: bwomp
And you're like 'what the HELL happened?!'
@@squeakers27woah i’m the complete opposite- Cs and Ds in year 12, Cs and Bs at mocks and came out with all As
The worst feeling is when you've got 4 hours free and all your mates are busy or sick
bro just go home at that point lmao
sakuya 😳😳
@@_tooli i live an hour and a half's walk away from my school
@@cryptic2121 crino 😬😬😬
@@dyingscarlet ah right i live about an hours walk away so i take the bus usually
“You need to work the same hours at home as your lesson hours” I’m convinced every Sixth Form teacher says the same thing 💀
lol what, no way is that true of A levels. Then again, I did maths and physics, which I think outsiders don't realise are non-coursework subjects (maybe this has changed, I'm 34)
i've been told that for maths but we only get 2 or 3 homeworks a week
Bro same. They expect me to be doing 18 hours of revision a week wtf 😭
@@someone7454 some be doing that before year 10 mocks
@@alexsmith-fg6wh Omg I forgot about this comment. Anyway I'm now revising like 2-3 hours everyday, so it's not even as hard as I thought 😭 no wonder those year 10s are doing it.
trying to name one single person who picked a-level computer science and doesnt regret it:
It's not too bad if you did gcse as well. Most of the content is the same
gcse is really bad though especially if the teacher sucks@@yasink331
why would i regret it lol
Biggest regret of my life. First year got fucked by absences and a shitty teacher. Second year we had to learn the entire course in a year and it destroyed my interest in game design. My mental health genuinely got worse. I’m doing a degree in sound engineering at the moment and Idk if I can get a job in future lol.
@@swifts6879game design is a boring course
I had a teacher who said we had to do 2-3 hours a week studying PER SUBJECT. If anyone actually followed that then they would be doing 2-3 extra hours of school work everyday from august till may.
ours said minimum 5hrs per subject per week outside of school
2-3?? We have SIX 😭
Mine are saying 1 hour a day per subject so 3 hours a day of revision 😐
thats only 6 hours per week, 1h a day isnt too bad
I'm expected to do 17 hours a week. Hell no.
I did my A-levels a few years back (gosh that makes me feel old) but I can still relate to the video lol. At my school it was standard to do 4 in AS and then drop to 3 for A2 (second year). Some did 4 the whole way through but not many. I used to do my homework during free periods so I wouldn't have to do it at home 😂which I would argue is revision. Work hard (and smart) enough to get the grades you want and you'll be fine. And ironically enough, with most jobs (i.e. not requiring Uni degree, at which case I suppose they would just look at your degree...), they just want 5 good GCSEs (grade A* - C, or I guess that's 9 - 5 now?) including English and Maths. All of my jobs have not cared one bit about my A-levels 😂 alas, my work there was in vain, but still glad I did them.
Word of advice from someone who's been done with school and has been working for a few years - I had no idea what I wanted to do then, but I do now. Once you start working, you will find out very quickly what you do and do not want to do as a job. Don't stress too much over it, but don't stagnate either.
Don't worry if you can't / don't want to go to Uni either. Unless you have a specific or set career goal in mind, Uni might not be very useful for you in getting a job. Don't forget college courses / night classes can help with other professions (HR, accounting, other vocational work) at a much cheaper rate.
And most importantly, enjoy your time during sixth form 🙂it's one of the last few periods of life that you will see friends so frequently.
What job do you have now and what led you to getting it? I'm currentlyin yr11 and i have no idea on what to do in the future or even for my work experince which we need to do soon. There's teachers that say GCSEs and A-levels are important as each otehr but what do you think is more important?
Gcse
As someone who just finished their masters, i actually found uni to be easier than alevels
This is somewhat relieving, but I still don't know how to feel...
I was a good student my whole life, but things happened, and I became really demotivated before my O levels; so I didn't study much and ended up scoring bad.
Now for my A levels; I picked 3 subjects: Business Studies, Bio and Physics but am contemplating on taking a 4th one (most prob English). But the thing is, I'm not from the UK, and the education system is different here. Students under Cambridge curriculum tend to do coachings (after school) for O/A levels. So eventhough I'm pretty confident in English, I'd still need to join a coaching (because 1. I'm not a pro, 2. It might be risky, and 3. We need to pay A LOT to give these exams, so I have to be really sure about what I choose). But there aren't many coachings for A levels English here (because most students take either Science, Math or Commerce subjects).
Besides that, I've always wanted to study law in the UK (preferably Oxbridge, or any top 10 universities), but my family is planning (not confirmed) to settle in Canada. I don't know how to feel... is it okay for me to do my undergrad in Canada and then do my master's in UK? But then there's this LSAT thing... I've always taken IELTS (training) classes at school, and have never touched a SAT book in my life... so I really don't know how to feel.
It's sad that we have to take on so much pressure and make these big decisions for our future... We're only teens, we're supposed to just start discovering more about life at this age, not make settlements for our future... I wish education systems were a bit fairer and made our lives easier instead.
I mean, all I've ever wanted was to be happy, successful, and make my parents proud.
Anyways, please pray for me; and if anyone has any advice, feel free to share it :')
And goodluck to everyone, I hope none of you face any troubles regarding this. I know it's scary, I'm scared too, but future's gonna be okay 🤍
@@arcmian where are you from?
In first year of uni and I’m missing A levels already tbh. Easily the best years of my life, I’m already getting nostalgic thinking about it. Enjoy spending every hour of the school day with your close friends, try to really enjoy the subjects you picked, and appreciate how much your teachers do for you.
A levels were fun for hanging out with friends for sure. I went out with my mates for lunch every day, and we’d often go somewhere after the end of the day too.
Ultimately the only subject that I thought really benefited from the way A levels are taught is Geography, probably because I had good teachers and we went out for quite a few field trips and practical work (which wasnt even required).
Are you fucking insane? ALs years were some of the worst in my life. Depends on the person.
hell naw if uni is THAT bad i aint going 💀💀
Dawg what do u mean..i'm finishing my a levels and was "supposed" to be going to uni but i guess not now💀😭
im in the same boat, although my a levels were hideous. german and biology aged me 50 years but at least psychology was alright. i barely managed to get on my course with my shit grades but that means wasting all my time was actually just an investment that paid off
the vietnamese frog is so real 😂😂😂
That drama one is surprisingly accurate. I’m doing A-level drama and you have to do multiple practitioners styles and one of them is called Artaud, famous for the Theatre Of Cruelty. And the first lesson of learning this type of theatre was my teacher sitting on the floor in the spotlight and having a mental breakdown. I asked my teacher if I could do an Artaud piece for the year 9s as I hate them and would love to give them PTSD acting a mad doctor, but seems like that’s not going to happen.
The cg50 one is so true man like why a calculator cost that much💀
Do schools think we are rich or something?
No idea you had to get that for further maths I thought that was only for uni
I'm doing maths at uni and you definitely do not need the CG50 calculator at all, not even at uni. A regular £30 scientific calculator is more than enough. If you really need the CG50 then there's an entire website that replicates the functions for you. There's nothing that a CG50 can do for you that somewhere on the internet doesn't already do for you.
I got one for regular maths because I was initially struggling with graphs
Half a year later I walked into my room to find the calculator face down with out its case. The screen had a crack
Over time the crack grew beht it was still usable even in my final exams this year
Yesterday I took the calculator apart, salvaged the interesting stuff and destroyed the screen for good
I finished my A Levels in 2018, and honestly… grades are not that important when it comes to getting a career. It’s experience in the work place that is most important. Even after University, employers don’t really care (obviously it depends what career you’re going into - law or healthcare etc ofc). Get work experience and references and that is the most important is building up a good work ethic and résumé.
Yeah I agree. It’s a shame that schools make it seem like academia is the end goal of everything when academia itself is riddle with all sorts of lies. I’m currently at university after taking a hiatus for like 2 years and I see through the nonsense a lot better. University is still far better than college, more freedom (but more responsibility) but also more freedom in voicing your opinions.
The reason why grades exist is solely to demonstrate academic prowess. It exists assuming you'll keep climbing the academic ladder all the way to the top in hopes of doing high level research. That's the only place grade matters..
amazing curation of memes, thank you!
unfortunately a lack of A-level languages slander... but fair enough, because you don't expect anyone to do them...
as someone taking Latin, French, Philosophy and Computer Science... yeah, idk either... but I do pity the poor saps doing sciences or maths lmao
I didn't even know you could take Latin as an A level. I'm doing maths and further maths and physics and computer science lmao
Ive got a mix : french and then all the sciences 🎉🎉
@@Kornonthekobb oh yes, I'm the only one in my sixth form taking Latin, but yeah, it exists! half language and half literature, it's sort of like English but, you know, fun!
oh wow, you must really hate urself!! engineering hopeful?
@@denkisupremacy so if you are the only person doing Latin does that mean your classes are one on one with your teacher?
A level French has literally been hell on earth so far 💔💔💔
I picked 4 a levels but luckily I was able to drop the one I hated, the class was so dead and for some reason all I could think about was the song "in the meantime"
Similarly in my history GCSE mock all I could think about was the garfield show theme song.
Idk whats wrong with me🤔
😭😭
The garfield song was great I don't blame you
the epq one is so real. i dropped it after about a month lol. now I've just started uni and glad i didn't do it, waste of time honestly
i dropped it at the beginning of september, glad to know someone dropped it and didn't regret it in uni
i also dropped it, the research bit was interesting enough but i had no motivation to write it at all
I just started sixth form and was thinking of doing an epq but if it’s pretty useless than no point
Its not useless it is worth half an A level tbh so can boost your grades (ucas points) if you end up doing shitter than expected but we were part of the 2021 covid cohort so did school based assessments and most people just dropped the EPQ pretty much had to coz there wasnt much time. If i did it i wouldve probs got more points though
I would have done one if I did 3 A levels, but I'm doing 4 so no way
The jump from GCSE maths to A level maths was a horrifying experience
Really? It wasn't that bad for me.
me looking at my A* to a C 💀 in all fairness that C was well deserved
Add Maths is really useful for that, I'm in AS and I still haven't learned anything new in Maths. If you think A Level Maths is a big jump, you should see Further Maths lol.
Me in GCSE Maths: "OK, I can do this."
Me in A-Level maths:
"HOW AM I SUPPOSED TO MEMORISE ALL THESE TYPES OF INTEGRATION?!?!"
I don’t even need maths for uni WHY did I pick it 💀
Funny looking back on this after working and having finished uni a while back haha. These days really were good with your mates. You did really have the time it was just a matter of prioritising and being efficient with your revision ans studying. Took me till second year of uni to crack it for me.
As someone who just finished their masters, i actually found uni to be easier than alevels
A levels is all the good bits of school without the bad bits.
Sixth form actually did me in and I still have no idea how I came out with the grades I got. I'm not far into uni so there's plenty of time for the stress to increase there, but already this is so much better than A Levels
Did you just start uni this year? Enjoy it.
@@jamesthornton3539yep, doing an undergraduate! I'll make the best of it I can
Halfway through A levels and god damn that’s accurate. Also there’s physics students able to use SUVAt to calculate the exact speed and distance of their mental decline
Just gonna say dont worry about A levels too much. The most important part is whether theyre good enough to get you into uni etc. Honestly a lot of the stuff I learned in A levels ive never used again.
😂😂😂
Is the acceleration constant though?
@@grassytramtracks constant for equations, but can vary with topics
as someone who has just finished a levels and is now in uni… please study in free periods. ur gonna need those good study habits. trust me
nah dont trust me
Yeah haha I pissed about in free periods and I regretted it when I started uni. I got on the right track eventually lol.
can’t wait for a level slander during exams 💪🏾💪🏾
These are so incredibly accurate it's actually quite scary
why is this SO RELATABLEEEE
Bruh I got free study periods and got this old woman for the teacher and we cannot talk at all she goes around saying “I’m hearing conversation” 😂
i'm in my 3rd months of A Levels- law, psychology and english language. everyone warned me that i wouldn't be able to keep up my straight A's from O Levels. so far i've been getting A's in the english and psychology tests. law... it's so much to write wtf i got a C 😭
damn, i'm in Y13, most of the people i know who took law either dropped it and took something else or resat the first year 😭 even people i know who got all 9s or all 9s and 8s at GCSE, it was just too much to handle
I take Law, English Lit and History and Law is like the only one I'm able to handle at the moment 😭
Law is definitely so much to write and learn but I feel like it's actually doable? Then again my teachers r crazy bc we aint even started paper 3 yet.
History however, bane of my existence. I am gonna be coming out in the end of A level with a big fat U - regretting not doing a BTEC or apprenticeship everday lmfaooo.
Are we all just living the same existence?
Yall would not believe how much better uni is compared to sixth form. I havent actually had any assignments yet to be fair but so far its been chill af, basically is just like school but with hardly any rules
i can’t wait 😢😢
uni gets much harder than a level
Bro the biology and maths is so accurate 😭😭
Still got a B in maths and A in bio tho 💀
Finished my alevels in the summer. It was a fun and horrible time. Free periods and good times with friends but a level maths kill me. I was doing alright, getting As and Bs in all my assignments and even got 3 Bs in my mock exams, i put the effort in, actually revised during free periods for most of year 13 and guess what, it paid off, nah I'm fucking joking, i did all that hardwork to go sit the actual a levels for the exam paper to be 3 fucking times harder than the all the mock/past papers I'd ever sat and got 2 Cs and and D. Was 5 marks off a C on the one i got a D in, and 3 marks off a B on one subject, spent £100 getting 2 papers remarked to them to say they found only 2 extra marks and i just missed getting a B by a single mark. So many people suffered, unis reducing offers, i almost lost my planned degree apprenticeship job, so thankful they let me join anyway. So honestly, just enjoy yourself, it's all a fucking joke anyway. Some people planned their UCAS applications thinking they'll get As and Bs, and got nowhere near. And don't be a uni snob either, that was one other thing that pissed me off too. People bitching about the best unis, blah, blah, blah, I'm gonna kill myself if i don't get into X uni 🙄 etc etc.
real
I was predicted 3 A's and got BCC 💀 still got on my secure choice. i think right now a lot of unis are quite generous, there are some that give out unconditionals for just applying pretty much so even if its the shittest uni ever you can still get a degree most likely
Nah the way this reminded me to finish off my ucas applications 😭😭 it’s 85% rn I only need to fill 2 more things and I’m done. I did my personal statement first thing in September 💀 but imma go finish it thanks for the reminder lol
Edit: I finished it ‼️‼️🗣️🗣️
The same people who will joke about art not being necessary as a subject will mourn the degeneration of modern art…not realising that art being shit these days is a result of a lack of funding and educational development in the arts. No wonder no one can paint or draw when there is no money allocated towards developing these skills & its just ‘draw your feelings’
theres plenty of skilled artists out there! id argue there's more than ever due to more people being able to afford art materials and have access online recourses. while i definitely agree most schools art classes suck and don't teach much, i wouldn't say that effects the quality of art being made today. those who wish to create will do so without a teacher, and will learn simply through their own practice and hard work. every artist i know got to where they are from their own motivation, not school.
and honestly, i find gcse and a level art are quite good for building a portfolio for uni, due to the large body of work needed for the course, so it's not all bad! they're also good at pulling people out of comfort zones as there's a strong emphasis on experimentation :)
@@sourblue3812 I admire your resourcefulness and do have a similar outlook with regards to my art practice, trying to be the art teacher that I never had and teaching myself things. its true that there are plenty of skilled artists out there but the art world can be so painfully unmeritocratic and nepotistic.
i went to a marina abramovic institute exhibition at the Southbank and saw this guy just bashing the wall with a baton...thats what it takes to get a show at the Southbank... meanwhile in my own practice I taught myself architecture to design a baroque graffiti sculptural installation for a highly intensive piece of calisthenics performance art that I did dance choreography and strength trained for for months...and yet I'm more or less unknown as an artist. I think many artists share this frustration
the general population, i.e. this content creator, has a barely disguised contempt for modern art with its elevation of mediocrity and derivativeness - and I sort of don't blame them, just wish that they would realise they actually have more in common with the average artist on the street than they think.
Agreed, GCSE art focused a lot on learning different skills, but A levels was basically “do what you want”, you basically just had to make 2 projects on whatever themes you liked. I dont think I really learned anything, even if I made a lot of art in the end.
Now im doing Games Design at Uni, and having to study anatomy etc on the side.
@@Big-Chungus21 yea it's a shame they don't teach more specific topics.. but i think there would be too much to teach, and everyone's interested in different areas of art. i sort of used my art classes just to get feedback and work on more realistic stuff, and then did stylised stuff at home.
that's so cool that you're studying games art!! i'm actually studying animation rn, and we worked closely with games art students in our first year! looks like a terrifying course but i hope you're enjoying it!
@@sourblue3812 Youre right, it did sound pretty scary, but so far im doing fine. If you enjoy something enough, it becomes a million times easier than it would be otherwise. To me, animation sounds absolutely terrifying, its a lot of work from what ive seen. I wish you luck :^]
A Levels single-handedly turned me into an education abolitionist
EPQ one is so real. Also word of advice, I went to carrers and 1to1 tutor to get help making a UCAS application, ended up using GPT and all the grades of my unis (top 10 in UK) got lowered by 2-3grades. It’s dirty but you gotta do what you gotta do.
2 months into my four a-levels - biology, chemistry, maths and psychology. We'll see how this goes....
Wanted to do an EPQ..saw an example of a previous student’s EPQ..dropped out immediately 🥲
I remember being in the library during a free period and randomly putting on Pingu episodes (they had unblocked TH-cam for us lol), within minutes all my mates and a few others were crowded round my PC watching intently. The TA on duty was very confused!
The accuracy is crazy 😭 esp the drama and film ones
I can really relate to the Further maths meme, I am literally the only person in 2nd year doing it. Sometimes I ask myself why the hell I chose it, but then I realise I can't do anything much to change the situation 😥
we started further maths with 10 people in year 12 only 5 of us ended up completing it until the end
@@Alex-bv9sbit's the start of year 12 and i am one of 4 people doing further maths, and one of them is still considering dropping it
I just started FM and was secretly hoping ppl would drop it cause I prefer a smaller class. It doubled, went from 3 to 7 ppl, damn it
What about computer science and their teachers? There’s pre-work, homework, classwork, recommended work and the teacher insults everyone and threats to put them into trouble! 🤣
Finished colleage 10 years and this still hits as true as ever. Good times
Who else played games until they blocked them off the computer, and found loopholes?
"Rushing your UCAS application the night before the deadline" "walking into your career's advice session with absolutely no aspirations" okay these two hit uncomfortably close to home lmao
Ah yes, I remember the recommended home work hours. If you did that, plus the recommended 12 hrs per week job, you would get 30 minutes to yourself per day.
Damn I went from gcse slander videos to a-level slander videos. Time really does fly
I do biology A-level in college and I can confirm I am 💀. I get bursary so I get £3.75 a day for food💀 my hungry ass ain’t gettin nuthin. Geology is cool and fun tho.
i’m getting a bursary mate because i have to get two bloody buses and spend like over £45 a week for transport
@@suzumi111 same but I get the government funded taxi transport so my bursary just goes for stationary and food. Which I barely eat considering my 3 A-levels require constant attention.
my skl still hasn’t given lanyards😭
We had to use planners as ID for a month in yr 12
@@OmniversalInsect omg😭😭. We only just got our lanyards last week. But before we had to write our names and time before we could leave and it would acc take agess
Someone needs to make a college (not sixth form) slander
I did sixth form at a nearby grammar school and ive just started Uni this year, studying games design. I took Geography, Computer Science and Art.
I love it when you get a Computer Science teacher in A level who STILL doesnt understand the subject. The entire course was basically copying notes from someone elses TH-cam videos, I ended out getting a D in the end despite being expected an A / A*. We were regularly correcting the teacher throughout the entire course, and from what I heard despite my class including a lot of incredibly smart people, the entire class did pretty bad in the end. My favourite part was that he literally marked my about 200 page Computer Science project in about 5 minutes, said “yeah you get a C cus you didnt write this or this” then I proceeded to point to him the 30 or so pages I wrote on that thing and he was just said “oh, yeah”, recorrected the mark but didnt bother checking to see if he missed anything else.
I kind of left thinking that I was a total idiot for getting a D, and I kind of went into the Uni course thinking the same thing, but Ive been doing pretty damn good, especially on anything related to programming and documenting. I dont think A levels really give a good representation of peoples skills, especially when its trying to be something in between GCSE and University, but the actual structure of it all is much closer to GCSE. Most of the courses focus on remembering terminology rather than actually developing the appropriate skills you need for a career or university, and it’s not helped me at all in university.
Edit: oh, and theres a plan to make maths and english mandatory at A levels in addition to whatever 3 subjects you pick. Theres gonna be a whole generation of people who think theyre worthless after doing that…
You were able to get straight into first year on a games design course with a D in Computer Science? I guess your other grades were much better then. Not sure how that teacher is able to do that stuff
@@Stallzyx Honestly not sure myself. I thought I was screwed, but my CV was pretty solid and I think I did a good job demonstrating a passion for games design. I got Bs and Cs in my other subjects though, nothing insane. I think its a shame because my year would have still been heavily affected by coronavirus, our grades were based off of mocks in GCSEs besides BTEC courses, so we didnt really have any clue whether we would do good or not. I mean, in all of our mocks most of us seemed to be doing good, but in the final exams it was quite poor. My guess is that the grade boundaries might have gone up a fair bit, or the specific sixth form i went to just wasnt able to handle everything. I mean, I technically never learned everything I needed for my Geography course, a pretty large amount of stuff was missed.
I finished my a levels and now I’m doing computer science… these are very accurate
I ended up doing computer science, psychology and maths and actually enjoyed the first 2, even if unity was a nightmare
I finished my A levels a while ago and although it was stressful, it wasn’t too bad. I was homeschooled though.
You forgot law students having to copy every single possible question they could give you when you damn well know you're only getting 5 questions per exam
i love how half of these are about having no free time, and the other half are about having too many free periods or not doing work in them
the best part is it's 100% accurate
No free periods tomorrow, but I finished my travel and tourism coursework so hopefully he will let me out the lesson.
5 A level students realising they won't have any free time?
I'm doing 3, if I revised the amount I'm meant to I'd have pretty much no free time.
I feel like the education system has failed us, we went from easy COVID-19 GCSEs to normal super-difficult A levels in the space of a year.
Oh and 0:44 is so true for biology
As a 2nd year Physics student I'm here to say yr13 is by far the hardest year.
Even harder than 1st Yr uni
Bro don’t crush my hopes 💀
a-level physics students trying to understand what the fuck Shittenfart's Three Billionth Law is
4 a levels is so hard I actually can't imagine doing 5. The workload of 4 is getting to me in term one of year 12 so imagine what 5 a levels will be like for the two years oh my life
Here's a piece of advice from someone doing 4 A-Levels: DON'T (unless you are super- organised). On an unrelated note, I do Further Maths and I have the fx-991ex for about £30 and the only thing the CG-50 would be useful to me would be graph sketching and maybe some vectors but imo it's not worth it.
Sorry, too late.
Also if you have any more advice for further maths I'd be happy to receive it😁
@@TheFawfulExpressMustardO-cx6mwEnjoy the show
@@TheFawfulExpressMustardO-cx6mwfor further maths, the ability to quickly rearrange complex equations is really useful. There are so many scenarios in which you might know exactly how you should approach solving a question (e.g. differential equations) but the exam paper splits the question into parts and to solve the question you first need to prove something. This caught me out so many times in the exams it was annoying!
@Fyr35555
Rearranging...
Definitely not my favourite part of maths, but if thats what it takes...
I really appreciate the advice! 👍
Thank you very much, sir.
It's been 2 years since I did A levels and this is sooo accurate. Frankly, Uni has much less content.
As someone doing a BTEC in aeronautics, I look down on sixth form students everyday and laugh.
good thing everyone else in the world is laughing at u for doing a btec
@@al186p9 Don't yap at me just cause you go college 5 days a week and get enough induced stress to kill someone 🗣
Not british but as a Grade 12 Canadian student I feel your pain.
Edit: I went on Wiki and found that Sixth Form for us is basically our senior years. So technically I am a sixth form student
Yeah sixth form is y12 and 13 and you finish when you're 18 which I think is the age you guys finish.
@@jamesthornton3539yep we do finish at 18. We used to have a Grade 13 as well but it was phased out by the early 00s
i sometimes wonder how you stalk my school-
NOT THE UNIFROG OMGGG LMAOOO
I finished my A-levels 10 years ago. It was an awful experience.
The beginning one is me but I actually do have free periods. It's just that my school wanted us to come in to make sure we're doing work and if they see us playing games, they ban is from the computers after the second warning. if you have a reputation for being good, maybe the 3rd.
Hence why everyone in my computer science class was always messing around with the computers as the teacher was nice, although at least half of us were already way above in level compared to the lesser scorers who thought comp Sci would be easy but kept failing and thus gave up.
bro cant lie this is so relatable lol
As someone who just finished Uni recently, I can confirm everything said here about Further Maths.
As a year 9 student. I am NOT trying to attend year 12 seeing this 😭
U literally have 3 years of doing nothing so
Missing when you found that your lesson was cancelled and now you have the whole afternoon off.
Doing AS lvls rn, Cuz im the only FM student i have to do online courses, bro my teachers wifi is so dog that all i hear is "So obviousley" and "Therefore", and watch the working out go from Some vector to a plane i didnt even know existed lol
Choosing A-level history was the worse decision of my life tbh😂
I finished sixth form like over 7 years ago and these are still pretty accurate
As someone who started sixth form about 2 months ago, I get the feeling this is something of a downward slope 😅
I just simply stopped turning up.
I’m gonna have like no friends in sixth form they all want to go to different sixth forms or college 😭
When I was in College I had a lesson at 9 a.m. for 2 hours and then another lesson at 2 p.m. I just straight up had nothing to do for 4 hours. So that was fun.
i didn't study a single time in free period and came out with two C's and a D which got me into uni, yes m8
I go into limbo in my year 10 maths lessons, and my report card said I got 5-, when I actually tried to learn I got a 3/4
Lovely compilation :)
i didn't even finish half the books we were assigned in literature class and i got an a* lmao
I did performing arts in college acting, I did indeed have to have a mental breakdown on stage for a grade 😂
NOT THE UNIFROG 😭😭
0:26 nah that’s when everyone got their study periods added to the timetable and lost 60% of the frees
In Ireland we do the equivalent of 6 A levels but most people do 7 as a back up grade because only the 6 best ones are counted for our final exam 💀
Can confirm all true, every last word.
Psychology students realising they tick all the boxes for deppresion, anxeity and ptsd: *nervous sweating*
I know a guy who did 5 a levels. He had a massive mental breakdown just before the finals. He deleted all his social media and stuff
I cant imagine even doing 4 tbh. I did geography, comp science, and art. Already requires a pretty wide variety of skills, if i did a 4th subject id probably have failed everything.
I really hope hes ok, that sounds insanely stressful. Its a horrible thing to go through if he was planning to go into uni right after as well, since he would be completely burned out.
This year I had finished Biology, Chemistry and Maths A-levels... That was a mistake.
im a fellow biology survivor im so sorry for your loss
I’ve done undergraduate and postgraduate education.
A-Levels were the hardest experience in academia. It’s not even close.
I dropped Further Maths today, why is this in my recommended 💀💀
one of my friends gets 6-7 free periods a week bc he's taking 3 A levels and then there's me with 3 full days each week and lunchtime lessons too, the annoying thing is that I'm not even taking 5 A levels lol, just 4
Yeah I take 5 taking 4 is really easy
Start of Year 12: okay i have a free lesson lets do all the work my teacher asked me to do
Year 13: Only ever playing games on my phone or the school computer (my teachers dont even care at this point as long as i got my maths hw done the lesson after the deadline i would be alright)
As someone who choose to go to college I am both regretting and happy I am not in 6 fourm
Its annoying how homework is just extra lessons. Not a mini test on how much you know just more shit to learn that should be saved for the classroom.
only months ago i would come to tis chanel after every gcse exam day and now look at me.. and i relate to all these memes now
As an Englishman. I can confirm that those unifrog personality tests spew out complete waffle.
A level Physics people trying to convince you that 45% is a good grade
I'm doing an essay subject, a science and two languages, i'm so tired lol
my teacher did a whopping 6 a levels when he was younger 💀