I'd been dreading results day so I just refused to think about it until the week leading up yesterday. During study leave I spent my days online shopping, reading (romance novels) and going to the gym. I know especially for my sciences that I should have done a whole lot more revision and preparation am study for them. Instead I just skimmed through 2/3 of the online specification and random chunks of the revision guides in the car journey to school. Then during the exam it came to bite me and I really struggled and couldn't answer questions properly since I knew I'd learnt it I just could recall and apply it since I hadn't revised so I ha to leave out quite a few questions. This is especially bad because I knew I needed at least an A to be able to study Chemistry and Biology at sixth form. The thing is, I'm what I call naturally smart, not a lot but to the level where most class work for all my subjects (except English) is very easy for me, I find it easy to learn and understand the things that we are taught and my memory is pretty good -I can read an article and remember most of it and whole sentences verbatim. So I have it pretty easy in school which made me a bit cocky and lazy during study leave, brilliant I know. So in the 6 weeks plus from my exams to results day I'd managed to convince myself I'd failed sciences and would have to change my life plan (I've figured out what degree I want to take, then job, then how long I work before I retire, what I want to do during retirement, when I want to be married and when I want children) and chemistry was pretty important but I had a backup plan-history. I was pretty confident I had at least an A since this summers exams were for half the course since I'd taken one exam and done the 25% coursework and averaged A* overall.
The night before I'd managed to work myself up to the point where I had to go for a run close to midnight to relax and tire myself out enough to sleep. Then in the morning I was too agitated and nervous to eat or hold conversation or focus on a task for a significant time (I usually read in the 30minute drive to school). However, despite my misgivings I'd gotten really really good grades, especially for the amount of work I put in. Additionally I surpassed all the conditional offers from all 6 schools I'd applied to and got the place at my first choice school which I will be attending in a couple of weeks. Woah, that's a scary thought. I got an A in all of my sciences, impressive huh? A* in history and C in art. I mention only these subjects because I don't see the point in listing all my results in an annoying Facebook show-off-y way. I mentioned art because I was pleasantly surprised, shortly after the deadline for submission my teacher rang me up and told me that I'd not submitted in enough work to get a good grade, the specification required 2 projects and I submitted one and one tenth of the other so I'd thought that I would've been given a D or E which would've been fair given the circumstances plus, that was my only C! And I only got 3 Bs (we grammar school students are told that Bs aren't good enough so whilst others are happy to get Bs we all complain that we didn't get As and A*s, it's wrong, I know but...)
I think that's it and I may finally be getting drowsy, night!
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