Help!
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Psychology was never an official guaranteed A2 in my school. But it hadn't been for several years but the class still ran to A2. This year it's not running - for ages all we knew was it was not running full stop (and even this information took several phonecalls to receive) - not why or anything.
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My mum has been calling (oddly enough it seems to help if you ring a school from a phone number they recognise as the people that control their budgets) and finally got through to the principal.
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The crux of the conversation was that there's no way psych is running in my school. I can enroll in the institute and they'll allow me to have 16 periods of classes and 24 free classes because "well, I have been enquiring about Rachael and she has the reputation of being a studious girl so I would have no problem letting her have that many free periods" (the principal).
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My mum said maybe doing another AS so I wasn't completely bored (I get bored having 8 free periods atm) but the principal said maybe carrying on English lit should remain an option - because I did so well in it etc.
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I really don't know what to do. English lit seems to get a lot harder this year and I don't know if I love it enough to work that hard at it. On the other hand, 24 free periods may kill me...
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I could do another AS but there's no subjects that I really like the look off. Twelve hours of free periods a week seems so much - I'd get so so bored. It's just really annoying about the total lack of communication from the school!
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Help!!! Any ideas people?
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Rachxx
posted by Rach @ 6:15 PM
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24 free periods may kill you!! Are you serious?! I'd suggest you take them, use your free period time wisely and work smart. You'll get a mountain of study done in those periods and free you up a lot more in the evenings for other valuable and worthwhile pursuits in life (which are just as important as your academic development) God is passionate about your holistic growth - social, emotional, spiritual and physical - your academic growth is just a piece (an important one yes) but I don't believe it is anymore or anyless important in the mind of God than the others ares of development. Don't bite of more than you need to chew for this next year. Uni will present you with a lot of free time also, this could be good prep for refining useful study skills.
lol! Unlike some people Paul I can't sit round and do nothing. It's really hard to do any work in school! And there is that classic saying that work expands or contracts to fit the time we have to do it in. I might feel lazy and like I'm wasting so much time where I have to just sit in school and do homework - because what could I do when I get home?
But yeah, I don't really wanna do English lit.
I'm going in one day this week to find out about the English lit syllabus etc. I could do it for a month or so and then decide to drop it.
And three A levels sound a lot nicer than four work-wise...
Rachxx
Firstly, since I haven't said it already: Well done brain-box Rachie on your AS results!!!
I think you are right to be cautious about 24 free periods (though Paul is quite correct that it would be good practice for university).
Certainly worth checking the Eng Lit syllabus & set texts, just in case. But if I were you, I'd incline towards another AS, if you can find a more appealing subject. Or perhaps one of those non-exam (or GCSE) extra subjects like photography, a foreign language, etc if your school offers them in sixth form.
I know you'll turn it down (and perhaps you would be right - it might turn out simply dull), but Maths AS-level ought to be the slacker option for someone who did as well as you in Ad Maths (where you already covered 3/4+ of the AS syllabus in half the time, and - in my memory - sat a harder exam)
hehe! Thank you Robert!
My school doesn't offer photography although I would really really really love to do that AS! (I've actually been considering doing a photography course at nightschool).
Robert, I know you would really love me to do AS maths but you'd have to listen to me complain and ask you questions about it for a year - and, let's be honest, you don't want that!
Thank you for your suggestions.
I am going to go into school one day this week and find out what English lit looks like. Although, at the moment I'm leaning towards only doing two in school. I really don't know.
Rachxx
Maths AS with a statistics components would certainly fare you well in a psychology degree (perhaps more useful than psychology as thats the thing people struggle with most).
I do agree with Paul, that learning to make good use of your free periods at school is a good idea - and will also fare you well at uni.
Having spare time in the evenings could free you up to take on some voluntary work or something?
However, my offer of helping you produce a kick-ass piece of psychology coursework still stands ;). Make them regret your psychology A-level wasn't part of their league table girl!
Hey CA,
The thought of AS maths kinda scares me - and is a decision as popular as doing English lit for A2...
I know statistics will play a big part of my psychology degree but I'd rather kind ok battle it when I get there. But I hate the mechanics parts of maths.
I could maybe pick up more voluntary work especially as I'd be trying, with all those free periods, to free up my weekends more - so I'm not spending all day Saturday and all day Sunday sitting typing essays etc.
I will take you up on your coursework offer!! I'll have your head absolutely turned!
And no doubt they'll find a way of including it in their reputation if I do well in it!!
Rachxx
Well, maybe you'll be one of those super-star students who gets their picture taken for the local press! I wouldn't put it past you by any means with those results!
Then you can ask to give a statement and talk about how proud you are to have achieved this, even though your school were unwilling to support your psychology A-level! They'll love that. TISH-TA-BOOM!
What are you thinking of doing for your project?
hehe! That sounds brilliant!
I haven't given it a lot of thought - I'm not really sure of the requirements as yet. But I think I've learnt some "confounding variables" I hope to not have - things like asking AS psych students to be my test rats when they've studied the experiment I'm recreating. Or making sure people who have done the experiment, and those who haven't don't mix! Or I'll see that lovely FU effect...
Rachxx
Well let me know, I'm more than willing to introduce you to university search engines that can help you access up to date articles.
I wouldn't worry too much about people knowing about the experiment. I remember my mate was a research assistant and in order to make up his quota he paid me to take part in a social experiment that I knew involved deception. I told him but he sad, "Sod that, I have to get x number of participants and I can't be arsed to look any more!"
Besides, most psych experiments are done on lab rats, sorry, undergraduate psychology students, so most come up against that difficulty far more than researchers would like to admit.
However, I'd just like to say - that wasn't the case for any of my research!
CA
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