if you're watching this video you're probably in year 11 going into year 12 and i'm here to
debunk the myth tell you how year 12 actually is and hopefully reassure you that it is an okay yeah
yes there are some challenges but honestly it's not even that bad um let's get into it
before i start i just wanted to say that i am doing an experiment basically please can you
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anything you've created previously but yeah let's get into it so um most of you watching this are
probably going to be doing three a levels now if you're doing three a levels year 12 is going to
be a chill year you're gonna have so many freeze it's gonna be fine you're gonna have loads of time
to actually do your work but if you're doing four a levels on the other hand that's where it gets a
bit tricky um i did biology for the first time and it was like yeah no i can't do this dealing
with all of the other stuff i had to deal with outside of school and like all of this all of the
extracurriculars in the business i could not do biology if you know you can put your time into it
then do it because it is worth it biology honestly was an amazing a level i wish i kept it but i just
had no time so for a levels i only had like one free a week realistically because my other
three was taken up by epq and yeah it was it was terrifying like i didn't i couldn't do the work
at school so i had to do at home and then i was staying up until like 10 to get my biology done
and like yeah it wasn't working it really does depend how your school supports you because my
school i have to stay in school and like my school day finishes at four um whereas a lot of schools
they let you out at like 2 30 3 30 and then you have so much time but that wasn't the case for me
i wish it was but yeah no the second thing i wish i had known was that university stuff
starts now year 12 is when you have to do all of your university stuff by university stuff
i mean personal statement a lot of schools it depends on the school you go to they made me
do my personal statement in april april of year 12. we had personal statement courses we had like
taster things for university your uni university applications process starts now you need to have
read all your books the hypocritical of me because i hated that you need to research your courses
you need to make sure that you can apply to the courses with the a levels that you're doing it's
a lot of mess it's a big mess with the university stuff you need to know exactly what you're doing
um and yeah you need to get your personal statement done it is it is hard but once
that's over it's completely fine i'm lucky that my school made us do it really really early
then you'll have to deal with your uni entrance exams by that i mean like your youcat your bmat
uh your elnat i don't know if ellen is in year 12 maybe it's in december but but especially medicine
applicants you're gonna have to work through the year 12 summer for your new cap which is scary but
um you know yeah sorry for those doing medicine not me so i don't need to do it also depending
on your school have the choice of going to a us uni again this is i think this is with
only a couple of schools but my school thankfully promoted the option of going to study in the us
so i have to do my u.s applications as well get them done this summer which is which is scary
but honestly the university stuff your school will guide you through it hopefully and it will be fine
um you don't it's it's not too stressful i got through it you can get through it the next thing
i wish i'd known was to get my work experience out of the way in year 12. you've got a lot of time in
year 12 get your work experience done and you'll be fine trust me um if you've done it already then
great you don't need to do it but work experience get it done and build your cv the next thing i
wish i'd known was year 12 is going to be a fine year there's a lot of parties so go to
them honestly you realistically won't have a lot of work to do as in like if you get your work done
at school at home you won't have to do a lot of work it does leave time for parties the next thing
i was sharing were free periods free periods are honestly a life saving year 12 you can get all of
your work done i never came home with homework basically i cannot ever do work at home as in
homework i have to do it at school whether it's in my freeze or whether it's at lunch there's no
way i'm doing homework at home because i do not want to spend my evening doing homework do your
homework at school and it will make your evenings a lot nicer and a lot stress free just use your
free parents wisely yeah you can muck around do whatever you want just just get your work done
and then you'll find the next thing i wish i knew where end of years they are extremely stressful
that's the only stress i've actually felt in year 12 because they determine your predicted
grades especially if you're doing like stem all of your maths or science and like all of those like
those subjects your end of year determines that grade um that you're going to get for uni
admissions again depending on your school but you need to work for them but other factors do um do
help with your predicted grades so make sure you revise for your topic tests because your teachers
will put them forward towards your predicted grades predicted grades are so so so important you
need to know about them in year 12 because you're working for them throughout the year in year 12.
you do not want to like be lazy i guess and just i'm not going to do this test can't be
bothered i'll just wait for the exam because the teacher will take that into account when choosing
your predicted grade so please work for just please work throughout the year for that grade
because yeah it's not like year 11 when you actually have exams it's year 12 and you apply
to uni with your predicted grade so just work for your predicted grades work throughout the year and
keep consistent the next thing i wish i'd learned was doing an ebq um doing an epg was again it
it i hated that i do the only reason i hated it was because i chose a stupid topic
um i think i brainwashed myself thinking that i would like to do law so i just continued doing
law through my epq i wish i didn't because then i would have actually enjoyed it um
make sure you do an epq on a topic you enjoy like yes you might be wanting to do law at university
like i wanted to but do you actually want to do it and i kept thinking that i did but in reality
i didn't um to do an epq on something you're actually passionate about and for me that probably
would have been marketing or something down that route maybe down the um down business or econ
um do something you enjoy please and finally please use your teachers just use them and keep
using them for help they are the ones that are going to be giving you a pretty good grade so
the hint i'm giving if you get the hint or no just use them to get a good predicted grade please
like give them extra work or ask them to mark things because when it comes to the end
of years you want to be perfect for english especially for me my essay structure was so
bad when i started but i just have i had kept writing essays asking my teacher to mark them
yeah you can do it just ask your teachers for help but anyway thank you guys so much
for watching this video um it means a lot that you stay till the end please subscribe i'll be doing
more videos like this i was meant to release this a week ago but i got so busy um school starts for
me on the 8th of september i'm going to latvia estonia finland and ireland in like a few days
um but yeah thank you guys so much for watching please subscribe see you in my next video bye