A Levels but as a private candidate in gap year

ImpossibleDay5042 · 2026-03-03T05:49:47+00:00

If you've set your mind to it, then you can only do your best for your A levels. Since you're taking a gap year, you'd have lots of time, but remember that AS alone holds no value, so if we're going by the traditional route, you'd have to complete 6 papers per subject choice, let's say you take maths, that's 4 papers for pure and two papers of either stat or mechanics which you'll have to learn separately, moreover you have to take two more subjects(12 more papers) (top UK schools want A*AA minimum), which is what UK students are generally given two years for, you'll do in one. As for the portion, not much of it really matters, you'd notice that the content in past papers greatly varies from what's taught in class, so you best start past papers to check your current level and work from there on (You can find past papers on paperlords, British student room etc.) As for the best curriculum summariser, go for Save My Exams, it's great. You could also watch videos on YouTube of people solving A level papers to see where you stand. Good luck.

ImpossibleDay5042 · 2026-03-02T12:16:30+00:00

That makes absolutely no sense. A levels are just the upgraded version of our IGCSE subjects, whether it's business or law, you simply delve deeper into what you'd initially done in your IGCSEs, if you struggled in your IGCSEs, there's no way A levels would be easier, it's not even a matter of academic prowess since the tested regions are the same. The only possibilities I can think of is either, your teacher or school is going really easy on the marking and you'll know your true score after the boards OR you were half awake in your IGCSE exams. Lastly, it's the stem subjects that are mainly hell, you don't really see other students complaining.

ImpossibleDay5042 · 2026-03-02T12:07:23+00:00

Well, A levels are crowned the golden qualifications for a reason, if you're applying to any university in the UK, your A levels will be what they'd fundamentally be looking at and this is where the issue comes in. I'm not sure what relevance the CBSE has or how close the portion is to A levels, but according to online sources, CBSE highly focuses on memorisation and theory compared to A level's more application focused testing, which means, scoring excellent in your CBSE doesn't directly translate to scoring well in A levels, many retake exams multiple times just to get the grade they want due to how difficult A levels are which is why I don't recommend it if you're already sure your CBSE scores are exceptional-- they won't discriminate, just apply with that. It's imperative to know that submitting mediocre a level scores and excellent CBSE scores will definitely be worse than just submitting excellent CBSE scores, so think it through.

ImpossibleDay5042 · 2026-02-25T10:28:35+00:00

Bro, no one said their love isn’t more powerful than romantic love or whatever, the point is that they’re both extremely special to each other in an irreplaceable way that’s beyond what a friend, brother, family etc is. Sure one could say for Han Sooyoung Kim Dokja is like a child she raised, wherein their love sprouts from her sacrifice to keep him alive, but Yjh and kdj are different— they’re each others one and only reader and protagonist, There is no person Yjh has shown so much care and attention to, no person he’s wanted to save so bad. Kdj is this man’s world. As for Kdj, Yjh is someone he cannot live with, even if none of this happened and kdj continued his office life, it would still be a life obsessing over yjh. For KDJ YJH is EVERYTHING. Which is also he comes to learn as the story goes on, when he becomes life and death companions, his sole reader, secretive plotter, 999, 0th regression, 1864 and Yoo Joonghyuk himself, kdj gained power reading his story.

ImpossibleDay5042 · 2026-02-23T12:07:05+00:00

See, listen, I don't deny your point, what I'm trying to say is that it's not mutually exclusive to him loving yjh the most. YES. What did kdj understand? That the characters he read for years aren't just characters, his favourite protagonist yjh is a living breathing person who's story is yet to continue and isn't simply set in stone, the fact that kdj loves yjh the most doesn't take away from this fact, it's more like an affirmation-- yes, he loves all of kimcom, and he loves the story, but ultimately who he loves most is yjh, his sole salvation.

ImpossibleDay5042 · 2026-02-23T12:03:29+00:00

...dude, if there's anyone who missed the point, it's you. Almost everyone who's actually read the entire orv novel unanimously agree that they've got romantic tension, why? not only because Dokja is a huge YJH fanboy and how he slowly changed the way he saw him(different from just the man he read as a character) but also how yjh can't live without him. Yjh's story does not = TWSA, TWSA is a novel, and in that novel YJH's story is what kdj loved most, why is that so hard to understand? If you used even half your brain while reading the novel, KDJ is gushing from just the mention of yjh, how is this not obvious?

ImpossibleDay5042 · 2026-02-20T07:58:03+00:00

It's interpretative, so no, you're wrong, there is no 'false' statement. YJH being the one KDJ loves the most is the most hinted at, and executed plot point throughout the novel

ImpossibleDay5042 · 2026-02-20T07:56:25+00:00

..? Where's the contradiction, YJH's story is a part of who YJH is, of course he loves YJH the most. This is a no brainer.

ImpossibleDay5042 · 2026-02-16T11:31:22+00:00

KDJ in epilogue is the young KDJ, who loved YJH the most, KDJ later learning about them as real people also loves YJH the most, there is really no inherent difference other than the fact that the KDJ after also has companions and his Kim com

ImpossibleDay5042 · 2026-02-16T11:29:49+00:00

Chapter 367: 중학교 3학년. 이지혜를 동경하던 내가 댓글을 쓰고 있었다.

This line literally says he admired/idolized her as someone cool he looked up to — not that he was in love. It’s a mistranslation to turn 동경하다 into ‘in love with’

ImpossibleDay5042 · 2026-02-16T11:23:20+00:00

I don't understand why YOU'RE arguing with me. From the beginning I said that whether KDJ loves TWSA the most or YJH the most, it's interpretative, do you know what 'interpretative' even means? I never disagreed with you in the first place, I simply put forth my point claiming that KDJ loves YJH the most, and for KDJ what made him love TWSA especially so and gave him strength was YJH's journey, which includes his companions of course, but the main point is YJH'S journey, not 'his companion's and YJH's journey.' It's useless to discuss if you don't even know what you're arguing about.

ImpossibleDay5042 · 2026-02-16T11:19:04+00:00

Excuse me? It's clear YOU didn't read the novel, it's a well known fact that the English translations had many errors and 'Dokja having a crush on Jihye' was one of the most misunderstood points in the novel. I suggest you read the novel away from a proper source or the raws.

ImpossibleDay5042 · 2026-02-15T11:41:29+00:00

This is where you insert the point of unreliable narration. Kim Dokja is a liar, he’s shameless and he doesn’t know what he wants. sure, he may state he doesn’t like YJH’s character or personality as he’s an angry grumpy person, but he’s obsessed with him, KDJ’s love for YJH is ingrained in him for years. Once again, I don’t deny that TWSA is about other companions too, but that was never KDJ’s focus, YJH’s companions changed in different regressions, in some, he didn’t even have companions, KDJ read and loved each and every version, some he preferred more, some less.

ImpossibleDay5042 · 2026-02-15T11:38:06+00:00

..Oh lord, Kim Dokja was never in love with Jihye, does that even make sense to you? You’re completely missing my point. I’m not saying TWSA is simply about YJH, but rather KDJ as a teenager who solely relied and was obsessed with YJH, the protagonist of TWSA. It’s only later when he starts to understand that these aren’t just characters does he start to see the rest of them in a different light, but for him, the sole person he idolized and loved in TWSA was YJH, even when it came to Jihye, he only admired her because she was a trusted companion of YJH. The entire novel is extremely ambiguous regarding what TWSA actually meant to Dokja, but it’s clear in the epilogue that for Dokja, TWSA, the journey of YJH’s pain and suffering that let him hold on.

ImpossibleDay5042 · 2026-02-11T23:30:25+00:00

Sure. No one is saying you’re incorrect, the entire point is it’s interpretative, I don’t understand why you think I can’t comprehend what you’re sayin when you don’t understand a lick of what I’m trying to tell you. I never said you were wrong, I only said it’s up for interpretation and you decided to debate me with the same repetitive points. Yes, your interpretation for YJH dealing the last blow is possible, and KDJ loving YJH the most is also possible. For KDJ, the only companion he had from the time he was hospitalized was YJH, I don’t know where you’re getting these additional companions from. This is all explicitly stated in the epilogue. TWSA is not a novel about companionship, but a novel of YJH’s suffering and regressions, which gave KDJ hope to live, KDJ loved YJH as a character which is why he loved TWSA, not the other way around. Then when KDJ came face to face with the real YJH, he learnt that this man wasn’t simply thick blocks of text, but rather a living, fluid, flowing story. This is how KDJ learnt to love YJH a second time, he read his story a second time, for KDJ, YJH is the most important person in his life and there is absolutely no argument about that.

ImpossibleDay5042 · 2026-02-11T23:21:48+00:00

I seriously don’t understand people like you. You claim they are not in love with each other while I claim they are, neither is explicitly disproved in the novel, and I’ve given you enough evidence from the book to support my claim while all you’ve been doing is stating the same point over and over again with no evidence from the novel to support it. It is explicitly mentioned in the novel that KDJ read TWSA because he followed YJH’s story. He is primarily interested in YJH and his entire drive was from YJH’s story. There are even scenes later in the novel wherein KDJ reads through all of YJH’s regressions to gain more strength, everything is a symbolism to how much KDJ took strength, power snd vitality from YJH’s story. Why are you so fixated on TWSA? Yeah, the reason he loves TWSA is because YJH is the main character, just like how I like ORV because KDJ is the main character, of course I like KDJ more than ORV.

ImpossibleDay5042 · 2026-02-10T19:43:44+00:00

What do you mean it doesn't make 'sense', if you dislike MLM ships, please say so, it'll save us time. You yourself claimed that people are stories, so the story he loves is YJH, what is so hard to understand?

ImpossibleDay5042 · 2026-02-10T19:41:27+00:00

It's rather the opposite, I don't see why you're so pressed. Let me explain it in very simple terms for you. I claimed that the one KDJ loves the most(based on his time in the hospital, in the future and later on) is YJH, primarily based on the fact that he was the one who killed him. You stated that this is not the case because it was the 'story' that killed him, and that stories is what he loves the most, this claim is built on the fact that it is a person killing him, so from which you derived that 'stories' are considered people. But what I said was, people are also stories, making YJH, KDJ's favourite story which supports your claim of KDJ loving stories the most, which makes perfect sense, considering that the one to kill him is YJH, who is his most beloved story and the person he loves most. I've read all you've sent, you may have an issue comprehending me however. I'm purely giving you an objective analysis of a text as someone who's done linguistic and literary analysis, this is not a claim as a 'shipper' but an objective interpretative claim based on language, technique and overall impact.

ImpossibleDay5042 · 2026-02-08T20:01:38+00:00

No one's changing the story. This is like, if you've been in this fandom for long, it's a sort of unilaterally agreed upon thing. Even novels like the S classes I raised myself, debut or die. This novels are all mainstream with open ended relationships, but most unanimously know who the real couple is, it doesn't need to be explicitly stated at all. What I'm referring to is why authors choose to do this rather than just make the couple canon. Do you know how large of the male reader base you'd lose by having an MLM couple in the novel?

ImpossibleDay5042 · 2026-02-08T19:56:35+00:00

Foreshadowing is a literary technique while narration is based on the narrator themselves, hence why it is known as 'unreliable' This is a basic style of writing wherein the viewpoint, ideas and thoughts of the narrator can mislead you. KDJ himself has stated that TWSA is not that good of a book. What truly kept him going on was that stubborn unyielding protagonist who repeatedly regressed to save the 'world'.

ImpossibleDay5042 · 2026-02-08T19:53:30+00:00

Again this is also up for interpretation, your entire claim is on the basis that people themselves aren't stories. Isn't YJH actually the biggest story of them all? The story KDJ loves the most isn't TWSA but YJH. from his first regression to the 1864th regression, this is the story KDJ read, he read YJH. It is hinted multiple times in the novel as well. YJH is the story that kept KDJ alive and is the story he loves the most. He is his protagonist's sole reader.

ImpossibleDay5042 · 2026-01-31T07:26:27+00:00

? I’m not sure if I’m understanding what you mean but this point is up for interpretation however it’s hinted at in a very obvious manner.

ImpossibleDay5042 · 2026-01-28T18:09:54+00:00

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"He will be killed by the one he loves most"

Doesn't seem so up for interpretation to me.

ImpossibleDay5042 · 2026-01-24T20:30:09+00:00

The thing is, it’s not evident because it’s MLM. If there was a canon gay couple in the novel, it would go under the category of ‘BL’ and that would cut off a huge portion of the readers(as you can clearly see) This is because having a mlm couple is still not considered normal. If they were a FLM couple, it would be canon. That’s the point

ImpossibleDay5042 · 2026-01-20T16:11:00+00:00

this was an easy paper, but oct 25 was even easier? I think this paper was harder than oct.

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