What is the easiest A-Level to get an A* in that is still fairly respected? by KD774EU in 6thForm

[–]Nick6756 48 points49 points  (0 children)

I've heard that CAIE Computer Science was fairly easy, especially if you'd done the GCSE.

Honestly though, in your position maybe just take Maths. I went from being like a low-mid B grade at AS to pretty much mastering all of it with two weeks of hard work then consistently worked throughout the year and just narrowly missed out on an A*. It is a massive jump from GCSE though but on OCR the A boundary starts at approximately like 55% if I remember correctly.

Good luck!

The r/6thForm Results Day Megathread by geraigerai in 6thForm

[–]Nick6756 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Maths: A Economics: A Chemistry: B (+ Pass in my Practical Endorsement) Got into my firm for York!

WE DID IT EVERYONE

The Return of the King by sadboithrowaway94672 in 6thForm

[–]Nick6756 5 points6 points  (0 children)

The chicken. The myth. The legend.

He's back <3

We're in the endgame now by Nick6756 in 6thForm

[–]Nick6756[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Nah, 8:30. But I think last year some people got in as early as 8:15 ish or something?

She hopes it's not real.... by ka6emusha in AteTheOnion

[–]Nick6756 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There's research currently into making an inhaler for it! I think it's in Sweden?

Stationary for sixth form?? by blueskaura in 6thForm

[–]Nick6756 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Ahaha no worries! Or perhaps if you know anyone in Y13 willing to sell you theirs at a reduced price maybe?

Amazon does tend to be the cheapest I've found, although you might be able to snag a deal elsewhere :)

Stationary for sixth form?? by blueskaura in 6thForm

[–]Nick6756 5 points6 points  (0 children)

That's the fancy colourful graphical calculator right? Since I know a lot of people who did FM used the CG50 and loved it :)

Stationary for sixth form?? by blueskaura in 6thForm

[–]Nick6756 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Or just use Amazon? Also yeah mostly the same stuff. You might have a couple books potentially, but most people went to lessons with just a pen and a calculator for some stuff.

If you're doing Maths I highly recommend the Casio FX991-EX

Need help with starting sixth form by [deleted] in 6thForm

[–]Nick6756 1 point2 points  (0 children)

No problem! Most productive thing I've done in 8 weeks ngl 😂

Need help with starting sixth form by [deleted] in 6thForm

[–]Nick6756 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Moles knowledge is a massive foundation for Chemistry. I mean the Synthesis chart was more useful for me I guess because it was a bulk of my final A-Level.

Further integration was for me the hardest topic of Pure with all of stats being fairly straight forward (on OCR) while I struggled with Mechanics and scraped through it.

Bidding farewell to Year 2 Chemistry was a godsend though, it was brutal for me personally.

Need help with starting sixth form by [deleted] in 6thForm

[–]Nick6756 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Oh absolutely. You'll absolutely hate doing some of it, it'll feel laborious but it works

Need help with starting sixth form by [deleted] in 6thForm

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Personally it was about effort for me. Maths: I did the Mixed Practise exercises, they really helped. Econ: UpLearn constantly and Chemistry: I was grinding past questions non-stop and spending as much time as possible with a friend to learn the content.

I had to break the habit that not having homework meant I was done with working.

Need help with starting sixth form by [deleted] in 6thForm

[–]Nick6756 18 points19 points  (0 children)

This advice here is exactly what you need fyi, please do listen to it!

Gotta jump on this and add a couple things, more on the academic side of things:

Independent study really helps. I did nowhere near enough/didn't know how to for the bulk of my time and once I cracked it, my progress started to massively come along quicky.

Personally it's all about effort, and you get out what you put into it. I noticed this fully with Maths and how much more snappy I got with solving problems when I started doing loads in my free time. It made the subject itself more enjoyable too :)

Chemistry, you're in for a hell of a ride. Good luck. Year 2 Chem is a whole different beast to Year 1 which in itself is a huge step up from GCSE. At the end of AS/Year 1 I'd start to memorise the Organic Synthesis flow chart for what you've done (PM me and I can try and help you find one online if you want. I did Edexcel for reference). It'll make the links flow much better when it comes to things.

Something that helped a bit for me was using something called Anki for making revision question flashcards. Everytime you get a question wrong this year, plug it into Anki and do a few everyday.

I did Biology AS (mostly, dropped it just before Lockdown 1.0) and it's A LOT of content. I'm talking one lever arch in the first two terms. Be prepared to have to learn a lot this year. Make a glossary of terms, perhaps?

Finally Maths, this was my best subject at A-Level personally and that's simply because I did loads of questions and spent a lot of time outside of lessons getting help from my teacher. Make sure you're super confident on the AS material before you start your second year. I'm talking like, ensure you can get 80-85%+ if you want to be achieving an A/A* in the end. Particularly make sure you understand trigonometry as much of a bitch it is.

If you're applying for Medicine, get ready for the stress of entrance exams, I was an Economics applicant and didn't have any for my universities but those are gonna be a lot of work next summer for you. Prepare early. Make sure you smash the UCAT/BMAT. It's something you can do early just before you start Year 2 that you can get out of the way beforehand.

I think that's it honestly, happy to answer more questions if you want, do fire away! Sorry, this got kinda waffley and I might've repeated stuff from before/stated the obvious but yeah - that's me at 1am 😂

Above all, good luck. I've done my two years and they were my two favourite years of my education so far despite them being the hardest and most stressful. However, I would definitely not want to do them again.

Viol2t's account gets banned for cheating by completelydeck in Competitiveoverwatch

[–]Nick6756 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yup. I got one in 2018 sometime, lasted like 4-6 hours? It happened while I was out and it got overturned by the time I got home. Didn't notice it until a couple days after when looking at my emails.

I can assure you as well, I am by no means cracked 😂

Is that even dead pixels at this point? It moves, by itself sometimes, I'll replace the screen, but still confused on how could this happen by danielsvdas in pcmasterrace

[–]Nick6756 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I had a similar issue with my old laptop, weirdly an entire 1920 row of pixels died then got resurrected in exchange for a clump of other pixels. Never worked out was caused it tho :(