08.24.10

GCSE Results

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Physics A*
Chemistry A*
Biology A*
History A*
Art A
Latin A
RS B
Maths: A* (took last year)
Science: A* (took last year)
Additional Science: A* (took last year)
English: A (took last year)

YEAAAAHHHHHHH

*performs the victory dance*

My whole education has lead up to these letters, now it’s over. Golly this feels weird. Anyway.

Things I am very happy about: Science, Maths and History. Especially History. Trying my best not to sound snobbish but science and maths are my best subjects, so I’m used to getting good grades in them. History, however, comes a little less natural to me. I worked really hard to get an A* and I did! I feel like squeeing. I think I might.

SQUEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!

Things I’m happy about: Art. I put so much work into this subject. Easily half my time I spent doing homework and coursework was on Art alone. And I got an A! To get an A* I’d need 59/60 or something ridiculous like that, so I’m very happy with my A.

Things I’m a bit “meh” about: RS and Latin. Latin I’m happy with really, but I would have liked to have gotten an A*; I’m not going to complain about “only” getting an A though :P RS I’m a bit annoyed about, because I got an A* in my coursework and I thought I did well in my exams, but I got two grades lower than expected. They were my first exams though and I’m not too fussed because a B is still good. It just ruins my results slip a bit :P

Further comments: OCR sucks as an exam board. They printed half my grades wrong!

Now I’m going on into Sixth Form to do A Levels in Physics, Maths, Further Maths and History. Then it’s university! Oh my science then I’ll have to get an actual job. Eeep!

07.22.10

Summer Reading List

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I’ve been planning this list since my exams started in May. I remember sitting at my desk with my textbooks strewn across the floor, wistfully wishing I could read some books I actually enjoy *sighs* Now I’ve finished all my exams (:D) and am eagerly waiting for results, I’ve started The List, which will probably take a lot longer than one summer if I’m honest.

I’ve recently gone through a sort of “Reading Renaissance” where I stopped reading teen books and Harry Potter and started reading entirely different book genres. Mainly they’ve been sci-fi and physics books. So far this summer I have read 1984 by George Orwell, Why Does E=mc^2 by Brian Cox and Jeff Forshaw, A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking and a couple of Agatha Christie books. I’d recommend all of them :D

Anyway, this is my Summer Reading list. I’ve got loads more books I want to read other than these which I’m making a new page for in my About section, it’ll be up soon (maybe after I’m back from holiday).

• Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky (currently reading)
• Lots of Poirot books by Agatha Christie
• Animal Farm by George Orwell
• War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells
• Carrie by Stephen King
• Elizabeth by David Starkey (this ones for school- I’m starting A Level History in September)
• I am Legend by Richard Matheson

Has anybody read these? Were they good?