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Sixth Form so far...

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It has been just over a month so far since I started Year 12, so I thought I would just write a quick update about how it's going and what I've learnt.  I decided to stay at my current school for Sixth Form, because we have a great Sixth Form and I liked the fact that I already knew the teachers (and vice versa). Plus, my sister went here too, so she could tell me all the hints and tricks, such as avoiding the downstairs common room, for example!  My A-Level choices were originally History, Geography and Biology. I had wanted to take 4 subjects, however, I couldn't as I didn't get straight As and A*s in my GCSEs (I got 2 A*s, 5 As, 2 Bs and 1 D). I took Biology because I quite liked it at GCSE and it is a facilitating subject. Despite this, after a couple of Biology lessons, I realised I really didn't like it. The subject matter was far too chemistry-based for me, and I REALLY don't like chemistry. So, I made the decision to swap it for Sociology, which I ha...