A degree is no longer a guarantee of a job even at the very best uni (though your odds are improved
).Is University really some of the best years of your life?
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A degree is no longer a guarantee of a job even at the very best uni (though your odds are improved
).A degree is no longer a guarantee of a job even at the very best uni (though your odds are improved
So what do you suggest?
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Ok so it's not a question of whether you should be able to get the requisite marks but a problem doing so under proper exam conditions. I don't know how the English system works but under the Scottish system you could normally appeal if you had relevant work/prelim results to show that you could/should have got a higher mark - normally only if it was a fair bit worse than you actually achieved though. It might be worth looking into what options you've got for appeals as any increase in your grades will give you significantly more choices.
Failing that clearing starts in July I believe so I'd suggest getting yourself ready for that as well as probably getting a job to earn some money to make your first year at uni that little bit more comfortable.
Failing that clearing starts in July I believe so I'd suggest getting yourself ready for that as well as probably getting a job to earn some money to make your first year at uni that little bit more comfortable.
A degree as long as its sensible has got to be better than no degree + you don't have to work properly for a few years.
I'd go for it myself.
Just don't fall into the same trap as myself and neglect work.
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That depends on your university as far as I'm aware - in mine only the fourth year went to give the final degree mark, in others every year is weighted as a percentage of the overall score. First year may count for relatively little but it would be silly to completely neglect it if it does count for you.
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I went to uni wish I hadn't though. Would have been better working instead tbh.
Yes it is, of course it depends what you make of it. My missus lived at home, based her social life round home and didn't enjoy it.
I lived at uni, loved at uni (gigidy gigidy) and had the best 3 years of my life. Still meet my old uni mates to this day and we reminisce about how fantastic those days were. Could spend hours on end just telling stories about it.
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feel like this too biology degree too general silly choice I was a confused teen didn't have any idea. Told I had to go to uni by my parents who didn't have any idea about how system worked etc etc. I just chose what I was best at... all I can do with my degree is 1) apply to medicine 2) work in a lab.
1st choice good 2nd can **** off.
Young guys definitely take longer to mature... a lot of my friends who did biology are in the same boat as me now. Like why did I bother going to uni so early? definitely think working from 18-20 is best bet mature a bit then apply. And you'll be shedload more confident and centered as person better to tackle getting in girls pants at uni!
Errrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr, no
I know an array of people with biology degrees who are:
- Working at the BBC / other national media
- Solicitors
- Teachers
- Working in drugs awareness
- Office work
And yes, I know some that are doing medicine and a fews in research.
Is there anything you actually want to do that you can't do?
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Errrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr, no
I know an array of people with biology degrees who are:
- Working at the BBC / other national media
- Solicitors
- Teachers
- Working in drugs awareness
- Office work
And yes, I know some that are doing medicine and a fews in research.
Is there anything you actually want to do that you can't do?
Yeah good point. There are options I guess, but i'm still 22 and feeling like ohhh dear what to do. Moving to leeds soon and out of my house first time! That'll be best step towards finding a career I think. Not living in a dingy village out in the sticks!
I think it can be really hard to decide what to do next. I actually took the legal route from a biology degree on a bit of a leap of faith but I think it could have been a very good choice. Time will tell if it's truly for me.
Besides, you are still young, most people will oodles of career changes. Best of luck with your house move etc
Im doing Biology and I'm loving it! I think I want to go into environmental consultancy, something like that. Maybe working for defra or the environment agency.
Biology is awesome, get to lift rocks and count crabs! Also, culture the bacteria from the back of my ears.
Biology is awesome, get to lift rocks and count crabs! Also, culture the bacteria from the back of my ears.
I think 4 is fine, know people that do 5 and I might even do 4 A levels+ Futher maths As next year as well.
I would consider redoing the year but if you are not getting good enough grades for a decent university then there is no point.
You will need to change your work ethic no matter what you do though if you are getting bad grades.
I'd drop an A level - most Unis don't give offers on 4, and if it would give you extra time to work on the others then that's probably the best option. With only 3 A levels left, you might manage doing some more resits in summer, so you could probably still end up with good grades without redoing a whole year (I imagine that would feel awful, come with plenty of teasing, and is also, fundamentally, a year of your life that you could do other stuff in... Although then again if you like school then It might not be so bad...).
Edit: I suppose what course of action you take depends also on what kind of Uni you want to go to - If they want good grades, then doing 4 and getting 4A's, possibly with a resat year might me the best option, but If you're happy going somewhere that wants 3C's then just dropping one and working as hard as you can for the exams this time round might be better (I'm sure that with enough work you could still manage A's or B's)..... But then I'm not an admissions tutor - you could try emailing a few and see what they say?
You don't need to take more than 3, but if you enjoy your subjects and don't mind a bit of hard work then taking 4 or 5 (I'm doing 5) can be more rewarding. I think a few Unis do offers on 4, and doing 4 does give you a good bit of variety. I just enjoyed my subjects, and as I was doing OK grades wise, I didn't see any reason to drop any of them.
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Not a requirement but certainly would help with your application, number of applicants per place is pretty high at the moment.
Just for example I am looking at Southampton for electronic engineering and it has 6 applicants per place, sadly meeting the requirements is probably not good enough these days.
Perhaps but it depends what subject it is. If it is something irrelevant to the course then an interesting person might outweigh an additional subject, but who says that you can't do both?
For example if you were really ahead of the game you could do your own huge project in the summer, get a lot of work experience in the field that are you going in. Had some really good ideas such as doing a lighting project for a media centre room, with own software as well. This would be a great challenge, but I can't see any sane universities turning you down if you did something really epic from your own initiative.
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Uni is great. i mean personally i hated other students and had my own group and basiclly did nothing but smoked and got seshed every day for 2 out of 3 years and basically just chillaxed for along time.
its only when u hit the humdrum of real life with routines, jobs, responsibilities that you realise how great the uni days really were!!
its only when u hit the humdrum of real life with routines, jobs, responsibilities that you realise how great the uni days really were!!