It’s been a good few months since I posted on my blog regularly, and I thought I would explain why it’s fallen by the wayside. Last year, I decided to sit my English literature, English language and maths GCSEs this summer, and as is typical of me, I left it until the very last minute to get going. I’d say it has only been two or three months since I properly started working towards these exams, but someone my age in the school system would’ve had almost three years by now. I’m not concerned that my last-minute method will work to my disadvantage – my past grades show the opposite of that, if I do say so myself. I think that an awful lot of the time, GCSE lessons in school are just going over and over the same thing, drumming it into students’ heads for year upon year, when the whole thing could be done in a quarter of the time. However, there is, of course, one disadvantage to my method: mega stress. I’m spending every hour of every day analysing poems, memorising quotes, learning formulae, doing past paper after past paper and there is simply too little time to write regular blog posts on top of it all. Even my reading – one of my favourite pastimes! – leaves something to be desired, as I stagnate at 7 books behind schedule on my 2023 reading challenge. I can’t wait for June, when I will have my last exam, and can spend the summer reading, writing, walking, seeing friends, not cooped up at my desk memorising what to regurgitate in a somewhat arbitrary exam paper. GCSEs do not necessitate learning; they hinder it.
So you may have to wait just a few more tedious weeks before being graced by my frequent posts, but do not fear – the summer will be full of them! Watch this space ✌️