Setting Standards.

Results Day.
Today, everyone in year 12 and 13 student has gone to fetch their AS or A level results in hope of getting the grades they want to either get into university, or to boost them forward into year 13 so they'll be able to get the grades next year for university.

But what if they don't get the grades? Everyone sayas not to worry, universities set their standards really high to get the best people in and then when not everyone gets the grades, the universities accept them anyway. If they don't, you can always put yourself through clearing and find a university that has the course for you. Sometimes, you might even be happier and the university you end up at than the one you planned to go to in the first place. not that you could ever know, because both situations could never happen.

I'll be worried about university next summer. I'm worried about it now! Today, after recieving and analysing my results, I've decided that instead of doing what I've been planning on doing since I was about 10 years old - studying Maths at university - I'm going to study English Language, because that is what I've been getting my highest grades in all year. So now I need to complete start my UCAS application all over again.



My results, once again, were not as high as I had expected, but they weren't as much of a shock or dissapointment as last year. So now, I have two more sets of results to recieve, my January results next March, and next year with my fianl results. And if it carries on improving slightly each time I get results, by next summer, I'll be generally happy with the results I get. (This is what I'm hoping for anyway).

When I tell people my results for GCSE, or for AS levels or any other grades, they always say that I've done really well and I shouldn't be put out by it. The thing is the standards I set for myself are always higher than I achieve and people don't understand that I'm not going to be happy unless I meet my target - I might have done well by someone else's standards, but not by my own. But recently I think my standards are unrealistically high because I can never seem to be able to reach them anymore.




Set yourself achievable standards and be happy with them when you reach them. Don't worry or dwell on other people's opinions or goals.
The standards that matter to you should be yours and yours alone.

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