Are A-Levels too much to cope with?
For year 13's everywhere the new year brings with it new choices. As of May we will no longer be attending a school which has held us close and protected us for the past 7 years of our education; we must say good bye to it. However with this comes exams, a word students fear. It's technical definition is: a detailed inspection or study. Yet for students it simply means, OH MY GOSH DEADLINES!!!!!Exams have a reputation of scaring students as they bring with them so much fear. Many students will be enrolling into University in September and others stepping into the jobs market, either way the exams we take this year determine the rest of our lives. Once that final day/exam is over we have to step into the real world and become grown ups.
As teenagers we dream of being able to be free, We all look forward to turning 17 and being able to step behind a wheel and turning 18 and being able to walk into a bar and order a alcoholic drink and turning 19 and moving out for under mums nose. Yet once the idea of taking an exam to become an adult comes about we fear. Turing another year older is easy, we wake up one morning older and excited. You get given presents and have friends over to congratulate you on making it another year in your life. Yet when the prospects of waking up one morning to take a test which means you can be an adult comes about we all run for the hills.
Speaking from my own personal views I can't wait to leave my school and step into university world, every time I get an email from UCAS telling me someone has looked at my profile and said 'yes, we like her' I get slightly giddy. However I am so incredibly fearful. My secondary school has been my home for years and protected me, waking up every morning to my amazing friends sitting with a smile on their face as I walk into the room it's a way of living I've grown used to. Now I will have to turn it all in, have to wake up to a job or wake up to random strangers who I'm living with now I'm away from home for 3 years.
So why is it that we have looked forward to the day when we can say "bye school, hello real world" we all get that butterfly feeling in our stomachs? Is it that we are scared of failing? In school if you fail you dust yourself of and move on with it knowing in a few months you can re-do your test or alter your coursework. In the real world there aren't any do overs, you have to make conscious decisions and stick with them no matter what.
On the other hand is their something far more emotional to it? Is it that we just can't bear to admit we have to grow up, possibly say goodbye to some loved friends and move on with our lives. Then again, if they are true friends they will stick by you know matter what. Even if you do leave them for a while they will always welcome you back with open arms, that's true friendship.
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