How To Revise

A*

It's almost time to start exams and June is approaching fast, here are my top 10 tips for revising!

London Calling

Please forgive me for the clichéd post title!

On Monday I travelled down the M6 en route to London, capital of England and home of the Queen, Sherlock Holmes... and Boris Johnson.

The trip was arranged by the Media department at my college and only cost £90 for a one night stay in a three star hotel, a trip to the London Eye and a tour around the new headquarters of the BBC.

I've done a little montage vlog of the two days and I hope you're willing to spend 6 minutes of your time listening to Beyoncé and Ellie Goulding and watching some shaky filming and awful, rushed editing. Drop a comment if you like, drop a comment if you hate.

I'll probably do a written review below when I have the time to fully reflect, but for now, enjoy! (Video is at the top of this post)

Media Coursework Results

Hello guys! Today I bring a quick personal update and some brilliant news.

I am currently studying A Level Media and on Monday our semi-official coursework marks were released to us and I am proud to reveal that I achieved an A* overall!

The coursework consisted of a blog [x] and a music video [x] which we made in October. We could choose any song to use and my group decided on Bastille's song 'Flaws', which they recently (re?)released as a single, so obviously we must of inspired them to make it a hit...

We really worked hard and I think my advice to any other Media student who wants to do well is bulk out your blog with good quality posts and don't worry if you're not confident with your video, it can turn out rubbish and as long as you mention the mistakes you've made then you've justified your work and you've shown the examiner that you can criticise your own work constructively.

We were only on the border of an A* though so I am a little worried that the examiner will lower it slightly and we'll fall back into the A grade boundary. But even an A is more than I could've hoped for!

I also received my mock exam results. Which were not so good, to be honest. I achieved an E in Maths, a D in English Language and Literature and a B in Media. You can see where my talents lie. 

I did enjoy the maths exam though and I'm a little baffled to where I went wrong. I'll be revising profusely over the next few months, I can't afford to get anything less than a B overall, as my offer from Leeds University wants AAB overall. Wish me luck!