Can I realistically go from poor A-level grades to A/Bs in 4.5 months whilst working?
I’m 21 and honestly feel really stuck in life right now. I did poorly in my A-levels at 18, but looking back, I had a lot of personal circumstances going on at the time and I don’t think my grades reflected my actual ability at all. I know people always say that, but throughout school I was naturally quite intelligent and when I actually apply myself I do well.
Now I’m seriously considering redoing my A-levels because I don’t want doors closed for me long term, especially for university and future careers. I’d be doing Cambridge CAIE International A-levels in the October/November session because they offer exams then, but that’s only around 4.5 months away.
The subjects would likely be:
Psychology
Business
Geography
I’ve studied all of them before so I’m not starting completely from scratch, although realistically Geography is the only one I’m genuinely strong at currently. Business and Psychology I have background knowledge in but definitely not enough right now to comfortably get high grades.
The issue is I work full time, so I’m trying to figure out whether this is actually realistic or if I’m being delusional. Has anyone here gone from poor grades / almost no revision to A’s or B’s in around 4-5 months while working? Especially with CAIE?
Be brutally honest, is it possible to scrape A/B grades if I dedicate myself from now until October/November, and roughly how many hours a day would I realistically need to study?