Why You Should Base Your Target Grades on Your Ambition, Not Your Track Record

Academic coach Lucy Parsons explains why you shouldn’t let your predicted grades hold you back and to always work towards your ambitions.

“You are not a robot. You’re a living, breathing human being. But you wouldn’t know it from the way that schools behave. They’re crazy about data; it’s like they’re running a factory full of robots, rather than educating actual human beings. All your target grades are based off data, or supposedly they are. Sometimes it’s possible to persuade a teacher to nudge your target grade up one to give your UCAS application a bit of a boost. However, there’s another set of target grades. The ones that are in your head. These ones should reflect your ambition, not your track record.

Well, when I was at school I wanted to go to Cambridge University. I was a good student but I wasn’t the top student in my year. I needed to get at least AAB to get into Cambridge (that was back then, things have changed now). I set myself the goal of getting straight As to make sure that my ambition came true. I think you should do something very similar.

Find a course that you love at a university where you’d desperately love to study. When you’ve found the course that is really calling you check out the grade requirements. Make those grades your personal targets.”

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