I saw a similar post which kind of inspired me to write this post. I'm 18 this year waiting for a-level results (Feb 2025). Everyone around me seem to have a goal/plan that they want to do after As and after their result release. However, I'm not confident with my results (2yrs of procrastination and laziness did not help) and I really don't want to retake. My first plan was to do a foundation year but that got turn down quickly by my parents bc of the costs. So my next plan is to do a language school in japan for a few years, take eju (and study hard for that) before enrolling in a Japanese-taught course in jp uni. (this route is much cheaper than the former)
But I'm not sure how feasible this plan is and that whether I will be squandering my life away with no concrete plan. I'm neither fluent in Japanese (but am willing to do my best if I were to really enrol in a language school) nor have a course that I want to study so bad (looking at stem-ish courses but my sciences results in junior college are not that good). At first I wanted to do earth science related courses/ agriculture ish but not sure if that can earn me any money ):
My next worry is that whether my A level results will be taken into consideration for jp-taught courses in jp unis which might hinder my applications no matter how good my eju is.
I've wasted 2 years of my life just being such a terrible student in jc albeit I think my o level results are decent. And I'm willing to make changes to my attitude whichever route I take (just that I really don't want to stay in my country- singapore for higher education as I want to start anew).
Anyway I'm not sure what I'm trying to get out of this post; maybe some words of affirmation, some information about my 'plan', or just a brutal reality check. If you're still reading until here, thank you so much! (:
by Realistic_Door_2941