I NEED YOUR HELP, ASAP

Hello, I am a 16 year old currently in year 11 in Aus. There are courses here called ATAR that allow direct access into uni if you pass those courses. You may only enter ATAR courses if you perform well and get the required scores in year 10.

If you perform poorly in year 11 the school may choose to not allow you to continue your courses and you must drop down to simple courses that will only give you a grad cert. Forget uni.

Alt route is to go into another institute, pay thousands, waste around 2 years and then you may enter uni.

Here's the thing...I have severely screwed up my maths course...and am in almost certain to be asked to drop the course. If I drop maths - I do not know how many uni course opportunities may get closed - but Ik for certain that many will (right?)

My ONLY option is that I must contact the head of department of maths and appeal to her, and hope that she accepts, and thats what I'm going to do, so please could you tell me what you think of my message and add in stuff?

"Dear HOM, My name is FPOI and I am in a very difficult position right now. I have been recommended to not continue the maths ATAR course and I seriously seek your help.

The only reason I have failed to get recommended is that I literally did not pay attention, lost focus, and did not study for the subject, and naturally I failed. Which I know you may think is absolutely rubbish.

I want you to understand that the reason is not that I am very weak in the subject, I really did lose alot of focus, and if it makes you understand where I am coming from then I can tell you that in all my ATAR subjects I have failed terribly.

I was positively not recommended doing ATAR last year, in semester 1. I had hour long meetings with the associate principal and the VET coordinator. They all said that I may do ATAR if I perform well enough by the end of the year.

By the end of the year my scores definitely improved, I put in alot of work and I got my science average upto 69% and my english average to 82%, and for all exams I scored above 60. At the time I was in maths essentials, and when I went to the office to request entering atar now that I have scored well, I was very happy to find out that you yourself were actually happy to allow me doing maths applications atar. I am very thankful of people like you who believe in students and trust that they may score well, unlike the seniors at my own school who said that hardly anyone improves and that I am better off just going for TAFE. I was so happy realizing that I am actual a smart student with potential who can score well and can pass atar.

I have ruined my opportunity and have messed up so bad, I truly feel remorse. Before the holidays I cheated on a test and I got caught, and I recieved a 0 for it which I deserved, theres so much pressure on me that I am really screwing up even more. I do not think I am a special case who is entitled but I want to be honest as possible with you regarding my situation.

Throughout the holidays me not being able to continue atar is all thats been going through my head. I am so worried, this is killing me.

I am not a dumb person. I am not weak in maths. But at this point no one wants to believe me and I really hope you will, you're honestly my only hope. Please help me out like you did once 6 months ago, it will honestly mean the world to me.

I seriously did mess up this year, and I also did it in other subjects...my english average is 52 and I scored lowest in year for exams, and my Human Biology avg is just 41%. Both comp science and Maths averages are low 30s, and I honestly don't know how this happened. I know I am not dumb but I just don't know what went wrong, I just started losing interest. Again, you may think this is absolutely rubbish and as a 16 year old I have shown no responsibility, but I promise I will change, I really will.

If you still think that I am not worthy of it and decide that it will be a definite NO then can I please at least make an arrangement where if I score well within the remaining 1 term left so you can actually see how its not a case of "maths really isn't a subject for this student, and you need to think hard and long about what yiu want to do" but rather "ok, he messed up really bad, but hes demonstrated he can do well"

I've honestly thought really hard about this. I understand where the teachers are coming from when they say that maybe maths just isn't for me but I know I can do well and I've proven to do so before. I get frustrated when the system does this - I mean, if I am doing general courses I'll have to do TAFE, if I fail my atar (which I won't) I'll be doing TAFE.

So what exactly is ANYONE but ME losing anything from me wanting to do this? I wish they'd just give me another shot.

Miss I really hope you help me out. I have no reason to lie to you. I've messed up very badly and I need your help in this dire situation. I have only 1 week as of today to hand in my subject form, if I don't hand it in, I am done. All that hard work amounted to nothing in year 10, and its all my fault which I understand.

I hope you believe in me miss, I look forward to your reply, thank you"

If a senior in the education system can guide me in a situation like this, please help!! I really need your help and your opinions on this.

Thank you very much, I hope you have a nice one and take care :)

Submitted July 15, 2017 at 02:51AM by FreshPrinceOfIndia http://ift.tt/2tW9Qrv