My girlfriend doubts herself academically. She failed her GCSEs (UK) and thinks she’s incapable of learning. How can I help her?

My girlfriend doubts herself beyond belief and puts herself down. She went to an awful secondary school and has only two GCSEs in Welsh and ICT. She’s 22 years old and has a lot going for her, but she seems to think she’s stuck in a rut.

I just want to help her. I want her to realise she can do anything but the more I speak to her about it the more distressed she becomes.

Is there any way she could sit her GCSEs again in the UK for free or minimal cost? I would help guide her every step of the way. She’s so intelligent but she doesn’t realise it and she’s letting her results from years back at a traumatic time for her define her.

I’m privileged enough to have gone to a good secondary school and to have made it through university so I find it hard to relate. I just need some advice from a professional or someone who can help me to help her, because it’s causing her such emotional distress I cannot bare to see it.

Submitted October 24, 2020 at 04:08PM by Sir_Wayne_Giggsy https://ift.tt/3op0GQ4