There are tons of career options that one can choose to go into after high school. Choosing one of the many career paths can be challenging for students. And we have covered this in our Interactive Guide on Choosing the Right Subjects in Grade 9. Below are just some of the popular careers that students choose to do after school.
But what happens if you’ve applied to university, you’ve finished matric, you’re waiting for that university acceptance letter, and you get a letter of rejection saying that you did not meet the minimum requirements. What happens then? Lets get into some of the options you can use to deal with this situation.
It’s results day and you are anxious, you open your results and your heart sinks because you realize you have not received the marks you needed for a certain course you wanted to study in university. Your first thought is probably that your life is over, but guess what, it is not over. The first step is to accept what has happened and focus on what is the next step. In the following paragraphs, we’ll discuss how you can deal with rejection from university and how to redirect your energy towards moving forward in a positive, productive way. To learn our top tips about coping with rejection from your university, read on.
For some students, university applications represent the culmination of many years of hard work. If you don’t get into your university, you might feel like all of your hard work was for naught, and you may legitimately feel heartbroken. That’s okay; it’s a completely normal reaction to falling short of a goal you’ve work so hard towards.
While it’s natural to feel sorrow and the need to grieve, you can’t spend the remainder of your year in your bed. It may be helpful to set a self-imposed time constraint on the active grieving process. Allow yourself a few days to really indulge in self-care. Watch some movies, talk to family, take a hot shower, and get takeout from your favorite restaurant. When a few days has passed, though, you’ll need to resolve to move forward. You might still feel sad, but it’s time to start channeling those emotions into something productive. At the end of your self-care days, get back up and prepare to take on the world again.
You might think that your university admissions decisions are a direct indicator of your worth as a person or as a student. It’s important to remember that this is definitely not the case. College admissions decisions are based on so many factors that you can’t control. If you did your best to control the ones you could, then you need to know that there were other factors at play.
For example, the need to recruit disadvantaged students. Or maybe this was the year that the course you applied for received an extremely high number of applicants compared to the previous year and they could only take a few.
You never know what other factors are at play in university admissions, so taking a rejection personally is never a good idea.
Instead of thinking of this as a door closing, think of it as one that has opened. You have an opportunity in front of you to start fresh. What are you going to do with this opportunity?
Shift your thinking to view this as an amazing chance to be where you’re truly valued. If a university doesn’t want you, you’re probably better off elsewhere anyway. Will you churn out ideas, positivity and become a committed member of the community or will you go through your years wishing you were someplace else? Only you can make this decision.
While you definitely shouldn’t go into a university with the attitude that you can just drop out or change if something doesn’t go your way, it is important to keep perspective that you aren’t stuck someplace if it ends up being a bad fit. The best you can do is give it your best shot and then, if it doesn’t work out, consider to something else that will.
If you’ve been rejected from your university, it’s only natural to feel a wide array of emotions that may range from grief to anger to self-doubt. There is no right way to feel when you get the news that you’ve been rejected, but there is a right way to recover. Reframe your thinking to recognize the opportunity before you and to capitalize on the chances that you have will help you to land gracefully.
What are supplementary exams?
Supplementary exams are exams that are written by students who have not done well in matric in certain subjects and wish to try again in order to get a better result.
Who can write supplementary exams?
To be eligible to write the supplementary exams you need:
Process of registering for the supplementary exams.
What if you don’t qualify to write the supplementary exams? Don’t worry, the other option is upgrading your matric results.
What is upgrading?
General information