so u got 46% overall for 2nd year or just for a module/exam?
Just that module I averaged a 2.2 in second year but graduated with a 2.1 overall. I reached a brick wall in year 2 where I simply stopped caring. Thank goodness I got my act together in final year!
Just that module I averaged a 2.2 in second year but graduated with a 2.1 overall. I reached a brick wall in year 2 where I simply stopped caring. Thank goodness I got my act together in final year!
similar story to me in year 2, except mentally i was suffering coz i was in student accomodation staying next to a foreign student who thought that it was ok to play loud music all day everyday and be physically abusive in front of the landlord; as well as a couple of drunken idiots who were in my seminar group who loved playing loud music and getting on my nerves (1 of them has to repeat 2nd year and the other got a 3rd so serves those 2 right).
anyways, in terms of pharmacy, is it true apparently 3rd year has least workload c.f. 2nd year?
similar story to me in year 2, except mentally i was suffering coz i was in student accomodation staying next to a spanish dickhead who thought that it was ok to play loud music all day everyday & physically attack me in front of the landlord & a couple of drunken idiots who were in my seminar group who loved playing loud music and getting on my nerves (1 of them has to repeat 2nd year and the other got a 3rd so serves those 2 right).
Sounds fairly typical of student accommodation. I sincerely hope you're not going to be playing the 'mitigating circumstances' card.
similar story to me in year 2, except mentally i was suffering coz i was in student accomodation staying next to a spanish dickhead who thought that it was ok to play loud music all day everyday & physically attack me in front of the landlord & a couple of drunken idiots who were in my seminar group who loved playing loud music and getting on my nerves (1 of them has to repeat 2nd year and the other got a 3rd so serves those 2 right).
anyways, in terms of pharmacy, is it true apparently 3rd year has least workload c.f. 2nd year?
Ouch...well I hope you redeem yourself this year.
No idea about pharmacy I'm afraid, I studied Biomed.
Luck doesn't come into it. You're either what they're looking for or you're not.
I can't imagine it being so black and white. If there are 1500 people applying for 40 places, then there's no way luck doesn't play a part. Since there are no 100% objective criteria, luck will play a part anyway.
I can't imagine it being so black and white. If there are 1500 people applying for 40 places, then there's no way luck doesn't play a part. Since there are no 100% objective criteria, luck will play a part anyway.
Luck doesn't come into it.
Either you're good enough, by whatever standard they're using, to be in the top 40, or you're not.
They don't pick your name out of a hat, bro. And just because it's subjective doesn't mean it's random, either.
Either you're good enough, by whatever standard they're using, to be in the top 40, or you're not.
They don't pick your name out of a hat, bro. And just because it's subjective doesn't mean it's random, either.
I know it's not random. But since we don't know which criteria they use, one cannot say beforehand if he/she is good enough or not. So in that sense, it's luck. You need to be lucky, in the sense that you're the person they're looking for.
Do you not bother reading the admission pages then? Or speak to the countless students that have been through the process? Or hell, even straight up ask them what they look for?
It's your own foot you're shooting by crossing your fingers and applying blindly, mate.
However, how does soton decide who's more suitable if they receive 1500 applications of candidates who meet the criteria on the page? No one knows, at least the info is not public.
So you're saying Oxbridge is less competitive than most uni's? I would not have thought that to be the case.
Yes that is exactly what I am saying.
And in response to another poster asking for a chemistry A-level and some kind of scientific degree is hardly a specific entry requirement, in fact Cambridge will take any degree subject.
I suspect the reputation and what is said at some of the open days put people off - in that it is very self directed learning.
Also I can assure you there were more than 9 places for 2010 entry!!!! Oxford has places for 33 GEM students each year which is pretty average. In fact, Warwick aside, most universities only have 25 places.
i agree with the gahenna in that u need to ask people, admin people so on & so forth about these things and that ur shooting urself in the foot by just applying, but i still think that luck has something to do with it (some guy who went to my friend's uni dropped out of MPharm after 2 years, done biomed at a uni ranked between 100-112 & is starting medicine at imperial this september)
i agree with the gahenna in that u need to ask people, admin people so on & so forth about these things and that ur shooting urself in the foot by just applying, but i still think that luck has something to do with it (some guy who went to my friend's uni dropped out of MPharm after 2 years, done biomed at a uni ranked between 100-112 & is starting medicine at imperial this september)
Grad Med course admissions people don't care in the slightest where you got your first degree.