The Official Cambridge Offer Holders Thread 2016 Entry MK II

Lol wish I'd known this before. I spent as much time on the PS as I did on my American essays

Deutschland version profile pic!

Nope

Yup

Lol I actually genuinely don't have any Scottish in me! I am 1/4 Irish though

Aren't Irish basically the same as the Scottish, just a little more drunk?

Perhaps they were hoping they would be able help him eventually be able to take exams, or maybe put him in another room or something?

Worked for my son (complex autism), he spent his year 6 SATS under the desk which then meant that he was written off in high school and put in all foundation level GCSEs (despite tutoring his elder brother in GCSE maths when he was still at primary school - he was a maths savant)

He left that school and went to a college who understood what he was about, saw that he was intelligent and encouraged him to take some of his GCSEs again but this time with support....he got A* A across the board.

He is now a triple A* student at A level.

He is not a prospective Cambridge student though (so I probably should not even be on this thread!) as his degree choice is not offered there.

To make the above all the more special, he didn't go full time at school until he was 11 (he couldn't cope with it) and because he has other disabilities, even when he did go full time, his attendance record was pretty low. Initially, we were informed he would never go to a main stream high school and would not be able to do GCSEs let alone A levels.

If you don't mind me asking, what course is he applying for?


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Games art design/Games design.

He started off being interested in CompSci but as he relaxed at college, his artistic side came through a little more and he rediscovered art and that CompSci was no longer his main interest.

He also loves political history, researches them in his own time and then writes up his findings and thinks nothing of doing 5000 words in one go...for no reason at all apart from that he enjoys it. No idea where he finds the time to be honest, he has a phenomenal work rate churning out thousands of words a week, playing computer games and using game engines to do games, studying, researching political history and then going mad on his graphic tablet doing art work.

He thinks sleep is for the weak, alcohol is for idiots and socialising can wait until he has got his degree.

He thinks sleep is for the weak

A very proud parent. It's been a long road with very many low points but the last 2 years have been amazing....we are just waiting for the opportunity now to shove his results up the nose of his former high school staff to prove a point. I spent so many years telling them he had potential and that he should be moved out of the lower (very disruptive) classes where he couldn't concentrate or cope but all I got in response was the "Poor deluded parent" look from the staff.

I knew he was bright when he wanted maths questions thrown at him when he was was very small to calm him down, most children like sweets to keep them quiet, he liked maths problems to solve. He could verbalise numbers before normal words (he could only put 2 words together at the age of 6). Got to a point though that it was getting a little dangerous, he expected them when I was driving as going to unfamiliar places freaked him out but not simple 1 or 2 stage questions, more like 10 or 15 stage questions and I was having to work them out at the same time as thinking them up and driving!

It was high school which ruined his love of maths, he pretty much gave up in year 7 although I am hopeful he will come back to it like he did his artwork (which he also stopped in year 7) just over a year ago.

Games art design/Games design.

He started off being interested in CompSci but as he relaxed at college, his artistic side came through a little more and he rediscovered art and that CompSci was no longer his main interest.

He also loves political history, researches them in his own time and then writes up his findings and thinks nothing of doing 5000 words in one go...for no reason at all apart from that he enjoys it. No idea where he finds the time to be honest, he has a phenomenal work rate churning out thousands of words a week, playing computer games and using game engines to do games, studying, researching political history and then going mad on his graphic tablet doing art work.

He thinks sleep is for the weak, alcohol is for idiots and socialising can wait until he has got his degree.

He could verbalise numbers before normal words (he could only put 2 words together at the age of 6).

I must be autistic because I couldn't put 2 words together at the age of 5.

You were probably too busy revising to speak bro


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Did anyone else do OCR MEI further maths? If so, which modules did you take?

You were probably too busy revising to speak bro


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