The Current Year 13 Thread 2016-2017

I went to both the Loughborough and Birmingham open days with my heart set on Birmingham, but afterwards came out of it thinking the entire opposite.

I'm not sure about what unis I want to go to, so many options I want to study Politics, so atm I'm thinking LSE (doubtful but w/e), Warwick, Durham, Bristol, Bath, Loughborough, Nottingham. Idk basically...

Omg personal statement is the bane of my life, I swear I'm finding it more stressful than AS exams and they were awful...

So I've visited Cambridge, Oxford, LSE, UCL (one building so not properly), KCL.
First draft of personal statement is done, though it still needs a lot of work!
Currently studying Maths, Further Maths, Economics, History.
Hope to study Economics at the best place I can get into haha (hopefully Cambridge)

What's everyone else thinking about?

woah! you're aiming high. how did ur AS go?

Surprisingly well thanks. Managed 300/300 UMS in Maths and 384/400 in Further Maths, getting a tasty 97.7 UMS average. Did you take any exams this year, if so how did it go?

Surprisingly well thanks. Managed 300/300 UMS in Maths and 384/400 in Further Maths, getting a tasty 97.7 UMS average. Did you take any exams this year, if so how did it go?

What?! I don't believe you, that's too good!
That's sorcery , how did you manage that?!
I took a maths AS and got a C , not really sure about all the UMS stuff tho

Congratz that's amazing

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Thanks, I promise I'm not trying to brag though, I was just asked

I wish it was sorcery, but more likely was a result of a lack of a social life and fear of Cambridge rejection. So happy though, I thought I completely messed up M2

Congrats that's amazing! I worked hard for that C *cries* but I guess maths is not for me. How did you revise and how often , are we talking 24/7?

Well at like a month to go I just revised the syllabus but not much alongside homework. Then at like 2 weeks before I'd just do all the past papers (1 a day - 2 on sunday) for the nearest exam only, then just switch to the next nearest. If there were many close together then this was harder and required focusing on 2 or more papers at once. I'd say like 2 hours a day on schooldays and 3 at weekends? This probably wasn't the most efficient way of doing things but it seems to work for me and that's what matters 😀

I'll sort out a nice OP when I go on my laptop.

Thought it would be a good idea to do it now seeing as we've started A2 and will be doing various Y13 stuff over the summer!

I'll change the thread to "The Current Year 13..." after results day

In the meantime - good luck with results day!

That's extraordinary. I had about 10 weeks and did like 4 topics a week and did every question in the book again (except for statistics where I only did the mixed exercises) and then a week before id do as many past papers as I can and obviously write down all the formulas I needed to know. But I guess I couldn't prepare myself enough for the questions because they really threw me, but congrats again. Wish you all the best, I'm sure you'll get into Cambridge