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Re: potential 2012 optometry applicantsGosh I can't believe you guys still have exams, I finished a week ago, good luck with them hope you all get what you need xx(Original post by TheWorldEndsWithMe)
I didn't but another girl in my school did. So I'm of no help to you.
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Re: potential 2012 optometry applicantsYours are Scottish though, aren't they? (Forgive me if I'm mixing you up with someone else!)(Original post by hannahmac4)
Gosh I can't believe you guys still have exams, I finished a week ago, good luck with them hope you all get what you need xx
I would have been finished if everything was done on the NI exam board (I think). AQA clearly just like putting A2 exams in June. :/ -
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Re: potential 2012 optometry applicantsHI!! I've firmed Cardiff too(Original post by Jodieeee....)
Hey guys, so the A2 exams begin next week (well for me they do) and I know that most of you wont see this because youre revising! But who has actually firmed Cardiff?
Really worried about missing the offer by one grade at the moment ;/
I'm REALLY worried I won't get my grades after how my maths exam went today 
Do u think they are quite lenient? and do most people get 3As?
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Re: potential 2012 optometry applicantsomg i'm just like you for Biology.(Original post by tasha.lee23)
HI!! I've firmed Cardiff too I'm REALLY worried I won't get my grades after how my maths exam went today Do u think they are quite lenient? and do most people get 3As?
Although to be fair my maths exam was awful too, but I have a high A from AS so its ok. BUT BIOLOGY. I can only drop 27 marks from the whole A2 to get an A....
and I just dropped them in my first exam, so its now impossible to make the offer - i've been soo depressed the whole day.
The admissions there seem really generous, and they say that it is highly unlike that everyone will get 3 A's. So it comes down to your personal statement then I guess?
I'm so freaked out, I dont want to go to my insurance, I only insured it because they offer a B in biology.
Its kinda annoying that I know my results day will be full of phone calls and stress =[ better get my telephone voice and speech sorted :P -
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Re: potential 2012 optometry applicantsOnly if you take an optometry degree afterwards.(Original post by RoundNRound)
Does anybody know if a maths degree can lead into a job in the optometry field? Thanks
You can only practice as an optometrist is you do an optometry degree (or ophthalmic dispensing and then a very intense and very expensive conversion year.)
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Re: potential 2012 optometry applicantsLike TheSownRose says, you can't get into Optometry without an Optometry degree.(Original post by RoundNRound)
Does anybody know if a maths degree can lead into a job in the optometry field? Thanks
So you'd have to do maths and then do an Optom degree- which'll be another three years plus another year for your professional exams. -
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Re: potential 2012 optometry applicants
(Original post by Jodieeee....)
omg i'm just like you for Biology.
Although to be fair my maths exam was awful too, but I have a high A from AS so its ok. BUT BIOLOGY. I can only drop 27 marks from the whole A2 to get an A....
and I just dropped them in my first exam, so its now impossible to make the offer - i've been soo depressed the whole day.
The admissions there seem really generous, and they say that it is highly unlike that everyone will get 3 A's. So it comes down to your personal statement then I guess?
I'm so freaked out, I dont want to go to my insurance, I only insured it because they offer a B in biology.
Its kinda annoying that I know my results day will be full of phone calls and stress =[ better get my telephone voice and speech sorted :P
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Re: potential 2012 optometry applicantsexams didn't go too bad, thanks(Original post by TheWorldEndsWithMe)
Seems most people's exams are finished now- how'd everything go?
Anxious for results already and I'm only just finished today... unit 5 biology might have ruined my chances of optometry 
but we'll see how it goes on results day... how about yourself mate?
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Re: potential 2012 optometry applicantsI think both economics papers went well and so did Biol4. As for C3/4/S1/M1 and Biol5, not sure. :/(Original post by infinite_nigma)
exams didn't go too bad, thanks unit 5 biology might have ruined my chances of optometry but we'll see how it goes on results day... how about yourself mate?
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Re: potential 2012 optometry applicantsAhh, ok, I'm sure you did well enough! Where is your firm/insurance?(Original post by TheWorldEndsWithMe)
I think both economics papers went well and so did Biol4. As for C3/4/S1/M1 and Biol5, not sure. :/ -
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Re: potential 2012 optometry applicantsFirmed Anglia Ruskin and insured Liverpool Orthoptics.(Original post by infinite_nigma)
Ahh, ok, I'm sure you did well enough! Where is your firm/insurance? -
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Re: potential 2012 optometry applicantsAh ok(Original post by TheWorldEndsWithMe)
Firmed Anglia Ruskin and insured Liverpool Orthoptics. Good luck! I firmed University of Manchester, and insured University of Bradford...worried that Biology will let me down. The results day nightmares have already started!
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Re: potential 2012 optometry applicantsMy biology went even worse than my maths(Original post by Jodieeee....)
omg i'm just like you for Biology.
Although to be fair my maths exam was awful too, but I have a high A from AS so its ok. BUT BIOLOGY. I can only drop 27 marks from the whole A2 to get an A....
and I just dropped them in my first exam, so its now impossible to make the offer - i've been soo depressed the whole day.
The admissions there seem really generous, and they say that it is highly unlike that everyone will get 3 A's. So it comes down to your personal statement then I guess?
I'm so freaked out, I dont want to go to my insurance, I only insured it because they offer a B in biology.
Its kinda annoying that I know my results day will be full of phone calls and stress =[ better get my telephone voice and speech sorted :P It was just awful Don't worry you might have done better than you think
Oh i really hope that my personal statement was good enough! Im seriously dreading results day where's your insurance? SAME HERE!!! Im probably going to have to get all the numbers ready I hope we both get into Cardiff Good luck
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Re: potential 2012 optometry applicantsFacebook page for all those holding an offer and hoping to go to cardiff studying optometry! i cant wait i just want to know my results to make it firm that i am definitely going to cardiff!
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Re: potential 2012 optometry applicantsI got into GCU optometry(Original post by TheWorldEndsWithMe)
How did any of our Scottish posters do? Make your offers? (it was today they came out, right?)
I'm REALLY worried I won't get my grades after how my maths exam went today 
Do u think they are quite lenient? and do most people get 3As?
You can only practice as an optometrist is you do an optometry degree (or ophthalmic dispensing and then a very intense and very expensive conversion year.)
but we'll see how it goes on results day... how about yourself mate? 
