The &quot;I&#x27;m applying to UCAS for 2012 entry&quot; thread

Just registered for UCAS today :woo:

Much fun

Reply 1181

BeccaCath94

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Original post by fluteflute

Whilst my quoting wikipedia will probably soon be leaving my Personal Statement, I have added a sentence involving Facebook which is there to stay :biggrin:

[I just realised I could write about the programming I did that interfaces with Facebook]

Hahaha your statment sounds great!!! :biggrin:

Reply 1182

socialworkertobe

Original post by madders94

Do you only do one year of college in Scotland before University? I'm confused :s-smilie:

Hi, I'm a "mature" student so I'm going to college to do an access course which is only 1 year :smile:

LMx

Reply 1183

Beebumble

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Original post by socialworkertobe

Hi, I'm a "mature" student so I'm going to college to do an access course which is only 1 year :smile:

LMx

Another access person! :biggrin:

Reply 1184

socialworkertobe

Original post by Beebumble

This going to be one drawn out summer until I finally start college and get that buzzword! :angry:

Glad I'm not the only one. I wasn't even thinking about university until I noticed this thread yesterday and realised everyone is waaaay ahead of me so today has been spent doing some research. I'm so excited now. Are you also doing an access course? What you studying?

LMx

Reply 1185

Oh wow. I think my mind just heard the '4000' part and ignored the word 'characters' assuming it was a 4000 word limit.

How much of an A4 page does 4000 characters take up? :frown:

Reply 1186

stifa

Original post by Accalia

Oh wow. I think my mind just heard the '4000' part and ignored the word 'characters' assuming it was a 4000 word limit.

How much of an A4 page does 4000 characters take up? :frown:

You should write slightly more than a page, but you're better off checking with the "preview" feature on the UCAS statemet page.
I wrote close to 600 words and I had to short it down because it exceeded the line limit, but I still had 600 characters to go.
EDIT: After cutting the crap, I'm back to 40 lines / 2899 characters. :frown:

(edited 12 years ago)

Reply 1187

Original post by Accalia

Oh wow. I think my mind just heard the '4000' part and ignored the word 'characters' assuming it was a 4000 word limit.

How much of an A4 page does 4000 characters take up? :frown:

You thought they would read 4000 words :lol:

Reply 1188

Original post by stifa

You should write slightly more than a page, but you're better off checking with the "preview" feature on the UCAS statemet page.
I wrote close to 600 words and I had to short it down because it exceeded the line limit, but I still had 600 characters to go.

Ah, right

I suppose having a limit is practical but a little freedom would be nice. Both sets of my Lit coursework were over the word limit... which was more of a guideline, than set in stone like this one is.

Reply 1189

Remember to read through your statement when you eventually put the final one on UCAS as it fecks about with stuff sometimes.

Reply 1190

Original post by paddy__power

You thought they would read 4000 words :lol:

Thinking about it, that was a pretty stupid assumption to make. I just didn't think and started writing.

Reply 1191

punctuation

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Original post by Accalia

Thinking about it, that was a pretty stupid assumption to make. I just didn't think and started writing.

Exactly the same here! I think we've discussed this before, actually...

Reply 1192

Original post by Accalia

Thinking about it, that was a pretty stupid assumption to make. I just didn't think and started writing.

Are you sure about your Lit CW BTW? I'm pretty sure Edexcel are meant to stop marking past the word limit. :smile:

Reply 1193

VickyDoodle

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Eeek UCAS makes it all seem real! D:
I've done the first draft of my PS and nearly finished the rest of the forms,but got a few problems with it. :frown:

Not sure to put a 4-month long illness (ongoing,and including exam period) down on it, and today my school decided to tell me they didn't aggregate my fast track AS from last year. So it'll go as a 2011 qualification which is really putting me in a sticky situation >< Any idea what to do?

Reply 1194

Original post by paddy__power

Are you sure about your Lit CW BTW? I'm pretty sure Edexcel are meant to stop marking past the word limit. :smile:

Yep... 750 limit for the first one, mine was just over 1000, then 1500 for the second and I got up to 2000 (but I was sneaky and when including the word count at the bottom wrote the value which didn't include quotes, which was about 100 over). I'm on WJEC, and my tutors said it'd be fine.

They're the ones marking it so I'd like to think they weren't lying to me :tongue:

Reply 1195

stifa

Word limits on examinations and coursework? That's far beyond retarded, in my opinion.

Well, you might have shorter examination time than us, right? I had three written exams this year, and all of them lasted five hours; in my case, a word limit would be pretty much stupid.

Reply 1196

Carnationlilyrose

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Original post by paddy__power

Are you sure about your Lit CW BTW? I'm pretty sure Edexcel are meant to stop marking past the word limit. :smile:

That isn't how A level English marking is done. If the mark scheme exacts a penalty for going over the word count (and AQA certainly doesn't specify one, and I doubt Edexcel does either. That method went out a good number of years ago) it is done by reducing the marks slightly after marking the piece as a whole. Not to read the whole thing would be regarded as grossly unprofessional. And before you ask how I know this, it is because I have taught A level English Lit for 23 years and have also been an examiner. Don't scaremonger.

Reply 1197

Original post by carnationlilyrose

That isn't how A level English marking is done. If the mark scheme exacts a penalty for going over the word count (and AQA certainly doesn't specify one, and I doubt Edexcel does either. That method went out a good number of years ago) it is done by reducing the marks slightly after marking the piece as a whole. Not to read the whole thing would be regarded as grossly unprofessional. And before you ask how I know this, it is because I have taught A level English Lit for 23 years and have also been an examiner. Don't scaremonger.

I don't disbelieve you, but it was something my teacher was told at a conference or something for Edexcel by one of the chief examiners. There is a fair chance she badly communicated it to us and what was meant was lost in translation though :smile:

I don't really mind - I just stuck to the word counts (I had to boost mine when they were finished anyway as it was a rush job).

Don't be so accusatory. :h:

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