[jesswilson]

hi does anyone know anything about freshers' week? i know term starts on the 1st but does anyone know whether lectures will be going on during all the freshers' stuff or whether our lectures will start a week or two later or anything?

thanks

[jesuisbelle88]

Helloooo!!
I'm gonna be joining Warwick this fall as well to read Economics.
Anyone thinking of Benefactors for their accommodation?

[sweetsparkles]

Firmed Warwick to study economics!! WOOOO! Thinking of choosing Arthur Vick for accommodation

[AmberRain]

(Original post by hr30)
Hey all, gap yah student here who's just firmed for English Lit


After two years of battling against the UCAS system...my face is finally something like this:

haha same here! my face is all smiles too!

i'm a gap year student and i've firmed for english lit, it's so good to know someone in a similar situation! so what's the reason behind you taking a year out? xx

[Danf159]

Hello Everyone!

Firmed Warwick to read Bsc Economics.

[Mel3195]

Heyyyy

BSc International Business - Italian Stream

[hr30]

(Original post by AmberRain)
haha same here! my face is all smiles too!

i'm a gap year student and i've firmed for english lit, it's so good to know someone in a similar situation! so what's the reason behind you taking a year out? xx

I failed at UCAS the year before. 4 Rejections and 1 offer from somewhere I didn't really want to go to :'(

You?

[Rotimi]

Hopefully gonna be at warwick this Oct, for Law LLB . "hopefully"

[cranie1993]

Hey everyone.
Just like to say good luck to you all for your exams
Im a first year student (maths) here at Warwick and if any of you have any nerves about it ... don't worry - its amazing and you will find friends really quickly even without 'networking' beforehand.
Word for caution about accommodation - chill out about it. Everybody thinks their block is the best and by the time you move in you will too :P If anyone is interested I'm in Cryfield atm (one of, if not the) cheapest and its great. Tbh you won't spend very much time in your rooms anyway so the size isnt a major deal
Anyway good luck to everyone and hopefully we will see you all in October
*Plug - Come along to Trampolining! Even if you don't enjoy the sport the socials are epic (and if you choose to come to sessions ask for Paul - me )
See you soon
Paul
Ps - any maths students worrying about the offer if it is anything like our year they will accept A*AA and a 1 OR 2 step grade. It depends year on year but my tutor is the admissions tutor and she says more often than not they drop the offer to that

*Edit - If anyone has any questions please can you quote me as I don't check TSR very often so at least I get e-mail notification
Guess I should probably put a disclaimer on that if you miss your offer you wont necessarily get it - just from my experience of my year and people I talked to this has happened quite often

[cranie1993]

(Original post by jesswilson)
hi does anyone know anything about freshers' week? i know term starts on the 1st but does anyone know whether lectures will be going on during all the freshers' stuff or whether our lectures will start a week or two later or anything?

thanks

When I was there we had lectures in the first week but they were all pointless welcome to the course type things - go out in freshers as its the best week of uni (Y) #YOLO

[cranie1993]

(Original post by Ttorria)
Firmed for history and sociology I'm looking at JM/ AV or Cryfields for accomodation. Anyone heard about those?

See my previous comment (#90)

[bishbash72]

(Original post by cranie1993)

Anyway good luck to everyone and hopefully we will see you all in October
*Plug - Come along to Trampolining! Even if you don't enjoy the sport the socials are epic (and if you choose to come to sessions ask for Paul - me )
See you soon
Paul

Do you guys circle every week? I'm looking for a club to do it every week with without having to do too much actual sport. I'm a third year returning from abroad.

[WaNaBe]

(Original post by cranie1993)
Hey everyone.
Just like to say good luck to you all for your exams
Im a first year student (maths) here at Warwick and if any of you have any nerves about it ... don't worry - its amazing and you will find friends really quickly even without 'networking' beforehand.
Word for caution about accommodation - chill out about it. Everybody thinks their block is the best and by the time you move in you will too :P If anyone is interested I'm in Cryfield atm (one of, if not the) cheapest and its great. Tbh you won't spend very much time in your rooms anyway so the size isnt a major deal
Anyway good luck to everyone and hopefully we will see you all in October
*Plug - Come along to Trampolining! Even if you don't enjoy the sport the socials are epic (and if you choose to come to sessions ask for Paul - me )
See you soon
Paul
Ps - any maths students worrying about the offer if it is anything like our year they will accept A*AA and a 1 OR 2 step grade. It depends year on year but my tutor is the admissions tutor and she says more often than not they drop the offer to that

*Edit - If anyone has any questions please can you quote me as I don't check TSR very often so at least I get e-mail notification
Guess I should probably put a disclaimer on that if you miss your offer you wont necessarily get it - just from my experience of my year and people I talked to this has happened quite often

Hi Paul, I firmed Warwick for Computer Science, really excited, but I am slightly worried about the workload of 40 hours a week. Will it really be near this amount, obviously you don't do it, but I'd assume Maths has a similar workload?

[cranie1993]

(Original post by Callum828)
Do you guys circle every week? I'm looking for a club to do it every week with without having to do too much actual sport. I'm a third year returning from abroad.

We don't circle every week no, but most weeks we do. Yeah tbh we have a lot of members who do come along just for socials so if that is what you want to do definitely get involved

[cranie1993]

(Original post by WaNaBe)
Hi Paul, I firmed Warwick for Computer Science, really excited, but I am slightly worried about the workload of 40 hours a week. Will it really be near this amount, obviously you don't do it, but I'd assume Maths has a similar workload?

Firstly congrats for the offer You work as much as you want - there were weeks last term when I was working 55+ hours (and no I'm not going to pretend it was fun!) However I know people doing similar subjects who do a lot less work. From my experience they say 40 hours knowing many people will think that they can cut back hours. I'd say most weeks you would have maybe 25 hours p/w which really isnt that bad It sounds a lot, but I doubt you have much less atm.
I will add that Warwick currently (though is possibly changing soon) allows us to take additional modules which makes it easier to get a higher grade overall using something called the Seymour Formula (http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/services/a...enate_marc.pdf if interested) and so this was the reason for so many hours.
Tbh don't worry too much. You will get along fine doing the hours you want to put in Id reccomend 25-30 is a good amount and then that is plenty for socialising as well

[TheJ0ker]

(Original post by cranie1993)
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Hi I've firmed my offer for maths and I just wanted to ask what the course has been like in the first year? Also what is the standard of teaching like?

Thanks.

[cranie1993]

(Original post by TheJ0ker)
Hi I've firmed my offer for maths and I just wanted to ask what the course has been like in the first year? Also what is the standard of teaching like?

Thanks.

Hard Work!! Lol, it really depends tbh - there are loads of optional modules so depending how many/few you do you will be fine. In my (and most peoples) opinion analysis is a horrible module .... but you are stuck with it until year two term two :P Other than that I find it really interesting - its totally different to A-Level maths which I did, but you will be able to find plenty you enjoy.
Teaching wise lectures vary - some lecturers are absolutely amazing and I barely needed to revise the lecture notes before the exam .... some are not so great and I self-taught the majority of the module. On the whole though the lecturers are good but what I found most helpful was all the support structures.
For example you will have a supervisor (3rd/4th year) who will meet you twice a week, mark most of your assignments and give you feedback and should you have any difficulties with assignments they are the best place to get a push in the right direction.
In addition to this you have Analysis classes (term one compulsory TII optional) however I would definitely recommend going to these as they make the assignment sheets a lot easier. Other modules also offer small classes but I didnt really find those as useful. And finally you have a personal tutor in the department who you can speak to whenever you need. This is the most important relationship so if you dont get along ask to switch and they will swap them no questions asked.
So yeah ... even if your lecturer is awful you have plenty of support around you ... but of the lecturers I have had this year I only had 1 who I didn't find very good but was able to work around that.
Hope this helped and if not feel free to ask more - gives me something more fun to do than revision :P
Good luck for making your offer and hope to see you in October

[bishbash72]

(Original post by cranie1993)
We don't circle every week no, but most weeks we do. Yeah tbh we have a lot of members who do come along just for socials so if that is what you want to do definitely get involved

Okay cool. Well I'll come see you at the sports' fair.

[TheJ0ker]

(Original post by cranie1993)
Hard Work!! Lol, it really depends tbh - there are loads of optional modules so depending how many/few you do you will be fine. In my (and most peoples) opinion analysis is a horrible module .... but you are stuck with it until year two term two :P Other than that I find it really interesting - its totally different to A-Level maths which I did, but you will be able to find plenty you enjoy.
Teaching wise lectures vary - some lecturers are absolutely amazing and I barely needed to revise the lecture notes before the exam .... some are not so great and I self-taught the majority of the module. On the whole though the lecturers are good but what I found most helpful was all the support structures.
For example you will have a supervisor (3rd/4th year) who will meet you twice a week, mark most of your assignments and give you feedback and should you have any difficulties with assignments they are the best place to get a push in the right direction.
In addition to this you have Analysis classes (term one compulsory TII optional) however I would definitely recommend going to these as they make the assignment sheets a lot easier. Other modules also offer small classes but I didnt really find those as useful. And finally you have a personal tutor in the department who you can speak to whenever you need. This is the most important relationship so if you dont get along ask to switch and they will swap them no questions asked.
So yeah ... even if your lecturer is awful you have plenty of support around you ... but of the lecturers I have had this year I only had 1 who I didn't find very good but was able to work around that.
Hope this helped and if not feel free to ask more - gives me something more fun to do than revision :P
Good luck for making your offer and hope to see you in October

Sounds really good! Is there a maximum amount of modules you can take each year? Or can you take as many as you can handle? Yeah it's just really the STEP that I am a bit worried about now especially STEP 2.

[cranie1993]

(Original post by TheJ0ker)
Sounds really good! Is there a maximum amount of modules you can take each year? Or can you take as many as you can handle? Yeah it's just really the STEP that I am a bit worried about now especially STEP 2.

Yeahh, see my quote above for info about the Seymour formula (though they may be scrapping it anyway.)

You have to do at least 120 CATS (6 cats is a half term - 5 weeks - module, 12 is a full term module of 3 lectures a week) and a maximum of 180, however most people cap it at 150 because after this you don't get additional credit via Seymour. However I do know people who went to lectures for like 180 CATS and are just doing 150 for credit ... so if you found something interesting no reason why you cant do more.

http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/sci/ma...handbook/year1 has a list of all year one options (for my year, though i doubt it will change drastically) so you can have a look at the sort of things you have to do/ can choose to do.

As for step just try and relax and do as many past questions as you can. Its the best practice you can get I'm afraid as most of it is based on core syllabus.