Economics Applicant Thread UCAS 2012 mk II

But being in a different country will be amazing, shame there isn't more of a culture of British students going to America. What are the conditions of your offer and how much will you be paying?

Yes the fact it was an easy paper makes it worse. I think I got around 69 also



My mistake is worse. I used the product rule instead of the quotient rule. 3/4 marks gone

I know right! Yeah when I told my friends they were like huh? Its not as common as I thought it would be. My conditions are unclear: 'Maintain you academic standing' apparently you shouldn't drop your grades significantly still not sure
I will be paying pretty low tuition fees of $14,000 with $5,000 bursary. Essentially, it will be cheaper than a British Universities for me.

Nice Good luck with it all!

Was this OCR? I mucked up the trig question when I did it in January (must have lost about 4 marks in total), and I still got 99 UMS, don't give up hope.

It was the Edexcel paper. Yea sometimes the result is much better than expected. 99 is impressive though! What maths exams do you have to sit this summer?

I found the paper quite easy except the trig question. My mind indeed went blank and I kept mixing up the identities... The a) part was weird anyway. Expressing it in terms of cos(theeter????) and sin(again greek letter). There is more than just one possibility... I suppose I will get some M marks but other than that, I will lose at least 4 marks there... Hopefully I'll still get 69 or 70 out of 75 if I didn't make any silly mistakes (which always happens somehow )

So guys are you ready for C4? Although I will only have one week to revise for it I feel much more comfortable with it than with C3.

Was this OCR? I mucked up the trig question when I did it in January (must have lost about 4 marks in total), and I still got 99 UMS, don't give up hope.

At least you don't need an A* for your offer. I'm not even going to bother revising for my Economics and Chemistry exams now. Pressure is on for C4

No it was Edexcel. Grade boundaries don't change much for them, so I have to rely on C4 now...

Yeah sorry I realised now someone said

If Economics and Chemistry are pretty much guaranteed just throw everything into C4 and destroy it Good luck.

Thanks, I can only try my best

Better spend less time watching the Euros and Tennis.... After tonight of course

Oh right. Edexcel seems ridiculous with the grade boundaries, quite unpredictable.

I've have C4 and S2 left but I have already sat M1 and D1 (the former went much better than the latter).

At least you don't need an A* for your offer. I'm not even going to bother revising for my Economics and Chemistry exams now. Pressure is on for C4



No it was Edexcel. Grade boundaries don't change much for them, so I have to rely on C4 now...

Edexcel is unpredictable anyway. Almost every year they bring in one new kind of question (which is not bad) but they are sometimes just sooo weird. It's usually not about how good you are in mathematics but how well you understand the examiner who wrote the paper...

D1 is so annoying. I took it in May. Somehow I managed to do really well in it though. But we'll see... Good luck with C4 and S2! I am sure you'll do great!

Yeah a lot of Maths can be like that sometimes!

My D1 exam was horrible, god knows how it went! Thanks, hopefully they're fine

D1 misread the last question like 4 times and spent 30 mins on it (thank god I rushed the rest of the paper) - but the grade boundaries will probably be low and Isually that works in my favour because Ill always make some stupid mistake

Exactly, everyone has bad exams, just forget about it and focus on the next thing.

Yeah you can afford to have 2 hours off tonight

It's been 4 hours a night every night since Friday if you're truly committed...

I am sorry mate... But just concentrate on C4 now. I think C4 is more predictable anyway. Those Vector questions are always the same and once you've fully understood the integration questions, you will certainly do well.

Seems quite a few people sat the C3 paper on Thursday!

Not looking forward to Macro or C4 though.. Certain vector and integration questions have the capability of driving me insane.

I'm assuming you guys heard about the C4 paper being leaked out to Egyptian students?

I prefer C4 to any of the maths modules, seems straightforward - just got to cut down on stupid mistakes like getting signs (-/+) mixed up.

Don't mind macro, kind of like having a case study. Are you doing OCR?

Yeah, heard about that - my dad used to work at the British council when we lived in Cairo! To be fair, I'm surprised mistakes like that hadn't occurred more often.