First year: 2.2, Is it worth applying for an Internship?

Yep, ours are rather tough in comparison according to our teachers...

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fonzievision

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Is it impossible to get into trading without a quantitative degree?

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How did you score for Mathematics at 'A' levels, Fa|ique?

I scored A1 for 'E' Maths and somehow slipped and scored an A2 for 'A' Maths.

Managed to get an A in Maths at 'A' level although I'm not sure if that'll really cover up for that slight slip earlier.

:dontknow:

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Brown Patrick Bateman

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fonzievision

Is it impossible to get into trading without a quantitative degree?

Not at all, I met a derivatives trader with a KCL Geography degree last week! On a lot of graduate schemes everyone starts as a generalist hire, chooses their areas of interest and spends a few weeks or months on those desks before finding a permanent place. So it's perfectly possible to be hired on the likelihood you'd be a good salesperson and end up in trading, structuring etc.

Reply 25

I didn't do Mathematics at A Level, are you nuts? With a C5, which college in the right mind would allow me to do C Maths... Plus, I had to do my Additional Mathematics in JC1 instead of Sec4...

I did History, Literature and Economics at A Level, AAC respectively... (Stupid Econs...grr.)

You consider A2 a slip? Oh god...

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Fa|ique

I didn't do Mathematics at A Level, are you nuts? With a C5, which college in the right mind would allow me to do C Maths... Plus, I had to do my Additional Mathematics in JC1 instead of Sec4...

I did History, Literature and Economics at A Level, AAC respectively... (Stupid Econs...grr.)

You consider A2 a slip? Oh god...

Well yeah, you're right.

Coming from RI, an A2 is a slip when you're racked against other students in school.

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Yeah, well, in VS, all I wanted to do was hide from the shaking glances of my teachers... Did fabulously for Languages, Humanities and Bio, but diddly squat for Maths, Chem and Phys.

I dunno why, I kept thinking you were a girl... Sorry about that...

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Fa|ique

Yeah, well, in VS, all I wanted to do was hide from the shaking glances of my teachers... Did fabulously for Languages, Humanities and Bio, but diddly squat for Maths, Chem and Phys.

I dunno why, I kept thinking you were a girl... Sorry about that...

Oh, you're from VS? :biggrin:

I went to VJ. :wink:

And I'm a total nut at languages. I think.

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Well, wanted to go to VJ, but ended up in CJ. Thankfully their arts programme is one of the best though...

Yeah, I loved my languages... A1 for General Paper and A2 for AO Malay. (maybe loved is too strong a term for malay though...) :biggrin:

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clouds

Aren't you guys supposed to be at army? :p:

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Am the Commanding Officer's Personal Assistant... So I get to stay out. :biggrin:

(this smiley does no justice to how happy I am in this vocation...) :wink:

Reply 32

clouds

Aren't you guys supposed to be at army? :p:

I don't stay-in, so I'm bumming around at home tonight. :biggrin:

Have a pretty darn good vocation now!

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