Edinburgh vs St. Andrews

I too faced the St Andrews vs Edinburgh dilemma this year. Given that they both enjoy a similar reputation and the course appealed to me at both, it largely came down to the university experience I thought I would prefer in the end. St Andrews is a lovely place, but after visiting I decided that it's not somewhere I'd like to live for 4 years for fear of cabin fever. St Andrews as a town seems to revolve around the uni whereas Edinburgh has so much more on offer and I would prefer the city atmosphere. So, I would strongly advise you to take that into consideration in your decision. Best of luck and I hope you'll come to a final decision soon.

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Only 2/5 exams to go

Bonjour encore Monsieur Quick-Use et merci pour le 'rep'

How are your exams going so far? Sat AH French today.

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Japanese was quite difficult and I'm not sure how I've done by Spanish Lit and Lang went well. Not looking forward to French Lang but Lit should hopefully be okay.

How have yours been so far? How was French?

I'm not surprised that Japanese was quite difficult if it's any consolation. It looks like such a complex language. Was that purely a language exam? What does a standard lang exam consist of for, say, French?

AH History last week went alright without any hiccups although I do definitely feel that I could have spent more time revising. My essays felt quite poorly constructed and were more reminiscent of Higher ones IMO. Oh well, my dissertation is predicted to do well so here's hoping it'll help bring my marks up. French went fairly smoothly today - just a few areas where I was annoyed at myself for throwing away marks eg I didn't leave enough time to finish the inferential Q and also didn't check my translation through once more due to time constraints. The listening was on how the concept of family has evolved and also internet dating. Dat SQA.
Oh well, onwards and upwards! I'm turning 18 on Friday and then my final exam, AH German, is on Tuesday. Can't wait. Do you have any special post-exams plans?

Yeah, purely language. 3 hours, 100 marks. In one reading comprehension, which was worth like 5 marks, they put in a scene from a japanese Nintendo DS game called Ace Attorney. We had to read the testimony of a witness in a murder trial and then compare it with the evidence found by the police to see whether or not the witnesses's testimony was contradictory Was really difficult at first but I kind of began to enjoy it... So, that's me with 5/100 marks so far

French lang depends in both 1st and 2nd year. 2nd year is really tough. We have a translation to do. We can choose a fictitious short story or a newspaper article and it's done from French to English. And, then we write a précis. A précis is basically when you read an article and write a summary of it in French. It sounds easy but it really isn't - the précis is the most difficult part in my opinion as the articles can very difficult both conceptually and linguistically so often than not, I don't understand a single thing and then I don't know how to reword/summarise it (in my own words). And no, no dictionary allowed.

I'm sure you did well on History! Remember - it's over and done with so you can now relax Admittedly, my dissertation bumped me up hugely as well Hopefully, German goes as smoothly as French ja?

Oooh that sounds tough but also rewarding. Is the vocabulary in the translations usually quite, err, obscure or archaic? I definitely feel that German is my all round stronger language than French so I'm quite relieved I've decided not to pursue the latter at degree level (although I'll try to maintain my French somehow if I'm not too busy ). I really want to do well in German, I'm looking forward to it in a strange way. We shall see.

Did you read any fictitious short stories during Higher? The short-stories are usually like a French version of those found at AH English. The language can be archaic. In one short story, I translated it as: he escaped into the night and it was apparently he stole away or something (no idea - my English is so bad ).

If it's your stronger language, then that's great - my friends doing German love it but say that it's really challenging especially the language classes. I'm sure you'll love it!