Official Cambridge Applicants Thread 2016 Entry

Its a good things they are being scrapped, such a shame it doesn't affect us this year. Honestly there was no point of them since everyone was cheating making the grade boundaries ridiculously high, its just really unfair for the ones who didn't cheat.

I'm not sure if I'd rather be in the first year of a major change in syllabus though, as much as I hate ISAs.

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Yeah that is very true. I'm so happy that we don't have to do both our AS and A2 at the end of the two years. That would have been so painful. I feel for the Yr 11s right now

6000 posts! We really should be revising, or something!

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What inspired you to do medicine at Cambridge?

It is What are you planning on applying for at uni? Yup, pretty much the same. Although I'm finding that the arguments and eval are so simple for unit 1 compared to unit 2, it's crazy. I keep wanting to link back to the macro objectives in the micro exam but obviously the evaluation can be so much more simple than this because literally 2 sentences will get you the 2 eval marks!

Yeah I think so too. I think they're probably going to be more worried about the actual exam's UMS marks and not the controlled assessment

Is anyone in here doing economics tomorrow? How are you guys revising for it I don't really know what to do

Yeh, Magnesium and I are , are you on edexcel? And I would advise just going through past papers and checking it against the mark scheme. Are you feeling confident?

nah AQA , fair shout but I've already done all of the multiple choices Guess I should look at some 25 markers I'm pretty confident, so long as I can get 50/50 on the first part then I should be able to get 22/25 in the essay Q and get full UMS, you?

Well I was pretty set on doing medicine from like year 10 but Cambridge would be a dream come true because it's levels of learning from the very best in the field + mixing with an incredibly hard working, driven and very smart student batch would just be so rewarding. The fact it is so academic based compared to other medical schools is something I prefer but you cannot beat the levels of expertise you get from learning from the very best. The kudos of studying medicine at Cambridge for future employers makes a large difference . It doesn't have as big an impact as for other jobs but it does make a difference. Also, who wouldn't want to if they had the chance?



I want to study medicine so Cambridge really is a long shot but I'm just doing the best I can and see what happens . What about you? Yeh you're right! Once you crack the structure they want you to use for the data response questions, providing you have enough time, it is quite easy to get high marks. It was incredible because before Easter I was averaging a B but then after Easter I've scored 75 twice in Micro and now feel very confident. Simple points, as you say, can get you all the marks. Evaluation aswell, you can just mention 'time lags, magnitude and ceteris paribus' for literally every single question and still get the marks! I'm sure we'll both smash this but got to stay focused haha.

And yes, I hope so because the PSAs test very little actual skills except 'how well can you remember your teacher's answers'...

Oooo I want to do medicine as well! One of the hardest subjects to get into coupled with one of the one hardest universities to get into, we are going to have to work so hard
What types of volunteering/work exp have you done?

In some ways it's actually easier to get an offer for medicine at Cambridge than some other places. Whereas other universities (e.g. Bristol) place a lot of emphasis on extra-curriculars, as long as you get the right grades in AS/BMAT and impress at interview (i.e. read around the subject and can deal with challenging scientific questions), an offer from Cambridge is very likely. There was an international on TSR last year who was made an offer for medicine with no work experience apart from a few weeks in a research department!

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You know your in the presence of geniuses when people put Cambridge,medicine and easy in the same sentence.

Oooo I want to do medicine as well! One of the hardest subjects to get into coupled with one of the one hardest universities to get into, we are going to have to work so hard
What types of volunteering/work exp have you done?

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You know your in the presence of geniuses when people put Cambridge,medicine and easy in the same sentence.

In some ways it's actually easier to get an offer for medicine at Cambridge than some other places. Whereas other universities (e.g. Bristol) place a lot of emphasis on extra-curriculars, as long as you get the right grades in AS/BMAT and impress at interview (i.e. read around the subject and can deal with challenging scientific questions), an offer from Cambridge is very likely. There was an international on TSR last year who was made an offer for medicine with no work experience apart from a few weeks in a research department!

In some ways it's actually easier to get an offer for medicine at Cambridge than some other places. Whereas other universities (e.g. Bristol) place a lot of emphasis on extra-curriculars, as long as you get the right grades in AS/BMAT and impress at interview (i.e. read around the subject and can deal with challenging scientific questions), an offer from Cambridge is very likely. There was an international on TSR last year who was made an offer for medicine with no work experience apart from a few weeks in a research department!