Has anyone ever achieved 6 A grades at Advanced Higher in one sitting?

Actually, yes you can. In the new Advanced Highers they're two separate courses, 'Advanced Higher Applied Maths' and 'Mathematics of Mechanics'.

Exams will probably be taking place at the same time tho.
Just accept you're wrong?

Self-teaching AH Chem at home and 6 periods a week in school, so I have time for the investigation.

In the AH Maths class.

In the AH Physics class.

6 highers, 3 AH.

Shut up.



Don't worry, AH bandings will be as good as they get.



Actually, yes you can. In the new Advanced Highers they're two separate courses, 'Advanced Higher Applied Maths' and 'Mathematics of Mechanics'.

Interesting. So is the applied maths course only statistics now?


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Actually, yes. My friend did this last year. However, the sixth AH was in Mandarin, a language in which she is already fluent. Either way, it's not a good idea - she got rejected from Cambridge anyway and her offer from Imperial (where she is now) only addressed 3 subjects, because they honestly don't care how many you do aside from the required 3. You're better off focusing your efforts into three or four.

You're saying she got 6A's at advanced higher, and Cambridge rejected her?!? Did she get an interview? Or is it just because they're snobby as to who they let in?

At the time of her application and interview she was in the process of doing the AHs; I should have clarified. She did get an interview, and was pooled, but not accepted in the end. Maybe she would have been accepted had she reapplied this year, but as she got into Imperial she was quite happy to go there. As for whether they're snobby, of course they are, but they also have no choice but to be. They have a large number of ridiculously competitive applications - sometimes the only way to differentiate is by splitting hairs. It's entirely possible my friend just got unlucky.
My point was that doing a large amount of subjects doesn't actually help you with getting into good universities. They'd rather you focused your efforts and knew your chosen subject really in-depth.

Ah I see, well that's incredibly unfortunate! Not that I would ever want to go to Oxbridge, (or any english uni tbh, tuition fees D: ) well I guess, I meant snobby as in only take those from well off backgrounds, with mummy and daddy owning lots of land -.- I was just confused as to what you meant by only taking 3 and focusing more on them, for if you can get A's in all of them, then you don't need to concentrate on just 3? But I get your point man she must have done a lot of work, 3 is proving to be almost too much for me atm

On average you'll find a very high percentage of Oxbridge students are from well-off or private-school backgrounds, but that's partially because typically the better-off you are, the nicer the area you live in, the better the school you go to, and the better your education and grades are. Those with the best educations tend to end up at the best institutions, generally - it's pretty logical. Still, many would say that even accounting for this Oxbridge have a very high private-school percentage.

Getting three As isn't enough to get you into Oxbridge etc., as shown by the case example of my friend. You have to go beyond your course and show a natural capability - that's why they conduct interviews and tests rather than making admissions decisions based purely on grades, as there are far too many people with high enough grades for them to differentiate between them without an extra step in the process. It is infinitely better for someone applying for Maths to do three AHs in Maths, Physics, and Applied Maths and to research, self-learn, and read beyond the course than for them to take other, unnecessary subjects on top that won't strengthen their application. Case in point: I did English last year, and it did absolutely nothing to strengthen my application for Physics courses - but did take up a large portion of my time and effort. The time spent on English would have been more effectively spent getting better at Maths and Physics. That's my point.
And yes, she did work extremely hard, and she's also very bloody clever. :P But to be honest, the thing that probably helped her most was being organised and motivated. I did four (and a half - see the "Mech and Stats" point I made in my first post in this thread) AHs last year, and the thing that made my life harder wasn't the pace or difficulty, but just being organised and motivated enough to do work on time. The same goes for many people at H and AH.

But I can solve this

A circular drumskin has a supporting rim p=a. If the rim is twisted so that it is displaced vertically by a small amount ε(sinΦ+2sin2Φ), where Φ is the azimuthal angle with respect to the given radius, find the displacement u(p,Φ) over the entire drumskin.

So why wouldn't they let me in?


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What's the answer then?

42, I swear this question was so easy that it could have been in the hypothetical Nat4 exam.