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Official Cambridge Applicants Thread 2015 Entry - MK II

Reply 3980

1395500

Anyone heard from Trinity Hall?

Reply 3981

smile:D

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Original post by physicsmaths

isnt it 90% at A2 the 70% at AS to allow 80% aggregate over two years and 90% in a2 gives an A*

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Original post by Edminzodo

No, it's 80% at AS.

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You don't need 80% at AS, physicsmaths is right. You need 90% overall in your A2 units, and an average of 80% over both AS and A2, so 70% at AS and 90% at A2 would get you an A*.

See here

Reply 3982

Colmans

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Original post by smile:D

You don't need 80% at AS, physicsmaths is right. You need 90% overall in your A2 units, and an average of 80% over both AS and A2, so 70% at AS and 90% at A2 would get you an A*.

See here

This is right:
From Excel website (but its the same for all of them)

To score an A* in an Edexcel A level you must:
get an A grade for your overall A level
produce a high level performance at A2 - scoring at least 90% of the A2 UMS marks

To get an A* in Edexcel A level Mathematics you must:
score at least 480 UMS marks for your overall A level grade
score at least 180 UMS marks in Core 3 and Core 4.

For other six-unit Edexcel A levels you must:
score at least 480 UMS marks for your overall A level grade
score at least 270 UMS marks at A2.

For four-unit Edexcel A levels you must:
score at least 320 UMS marks for your overall A level grade
score at least 180 UMS marks at A2.

And unlike Cambridge you can count your resits of AS.

Reply 3983

Colmans

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Original post by uklizzie

The agreed posting date for results from all colleges is 9th Jan...

http://www.admin.cam.ac.uk/offices/admissions/handbook/section1/1_2.html

7 January Pool interview lists distributed to Colleges (by 3.00pm).
9 January Agreed posting date for decision letters to applicants.
10-13 January Pool interviews take place (14 January is a backup date for pool interviews).
13 January Full Lent Term begins.
23 January Final date for entry of decisions into CamSIS for onward transmission to UCAS.

Interesting that pool interview candidates would appear to be in competition with each other as all other places have been decided.

Reply 3984

Mr Inquisitive

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Come onnnnn, Corpus :redface:

Reply 3985

m.prabar

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Just got an interview for Medicine at Corpus!!! 10/12

Reply 3986

geodawson

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Original post by m.prabar

Just got an interview for Medicine at Corpus!!! 10/12

Congrats! That's super exciting :biggrin:

Reply 3987

JoeMartin

Original post by Colmans

This is right:
From Excel website (but its the same for all of them)

To score an A* in an Edexcel A level you must:
get an A grade for your overall A level
produce a high level performance at A2 - scoring at least 90% of the A2 UMS marks

To get an A* in Edexcel A level Mathematics you must:
score at least 480 UMS marks for your overall A level grade
score at least 180 UMS marks in Core 3 and Core 4.

For other six-unit Edexcel A levels you must:
score at least 480 UMS marks for your overall A level grade
score at least 270 UMS marks at A2.

For four-unit Edexcel A levels you must:
score at least 320 UMS marks for your overall A level grade
score at least 180 UMS marks at A2.

And unlike Cambridge you can count your resits of AS.

The way Edexcel awards A* for Maths puts wayy too much emphasis on C3 and C4. I worked out afterwards I could have completely not taken S1 and still got an A* which is crazy!

Reply 3988

1395500

Which colleges haven't started sending out interview invitations yet? I know Trinity Hall hasn't as their website says that no invitations have been sent as of yet for any courses...

Reply 3989

username1299131

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Original post by hellofello

Yep, Blazar is right. I've posted this at least 5 times in this thread; the Caius admissions secretary told me they will begin sending interviews out on the third week of November, which means they should start coming out today, or it not then definitely in the next few days.

Ohh thx guys :biggrin:

, plz plz post on this thread once you get their invitation for interviews. Good luck to all of us!!

Reply 3990

Hitomi777

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I received the invitation to Murray!!!! On 11th December ^^

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Reply 3991

Eszti

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Original post by LlamaPatronus

Oh a fellow fencer! I'll definitely be joining the fencing society wherever I go :3

That's awesome :smile:

are you a serious fencer?

Reply 3992

Madeleineteo

Just wondering if anyone knows if there are any Cambridge Law Test practice papers anywhere either on the web/ available for purchase? The only ones I've seen are from the Oxbridge applications site and I have no idea how closely they match the real thing, as I'm an international applicant! Any help would be greatly appreciated!

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Reply 3993

hellofello

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Original post by Madeleineteo

Just wondering if anyone knows if there are any Cambridge Law Test practice papers anywhere either on the web/ available for purchase? The only ones I've seen are from the Oxbridge applications site and I have no idea how closely they match the real thing, as I'm an international applicant! Any help would be greatly appreciated!

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Nope, only the specimen papers that are available on Cambridge's website. It is not supposed to be something you can really prepare for, and that's why there's nothing for it outside of the official practice test.

Reply 3994

Noemiluisa

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Original post by Hitomi777

I received the invitation to Murray!!!! On 11th December ^^

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Congratulations! So we might see there, I have mine on the same day 😊
Do you have to do only one interview or a test too?

Reply 3995

Madeleineteo

Original post by hellofello

Nope, only the specimen papers that are available on Cambridge's website. It is not supposed to be something you can really prepare for, and that's why there's nothing for it outside of the official practice test.