Getting to Cambridge: STEP by STEP!

I was fairly surprised at receiving 7 A*'s and an A (in economics, somebody isn't going to be happy about that)

I don't love you I lied

Look at the title, appreciate my pun humour thanks love you too

dammm that warwick offer :O

Background:

I started off secondary education on a pretty bad foot, things weren't going well, I fell in with the wrong group of friends at mew new school, one thing led to another and my report card was mainly U's and G's. This stayed this way till my GCSE year where I finally got to choose my own subjects, change class and make new friends. My grades were mediocre, I averaged C's in most of Year 10 subjects. I improved a little by the time the mocks came around and was fairly confident with myself.

It was right before exam term that I had an existential crisis and decided that grades didn't really mean anything to me and they had no bearing on my intelligence, so I put in zero effort into my IGCSE's, I slobbed around, didn't do any revision and spent half the exam doodling silly things onto spare paper and annoying invigilators.

I was fairly surprised at receiving 7 A*'s and an A (in economics, somebody isn't going to be happy about that) and was ecstatic at being the only one to have scored an A* in Additional Maths in my school's history. I moved on to sixth form, where I started the IB. At this point, I'd set my targets on studying maths.

Thing's did not go well. I hated it all, I had to do a large number of irrelevant subjects, there was the CAS component, ToK, I had to do French as a First Language which was something I genuinely detested. I had many a falling out with the head of sixth and a variety of other teachers.

After a year (this is September 2015), I got fed of it and quit. I decided that I would sit my A-Levels by myself and self-teach everything. I enrolled myself for January 2016 exams, applied to university and began working. I had four months to cover three A-Levels, roughly. I got invited to King's College, Cambridge for an interview, and then the unthinkable happened: I got an offer. This is where I am today.

Stats:

GCSE's: 7 A* 1 A (CIE IGCSE)
A-Levels: [M: TBA] [FM: TBA] [Phys: TBA]


Things are a bit bare at the moment, I'll have to admit. It'll look a lot more homely once March rolls around and I get my January exam results back.

Why am I making this thread?

Well, I figure that this isn't only a really good way of cataloguing my experiences with past papers and a way to view my progress without writing things down physically because if I do, I'll lose whatever feeble attempt I tried. I'm hoping that is also acts as a reminder for working, although that's a bit of a fat chance, given my penchant for laziness and dumbness.

You're not funny cringe

I get the feeling that this thread is a bit of an ego trip for OP but in any case, kudos to you.
Sounds like it's been a tough journey and you must have worked extremely hard given the circumstances.

And you think you were?





Cause you weren't.

And you think you were?





Cause you weren't.

Lol imperial is still like, AFK

No they're not - my mate got an interview requested yesterday

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well they are afk for maths or something. They like gave like a couple offers late november then went AFK after that pretty much for maths

It was a maths interview...

They're gearing back up

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