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Like you say in your sig, GCSE's are pretty easy as long as you put the work in, as is AS. A2 is when it steps up in difficulty and workload, I'm lucky my AS's were good as it gives me a cushion to get my offer. How are you finding the IB?

Oh not you again

Woo Caius are slightly higher than last year...

slightly?? 10th to 4th is a big jump!!

Tit Hall always so consistent in the mid-range~~~~sigh.

u at tit hall?

slightly?? 10th to 4th is a big jump!!

It's not all about the grades - I'm not really liking my offer either, Cambridge say standard offer is 3A's but quite a few people get higher offers I think, I'm concerned about getting the A's in Physics and Maths cos I find them hard. Oh well, I can't complain since I'm lucky enough to get an offer! Just 2 weeks to wait til results!

I think it was the interviews - the first one at Emma on drug action went really well I thought, gave me confidence, but the second one (on global warming and genetics) went really badly, they asked me about PCR and I'd heard of it (hadn't done it at school then but have since) but my mind went blank so tried to blag it and blurted out some rubbish. I read up on PCR afterwards and know it pretty well now! Luckily I got pooled, the first Selwyn interview was general with Dr. Keeler, we ended up talking about cases in English and German and how languages evolve over time! As well as some science, like carbon capture and storage. I've heard he's very good, just ordered the book he's written called Why Chemical Reactions Happen. Second interview was genetics again, on the structure of DNA and replication and allele frequencies etc. So basically, one interview went well and other (both Biology ones, even though I like Biology! Damn genetics!) badly both times I think.

Like you say in your sig, GCSE's are pretty easy as long as you put the work in, as is AS. A2 is when it steps up in difficulty and workload, I'm lucky my AS's were good as it gives me a cushion to get my offer. How are you finding the IB?

Wow, a conversation with Dr. Keeler about linguistics would be... interesting.

wouldn't you love that though? I mean, linguistics!

...I really want to know who's last place...

Wow, a conversation with Dr. Keeler about linguistics would be... interesting.

Yeah it was, he asked me "do you think there are cases in English like there are in German?" and I didn't have a clue so I tried to blag it and hope he didn't know much more about it than I did! yeah, linguistics is interesting and he seemed like a really nice guy, I'm guessing if I do first year Chemistry (which I probs will) he'll be the DoS/one of the lecturers? What's he/first year Chem like btw? I'm not too keen on Maths, I know you have to have full A-level Maths to do Chem in second year.