A Level Result Help

most offers these days are 1,1
that should be fine if you understand the whole syllabus and do a fair few past papers. you don't need to worry about that for over a year yet though!

WTF? That doesn't sound as if it was coming from someone who's taken STEP- how on earth do you find those are "fine"? Hell, even our Maths teachers died a little bit when they saw the STEP papers (again), and these are guys with straight As/Oxbridge Maths degrees.

Well, I guess all the practice papers were hard, but that's mainly due to a lack of practice. The main point in STEP is thinking the same way the professors do. If you can quickly run through all the different ways you could even attempt to solve the problem, one of them will work and there you go. You've just got to work through it.

And that's all well and good, but it is still very hard. But if you work hard, and you're lucky you'll be able to do quite well. There are people who get S,S!
(I did STEP this year btw)

ps, sorry about the delay, I was watching last choir standing

just wondering. what sort of money does it take to go to eton? or is it more connections?

I think it's about £28,000 a year, plus any extras.

I think you've got us confused- I'm not the original poster! I'm Yr13 like you but have Oxford down as my firm for Maths (+CompSci) so only have AAA to worry about! Personally, I haven't really looked at STEP properly except when attempting to help mates who had to do the exam so don't have a particularly reliable experience of STEP, so have to rely upon others- the guys who actually took the exam (599 and ~585 out of 600 in A2 Maths last year, Trinity and I *think* Pembroke colleges?) tried their absolute hardest with their preparation for the exams but barely got one or two full questions come the exams. Outta interest- how many full questions did you answer?

jesus H christ

i bet they dont have trouble getting students either. any entrance exams?

I would say A. Option B looks like you have taken on a lot just to try and impress Oxbridge.

I think you've got us confused- I'm not the original poster! I'm Yr13 like you but have Oxford down as my firm for Maths (+CompSci) so only have AAA to worry about! Personally, I haven't really looked at STEP properly except when attempting to help mates who had to do the exam so don't have a particularly reliable experience of STEP, so have to rely upon others- the guys who actually took the exam (599 and ~585 out of 600 in A2 Maths last year, Trinity and I *think* Pembroke colleges?) tried their absolute hardest with their preparation for the exams but barely got one or two full questions come the exams. Outta interest- how many full questions did you answer?

Yehh, I got 594/600 last year which wasn't even top of the class.
In STEP II, I answered 4 questions fully and 1 almost fully. & in STEP III, I answered 5 questions fully and 2 almost fully.
Did noone at your school do well? Hopefully Cambridge will look past that and let them in still, this must be a tense week for them!

how much did your mummy and daddy pay for you to get those grades?