2022 Carmel college foundation year questions

Is there any way I can find out how many hours a week the computer science foundation year is?

I had two lessons per week at 2 hours, so 4 hours per week.

Hello everyone! I'm also going to be starting the CS foundation course at Carmel College this September! I could also do with some clarification on the timetable. I'm confused by other students stating earlier in this thread that they did not have many in-person lessons at Carmel College. Was this because of COVID last year? I'd like some clarification on this because I'm concerned I won't have enough time to fit in necessary part time work with a couple societies which seem to often have meetings from around 3PM to 5PM.

My confusion primarily stems from the fact that the information I have received ( Open Day / Carmel College Welcome Email ) has been sort of conflicting.

These are the two contradicting statements I've been told:

(A) On the one hand I've been told that the college week consists of continuous lessons Monday to Friday from 9AM to 4PM excluding Wednesday afternoons so students can engage with societies at the University of Liverpool. This is essentially just like 6th Form.

AND

(B) On the other hand I've been told that the college week consists of a 6 block system (1-2-3-4-5-6) where every number (e.g. 1) is linked to 3 different periods (Each period is on a different day where every day has 6 possible periods) within a week. Foundation year students are assigned to 3 of these teaching blocks every week. This makes for a total of 9 periods every week.

So teaching block number 1 (n1) might look like this:

[Monday] block n1 = period 3 (11:10AM to 12:30AM)
[Tuesday] block n1 = period 5 (1:20PM to 2:40PM)
[Friday] block n1 = period 1 (9AM to 10:50AM)

So if you were assigned "teaching blocks" 1-2-3 for a particular week you would end up having something like the above example in addition to 2 other teaching blocks (n2 and n3 in this case) as you have a total of 3 different teaching blocks. You would have a total of 9 periods in that week and as far as I can tell this system would pretty much mean you'd have to go into Carmel College most days of the week.

Could anyone let me know if statement (A) is true or if statement (B) is true?

Cheers!

Hi all! I received a conditional offer for the foundation year for computer science and I had a couple of questions about it

1) what's the best option for accommodation? Do I go into student halls the foundation year and travel to Carmel? then for the next year, would I also go into student accommodation? or do what most people do their second years and go private

2) What's the workload like? I'm doing IB Higher Maths so is it similar to that? (Like a-level maths but a bit easier)

3) Is foundation year at Carmel basically like 6th form again or is it more like how I'd imagine university to be like? /

4) How did foundation year at Carmel compare to the first year of your Liverpool course? And how was your transition from foundation to first year?

Thank you to anyone who helps! I want to know more about carmel to know if it's "worth it" haha

Hi hope you have settled

I am in yr13 wanted to apply for FY computer science in livepool and was wondering what exactly have you done to to guarantee an offer ..any entry requirements for instance any predicted grades..etc ..please help

Hi there,

I'm glad to hear that you are considering the foundation year for computer science at the University of Liverpool. So the typical offer is for A-levels of CDD. If you have any more questions about the University of Liverpool or the city then feel free to ask

Malachy - University of Liverpool Student Rep

thank you very much for your reply..so if I am a predicted BCC and an already established A* student with no maths or Computer science subjects will I be considered then ??…and what determines moving from FY to year one please?