Oxford 2011 Freshers Chat Thread

Reply 1740

The Anti-Hero

10

Original post by Lumi Nous

if everyone on here has failed as badly as they claim, Oxford's going to be pretty empty next year :rolleyes:

But on the plus side, it seems like everybody is very modest!

Reply 1741

Frankie

Original post by Y.D

French tommorows going to be painful, can just see myself making up the most ridiculous things in the essay :s-smilie:

I'm with you there, I have a few essay plans that I know will disappear right out of my head as soon as I sit down, as long as my grammar is ok I don't really care what I write lol :tongue:

Reply 1742

LtCommanderData

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Original post by Revolution is my Name

When is Fresher's week, exactly? Is that the week beginning Sunday 9th October (the term date on the website), or the week before that?

I emailed my college to ask when they'd expect me to be moving in and they said 2nd October (that may vary, though)

Reply 1743

LtCommanderData

13

Original post by Revolution is my Name

Oooh, that's nice and early. So do you/ anyone else in the know reckon there wouldn't be anything official-ish/ "miss this and you've missed your chance to make friends"-ish that I'd be missing on Friday 14th if I went to a gig in London?

I dunno. I'm missing one in London on Wednesday 5th October (that's why I emailed, to check if I could make it to that). I reckon you'll be fine on that Friday, but don't take my word for it!

Reply 1744

jenny18

Original post by Frankie

I'm with you there, I have a few essay plans that I know will disappear right out of my head as soon as I sit down, as long as my grammar is ok I don't really care what I write lol :tongue:

French wise, I'm the opposite. I've got Prevert coming out my ears having focused on the essay for so long.

I've only just remembered that we'll be asked other questions. That we'll be expected to listen to, and understand french!! :eek:

Ah well. Ah well. Hmmmmmmmm..... :s-smilie:

Reply 1745

flywithemma

14

I think we should all just do distinctly average on the French exam tomorrow, so that either:
a) the grade boundaries get moved down. A lot.
b) nobody who does French gets into Oxford, and we can file some sort of complaint or something :tongue:

Foolproof, no?

ok not foolproof, desperate, but you knowwww :colondollar:

Reply 1746

Gromit94

9

Hi Oxford Offer Holders,
I was wondering if you could tell me what universities and what grades you have as your insurance option? I'm in Yr12 at the moment, looking at universities and I want to know that I'm looking at the right range- I would obviously love a place to study History at Oxford but I realise this may be a dream too far....

Reply 1747

thurin

11

Original post by Gromit94

Hi Oxford Offer Holders,
I was wondering if you could tell me what universities and what grades you have as your insurance option? I'm in Yr12 at the moment, looking at universities and I want to know that I'm looking at the right range- I would obviously love a place to study History at Oxford but I realise this may be a dream too far....

My insurance is York, English and History, AAA.
All my offers turned out AAA. Yeah, I really didn't think that through... :nah:

Reply 1748

TAPSmith

Original post by Gromit94

Hi Oxford Offer Holders,
I was wondering if you could tell me what universities and what grades you have as your insurance option? I'm in Yr12 at the moment, looking at universities and I want to know that I'm looking at the right range- I would obviously love a place to study History at Oxford but I realise this may be a dream too far....

Hi, I'm doing History and Politics, my insurance is LSE: Government and History which is AAB, I had 3 AAA offers and 2 AAB.

Reply 1749

zigzog7

16

Original post by Gromit94

Hi Oxford Offer Holders,
I was wondering if you could tell me what universities and what grades you have as your insurance option? I'm in Yr12 at the moment, looking at universities and I want to know that I'm looking at the right range- I would obviously love a place to study History at Oxford but I realise this may be a dream too far....

My insuance is Bristol, who offered me 360pts from maths physics and further maths, which is AAA or A*AB or A*A*C, so gives me more flexability.

Reply 1750

marieparis22

1

Original post by Gromit94

Hi Oxford Offer Holders,
I was wondering if you could tell me what universities and what grades you have as your insurance option? I'm in Yr12 at the moment, looking at universities and I want to know that I'm looking at the right range- I would obviously love a place to study History at Oxford but I realise this may be a dream too far....

Hey, my insurance is AAB from St. Andrews for History :smile:

Reply 1751

marieparis22

1

Original post by flywithemma

We're doing Tess of the D'Urbervilles, She Stoops to Conquer, Blue Remembered Hills and the post 1945 poetry. Yey the pastoral! I'm ok with quotes for 3 of them, but then She Stoops I'm a bit iffy with...great, seeing as it's the one we HAVE to write about somewhere. I'm glad there's a choice of 3 section B questions, hopefully means there's going to be at least one nice one.

And YEY. I can't wait till Friday. Although none of my friends will have finished yet, so I'll have to try not to be tooo smug :colondollar:

How did you find the exam today? Nice questions?

Reply 1752

riotgrrl

19

Original post by Gromit94

Hi Oxford Offer Holders,
I was wondering if you could tell me what universities and what grades you have as your insurance option? I'm in Yr12 at the moment, looking at universities and I want to know that I'm looking at the right range- I would obviously love a place to study History at Oxford but I realise this may be a dream too far....

My insurance is UCL and I need AAB. My other offers were AAB and ABB (and a rejection which would have been AAA if I had been offered a place!)

Reply 1753

soutioirsim

15

Original post by LtCommanderData

I had an exam today. I noticed a mistake (worth 8/75 marks) right as the bloke said "stop writing". I think I got another question wrong too, so altogether not the best exam I've ever taken.

It won't affect my offer though, thank goodness

Which exam was that?

Reply 1754

brendan.

12

Original post by Gromit94

Hi Oxford Offer Holders,
I was wondering if you could tell me what universities and what grades you have as your insurance option? I'm in Yr12 at the moment, looking at universities and I want to know that I'm looking at the right range- I would obviously love a place to study History at Oxford but I realise this may be a dream too far....

My insurance choice is ABB/AAB depending on what grade I receive in chemistry. For my other offers I had 2x ABB and a BBB. Though I think for biochem, there just generally aren't that many that will offer higher unless I'd have applied to UCL or Imperial..
BUT since you'd like to study history, I guess this doesn't matter. :colondollar:

Reply 1755

soutioirsim

15

I wanted to put either Imperial or Warwick as my insurance but both their offers were A*AA. I withdrew my application from Bath which left me with Southampton, which is AAB :smile:

Reply 1756

flywithemma

14

Original post by Gromit94

Hi Oxford Offer Holders,
I was wondering if you could tell me what universities and what grades you have as your insurance option? I'm in Yr12 at the moment, looking at universities and I want to know that I'm looking at the right range- I would obviously love a place to study History at Oxford but I realise this may be a dream too far....

Original post by marieparis22

Hey, my insurance is AAB from St. Andrews for History :smile:

Me too! My insurance is St Andrews, AAB. :smile:

Offer wise, I got 3 AAA offers and two AAB offers.

Reply 1757

flywithemma

14

Original post by marieparis22

How did you find the exam today? Nice questions?

Yes! The paper itself was lovely, although I think I've managed to mess it up a bit. Didn't write much for one of the texts in section B, and should have written about the part A text (the poetry) again instead...but oh well. THINK I'll have got the C I needed in this paper. How about you?

Reply 1758

tommy1311

Might come right down to the boundaries on results day! Maths went out of the window earlier, so I'm relying on History, Psychology and English Lit to come through for me. Lit and Psych should be ok, but that bloody History paper. If I miss out by a few UMS I shan't be happy.

Reply 1759

04ghicks

2

Original post by Gromit94

Hi Oxford Offer Holders,
I was wondering if you could tell me what universities and what grades you have as your insurance option? I'm in Yr12 at the moment, looking at universities and I want to know that I'm looking at the right range- I would obviously love a place to study History at Oxford but I realise this may be a dream too far....

My insurance is Sheffield AAB

Other places I applied to:

Leeds: AAB (A in geography)
Lancaster: ABB
Leicester: ABB

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