Oxford Applicants for 2012 Entry

Greg, that was an AWFUL explanation

It's actually quite confusing where I live....

I go to an academic "sixth form" college (where the vast majority of people do A levels). But the name "sixth form" doesn't really make sense seeing as we number our secondary schools years "years 7-11" rather than "years 1-5".

So then there are the vocational "further education" colleges. But almost contradictorily FE is a term that's used to refer to anything between GCSEs and Uni (which is Higher Education)

But to add to that, a lot (perhaps a majority) of the secondary schools in my area have decided it's fashionable to stick "colllege" in their name. So my secondary school renamed itself "Chamberlayne College for the Arts". (It supposedly has a "specialism" in the performing arts, but it's by no means a place you go to primarily study drama/dance/music)

In the past it was called first-fifth year, we still call them that in NI

It also claims to be a specialist maths and physics school and yet doesn't offer A level FM (unless you're prepared to self teach).

In many 11-18 schools then the A levels years would be refereed to as "lower sixth" and "upper sixth" respectively. (Especially in those that use 1-5 for the other years)

We use those terms too

Isn't it?

I'm trying to do AS FM this year, my aim is to self teach M1 and M2 by January along with my A level module C3, then do C4, FP1 and one out of S2/FP2/M3 or D1. My maths teacher says he'll help me if I do FP2 but it looks like the hardest so I'm not sure

My school doesn't let music students do anything but classical and Irish traditional music

I suppose it depends how much you enjoy FP1/M2. It's not like any of them are particularly relevant to classics Only doing AS is quite nice because you only need to get an average of 80, rather than having to worry about getting 90s (which isn't so hard, but it's another thing to worry about). Your situation is in some ways quite similar to me taking Additional FM AS this year Which exam board does your school use for maths?

Yeah I did consider doing to full a level, but I then decided to just do the AS and then I could use the extra time for German and Hebrew I quite liked mechanics when I did Add maths at GCSE, and I like pure too, but I'm concerned that those modules will take a lot of time and effort and detract from my other subjects (compared to say D1 which would probably be relatively easy), when as you say rightly none of them are particularly relevant to my degree and this is just a bit of fun

We use Edexcel, which seems to be the most common one, though the textbooks are terrible.

Awesome what part are you considering?

You might even find D1 interesting, although some don't think it's "proper maths" (it's quite relevant for Computer Science!)

Good Luck! Oriel here too!

I have a problem. I'm a law international applicant, applying to Queen's. On their website it says "While we welcome all applications for Law and Law with Law Studies in Europe, we do not interview overseas applicants during the application process." I'm not sure what this means and I would like to ask, but they never reply to my e-mails and when I call they just never answer. I tried calling in the morning, in the afternoon, or even around 4pm but they just NEVER pick up. Is anyone having the same problem? Who else is an international applicant applying with SAT subjects and ACT?

I think it means you should change your college choice. >_>

Can I be added to stalker page thingummy please?

Subject: History and Spanish College: Queen's GCSEs: 10 A* AS: AAAA A2 Predictions: A* A* A* A*/A
Thanks

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