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Reply 1900

deejayy

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Original post by ben-smith

Warwick decided to send me a second acknowledgement with no text, just an empty message :s-smilie:

Same, I have got all my acknowledgements now except for bloody imperial.

Reply 1901

twig

Original post by ben-smith

Are you going to take STEP, even if it is just for the lulz?

Probably. Definitely will take it if I get an Oxford rejection (which is quite likely :wink:

).

Reply 1902

Dirac Spinor

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Original post by twig

Probably. Definitely will take it if I get an Oxford rejection (which is quite likely :wink:

).

What sort of attitude is that?! :tongue:

Reply 1903

snow leopard

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Right, so does anyone know if either Imperial/UCL/Bristol commonly do math interviews? UCAS mentioned UCL may, but then the UCL admissions site said it's not likely. UCAS said nothing about Imperial, and they DO commonly interview applicants. So I'm just really confused. Can anyone clear this up.

Original post by ben-smith

Are you going to take STEP, even if it is just for the lulz?

LOL for the 'lulz', I love that. Yes, I'm taking STEP for the lulz >.>

Reply 1904

Zuzuzu

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Original post by cpdavis

How's UCL coming along? :colone:

Maths - hard and not really that fun.
Everything else - great.

How's Kings?

Reply 1905

Zuzuzu

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Original post by snow leopard

Right, so does anyone know if either Imperial/UCL/Bristol commonly do math interviews? UCAS mentioned UCL may, but then the UCL admissions site said it's not likely. UCAS said nothing about Imperial, and they DO commonly interview applicants. So I'm just really confused. Can anyone clear this up.

My tutor for applied is the admissions tutor for the maths department... He mentioned we'll have to rearrange 2 or 3 of our sessions in the coming weeks because they clash with interviews with applicants. That said, I've not met anyone yet who's had an interview here.

Reply 1906

snow leopard

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Original post by Zuzuzu

My tutor for applied is the admissions tutor for the maths department... He mentioned we'll have to rearrange 2 or 3 of our sessions in the coming weeks because they clash with interviews with applicants. That said, I've not met anyone yet who's had an interview here.

Interesting, thanks for that info :creep:

Reply 1907

Xero Xenith

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Just got my first Maths offer :smile:

Bath gave me A*AB + either 2 in any STEP or Merit in AEA. Feels good that they're coming in :biggrin:

Anyone else had any luck?

Reply 1908

dnumberwang

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[INDENT]

Original post by Xero Xenith

Just got my first Maths offer :smile:

Bath gave me A*AB + either 2 in any STEP or Merit in AEA. Feels good that they're coming in :biggrin:

Anyone else had any luck?

Manchester want to interview me, ffs >.<

Reply 1909

Xero Xenith

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Original post by dnumberwang

Manchester want to interview me, ffs >.<

Really? I thought they usually didn't? :eek:

Actually, hadn't heard of any Maths departments wanting interviews except Oxford, Cambridge and one or two in London :s-smilie:

Reply 1910

Beth1234

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Original post by dnumberwang

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Manchester want to interview me, ffs >.<

Why on earth...? :confused:

Reply 1911

Beth1234

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Original post by Xero Xenith

Just got my first Maths offer :smile:

Bath gave me A*AB + either 2 in any STEP or Merit in AEA. Feels good that they're coming in :biggrin:

Anyone else had any luck?

Congratulations! I'm surprised they've started giving out offers already... perhaps you were just too good! :tongue:

Meh. No such luck yet :frown:

But hopefully a longer wait will be worth it!

Reply 1912

Aristotle's' Disciple

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Original post by Farhan.Hanif93

Not a lot can be said about it really. Just find the normals and intersect them? Then use the fact that (1,0) lies on PQ for find the value of pq.

If you haven't already, it'll help to sketch

y^2=4x

and all the other points/lines to see what's going on.

Got there eventually, did Q3 no problems. Q4 is have shown it equals 24/25, using triangles, but mine is positive, where as it asks for -24/25 in the paper.

Reply 1913

Zuzuzu

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Original post by dnumberwang

[INDENT]

Manchester want to interview me, ffs >.<

It's not a proper interview. It's just luring you into walking round the department/campus for 3 hours, having a craic with current students, then getting asked a few questions by a maths member of staff.

Every applicant gets this interview thing, afaik.

Reply 1914

Farhan.Hanif93

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Original post by Aristotle's' Disciple

Got there eventually, did Q3 no problems. Q4 is have shown it equals 24/25, using triangles, but mine is positive, where as it asks for -24/25 in the paper.

Easily fixed with a sketch. You'll see that

\sin 2\theta \leq 0

for all theta over

\dfrac{3\pi}{2}\leq \theta \leq 2\pi

. Remember that the triangles will only give you the magnitude (unless you draw them on a quadrant diagram but who does that? :p:

) of the value you want, you need to determine the sign of it yourself by looking at the domain.

Reply 1915

dnumberwang

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Original post by Zuzuzu

It's not a proper interview. It's just luring you into walking round the department/campus for 3 hours, having a craic with current students, then getting asked a few questions by a maths member of staff.

Every applicant gets this interview thing, afaik.

Cheers.

3 hours, bloody hell, I live in Manchester anyway

Reply 1916

Edwin Okli

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Original post by Xero Xenith

Just got my first Maths offer :smile:

Bath gave me A*AB + either 2 in any STEP or Merit in AEA. Feels good that they're coming in :biggrin:

Anyone else had any luck?

Ahh, you lucky guy. I want an offer from Bath already. *waits impatiently*

Reply 1917

Reminisce

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Just scrutinized my emails from universities more closely and realised that UCL wanted UMS :biggrin:

Thought it was just Cambridge! Anyhow, I've sent off the email with the relevant information... Any other UCL applicants getting this?

Reply 1918

twig

Original post by Reminisce

Just scrutinized my emails from universities more closely and realised that UCL wanted UMS :biggrin:

Thought it was just Cambridge! Anyhow, I've sent off the email with the relevant information... Any other UCL applicants getting this?

Yep. Have sent my UMS of the AS subjects (although think they should be in my reference).

Reply 1919

twig

Original post by Zuzuzu

Maths - hard and not really that fun.

How does it compare to STEP/ alevels in terms of the way the content/theory is presented and the difficulty of questions?

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