Mathematics Applicants 2012

Did all churchill people have interviews/test at the same time? I'd love to know what the test involved...

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Aristotle's' Disciple

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Original post by Extricated

Big up to ma don rahul.s who is at his trinity interview right now! Zoop zoop!

I called him while he was in the common room. :colone:

Reply 3723

desijut

Original post by ben-smith

Did all churchill people have interviews/test at the same time? I'd love to know what the test involved...

Test was the same time for everyone, interview was next day, someone had it at 9:30 whilst another person had it at 5:45

And I dont think we're allowed to do that on TSR until the interview period is over, even if we were allowed, I wouldn't tell anyway (no offence)

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Dirac Spinor

Original post by desijut

I wouldn't tell anyway (no offence)

Don't worry, I'm just curious :colondollar:

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Original post by Xero Xenith

Has anyone ever heard of a statistics question being asked at interview? I mean in general, not this year - I hear many people getting Pure and sometimes Mechanics but never heard of a Stats question!

I'm considering putting some effort into revising S2 (normal distribution, hypothesis testing, continuous random variables) but I do have other things to do... not sure if I should :s-smilie:

Stats <3

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Xero Xenith

Original post by laughylolly

Stats <3

:smile:

You mentalist! I bet you love Decision too :tongue:

Stats and Decision are the two banes of my mathematical existence. I can get an A* without it, so I'm going to spend my D1 exam drawing pictures of llamas wearing a variety of hats. No joke. :colondollar:

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Original post by Xero Xenith

You mentalist! I bet you love Decision too :tongue:

Stats and Decision are the two banes of my mathematical existence. I can get an A* without it, so I'm going to spend my D1 exam drawing pictures of llamas wearing a variety of hats. No joke. :colondollar:

I actually do Advanced highers not A-levels so no decision for me (well not exactly). We have AH (Pure) Maths, AH Applied Maths: Stats and AH applied maths: mechanics. I take AH Maths and AH Stats. So basically a separate A-level sorta thing in Stats. I heard from so many people that it would be so boring but I love it. Except hypothesis testing is a bit meh.

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Intriguing Alias

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Original post by Xero Xenith

You mentalist! I bet you love Decision too :tongue:

Stats and Decision are the two banes of my mathematical existence. I can get an A* without it, so I'm going to spend my D1 exam drawing pictures of llamas wearing a variety of hats. No joke. :colondollar:

Same. There's a girl in the lower 6th who just loves Decision, have no idea what's wrong with her :wink:

She even asked my maths teacher in an excited way 'is there a D3!?!?' :tongue:

Reply 3729

Reminisce

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Original post by laughylolly

Stats <3

I agree

Statistics at A Levels is interesting in some cases and overall it's okay but the theorems and proofs later on (such as the Law of Large Numbers) are so fundamental and applicable in the world that it really hypes me up about the course in university.

And sorry about your rejection from Oxford :frown:

Good luck on your other choices!

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Original post by Reminisce

I agree

Statistics at A Levels is interesting in some cases and overall it's okay but the theorems and proofs later on (such as the Law of Large Numbers) are so fundamental and applicable in the world that it really hypes me up about the course in university.

And sorry about your rejection from Oxford :frown:

Good luck on your other choices!

We haven't done anything like that yet. AH Stats covers a lot of weird things. Our teachers have said that some of the things we learn aren't taught till like 3rd year at Scottish unis "/

And it's okay =) I wasn't too bothered, obviously wasn't meant to be. I knew I didn't do great on the MAT and I think it must have been that. I wouldn't have received offers from Warwick and Bath if my grades/PS/reference had problems so (well you would think so). I just hope I get an offer from Durham now!

P.s. (to everyone) Don't forgot to add yourself to the Mathematics Applicants 2012 stalking page if you already haven't!

(edited 12 years ago)

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anil10100

Original post by TheJ0ker

Yes I did, and I feel pretty much exactly the same about the interview! It only felt like 5 mins, it would have been better if it were twice as long.

Original post by desijut

At least other people feel the same thing, which comforts me tbh. And oh you did :O, did you stay in the lounge are after the test? If so, we have seen and talked to each other irl

Yeah I was at Churchill too & did the test and that, what do you guys think you got out of 20? Think I did better on the test than interview..

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desijut

Original post by anil10100

Yeah I was at Churchill too & did the test and that, what do you guys think you got out of 20? Think I did better on the test than interview..

Max i can get is 13, but around 10 to accomodate for 2 mistakes.

Thinking of it in that aspect, my test didnt go so well :s-smilie:

ffs not enough time!!!

What time was your interview? Mine was at 3. Did you stay over?

Also, how many questions did they ask you?

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username458263

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All this chat of stats is making me jealous, I find most of what I know about stats interesting but the Scottish courses are so pure (unless you get to do AH Applied Maths like laughylolly, which my school doesn't offer), so I know hardly any :frown:

That said, pure maths is awesome anyway :P

Reply 3734

CharlieAdam1

Original post by anil10100

Yeah I was at Churchill too & did the test and that, what do you guys think you got out of 20? Think I did better on the test than interview..

opposite way round for me ...

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