Mathematics Applicants 2012

Hey I'm just trying not to think too much about January... :P

I don't think I'd be terribly upset if I didn't get in - I think I'd be happy at any of the unis I've applied to. I would really like an offer from Cambridge though. It's so difficult to judge how well the interviews went! So I'm just going to wait and see I think. No idea what my chances are.

And yeah - one of my friends was basically detained in Oxford for 3 days so she could have 4 interviews, only 2 of which were actually at the college she applied to. I think I'd prefer Cambridge's system tbh. I was really nervous before my first interview and I was just thinking stuff like "In 3 hours it will all be over" and so on - I don't think it would have helped if that had been 3 days :P

I guess, in a way, it might be nice to be rejected because you'd get to find where you went wrong. I mean, yes, the interviews are impossible to call. I'm guessing we probably had a lot of the same questions and so they'll have a good basis of comparison. To be vague, I don't think there was nearly enough calculus.

Yeah, I suppose... I'd probably rather get an offer though! :P
I'd probably agree about the calculus - STEP excels there though, because the calculus questions in STEP are awesome.

I'll have to give them a look at some point then. The thing is, I was told that Maths interviews are all about assessing whether it would be worth you taking STEP. If they can see you doing well in STEP, they'll give you an offer.

I'll have to give them a look at some point then. The thing is, I was told that Maths interviews are all about assessing whether it would be worth you taking STEP. If they can see you doing well in STEP, they'll give you an offer.

Really? That may be why they sounded pleasantly surprised when I mentioned I was working on STEP and doing pretty well.

Should have told them my timed past paper result... ah well (a 1 in STEP I 2008, after a few months practise)

I wouldn't expect it to make too much of a difference. I had grade 1 in STEP when I applied but that didn't get me an offer.

Yeah, I suppose - the interview questions and the STEP questions are a totally different style though! For example, I got asked a mechanics question at interview, and I am almost certainly going to avoid the mechanics section of STEP, because the Scottish maths courses have next to no applied maths. I was basically using AH Physics just to do the interview mechanics question... :L

Ooh well done Mines for G1R2 - Maths and German....although im regretting the german part now!!!
Aww i'm sure they wont....
I've got offers from heriot-watt, liverpool and lancaster and have an open day at sheffield then will get an offer...just leeds left

I didn't have any applied questions since when I was asked if I had done something in Mechanics or Physics I looked at them blanky.

Was it just basic Newtonian dynamics…?

Where are you hoping to go? I think I'm going to firm Lancaster
And I'm sure that if you went and said that you weren't keen on doing the german part any more, they'd let you swap to just Maths on it's own!

Err... don't want to give away too much detail... :P

It needed AH Physics stuff. To be fair I suppose they might have checked my SAQ and they'd have seen that I had done the area it was about in Physics, but I would have had no chance of doing the question without Physics.

Well now I'm going to have to study the AH Physics specification. I think the questions were pretty standard so they were relying on people having studied Mechanics or being in the process of studying Physics (since most Maths applicants seem to take Physics. Hey, I'm an exception).

Any actuarial applicants?

Anyone heard anything more from Durham or know when they start giving out offers??
Also would anyone like to make my feel better by saying they got a graphic calculator for Christmas too? It is so much fun!

Any actuarial applicants?

Yep I've got a conditional offer from Leeds so far