Sutton Trust Summer School 2012

Yes people say too often its the schools fault they failed, but sometimes it genuinley is. Well done for your GCSE's. But to be honest I put the work and effort in for my GCSE's and came out will all A-C's yeah i might not have achieved x amount of A*/A's and that was down to my school. Like you I go to a school that has been in special measures for the past 3 years and only just got out in January, it also moved school sites twice and merged with another school as I started year 10, in January 2011 as I was sitting some of my exams my school moved to its new site therefore disrupting my education as until the easter half our school material (textbooks, coursework ect) was missing. I was taught by teachers who weren't even qualified to teach at GCSE level. I know fine well i put all the effort and work I could into passing, but only so much can be done when your not educated to a good standard, if i had attended the secondary school across the road I would have been able to achieve highere grades for sure. I think its all too often for people to judge the people who say its their schools fault they failed because in some cases it is.

There will be no difference for the selection process for Cambridge summer school considering it is all done through the same program therefore the aim to encourage people from less priveldged homes will be the main factor not grades.
I think everyone who applied on the scheme is considering Russell Group universitys otherwise there would be no point taking part in the scheme. Im just saying it wouldn't be fair for the universitys to brush some one aside because of their GCSE grades as at the end of the day they aren't the most important facture.

Woah!!!! With that kind of turmoil it's a wonder you passed let alone got reasonably good grades. Honestly congratulations you must have put some real work into that.

Yes people say too often its the schools fault they failed, but sometimes it genuinley is. Well done for your GCSE's. But to be honest I put the work and effort in for my GCSE's and came out will all A-C's yeah i might not have achieved x amount of A*/A's and that was down to my school. Like you I go to a school that has been in special measures for the past 3 years and only just got out in January, it also moved school sites twice and merged with another school as I started year 10, in January 2011 as I was sitting some of my exams my school moved to its new site therefore disrupting my education as until the easter half our school material (textbooks, coursework ect) was missing. I was taught by teachers who weren't even qualified to teach at GCSE level. I know fine well i put all the effort and work I could into passing, but only so much can be done when your not educated to a good standard, if i had attended the secondary school across the road I would have been able to achieve highere grades for sure. I think its all too often for people to judge the people who say its their schools fault they failed because in some cases it is.

There will be no difference for the selection process for Cambridge summer school considering it is all done through the same program therefore the aim to encourage people from less priveldged homes will be the main factor not grades.
I think everyone who applied on the scheme is considering Russell Group universitys otherwise there would be no point taking part in the scheme. Im just saying it wouldn't be fair for the universitys to brush some one aside because of their GCSE grades as at the end of the day they aren't the most important facture.

I'm aware that it doesn't but currently your GCSE results are all the academic information they have to go on. Cambridge have stated in the past that they prefer not to listen to school predictions as they are not always very acurate. Come October when we apply with our actual AS results GCSE's won't matter that much but now they very much do.

I know quite a few people in my year with 3 A*s in science at GCSE who are currently on E's and U's and vice versa.

Okay I've already posted on this thread under a different account but this is my new account if anyone wants to talk about the summer school eep I'm excited!

I've been accepted to Durham (either Anthropology or English... my acceptance letter didn't say)

Very true I got 3A*'s at GCSE in the sciences I now take Chemistry and am barely getting a C. As to the predicted grades I find that at my school they are ridiculously high. I've been predicted A*s across the board next year and I know without a doubt that there is not a chance in hell that I'll actually get that. The difference between GCSE and A-level is just too high and by taking 6 A-levels I have split myself far too thinly.

hi
has anyone been accepted for the nottingham summer school ?
if yes, what courses ?

6 I take three as most uni's I looked at don't require a 4th at AS so I deemed it surplus to requirments, might live to regret it but didn't see the point at the time. By doing three I thought I'd be able to dedicate more time to each subject but the lack of time I dedicate to any of them is worrying. Somewhat a master of procrastination.

Got two weeks until my exams, I've got 5 (3 on one day) So think I'll literally be doing nothing apart from solid revision, plus I have this summer school to look forward to after!

I have eleven exams! Eleven. And the last one isn't until June 25th (we do some pretty late in NI) , a full month after one guy, who will be finished on May 25th. Take solace in my pain.

I have eleven exams! Eleven. And the last one isn't until June 25th (we do some pretty late in NI) , a full month after one guy, who will be finished on May 25th. Take solace in my pain.

I got accepted for english at Durham!! 2 others from my school also got accepted for Durham on other courses

awww unlucky i have 7 exams but onli 4 exams days. (3 on same day and 2 on same day) and i start may 16th and finish 25th may. You guys....I can'y rely on day before revision like at GCSE's....exams are too close together

Yeah we defoo picked the coolest subjects...although the AQA economics exam is really hard and is kinda ruining my enjoyment of it what exam board do you do?

Don't know about you but at GCSE I rarely revised, just flicked through the book and still got some good grades, nothing amazing but good. The main reason I didn't revise is because it was a safety net if I done bad, I could just say ''Well I didn't revise'' but at A-level theres no question that no revision equals bad grades!