The Cambridge 2013 Results Day Discussion Thread

That's a terrible excuse. Doesn't it just communicate a lack of organisation?

Yeah I love that aspect as well! It'll be so good.
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That's a terrible excuse. Doesn't it just communicate a lack of organisation?

Perhaps I make up a better excuse too?
Not sure what, but if I could come up with something legit, or in fact, they'd never know I was doing mechanics in the first place if I don't sit the exam.
I'm wondering if I should or shouldn't sit the exam, I can take it during my gap year, if I take it now there's a slim chance of an A.
Which is best?

But like A-level students who have to declare resits, I'm worried that if you just try and pretend it never happened it would count as deception, and there would be very grave consequences indeed if you get found out. (Plus the school that went to all the trouble to present you will get royally pissed that you end up not showing.)

I advocate that the only options even worth considering are the ones where Cambridge would know about this sitting of the exam, and getting a grade in this case is better than not getting one. If you want to wing it and hide it then that's up to you.

There is no debate if you are a set theorist, logician, or computer scientist

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I think you should give at a shot, you don't want to risk them turning round and asking why you didn't declare it.

Also, let's be for real. One module is not going to break an application.

I was of the understanding a set theorist would generally not include 0.

It's not a module. It counts as a whole subject under the Scottish system.

You crazy scots! *shakes fist*

You crazy scots! *shakes fist*

It's because it's divided "vertically" rather than "horizontally". So instead of the early/middle/late modules in each different kind of maths making up one subject, you take one kind of maths to its end and that counts as one subject.

Why? You can basically do an A Level in Mechanics on Edexcel if you put all 5 Mechanics modules into AFM.

I wasn't really being serious, that system sounds better tbh. It's all in the past for me now though *wistful sigh as I think back to my M5 exam*

I wasn't really being serious, that system sounds better tbh. It's all in the past for me now though *wistful sigh as I think back to my M5 exam*

It's not without its flaws, for example the applied maths subjects get marginalised and they are really not offered very widely except among the private schools, while the state schools just concentrate all their resources on getting good grades in the pure maths subject.

All the set theorists I've worked with do at least