Carmel college foundation year 2013 whos applied and whos bn please help need advice!

I'll try and help best I can but it was a few years ago for me. I found it fine. TBH I found a lot of the lessons they treated it like you had some knowledge of that level but it is basically going through A levels but in one year. Most of the teachers were good and I'd say you have two ways of looking at it, either you can study other modules you have done before or choose a couple of different ones and it is like you are gaining A levels in two different topics. I ended up choosing modules different to what I had studied at school and I enjoyed it.

The travel can be a pain in the neck, however, I was usually travelling with a large amount of students also studying their foundation year and we formed a good group of friends the same as if we were on a regular first year.

One point to note is that Carmel College is a 6th form college mainly so you will see a lot of 16+ students about. Your lectures are in a separate part though so once you get past the main entrance you don't spend time with them. You also have a separate computer room/study space near your classes to spend time.

hope that helps

I firmed to study Computer science w/ foundation at Carmel this year. I've been looking at the same problems as you, but I don't think it'll be a massive deal.

The 10/10a bus is around a 30 minute journey from the on-campus accommodation (I've chosen Vine Court), which doesn't sound great but it could be worse. Also I hear it's common for students to drive/car share so there might be other options.

As for the subjects, similarly to you, Maths is an essential module - which is no problem as I did it at ALevel - and then I have to elect two modules. The idea of this is actually quite appealing to me as we only have to get 50% overall to progress onto the actual degree course, and what we got during the foundation year isn't reflective towards your degree at all.

That basically means we can live in halls and party just like all the other students and only have to get 50% to pass. Also, I'm looking forward to studying something different to what I did at A-Level, Physics for example is a keen interest of mine.

Basically I don't think you should be worried about studying 3 subjects, if you've chosen to take Maths at degree level then you should easily achieve 50% overall.

I'm in the exact same boat as you Andy. Same subject choice but unsure about accommodation and were to go. Is there any accomodation closer to the rpute 10 bus stop?

Yeah i was thinking that aswell about the 50 percent although it does depend how hard and intensive the course is. And im sure the bus journey is much longer then that its 9 miles ive read some people say its 45-hour half on a bad day where did you find out the info exactly thanks !

The closest accommodation to the route 10 bus stops is the on-campus accommodation. I imagine it wouldn't be more than a 5 minute walk to a bus stop in the centre of Liverpool, or I was told so by the lady running the foundation degrees at Carmel.



It definitely won't be harder than A-levels, I'm certain of that. It is 5 days a week but only an hour or two; last year my A-levels were 5 days a week 8 hours a day. 50% is only like an E at A-level, isn't it?

And my source is the lady who is based at Carmel running the degrees for Liverpool Uni, her name is Carmen (not kidding). She may have been exaggerating about the length of the bus journey so it didn't sound so awful

hmm interesting i thought foundation years were a level or in between a level and degree work and when you say 1 or 2 hours are you sure they didnt mean for each module a day so total 5-6 hours a day or literally 1 or 2 hour classes to go to in a day ? lol thanks

An hour or two per subject, but she said you don't do all 3 subjects everyday. somedays it's only two. And a lot of the time the classes are scheduled to be two hours but the material is finished quicker than that.

i'm just finishing the foundation year currently doing my sumer exams you ideally need a 10 bus nearest one is by the royal hospital next to prospect point/near opal court it takes 50 minutes on the 10 adn 15 mins extra on 10a but wirth the 10a you have to walk up a massive hill once you get off it too.

Thank you for that, not exactly great news but it's good to hear it from someone who's there!

Can I ask you a few questions about Carmel? How is it there, do you enjoy it? What subjects did you choose? What are the classes like? how many do you have a day/week? How are you assessed? Is it strange being a Uni student going to the college?

Tell me everything basically, haha. Thank you in advance.

I'm in about 12 hours a week, you get around 6 assignments in each subject (averaging one every other week) so keep on top of them. they're not difficult and you're allowed to use your notes. some are in class tests and some of them are open book but revise before hand but some are just here's a mini exam...go!

hi thanks for the info,
can i ask what sort of term times there is? is it uni terms or college terms?
and also do you have a set timetable each week or does it change?

thanks ,

It is both uni and term so you get same holidays as uni + half terms and its a weekly timetable
I've just been given an unconditional now after carmel for Anatomy so managed to get BBCC at alevel, get a first overall at carmel now go onto a course wanting AAA so yeah stick with it guys!

It is both uni and term so you get same holidays as uni + half terms and its a weekly timetable
I've just been given an unconditional now after carmel for Anatomy so managed to get BBCC at alevel, get a first overall at carmel now go onto a course wanting AAA so yeah stick with it guys!