PGCE 2014 Applications (NOT FOR SPECIFIC INTERVIEW TASK DISCUSSIONS)

Hi Swarmfliam,

Just to let you know you need to ring UCAS. I rung St Marys today and it shouldn't say full course, it means you've selected the wrong code. I put full time non-modular but it has to be modular. If it says course full it means the university haven't even received your application. I know! I'm so glad I rung today and changed it. My track now says nothing. Congrats on interview at Reading! I went there for my undergrad. :-)

I got an email! Apparently there's an individual interview, a writing task, a five minute presentation (yuck!)

Congrats, I didn't realise they would be interviewing so soon! Is that for primary? Does it give you any info on the layout for the day?


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Isn't the skills test supposed to be free the first time? As soon as I click through it's saying it's £20 for each test?

Also any advice on websites or online resources that are good for practice of the skills test?

Yeh, your old school will be able to tell you, if you tell them the year you sat them. I had the same problem, I sat mine in 1996!


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hey I have a quick question, I know it is a little late but I was in the process of writing my school experience on the UCAS application and wanted to know how you guys wrote your school experience down? As there is not much room to write a lot.
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It should simply be where it was, your positions and the dates you spent there.

Any detail of what you did should go in personal statement.

something like this?

school x, date x, observing lessons from years 7-13

Yeah I also put how many days I'd done overall.

I am waiting on my second reference to complete. This process is really unfair. It puts pressure on the applicant and on the referee. Surely UCAS could open the process 2 weeks before the application date, giving everyone the chance to have a fully completed application when the 21st came around. I know it's only been a week but with a number people getting interviews its really worrying me my application will be too late. My referee has a life and job, and some time around that they've got to do me a favour and write a reference, meanwhile I'm bricking it because its taken them a week. Seriously a week is no time at all, especially when they have million othrr things to do. Argh!

I'm really not sure! I've done most of my planning and have most things booked so really hoping it will all be ok... Will be devastated if I have to cancel...!

I didn't either, I really thought I wouldn't hear anything until January to be honest. Exciting but a little scary!

It's for Secondary RE

Seems like it will be a long day - 8.20am beginning with several group tasks, subject knowledge audit, presentation and in the afternoon an individual interview if you get through to that stage. Seems like a lot!

Well done for getting the interview! I really want to know how the subject knowledge audit is because obviously that's the bit I'll be concerned about. I just want to know what type of things they will ask - you'd think it would all be related to the curriculum.

Thank you!
I'm quite worried about the subject audit as well - it says it is "likely to cover topics at the higher end of GCSE expectations and/or slightly further."
Now, for RE this is a pretty wide spectrum as you know! I won't be able to learn everything about every religion to this level by the 10th but I'm just going to read some introductory books and go over old GCSE papers I think.