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Original post by TheGameOfScience
Thats great!!!!:biggrin: what exam boards are you doing for each of them?


Psychology AQA, and biology, maths and chemistry are edexcel :smile:
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Original post by AntisthenesDogger
It depends on where you live in Istanbul. It was fine to me, I was living in Smyrna before that.


If you live in Istanbul, you need to relatively close to where you work, otherwise life is hell, spent on sweaty minibuses.

Original post by bluebubblegum
Or a glimpse of the British passport.


I have both. Don't tell anyone! :mmm::naughty: :shh:
Original post by bluebubblegum
Psychology AQA, and biology, maths and chemistry are edexcel :smile:


arghhh damnit :frown: i am in a2 and my exam boards are psych chem- AQA and biology- OCR, if you are doing aqa A spec in psych i can give you some full ums notes for unit 1, that i got from a thread and a great person called nm786 sent me:biggrin:
Original post by TheGameOfScience
Really Thats soo awesome!!!:biggrin: great minds think alike i always say :wink:what exam boards did you do for them xD i don't have any Turkish people in my class doing biology, chemistry and psychology:frown: i applied for biological sciences and biology at university, i was thinking of picking chemistry at degree level before because i generally get higher grades in chemistry and i find it as equally interesting as biology but i don't have a level maths and at degree level it gets more mathematically rigorous so i decided to pick biology. so what are you currently studying and what university did you go to?:biggrin:


Um.. I think it was Edexcel for Bio, AQA for Psychology and OCR for Chem though not too sure :tongue:
I did Biomed at QMUL, doing Immunology at Kings now.

The maths for Chemistry isn't like A level maths, it's just more new equations from chemistry like Beer Laws etc. Usually if someone asks, Chem or Bio, I tell them, if you're good at Chem, do that because the job prospects are better, but the good thing about Bio is you can specialise in all sorts of things so you can easily find yourself doing something like Pharmacology again.

Original post by Akkuz
Istanbul is great to visit. But not to live. Even people who live there, say the same thing to me.


Why is this? Lack of jobs? Surely it can't be because it's more expensive than London :tongue:
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Original post by hollywoodbudgie
Why is this? Lack of jobs? Surely it can't be because it's more expensive than London :tongue:


Less jobs. Lower wages. Overcrowded. Takes forever to get anywhere. Cheaper than London, but only ever so slightly. Turkey as a whole is less organised and doesn't have anywhere the level of institutional capacity, that Europe/North America has.

People look at Istanbul and think "Oh wow, I'd love to live there! It looks amazing" bla bla. But the reality of living there day-to-day is very different. Try it, and see. :rolleyes:

Oh and Turkish companies..tam bir rezalet. US/UK firms are galaxies ahead in every respect.
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Original post by Akkuz
If you live in Istanbul, you need to relatively close to where you work, otherwise life is hell, spent on sweaty minibuses.



I have both. Don't tell anyone! :mmm::naughty: :shh:


You don't want a load of ladies lusting after you? That's a first :lol:
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Original post by bluebubblegum
You don't want a load of ladies lusting after you? That's a first :lol:


I didn't say that! I just don't want them lusting over me for money or passports. :rolleyes:

Gotta be careful of those girls. :^_^:
Original post by hollywoodbudgie
Um.. I think it was Edexcel for Bio, AQA for Psychology and OCR for Chem though not too sure :tongue:
I did Biomed at QMUL, doing Immunology at Kings now.

The maths for Chemistry isn't like A level maths, it's just more new equations from chemistry like Beer Laws etc. Usually if someone asks, Chem or Bio, I tell them, if you're good at Chem, do that because the job prospects are better, but the good thing about Bio is you can specialise in all sorts of things so you can easily find yourself doing something like Pharmacology again.

wow, you are very intelligent!!:biggrin: what made you change from biomed to immunology and i applied for kings and qmul which university do you recommend i go to, atm i really want to go kings because in terms of high universities i have a better chance of going there as they are more inclusive they look to see if anyone in your family has been to uni before and which school you went to, is it a failing school etc. (thats what my bio teach said), i am doing psych aqa a as well is it ok if i ask you for any advice for this?:biggrin: but i am doing diff boards for chem and bio, i still really like chem, but after looking at the physical and inorganic chem books, i am just shocked at the level of maths, my chem teachers said that chem has a s**t load of a level type maths and maths from physics as well:frown: but bio is what i am more capable of doing at uni, if i ever want to change to biochem or chem can i do that through clearing?
Original post by Akkuz
I didn't say that! I just don't want them lusting over me for money or passports. :rolleyes:

Gotta be careful of those girls. :^_^:


True :yep:
Original post by TheGameOfScience


wow, you are very intelligent!!:biggrin:


:laugh:
Original post by S-man10
:laugh:


i was being serious :s-smilie:
Original post by TheGameOfScience
i was being serious :s-smilie:


thats where you failed :laugh:
Original post by hollywoodbudgie
Um.. I think it was Edexcel for Bio, AQA for Psychology and OCR for Chem though not too sure :tongue:
I did Biomed at QMUL, doing Immunology at Kings now.

The maths for Chemistry isn't like A level maths, it's just more new equations from chemistry like Beer Laws etc. Usually if someone asks, Chem or Bio, I tell them, if you're good at Chem, do that because the job prospects are better, but the good thing about Bio is you can specialise in all sorts of things so you can easily find yourself doing something like Pharmacology again.



Why is this? Lack of jobs? Surely it can't be because it's more expensive than London :tongue:


There is a lack of infrastructure in Turkey quite generally relative to most of Europe, especially for any higher skilled work so yes. And it's about the same as London, Miklgadr is far better suited as a sight seeing getaway in truth.
Original post by TheGameOfScience

wow, you are very intelligent!!:biggrin: what made you change from biomed to immunology


I didn't change, I'm doing my Masters now :tongue:

and i applied for kings and qmul which university do you recommend i go to, atm i really want to go kings because in terms of high universities i have a better chance of going there as they are more inclusive they look to see if anyone in your family has been to uni before and which school you went to, is it a failing school etc. (thats what my bio teach said),


Well Kings is higher ranking so I'd say Kings as first choice. I prefer the student atmosphere at QMUL far more though.

i am doing psych aqa a as well is it ok if i ask you for any advice for this?:biggrin:


Don't remember much except for the teacher making a girl cry for wanting to borrow a chair for the teacher in the other class :confused:

but i am doing diff boards for chem and bio, i still really like chem, but after looking at the physical and inorganic chem books, i am just shocked at the level of maths, my chem teachers said that chem has a s**t load of a level type maths and maths from physics as well:frown: but bio is what i am more capable of doing at uni, if i ever want to change to biochem or chem can i do that through clearing?


It's really competitive to change course for a london uni these days. I'd stick with what you've got :smile:

Original post by S-man10
:laugh:


Of course you wouldn't understand :proud:
Original post by hollywoodbudgie


Of course you wouldn't understand :proud:


Of course I wouldn't understand from someone on the lower levels of the intelligence scale :laugh:
Original post by hollywoodbudgie
I didn't change, I'm doing my Masters now :tongue:

OHHH loool my bad :doh: i dont know much about iimmunology except at the basic a level so i am just going to ask, what is your favorite cell of the immune system :biggrin:


Well Kings is higher ranking so I'd say Kings as first choice. I prefer the student atmosphere at QMUL far more though.

Yep qmul is also an amazing uni, but i'll probably get rejected by queens mary :frown: but i'll defo put kings as first choice aha


Don't remember much except for the teacher making a girl cry for wanting to borrow a chair for the teacher in the other class :confused:

argh ok lool, i was going to ask how you revised for it, how you managed to remember so much information, i find it hard to remember so many studies :frown:



It's really competitive to change course for a london uni these days. I'd stick with what you've got :smile:

Ok :biggrin: but i can always change course if i get into uni right? provided that they have enough space, one of my teach said that a lot of people in her uni switched as soon as possible once they got it. xD but tbh i am finding bio really interestiing but who knows.. xD anything can happen :biggrin:


Of course you wouldn't understand :proud:


LOOOL:cool:
Original post by S-man10
Of course I wouldn't understand from someone on the lower levels of the intelligence scale :laugh:


in all honesty dude, she is probably smarter than both of us combined!!! and i dont know why you think she is not intelligent, i didnt mean that in a sarcastic sense i am genuinely serious.
Original post by TheGameOfScience
in all honesty dude, she is probably smarter than both of us combined!


don't think you are smart enough to say that :mmm:
Original post by bluebubblegum
Psychology AQA, and biology, maths and chemistry are edexcel :smile:


PSYCHOLOGY AQA A unit 1 full ums notes.docxdetailed revision notes for unit 1 psychology.rtf i hope this works lol if it doesn't tell me and i'll try again :smile: i gave you 2 attachments the full ums 1 and a detailed revision notes 1 so you can use them both to make solid notes :biggrin:
Original post by TheGameOfScience
PSYCHOLOGY AQA A unit 1 full ums notes.docxdetailed revision notes for unit 1 psychology.rtf i hope this works lol if it doesn't tell me and i'll try again :smile: i gave you 2 attachments the full ums 1 and a detailed revision notes 1 so you can use them both to make solid notes :biggrin:


thanks so much for this!! really appreciate it :biggrin:

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