Current Year 13 thread Mark I (2014-2015)

Hahaha, you say that but from what I've heard that one week of "summing over" generally becomes a good month or more of revision. I was at MIT for 6 weeks last summer and that was more than enough for me - way too much pressure!!

Awesome, have serious think about it.

Don't be, it's not their life it's yours - there's always postgrad.

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Just transfer to another NatSci Uni.

Oxbridge degrees aren't about the course or the atmosphere. They're about the prestige, reputation, and connections. Durham just doesn't offer that to the same extent.

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Just transfer to another NatSci Uni.

Oxbridge degrees aren't about the course or the atmosphere. They're about the prestige, reputation, and connections. Durham just doesn't offer that to the same extent.

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In that case, either way you'd still be going to very strong universities if you decide Cambs isn't for you. Going to 'Oxbridge' isn't the be all and end all, you'd certainly be as challenged at either of those two.

I'd say, really look into what you want to do and which environment you'd suceed better in - what is your opinion on the 8 week terms? Have you spoken to people at Cambs right now to get an idea of the learning environment? Make a pros/cons list and come to a conclusion.

And, for the goodness of everything in this world, don't be swayed by people touting the prestige factor.

Hey hope everyone is doing okay just wondering: how much revision do you guys do at the weekends/on week nights? Do you ever have a day off in the week or do you do bits every day with frequent breaks?

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I'm a bit wary when people say they're revising now, but maybe my learning style is very different... If I don't have homework on a week night I will probably do an hours worth or two of past papers or revision. I'll mostly be spamming past papers... I usually take Friday night off, as well as the weekends though. During exam leave and Easter I'll work 7 days a week though

10-15 minute breaks are good, I usually have one after an hour of working.

Also, I just heard about contradiction marks in A level mark schemes, what the actual hell?!

Sweet. mystudyplan is a good app to schedule what/when to revise - you put your exam dates in and then it allows you to put as percentages how you want your revision time split up, you then put in how much revision you want to do per day and it sorts it out for you

What are contradiction marks?

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I've figured out my timetable, it's pretty hard coming up with a schedule when you have 6 exams but I'm mainly going to be focusing on maths because it is like twice as hard as my other subjects... At least 60% of my revision time will be spent on maths

Say you have a 6 marker and you score 6 on that - on the next question, if you write something that contradicts what you wrote in that 6 marker, you get all 6 marks from that question taken away from you.. It was something like that

Oh my god. That's so harsh taking all of the marks off. If they took 1-2 it wouldn't be too bad and kind of understandable but 6?!

I'm a silly idiot and decided to carry on all four subjects to A2 level so have 10 exams to look forward to this summer really regret further maths A2 though. Got one mark off failing in a past paper we did in class the other day.

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I have a total of 144 past papers to do for my HL subjects

You are soo lucky!!

Advanced Highers get like no support whatsoever - apart from Maths.

I've been trying to find AH French past papers and have had no luck so far.

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I'm lucky since I'm the last year before a new syllabus is brought in

Means I have to do less textbook learning


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I'm the same. The Scottish government are doing an overhaul of the current education system and pushing the new curriculum for excellence stuff. I was the last year to do Standard Grades, my friends in the year below had no past papers for their National 5 exams at all.

lol, textbooks. I only have Maths textbooks. The rest of my subjects give me flimsy handouts without enough info - doesn't help when you don't get taught by the teacher either.


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I don't know if I misheard my friend but honestly, that sounds ridiculous...

Could be worse though, I've got 15 exams and 6 of them are on my first two days then my last exam is 6 days after my second last

Nothing quite like the way the exam timetable works haha. Good luck

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History teacher has made comment that has thrown my life out of balance again.

Wtf am I doing.

Just wanna curl up.

He's too clever. ****ing Cambridge grad.

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What did he say?!?

Can't be that distressing.

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My one regret is doing what I thought I should do rather than what I wanted to. Looking back, I should have done history

- from Cam Law Grad, to prospective me, who loves History but will probably pick Law because it's more sensible.

Hearing this from him, to me, was just earth shattering.

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