Official Cambridge Applicants Thread 2016 Entry

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Reply 5440

cleverasvoltaire

Original post by enaayrah

Have you looked at Solomon papers?

Nope, not at all, what's that?

Reply 5441

antisansculotte

Original post by enaayrah

How is everyone spending their Bank Holiday Monday?

A little bit of everything. English still eludes me... I don't feel like there is anything to revise.

Reply 5442

Serine Soul

Original post by cleverasvoltaire

Nope, not at all, what's that?

They're basically slightly harder maths papers that match the edexcel spec.

http://www.physicsandmathstutor.com/a-level-maths-papers/c2-solomon/

Reply 5443

Serine Soul

Original post by antisansculotte

A little bit of everything. English still eludes me... I don't feel like there is anything to revise.

I gave up on English a long time ago haha

Why not just go over themes etc? Although for The Kite Runner it does get a bit repetitive :erm:

Reply 5444

Protoxylic

Original post by enaayrah

They need to find something to treat procrastination :frown:

They really do aha, or at least make the exams a little more interesting :angry:

Reply 5445

antisansculotte

Original post by enaayrah

I gave up on English a long time ago hahaWhy not just go over themes etc? Although for The Kite Runner it does get a bit repetitive :erm:

I'll probably just wing it. I've already done more for English than I did last year.

Reply 5446

Serine Soul

Original post by Protoxylic

They really do aha, or at least make the exams a little more interesting :angry:

I always find myself more fascinated in the tiny details that exams only touch on :frown:

Reply 5447

Serine Soul

Original post by antisansculotte

I'll probably just wing it. I've already done more for English than I did last year.

Lol same here :lol:

Like probably 75% of all AS Lit students in my college, I'm dropping it next year anyway :lol:

Reply 5448

cleverasvoltaire

Original post by enaayrah

They're basically slightly harder maths papers that match the edexcel spec.

http://www.physicsandmathstutor.com/a-level-maths-papers/c2-solomon/

Well that sounds absolutely delightful, I'll make sure to check them out. I'm about to do an LNAT (not needed for Cambridge but it is for other apps) so I'll take a look after that :cool:

Reply 5449

antisansculotte

Original post by enaayrah

Lol same here :lol:

Like probably 75% of all AS Lit students in my college, I'm dropping it next year anyway :lol:

Me too! A closed book exam does not appeal to me at all.

Reply 5450

Serine Soul

Original post by antisansculotte

Me too! A closed book exam does not appeal to me at all.

That and the amount of essays and courseworks to do :rant:

Alas, AS English Literature wasn't what I anticipated it to be :frown:

Edit: I blame Dead Poets Society, I watched it before enrolment :colonhash:

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Reply 5451

samb1234

Original post by antisansculotte

Me too! A closed book exam does not appeal to me at all.

Our GCSE English lit exam was closed book :frown:

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Reply 5452

nurav11

Original post by enaayrah

I'm quite tempted to watch the latest episode of Game of Thrones, but I really shouldn't :frown:

Sky Atlantic tonight, will be awesome :biggrin:

. When I do something after 8pm I don't feel so guilty that I'm not revising aha.

Original post by enaayrah

Have you looked at Solomon papers?

They're really good, they seem to pick the hardest type of questions you could get. It's the best preparation for C1 and C2 where I'm getting a bit complacent. FP1 tho... Not so much :tongue:

Reply 5453

nurav11

Original post by antisansculotte

Me too! A closed book exam does not appeal to me at all.

That seems really tough ngl. Wouldn't want to have to remember quotes sitting in an exam...

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Reply 5454

Serine Soul

Original post by nurav11

Sky Atlantic tonight, will be awesome :biggrin:

. When I do something after 8pm I don't feel so guilty that I'm not revising aha.

They're really good, they seem to pick the hardest type of questions you could get. It's the best preparation for C1 and C2 where I'm getting a bit complacent. FP1 tho... Not so much :tongue:

Someone dies... My sister has already spoilt it for me :frown:

And yeah, it's really good, it's helping me with C1 :smile:

Reply 5455

samb1234

Original post by nurav11

That seems really tough ngl. Wouldn't want to have to remember quotes sitting in an exam...

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Especially when the two exams were 2 days apart. In the second exam I had to be a little creative with my choice of quotations and basically did 80% of the essay using the passage they gave for an earlier part of the question

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Reply 5456

username1533709

Attention all natsci applicants !Help !Why is it that animals with large surface area to volume ratios tend to have their oxygen dissociation curves to the right ?

Reply 5457

username1533709

Original post by enaayrah

Someone dies... My sister has already spoilt it for me :frown:

And yeah, it's really good, it's helping me with C1 :smile:

Solomon papers have done a good job of keeping me on a leash .I think I will make less mistakes in the C1 exam.

Reply 5458

Serine Soul

Original post by Kadak

Attention all natsci applicants !Help !Why is it that animals with large surface area to volume ratios tend to have their oxygen dissociation curves to the right ?

Larger SA: vol ratio = more rapid heat loss from animal
To compensate for the heat loss, the animal has a high metabolic rate (to maintain its temp) which demands the rapid and efficient delivery of oxygen. Their dissociation curves are shifted to the right because their haemoglobins have a lower affinity for oxygen (because they need it more for their higher metabolic rate ). Hope this helps :smile:

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Reply 5459

Serine Soul

Original post by Kadak

Solomon papers have done a good job of keeping me on a leash .I think I will make less mistakes in the C1 exam.