Official Cambridge Applicants Thread 2016 Entry

Original post by enaayrah

I won't be applying :smile:

Ah yes you've got your Nuffield placement haven't you. When did you find out about it then?

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Serine Soul

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Original post by samb1234

Ah yes you've got your Nuffield placement haven't you. When did you find out about it then?

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My Oxbridge tutor sent me an e-mail today
And yeah, I'll be on Nuffield hopefully :smile:

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nurav11

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Original post by antisansculotte

Hope economics went well today!

Tough, definitely much tougher than previous papers but I think I answered it well enough except slightly ran out of time at the end. Multiple choice was dead easy and whilst the data response was tough, it was manageable and I reckon it should be absolutely fine. Due to this difficulty, I'm sure grade boundaries will be very low (they are really low anyway) and so I'm more than confident it was alright :smile:

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Even if I am not successful with Cambridge I am glad that I decided to aim for Cambridge because it is definitely making me work more than I would had I not decided to go for it.

If I even chose Oxford, I wouldn't revise as hard because getting 4As wouldn't be hard as I paid attention in lessons and made sure to understand as I go. I wouldn't in fact do as many past papers or make notes. But because there's this thing called UMS I have been able to bring myself to work more than I would have.

Thank you Cambridge :ahee:

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Wawasan

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Original post by C0balt

Even if I am not successful with Cambridge I am glad that I decided to aim for Cambridge because it is definitely making me work more than I would had I not decided to go for it.

If I even chose Oxford, I wouldn't revise as hard because getting 4As wouldn't be hard as I paid attention in lessons and made sure to understand as I go. I wouldn't in fact do as many past papers or make notes. But because there's this thing called UMS I have been able to bring myself to work more than I would have.

Thank you Cambridge :ahee:

This is actually exactly what I've been thinking. The good thing is that I'm not afraid to fail and even if I do fall short, there are so many other options available which will perhaps be a bit less difficult to achieve since Cambridge UMS standards are quite high anyway! But the calibre of students on TSR is above the norm anyway so like I said, I don't think we have anything to worry about other than to focus on these exams!

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Anti-Dirac

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Original post by C0balt

Even if I am not successful with Cambridge I am glad that I decided to aim for Cambridge because it is definitely making me work more than I would had I not decided to go for it.

If I even chose Oxford, I wouldn't revise as hard because getting 4As wouldn't be hard as I paid attention in lessons and made sure to understand as I go. I wouldn't in fact do as many past papers or make notes. But because there's this thing called UMS I have been able to bring myself to work more than I would have.

Thank you Cambridge :ahee:

Yeah, agree completely. UMS has really given me motivation to do as well as I can in these exams!

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Serine Soul

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Original post by C0balt

Even if I am not successful with Cambridge I am glad that I decided to aim for Cambridge because it is definitely making me work more than I would had I not decided to go for it.

If I even chose Oxford, I wouldn't revise as hard because getting 4As wouldn't be hard as I paid attention in lessons and made sure to understand as I go. I wouldn't in fact do as many past papers or make notes. But because there's this thing called UMS I have been able to bring myself to work more than I would have.

Thank you Cambridge :ahee:

Same here! :five:

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Original post by Wawasan

This is actually exactly what I've been thinking. The good thing is that I'm not afraid to fail and even if I do fall short, there are so many other options available which will perhaps be a bit less difficult to achieve since Cambridge UMS standards are quite high anyway! But the calibre of students on TSR is above the norm anyway so like I said, I don't think we have anything to worry about other than to focus on these exams!

Even if it doesn't go as well as hoped we'd still have relatively high UMS which will make next year easier too, so win-win here haha :top:

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Wawasan

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Original post by C0balt

Even if it doesn't go as well as hoped we'd still have relatively high UMS which will make next year easier too, so win-win here haha :top:

Yeah snap! Just what I thought there - it means that if we choose to migrate to the other place come August time/results day, we may well be able to take our foot off the A Level pedal a bit and focus on admissions tests until November! :smile:

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TheKhaleesi

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Original post by C0balt

Even if I am not successful with Cambridge I am glad that I decided to aim for Cambridge because it is definitely making me work more than I would had I not decided to go for it.

If I even chose Oxford, I wouldn't revise as hard because getting 4As wouldn't be hard as I paid attention in lessons and made sure to understand as I go. I wouldn't in fact do as many past papers or make notes. But because there's this thing called UMS I have been able to bring myself to work more than I would have.

Thank you Cambridge :ahee:

yeah exactly what i was thinking! when i do past papers i always look at the UMS and check if its high enough. Even if i don't get the grades for Cambridge, I will have secured a strong A which opens doors to so many other unis. Oh how much i want to go to Cambridge though! :lol:

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Original post by C0balt

Even if it doesn't go as well as hoped we'd still have relatively high UMS which will make next year easier too, so win-win here haha :top:

Its worryingly easy to get an A in something if you got a 95% average at as. If you got 95% at as in a subject you would need 65% at a2 to get an A. Although obviously if you want an A* you still need 90% across a2 units

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JustWondered

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Is anyone on here doing OCR physics A?

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Original post by TheKhaleesi

yeah exactly what i was thinking! when i do past papers i always look at the UMS and check if its high enough. Even if i don't get the grades for Cambridge, I will have secured a strong A which opens doors to so many other unis. Oh how much i want to go to Cambridge though! :lol:

Yeah same haha UMS converter is now a most visited page along with past paper page and TSR :lol:

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Original post by samb1234

Its worryingly easy to get an A in something if you got a 95% average at as. If you got 95% at as in a subject you would need 65% at a2 to get an A. Although obviously if you want an A* you still need 90% across a2 units

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Lol seriously?
It would be hard to stay motivated next year then, if you don't get an offer with A* in it although I assume everyone here is applying to A* requirement uni elsewhere too

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Original post by C0balt

Yeah same haha UMS converter is now a most visited page along with past paper page and TSR :lol:

Those are literally my only bookmarks now

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nurav11

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Original post by C0balt

Even if I am not successful with Cambridge I am glad that I decided to aim for Cambridge because it is definitely making me work more than I would had I not decided to go for it.

If I even chose Oxford, I wouldn't revise as hard because getting 4As wouldn't be hard as I paid attention in lessons and made sure to understand as I go. I wouldn't in fact do as many past papers or make notes. But because there's this thing called UMS I have been able to bring myself to work more than I would have.

Thank you Cambridge :ahee:

Exactly what I thought, summed it up really :biggrin:

. I wouldn't have minded too much previously except getting 4As but now I'm doing so much more revision, especially for C1 lol. UMS is driving me mad though ahah

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Original post by C0balt

Lol seriously?
It would be hard to stay motivated next year then, if you don't get an offer with A* in it although I assume everyone here is applying to A* requirement uni elsewhere too

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Yep. An a is 80% ums over all the modules and then if you have 80% average and 90% across a2 you get an a*. Slightly annoying that your as grades don't really make it easier to get an a* but oh well

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