Cambridge Offer Holders 2015 thread

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HAPAX LEGOMENON

Lol is anyone else bothered about getting 100 UMS in exams. I want it but dont know why im aiming for 100s.


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Not in the slightest. I'm aiming for that (as on overshoot in case something goes wrong) but as long as I meet my offer I'm not bothered!
Maybe something to do with wanting to be the best at what you do? It's probably a good thing

I don't mind private ownership. I dislike the idea of a single individual owning a majority of the countries media. There are laws against such market dominance in other area's and so it seems ludicrous that we allow one individual to have so much power sway our governments, our politics and as a direct consequence our day to day lives.

Most news outlets exhibit obviously biased, is it really democratic therefore that we allow such large news corporations to exist?

I'm DEFINITELY not gonna get as high UMS as I did last year. Everything's gotten harder, but the grade boundaries have stayed the same (since the standard's better at A2). If I meet my offer it won't be by a stunning victory haha.

Lol is anyone else bothered about getting 100 UMS in exams. I want it but dont know why im aiming for 100s.

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The BBC is criticised for being left wing and yet it's political editor is well know to support the conservative party. I feel that that the BBC is an example of a good media company, It is impossible to rid the media of biased as it is inherent in those who research and write for it but to minimise it is possible; I believe that the BBC does a good job of this.

Everybody whose opinion is worth anything at all knows you can't make a proper judgement only reading one side of the story but one side of the story is exactly what the majority of the right wing written press gives us with our morning papers.

I need like low 80s for A*FM and 90 in c3/4 for A* M.


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Have you already done some A2 FM then?

Yh did M2 last and got 100 last year so it really helped.


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just checking!

http://www.cuca.org.uk/ have fun !

Thats sick, I'd love to have that buffer but its annoying - I only did AS units last year so nothing I've done counts for **** really when it comes to getting the A*s I need. But I've got M2 on Wednesday and hopefully I should be able to get 100 in it as its my best module, then I'll be in the same position as you but also having to get an A* in Chemistry or Physics but Ill worry about that later at least I dont have step

Started on Past Papers.

F324/5 are good, quite happy because I didn't have to like read through notes repeatedly or anything, it just makes sense. Apart from some one markers, or suggest questions about magic tang lmao

G484 simplified M3

FP2/S2/S3 we did mocks and they were good

Haven't touched G485 papers though, we haven't finished still...

French, lol

This year is virtually nothing compared to last year where I had biology to think about

Do you think a democracy implies individuals making decisions based on self interest or individuals making decisions based on what they think will be better for society as a whole.. or a mixture?

I would argue my case for conservatives (and more passionately the case against labour) but honestly what is the best possible outcome of that..

Also, do you agree that the left/right spectrum is dated? If I had any power I would look to see the best policies on an individual basis, remaining politically and ideologically neutral. I could find things I like in anything from communism to fascism to be honest.


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I voted lib dem because I believe that we needed a voice of reason of fairness and the ideological centre ground to mediate the reactionary policies of both our main parties.

I think the problem with politics is that of majority government. The divide between rich and poor, urban and rural lifestyles is too large for a single party to represent us fairly. London is predominantly labour the northern industrial cities are labour arguable these places generate a lot of the tax revenue but will have no representation in how it is spent.

If your arguments against labour are over the economy then I must disagree economic stimulus would have help the economy recover far more quickly. The conservative government promised to eradicate the deficit based of the growth under gordon browns government and they only managed to halve it. They borrowed half a trillion sterling and used the media to skew public opinion to blame labour for a global crisis they presided over but did not cause.

The last government was not a conservative one they were held firmly in the centre by their lack of a majority. They opted for austerity rather than stimulus undoing browns two years of pumping money into the economy dare I say wasting it.

I agree the politics of individuals is not blue or red but because we rejected PR we have to treat it as such.

I agree to some extent with what you're saying, about the difficulty of representing all the people of the country with one party. Particularly in the case of FPTP this is important, since it was only elected by a small portion of the electorate.

Would the best solution not be, then, just to give people control of their own money? You pointed out that people have little control over how their tax money is spent. Why not tax them less, and allow them to keep the money instead of having the government spend it? Seems a solution to me.

http://www.theguardian.com/news/datablog/2014/mar/21/budget-2014-tax-spending-visualised#img-1

That's a perfectly valid viewpoint. However if you cut taxes you have to cut public services. What would you cut?

Everything. All of it. Make it all private. Problem solved!

Very much in keeping with the person above's ideas! No politics, no political discussion...