Official Cambridge Applicants Thread 2016 Entry

I'm kinda crazy like you ;D 6 AS levels enough? ;p

Am I the only one taking 5 subjects that regrets it? Had clashes between Philosophy and FP1 and Ethics and Physics and I probably would've done better in the two ones that matter if I hadn't taken 5.

Wow, we have a winner! What are you taking?

Woah, your avatar suits you

Um.. I'm not a huge fan of FP, if I'm honest. Maybe the more theoretical maths isn't really for me? Maybe it's my teachers?? I've kind of found that the whole unit (I've only done FP1) is a bit convoluted and is just trying to catch you out with silly things, like determinants of 3x3 matrices
None of it is really hard, but I don't think it's that interesting either.. Who knows, though??

Yeah, planning on staying at school for quiiite a few years to do phd, postdoc stuff, then on into the world of academia for me!! What do you plan to do again?

Thanks for the link btw! Also, just 3 people got full UMS in the whole country last year for that module? That seems really harsh to set it at 100...

But it has nothing on OCR Bio . The boundaries there, we are very lucky to have.

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OCR biologists and chemists, here are the raw marks needed for full UMS throughout the years:

https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/212796/response/529948/attach/2/Full%20UMS%20Biology%20A%20Chemistry%20G%20A%20Bodero%20June%202014.xls

Ooooh thanks! I've been looking for this everywhere

Really? Lol, my teacher made it sound like advanced algebra matrices? D: Determinants of matrices? Ew D:

That sounds pretty good tbh xD Future lecturer at Cambridge, perhaps?



No problem I didn't look at the link properly.. Three people? Seriously?! Shouldn't it be lower if only three people got it?

Yes, OCR bio is a godsend

OCR biologists and chemists, here are the raw marks needed for full UMS throughout the years:

https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/212796/response/529948/attach/2/Full%20UMS%20Biology%20A%20Chemistry%20G%20A%20Bodero%20June%202014.xls

Ok that's true, it can help you a lot in that sense. Sounds like it was very good .

You should, if you have to ofc! Apart from the only thing that the cost of living here is so expensive, it is a great city + has some wonderful unis, especially with its research facilities at places like Imperial. Have you definitely ruled out Manchester then?

One little club indeed . Mind you, half its fans live in London .

Is this OCR chemistry? You can afford to lose about 5 marks for full UMS, if that makes you feel any better? though that being said, last year you needed full marks for it D:

FULL MARKS FOR FULL UMS IN F322????? Whaaat!??

Sort of does
Thanks for that link though

Yeah edexcel maths boundaries are ridiculously high most of the time its very annoying

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I think the degree itself is becoming less and less of an issue, if you can get it from a Russell group university, Oxbridge especially, employability shoots up in many disciplines. At the end of the day it's the skills you acquire rather than the subject material, in most cases.
That's pretty interesting though, can't say i've heard of them. Do you know their name? Can't seem to find it online (i'm probably just being stupid)

It is. I hope the boundaries are lower this year. One S1 paper had like 69/75 or something for full UMS, which was quite surprising

I'm just going to aim for 75 and see what happens. I hate the written answer questions so much they are always stupid eg one year there was a regression question where you had to explain what b was in the context. So I explain how it means that for every tourist that comes to England the income increases by £200 but then lose a mark because I didn't say that b was how much each visitor spent

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I'm just going to aim for 75 and see what happens. I hate the written answer questions so much they are always stupid eg one year there was a regression question where you had to explain what b was in the context. So I explain how it means that for every tourist that comes to England the income increases by £200 but then lose a mark because I didn't say that b was how much each visitor spent

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Ugh I wish I didn't do physics, but I wasn't sure exactly what I wanted to do at uni, so I decided to 'keep my options open'..

I actually have managed to mess up every single maths paper so far I honestly have no idea how... But I went home in tears after FP1 haha

I thought that it was a really easy paper, too, until I came out of the exam with 53 for whatever the last question was, and realised that I subbed in the wrong numbers!!! And I misread the matrix when doing the determinant!!! UGH so it's probably around 7 marks gone for me.. I managed to do the same sort of stupid things in C1/2 as well, such as accidentally putting the right angle of the triangle in the opposite place, and thinking the chord on a circle was the diameter without drawing a diagram or anything

I'm over it now, but after getting full marks all year... it's a bit unpleasant haha

I'll just have to hope I can somehow ignore my maths UMS on my application

EXACTLY



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Really? Lol, my teacher made it sound like advanced algebra matrices? D: Determinants of matrices? Ew D:

That sounds pretty good tbh xD Future lecturer at Cambridge, perhaps?



No problem I didn't look at the link properly.. Three people? Seriously?! Shouldn't it be lower if only three people got it?

Yes, OCR bio is a godsend