First day college. Shocked

Imperial do Computing not CompSci

you can only do Maths + CompSci at imperial

I know its not but im still at a very good university and also how many people do you know at imperial :P

Not trying to 'big up' BTECs, I am saying there are so many misconceptions by little brats who are still at school who think that A levels are the only route to success, wait until you go into the real world, people will just laugh at you if you try and justify your competencies through your A level grades BTECs are very good qualifications and are respected in industry + offer better employability than A levels at graduate and school leaver level,

I did a Computing BTEC and it was so much better than Computing A level its ridiculous in terms of course content, assessment and employment options, I'm a second year CompSci student at Royal Holloway, University of London

As and Bs. I wasn't sure I whated to seek a carrer in the police or be a secondary school teacher in history. I've more or less decided on being a history teacher. In theory I could do the BTEC for 2 years, then go to university and study history, do my PGSE. However I don't find the course enjoyable. I don't see it as academically challenging, which I like. I also prefer an exam setting as I find it rewarding and fun to look forward to. Like to 'show off' kind of in an exam. Lol

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Fair enough.
Most of my friends

I agree with you. I did look down on BTECs just because they didn't do exam, but they do have a heavy load of coursework to get top levels (distinction*). I agree that BTEC are more specialised into what you want to study at University. My sister achieved a 6.4 average at GCSE and went on to study Sports Science BTEC (Lv3) alongside an AS&A2 level Spanish and achieved D*D*D*B, she got offers from all the universities she applied to, including Bath, top for Sport Science.

BTECs are much more specialised, if you show interest and get top marks, I think they would look favourably on your application.

Good Luck

A levels and BTEC cover the same content to the same level, How have they ****ed up their life? I did BTEC at college (that being said mine was 5 days per week) and im a second year Computer Science student at a good university, you dont know what you're talking about, A levels mean nothing in the real world

your fucin insane if you think that a levels and btecs are comparable, just stand outside the local college

You're*

You clearly have no idea, I have experience of both Computing A level and Computing BTEC and the Computing BTEC is a better choice, course content is near enough the same, BTEC gives better practical skills as well as the theory and the employability statistics are much higher

Source?

You're not smart enough for a levels if BTEC was your first choice mate.You've ****ed up your life lmao its too late.

Graduates:

- BTEC + Degree = 80% employment
- A levels + Degree = 73% employment

Non-Graduates (in professional or managerial positions)

- BTEC = 49%
- A levels = 45%

Also over double the amount of BTEC students (56.1%) go on to study Computing, Engineering, or Business and finance (these are areas of high paying graduate salaries), A level leavers (26.8% study in these areas)

Have a read of these links:

http://www.teachingtimes.com/articles/graduates-vocational-course.htm

http://uk.pearson.com/home/news/2013/may/graduates-are-more-likely-to-be-employed--and-as-likely-to-succe.html

Well then you have a very smart friend group :P Imperial take in 168 students across all their Computing courses, and this includes all the international students there too, so in response to what you said originally 'Aint CompSci at Imperial doe' - it isnt a reality for most people to get into imperial for Computing (168 out of more than 7 billion people in the world, and that isnt really a valid point to judge someone's university on, I still go to a good university always in the higher quarter of the league tables and I shouldn't find it hard to get a decent job when I graduate with my degree and my experience (fingers crossed anyway)

My original post on this thread was to someone who said because the OP did BTEC they were not smart enough for A levels and had ****ed up their life, I was only disproving and challenging the ignorance of stupid people like that

How come every 'less intelligent person' did btecs but the smarter ones did a levels?

I do indeed. Yes - there are 7 billion people on this planet. No - 7 billion people do not want to do Computing at Imperial. The point I was making is that a very good university for Computing/CompSci is Imperial, rather than Royal Holloway. I'm not saying Royal Holloway is a bad university either.

It is also true indeed that intelligent people can do BTEC instead of A level and do well in life, ofcourse. But from my understanding is that, generally, A levels are more demanding and thus there is a higher proportion of 'intelligent' people doing A levels than BTECs.

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Fair enough, yes, its excellent, and yes it is better than Royal Holloway but you have proved my point I was making to the other poster, Royal Holloway isnt a bad university at all, infact it is a very good university, and they said the OP had ****ed up their life :P

Yes that is correct as I have previously said some of the people from my BTEC class are at Manchester, KCL, Southampton, Birmingham, Cardiff and Bath, I personally wouldn't class myself as unintelligent at all, the people who give BTEC the bad rep are the ones who pick it purely to avoid exams and dont try and dont even do that well anyway and end up working in unskilled jobs

Also A levels arent necessarily more demanding, with Computing the content is pitched at the same level, I also believe this to be the case with Engineering and Business.

It's not a bad university, I didn't say it was bad