PGCE Applications 2016

After finally sending off my application on Monday i have heard back from and recieved interviews for all three of my choices, but two of them clash :-/ Due to my third choice sending my an invitation first i accepted it, but today i recieved the invitation from what i think is my first choice, who in their email say it is highly unlikely that interviews can be rescheduled, it is these two that clash on the same day. Of course i would prefer to attend all three, raising my chances of securing a place, i dont know what to do!

Congrats! Best of luck for them both!

2nd interview went well today..

Got offered another place!!! 2 out 2 yey!! :-)

That's really great!
How was the interview today? Another maths test for a chemistry applicant?

2nd interview went well today..

Got offered another place!!! 2 out 2 yey!! :-)

Your login info is the personal id number in the mail and also your normal ucas username and password.

Make sure to copy all of the personal id, I made a muck up thinking I had something wrong. Turned out I missed the 0 at the end of the string of numbers.

Hopefully I will hear something back next week, I wish I could chase them down like I did with my references but that will seem a little pushy.

I'm actually amazed that there are two of us here - I thought we were a rare breed!

I'm applying for KCL and Sussex too, but I chose Cambridge as well instead of a school direct scheme, I just think the uni-based one would suit me better.

In the past they've been AS level passages so who knows! I only started Latin at uni so despite having done it for 3 years I'm pretty nervous about that side of it.

I've already been drilling the OCR AS vocab list everyday for a while now and I'm working on going through the specification to double check all the grammar (some of it is called by a different name etc so at first I was pretty worried that I didn't know anything). It's the vocab I think I'll have the biggest issue with but last year KCL let people use dictionaries.

I guess at the end of the day we have both studied Latin at a higher level than A level so a bit of revision is hopefully all it needs (here's hoping that neither of us get a horrid passage on the day!)

The skills tests are worrying me too, mainly just because they're in under a week for me now! Have you done any of the practice papers to get an idea as to where you are at the moment?

Sorry for the late reply, had an interview today (at Sussex. I think it went well?)

I've done one practice numeracy and got 60%, just under a pass.
It's the timed questions that get me, once I work it out I don't have time to put in the answer!

Same thing happened to me. Phone them and they'll sort out for you real quick.

According to them, that if you've used UCAS before to apply for a teacher training course, the system remembers your email and will automatically switch your ID to the old one.

Congrats again, you must be the most jammiest bugger

So one more left, did you get the one you wanted?

Haha thanks mate... Just been doing a lot of prep for them..

Yeah got the one I wanted.. How's yours coming along?

What sort of prep did you do?

I read the TES magazines (have you done that?)

I went through the A-Level Curriculum and familiarised myself with what I was weak on

I went through interview questions and practiced answering them

I look through the websites and found detailed stats on their performance and success rates (which they favoured)

Well done!!!

Is that the success rates of the PGCE courses?

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