2017 Mathematics Applicants Thread

I really liked Queens' on the open day and I like that you get example lessons there as well as supervisions! Plus it's in a great location. I've looked round King's and that looked amazing but thought I'd have less chance of getting in as so many people apply there! How did you find the STEP exams? Thank you for your reassurance, I sent it off a month ago to Warwick so maybe it's at the bottom of the pile or something, haha!

hi guys i was just wondering i'm a gap year student and will start uni in 2018. I did the MAT and graduated from Sixth Form with 4 A*s and a grade 1 in STEP 1. However I don't think i did great in the MAT, probably 55-65 range. Will i still be considered a strong applicant for Oxford/Imperial considering my results and given circumstances? Thanks!

Have you heard anything about an interview yet at Cambridge? I hope they class it as an anamoly! It's annoying as I got 70/72 in the mock but just had a bad day in the actual exam! I'm doing M2 at the moment and that's really hard, can't imagine how hard M4 is! Did you do the Maths Challenge today and are you doing the exam for Durham tomorrow? Thanks for your reply. Good luck with your application too :-)

Yes I did the maths challenge today and tomorrow I am doing the Durham exam. I am more excited for the Durham exam than I was for the maths challenge based on the content that is in it.

How did you find the maths challenge? Did you think it was easier or harder than last year? What have you done for revision for the Durham Exam other than the specimen papers? Also what kind of marks did you get on the specimen papers if you've done them? I thought they were mostly easy questions apart from the very last ones.

What exam board are you with? In FP1 it was the one about imaginary numbers which I messed up and then my next answers were wrong too!! I got 62/72 in the exam so must have got another question wrong somewhere but I'm not sure which one! It is still an A so I don't mind too much, just need to do good in FP2 and FP3 this year!
Are you doing the exam for Durham tomorrow? Did you do the Maths Challenge today too?
What 4 subjects do you do? They're great predictions and it means you can beat them too! :-)

Found the maths challenge standard. I never prepare for it (so I can't really comment on difficulty compared to previous years) but I answered around 20 questions with solid solutions so I am happy with that. I am not a fan of geometry so the maths challenge has never really been my thing.

In terms of the TMUA, I have done the specimen papers and scored 20/20 on paper 1 and 18/20 on paper 2 (both in timed conditions). I have done some MAT questions but nothing more really. All the questions we pretty standard but I am expecting the questions in the real thing to be a fair bit harder.

How have you prepared?

I'm with AQA! I feel the same - I'm determined to do well in FP2 this year

Nope, I'm not applying to Durham.

I do maths, fm, physics and history! Thank you, I definitely won't beat my physics one haha (I'm doing OCR A - what're you on?), though I'm defo aiming for A* in maths and fm

Yep I did the Senior Maths Challenge! No idea how well it went as some were pretty straight forward & others made me super confused. I'm not expecting anything out of it, though

Thank you so much!! This helps loads :-) Good Luck with the exam tomorrow :-D

I'm opposite exam boards, OCR Maths and AQQ Physics!
There's a thread with the Maths Challenge solutions on. I'm hoping I got 103 and hoping to get onto the next round but not sure whether that's high enough. Hope you've done better than you think :-)

Hi all,
Name: David
AS Results: AA (Maths, Further - my school is generally linear)
A2 (Predicted): A*A*A*A (Maths, Further, Physics, English Lit.)
UMS: C1 100; C2 98; FP1 99; M1 95; S1 100; D1 100
Universities applied to: Cambridge, Imperial, UCL, King's London (offer: AAA)
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Just did the Senior Maths Challenge, and got ~120 according to TSR thread, looking forward to trying for BMO2
Estimating ~90 in the MAT last week for Imperial
Question: is my profile good enough for Trinity College? They are the best in the business, but I can handle BMO2 questions, STEP confidently. Just wondering how I compare

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Hi all,
Name: David
AS Results: AA (Maths, Further - my school is generally linear)
A2 (Predicted): A*A*A*A (Maths, Further, Physics, English Lit.)
UMS: C1 100; C2 98; FP1 99; M1 95; S1 100; D1 100
Universities applied to: Cambridge, Imperial, UCL, King's London (offer: AAA)
Fun fact: Avid singer

Just did the Senior Maths Challenge, and got ~120 according to TSR thread, looking forward to trying for BMO2
Estimating ~90 in the MAT last week for Imperial
Question: is my profile good enough for Trinity College? They are the best in the business, but I can handle BMO2 questions, STEP confidently. Just wondering how I compare

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Welcome to the thread David. You have clearly done incredibly well in the maths challenge (much better than me and I am applying to Peterhouse!). I would say you are in with a definite shot at Trinity and as long as you impress at interview then all should be good from there. Due to my lack of knowledge of Cambridge admissions, I can't really add much more other than all the best with your application !

Maths interview at Cambridge!

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Well Done!! At which college?

How long did it take everyone to hear back from Nottingham/Birmingham/Bristol? Also, has anyone had an interview at Manchester? I have one in a couple of weeks and want to know what to expect. Thank you 🙂

How long did it take everyone to hear back from Nottingham/Birmingham/Bristol? Also, has anyone had an interview at Manchester? I have one in a couple of weeks and want to know what to expect. Thank you 🙂

I got an offer from Nottingham 11 days after I sent my application off on 24th October. I haven't heard anything from Birmingham yet. I didn't apply to Bristol so I have no idea about that one