The 2019 Cambridge Applicants Mood Thread

To anyone who says it's too early to start this thread

stfu please ((:

Whilst you were too busy playing Pokemon and chatting **** at our age. Some of us have bigger dreams.

It's not too early to be thinking about university if you've finished your GCSEs honestly (:

Don't be letting anyone tell you you're too young to have high ambitions like Cambridge and Oxford. Just be glad we aren't part of the generation who have goals to be strippers and are okay with a standard job. The whole point of this thread is anyone who has ambitions to go to a top university, should come here. Yes, no one is guaranteed a place a uni like this. But it's the aspiration that counts. Things like this push people to want to work harder.

I'm hoping for a MINIMUM of 5A*s and 5A's. I live in Northern Ireland so we don't have numbered grades like you do in England.

Hi! What GCSE grades are people here hoping for? I don't mean this in a bragging way (it's genuinely what I think and hope I might get), but I'm hoping for 988A^A*A*A*A*A*AA or so. I hope that the grade 9 (of which I hope to achieve) will put me in a fairly good position for 2019 entry

I did a mixture of GCSEs and iGCSEs, so I'm still going to be graded A*-D for all my subjects. I would say 11 A*s but I almost certainly missed out on the A* in biology, so 10 A*s and 1 A it is, and I certainly wouldn't mind a few more As either. Cambridge doesn't actually care that much about GCSEs, though.

Exactly, there are many other factors - like entry test score(s), interview performance, PS, predicted grades, etc.

Sonechka. Those are pretty impressive grades. I'm guessing you're Asian too?!?!

Ohh, I assumed you were at a private school and did all iGCSEs. The Intermediate Maths Challenge is the y9-11 version of the Senior Maths Challenge; the latter is the round which precedes and determines whether one can sit BMO1 or BMO2. I'm hoping to get through to BMO1 or at the very least get a gold, but I narrowly missed qualifying for the Intermediate Maths Olympiad this year so I don't know how well I'll do. It's unfortunate that you can't take the exams in y13, but I guess you'll have STEP to worry about then anyway so you might be able to focus more on that. Good luck with all your preparation! Hopefully I'll see you at Trinity

Hi! What GCSE grades are people here hoping for? I don't mean this in a bragging way (it's genuinely what I think and hope I might get), but I'm hoping for 988A^A*A*A*A*A*AA or so. I hope that the grade 9 (of which I hope to achieve) will put me in a fairly good position for 2019 entry

It bugs me that there are only like 3 past papers for each admissions assessment, though

I did the intermediate maths challenge last year, some how i got a gold and managed to qualify for the next round, which was some kangaroo thingy, which i then qualified in.

BTW I am also looking to apply for 2019 entry for engineering (maybe natsci) at Emmanuel college, but I'm undecided as I also really like the look of Pembroke and Queens too!!!

Same! I guess we got similar marks then. I got 95, which was two marks off the qualifying mark for the Cayley Olympiad all because I got the last question (that nasty circle one) wrong. I should have left it blank; I'm still salty about that -.- do you think we have a chance at BMO1?

Good luck! ^_^ I prefer bigger colleges but Emma is a very nice college indeed. You have ages to decide, in any case!

STEP (http://www.admissionstestingservice.org/for-test-takers/step/preparing-for-step/) has past papers since 1998. Does this count as an admission test?