Hey guys, I wanted to wish you guys good luck for the tests tomorrow! I've put up a video regarding admissions test and tips for them with some general advice, and some extra for the MAT, so I'd check it out here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q5biKSdpXIY&t=188s
Best of Luck! Hope to see you at interviews! -Mani
Well. How did people find it? Personally I thought it was dreadful!
The hardest I've ever done. Honestly the physics challenges felt easy compared to this. Missed out the last question entirely.
And then because of the stress I made sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo SOOOOOOOOOOOOOO many errors ... the the orbiting question I could have got but I made silly error after silly error. I might get like 3 method marks if I am lucky for some of the individual stages.
The hardest I've ever done. Honestly the physics challenges felt easy compared to this. Missed out the last question entirely.
And then because of the stress I made sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo SOOOOOOOOOOOOOO many errors ... the the orbiting question I could have got but I made silly error after silly error. I might get like 3 method marks if I am lucky for some of the individual stages.
OH MY WORD! Yes the binary star system one was awfuuuuul! And the last question... I did not have a clue! I think this was the worst paper yet.
Lol I had no clue about the last question, and that weird trig angular frequency wavelength question, even the circles one couldnt find the segment length. Problem is each question was like 8-9 marks.
Though those are questions i cant answer, the integral just annoyed me cause it was marks i could have gained but didnt :/
Lol I had no clue about the last question, and that weird trig angular frequency wavelength question, even the circles one couldnt find the segment length. Problem is each question was like 8-9 marks.
Though those are questions i cant answer, the integral just annoyed me cause it was marks i could have gained but didnt :/
Im just praying for a low cut off mark.
Same!! So sad though. I surely won't be even invited for an interview, and that was my big dream... do you guys think it is worth to wait and try the next year?
Same!! So sad though. I surely won't be even invited for an interview, and that was my big dream... do you guys think it is worth to wait and try the next year?
you don't know that yet, also it depends on the grades you get and how much you like your other universities. I still have other unis I'd be happy to go to so it's not AS big a deal for me
Same!! So sad though. I surely won't be even invited for an interview, and that was my big dream... do you guys think it is worth to wait and try the next year?
I hate to say it but the papers, at least before this year, haven't been getting much easier but the pass marks pretty much went up and up for a reason.
I suspect there are just more better people applying making that top 500 harder to get into. The pass mark this year will probably be about 55.
On a personal note, I do give up: I remembered all the stuff I got wrong and the list grows and grows. It's not even funny how much I got wrong. Past papers I was getting in the 70s and even 80s at times. People know me to be good at physics and when I was talking to some people (I know outside of TSR don't worry) about the PAT I was explaining [some!] answers to them that I knew deep down I didn't really do myself. I'm not standing here saying "oh I got 60 boo hoo" because I didn't even get 50. I'm saying all this not because I cheated after or because I had some long think, but because some of it really is straightforward. I don't do written tests well, and I have always done better at speaking and presenting points than writing but that's the game so ...
I do want think about next year. If I go for Cambridge next year, which if I am honest might have been the original place I wanted to go to if it not the fact they didn't do straight physics, because most people get an interview I might be able to get across I like physics and can hopefully do it to some degree even if the NSAA wouldn't go spectacularly to plan.
There is always the "forget oxbridge route" ... but I'm worried I can't do the dream job behind all this ...