NSAA thread

And when do they start sending out invites for interviews?

Ive just realised I numbered the questions wrong at the front of the paper, I wrote 1&3 instead of p1 and c1. Is this a major issue do you think?

I finished just in time but the more I think about it, the more I regret doing both questions on the same subject in section 2. I don't know if the admission tutor may find it weird I went on and on about bio in PS and didn't even attempt 1 bio question ...

Had more than enough time but made a few annoying mistakes. I would say which sections I found hard but I don't think that's allowed.

Did anyone else find the overall difficulty of the paper to be easier than last year? It seems that the questions were more straightforward. Was this done intentionally? Is it because last year's test was a little bit too difficult?

Did anyone else find the overall difficulty of the paper to be easier than last year? It seems that the questions were more straightforward. Was this done intentionally? Is it because last year's test was a little bit too difficult?

Oh okay yeah there was about 5 in maths I had no idea on, a few in chemistry and p much none in physics although I probably made a couple mistakes. The chemistry extended questions were fine but I made a couple numerical errors which is annoying. So yeah based on last year's boundaries, probably 4-5 in maths, 6-8 in chem and 7-9 to physics probably and probably about 50-65% in section 2.

Yeah I agree actually. Well the section 2 was a bit of a mixed bag for difficulty as I thought some of the questions were harder.

I liked section 2 more but I can't say that it was easy.

Would you mind explaining to me how section 1 is marked? I thought it would just be a score out of 54

Did anyone else find the overall difficulty of the paper to be easier than last year? It seems that the questions were more straightforward. Was this done intentionally? Is it because last year's test was a little bit too difficult?

Last years paper was so so much more straightforward than this one. I found both sections 1 and 2 in the 2016 paper really easy to do, but this one was so bad.

The first section went okay but I ran out of time as per usual. Section 2 however was just awful. There were more calculations than last year and they gated loads of marks behind other calculation questions. I was genuinely unable to answer 3/4 of the questions on part 2. Looks like I'm probs not getting an interview now lol.