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Yeaaah - thats all the kinda route I wanna specialise in on an MSci/MPhys!
Alright so far - took me a while to get my head around the exan questions on mass spectrometers but once the problem is spotted the maths is reasonable :smile:

I'm looking forward to going onto fundamental particles and radioactive decay.
So are you in y13 at the moment?

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Cool! No idea what I want to specialise in yet :colondollar:

Yeah the exam questions are a bit weird for G485. The fundamental particles unit is a bit tedious if I'm honest, they just seem to skate over everything and not go into enough depth- I'd much rather they went through less in more depth for the whole of G485 if I'm honest as they used to do! I'm taking a gap year and that's one of the modules I'm resitting, I can do it but was really ill through exams (well the whole year really :redface:

) so messed it up a bit.

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samstown

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Original post by Harlee24

Just curious: are you guys more or less stressed out this year compared to last year?

Definitely more stressed out this year. Mostly because of the constant stream of essays and how crazily boring history coursework is.

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madeofstone1804

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Original post by ahhhmeow

They're not too bad :P What subjects do you do? Were you pleased with your AS results?

I do Maths, English Lang &Lit, Photography and Media. And yes, I was pretty pleased as I got AABB but I know I could have done better as I ran out of time on 2/4 exams.

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Georgiecat

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Original post by Hudl

Yeah I am, Im applying to Manchester, Lancaster & not made my decision about the other 3 however Oxbridge are the only ones with a traditional teaching style right?

Awesome

Doesn't medicine mean you're restricted to four choices though? And what do you mean by a 'traditional' teaching style?

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Fuenciado

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Anyone else still waiting for remarks? It seems like everyone else has got the results back except me :frown:

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emcat

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Original post by Fuenciado

Anyone else still waiting for remarks? It seems like everyone else has got the results back except me :frown:

I'm not personally but my friend got her OCR Government & Politics papers remarked and she hasn't got them back yet.

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pinkstare

Can anyone suggest how i could cope with yr 12 and yr 13 at the same time... i am resitting for some units in January while doing my A2 at the same time in June. This is peer pressure at its true form ughhhh!!!!!

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loperdoper

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Original post by Harlee24

Just curious: are you guys more or less stressed out this year compared to last year?

Less, because I dropped physics.

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emcat

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Original post by Harlee24

Just curious: are you guys more or less stressed out this year compared to last year?

Less stressed at the moment but I feel like work is about to pile on. Like I haven't had much work for English since we need to read the exam texts and I haven't had much work for history since we're still preparing for coursework but I feel like once we're past that, the workload will be heavier.

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Harlee24

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Aha i agree in a sense because i finished maths last year and it feels amazing to not have a formal maths exams for the first time in years :ahee:

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Harlee24

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Definitely ! I'm worried that i'm going to get super stressed around january time, not only with school work but ucas and everything

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Hudl

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Original post by Georgiecat

Awesome

Doesn't medicine mean you're restricted to four choices though? And what do you mean by a 'traditional' teaching style?

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Yeah medicine is restricted to 4 medicine applications but the 5th choice can be anything else which is why I said 5 lol

Traditional means that you have lectures teaching you the content you're meant to know just like it has been at school & college.

However most unis use PBL - Problem based learning
which is like group work. You are assigned a case or a topic and you have like one group session with your tutor to brain storm ideas then you go off doing your own research and work on the topic come back in a week with what you have researched etc...

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Hudl

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Original post by pinkstare

Can anyone suggest how i could cope with yr 12 and yr 13 at the same time... i am resitting for some units in January while doing my A2 at the same time in June. This is peer pressure at its true form ughhhh!!!!!

I though there were nomore Jan modules?

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vanessaodris

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Original post by Fuenciado

Anyone else still waiting for remarks? It seems like everyone else has got the results back except me :frown:

I fudging well am, and I need two of mine for early applications. :mad:

what are you waiting to get back?

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vanessaodris

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Original post by Harlee24

Just curious: are you guys more or less stressed out this year compared to last year?

Less for sure, although I don't wanna speak too soon. Now doing 3 subjects instead of 4, plus I've now finished my UCAS :biggrin:

although ask me again in a couple months when people start getting offers and I might say differently

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Georgiecat

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Original post by Hudl

Yeah medicine is restricted to 4 medicine applications but the 5th choice can be anything else which is why I said 5 lol

Traditional means that you have lectures teaching you the content you're meant to know just like it has been at school & college.

However most unis use PBL - Problem based learning
which is like group work. You are assigned a case or a topic and you have like one group session with your tutor to brain storm ideas then you go off doing your own research and work on the topic come back in a week with what you have researched etc...

Ahhh forgot about that! :P What about UCL?

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TheNoobishKnight

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Original post by pinkstare

Can anyone suggest how i could cope with yr 12 and yr 13 at the same time... i am resitting for some units in January while doing my A2 at the same time in June. This is peer pressure at its true form ughhhh!!!!!

Do you mean that you will do some units in Jan? I don't think you can do that, unless you aren't in England, I think NI did that still.

Don't be eaten by the pressure, just absorb it in a healthy way. Pressure is very good if controlled as it can motivate you to work hard :biggrin:

.

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Hudl

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Original post by Georgiecat

Ahhh forgot about that! :P What about UCL?

Yeah I was considering applying there for my 5th but I hope there not biased because I will be applying to them with a medical personal statement.

How are you finding year 13 anyway?

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Georgiecat

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Original post by Hudl

Yeah I was considering applying there for my 5th but I hope there not biased because I will be applying to them with a medical personal statement.

How are you finding year 13 anyway?

Ahh cool

For what course?

Not bad, but I'm definitely feeling the jump from AS to A2! Yourself?

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XxKingSniprxX

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HELP

I finished my UCAS Personal statement draft using TSR personal statement builder and I'm 48 lines after cutting and editing alot out but I can't manage to find space to fit my Personal statement into 47 lines limit. Any help?

I'm under the word limit, everything is ticked green except for the 47 lines limit which I'm on 48 :frown:

This is my first draft ever made but I still have less than 3 weeks to make any amendments to it. :s-smilie:

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