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6th Years and Leavers :: Chat Thread #2 :: Revenge of the Ape

Reply 4420

ukdragon37

14

ArcadiaHouse

Hence why I'm keeping mines close to my chest :ninja:

There's only one girl in my year applying for mod langs, which is a good thing really as there's no one to compare your app to :o:

My 'friend' who stabbed me in the back is being predicted a B for AH English, and I'm the only one in the class being predicted an A. In the words of Kirsten: HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!! :colone:

Just to spite her you might want to sit next to her one day, turn around and speak in a pretend hush while holding your hand (ineffectively) next to your mouth and say very obviously "I got predited an A for English!"

:wink:

Reply 4421

namedeprived

Ape Gone Insane

I love this kind of information. Secret, lost :awesome:

It's hardly secret, even I know about them. :p:

Reply 4422

ArcadiaHouse

17

TheUnbeliever

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How much does Edinburgh take into account those 'extra factors'? :o:

I called them and they said I had lots of "points", and they said that was a good help, but I'm being completely paranoid about it ... :sigh:

Reply 4423

ukdragon37

14

namedeprived

It's hardly secret, even I know about them. :p:

Mental exercise:

How do you prove sin x differentiates to cos x? Ask your teacher if you can't figure it out and I can bet you'll get much hand-waving in response. :p:

Reply 4424

ArcadiaHouse

17

LuhLah

Ohhh I'm glad I had my PS written over the summer lol :s-smilie:

I wrote down all the points I wanted to make over the summer and wrote like a 6 page essay instead of a draft :eek3:

and started it 'properly' in October, after I was given a ref. :yep:

Reply 4425

ArcadiaHouse

17

ukdragon37

Just to spite her you might want to sit next to her one day, turn around and speak in a pretend hush while holding your hand (ineffectively) next to your mouth and say very obviously "I got predited an A for English!"

:wink:

She will definitely be made aware of this fact before she sends her UCAS off.

:colone:

Reply 4426

LuhLah

3

When is everyone sending away their applications? I'm just waiting on my hefty back dated ema + travel costs coming in from the college (£347 or summat) this friday and then I'll send it off.

lol i'll prolly want to change mai course choices the minute after I send it :rolleyes:

Reply 4427

rosie9391

15

ArcadiaHouse

Teamwork can suck. Can you not ask more people?

Sadly no especially since it's tomorrow! I said meeting the night before was a bad idea but do they listen...NO!!

Reply 4428

CallumFR

9

LuhLah

When is everyone sending away their applications? I'm just waiting on my hefty back dated ema + travel costs coming in from the college (£347 or summat) this friday and then I'll send it off.

lol i'll prolly want to change mai course choices the minute after I send it :rolleyes:

Tomorrow hopefully :cool:

Reply 4429

TheUnbeliever

16

ArcadiaHouse

How much does Edinburgh take into account those 'extra factors'? :o:

I called them and they said I had lots of "points", and they said that was a good help, but I'm being completely paranoid about it ... :sigh:

Haven't the foggiest, sorry. I didn't live in Edinburgh, went to a private school, wasn't poor, and came from a family where both parents are university-educated (albeit first generation). :dontknow:

They do claim to put a bit of emphasis on it, but I'm not willing to quantify that in any way, basically because I can't.

Reply 4430

ukdragon37

14

TheUnbeliever

Haven't the foggiest, sorry. I didn't live in Edinburgh, went to a private school, wasn't poor, and came from a family where both parents are university-educated (albeit first generation). :dontknow:

They do claim to put a bit of emphasis on it, but I'm not willing to quantify that in any way, basically because I can't.

Sometimes I wonder what would have happend if I went to a school like yours, or any private school in fact :moon:

Reply 4431

rosie9391

15

ukdragon37

Sometimes I wonder what would have happend if I went to a school like yours, or any private school in fact :moon:

Me too...

Reply 4432

bex285

20

rosie9391

Me too...

Ditto!
Although I came very close, I must admit :yep:

Reply 4433

ArcadiaHouse

17

TheUnbeliever

Haven't the foggiest, sorry. I didn't live in Edinburgh, went to a private school, wasn't poor, and came from a family where both parents are university-educated (albeit first generation). :dontknow:

They do claim to put a bit of emphasis on it, but I'm not willing to quantify that in any way, basically because I can't.

I'm from a state school, poor, and neither of my parents went to university.

WOO UNI HERE I COME :woo:

See, just because you applied there I thought you might have some idea ... :o:

A girl wrote a rant about it in The Times a couple of weeks ago, how straight-A middle-class people like herself had been rejected in favour of people like - me. :o:

Reply 4434

ArcadiaHouse

17

ukdragon37

Sometimes I wonder what would have happend if I went to a school like yours, or any private school in fact :moon:

Your ability, not environment, would have made you the successful academic you are today. :moon:

Reply 4435

ArcadiaHouse

17

LuhLah

When is everyone sending away their applications? I'm just waiting on my hefty back dated ema + travel costs coming in from the college (£347 or summat) this friday and then I'll send it off.

lol i'll prolly want to change mai course choices the minute after I send it :rolleyes:

If my ref has finished my ref, Friday. If not, Monday.

Reply 4436

ArcadiaHouse

17

rosie9391

Sadly no especially since it's tomorrow! I said meeting the night before was a bad idea but do they listen...NO!!

Sounds like 'The Apprentice' :p:

I remember I had to do something like that at primary school. No one in the group bothered their shirt, I did it all myself and we came 2nd. If you want something done right, do it yourself :awesome:

I'm sure you'll be fine though :hugs:

You won't seem as "polished" as the others - but in a good way! :p:

Reply 4437

TheUnbeliever

16

ukdragon37

Sometimes I wonder what would have happend if I went to a school like yours, or any private school in fact :moon:

In what way? It's not magic, and is very similar in lots of ways to any reasonably good state school. It has its upsides (e.g. the ability to flat-out remove tossers) and its downsides (e.g. they're not known for their social diversity).

Ape Gone Insane

4) Binomial Theorem

One I liked was being able to write the series straight out. Your first term in

(a+b)^n

is obviously

a^n

. Each term thereafter can be arrived at by taking the exponent of a, multiplying by that, dividing by the zero-based index of this term and then decreasing the power of a and increasing the power of b. Then just remember that the coefficients are symmetrical and you save yourself a fair amount of pointless calculation. Tricky to explain, an example's clearer:

(a+b)^5 = a^5 + \frac{5}{1}a^4b +\frac{5\times4}{2}a^3b^2 + \cdots

(a+b)^5 = a^5 + 5a^4b + 10a^3b^2 + 10a^2b^3 + 5ab^4 + b^5

It's not really the kind of flashy thing you're looking for, but it might scrape you a minute or two here or there.

Reply 4438

ArcadiaHouse

17

Ape Gone Insane

Here we go into one of the biggest debates in Psychology :facepalm2:

Private school wouldn't have made ukdragon any smarter - that's a fact. If someone like me had gone to private school, I'd have left with much better grades, only because I'm crap at science and the extra help would have benefited me. :facepalm2:

Reply 4439

TheUnbeliever

16

ArcadiaHouse