Anyone had a PGCE interview at Cambridge?

Yes, sorry, wednesday of the next week. Thanks I'll be doing secondary MFL. I'll keep my fingers crossed for you!

How long did you have to wait to hear that you had a place? I only had my interview on Friday and they said two weeks, but I bet I'll keep checking track anyway!

Good luck to you !, Ive already had my interview and got my place, feel free to PM me with any questions

it took 12 days for mine to come though !!
but mine was just before Christmas, so I think they were really bust then.

Ahh not too bad though, 12 days. Which colleges have you applied for? I put down Homerton as 1 and Hughes Hall as 2.

the same as you! The have not told me which one I will be at yet though. So I will probably have to search for a house by the time they do !

Yeah you will do, there's no chance of getting in at Homerton unless you gave a medical reason for needing to live on site as there are only something like 30 rooms available for PGCE students. Best bet for getting accommodation is putting Hughes as number 1 as they have a lot more! Also Lucy Cavendish guarantee a room for a year if you get a confirmed place by Sepetmber 1st, but there won't be many PGCE students there at all so be a bit out of it! That's only mature women women though, so probably be a different atmosphere. At our interview we were advised to put the choices that we did anyway as Homerton gives the most support for PGCE and Hughes is also good.

ahh, well I am glad I put them then, Is there a system to help you find other students to live with , do you know?

Did any of you have to bring your GCSE transcripts with you to the interview? I am not from the UK, but have unofficial copies of my high school and university transcripts (just scanned copies, nothing with a seal). Will this be a problem? I've definitely done enough science, mathematics and English to meet the minimum requirements, but wanted to know whether I need more official documentation. Thanks in advance!

I'm not sure but my friend who did the course last year joined a facebook group for students looking for houses in Cambridge. She said there were a few groups on facebook for things like that. She ended up going into a house with a few others all on different courses, she met with them in town somewhere first before she signed any contract. Some of them had lived there for a while already and said they liked the house and it had no problems so that was a plus. It was quite good because they were individual contracts as all the rooms had locks on the doors, so she was independent from the others even though she was sharing with them.
Might be an idea as you have an offer to ring up the uni and ask advice, there might be some sort of system in place!

The email I got told me to bring photocopies and the originals of my degree certificate, GCSE English, Maths and Science certificates and birth certificate. Think you'd need to get hold of the certificates but it's worth ringing up admissions and asking

I found out on Friday that I didn't get in

do you think we should make a facebook group??
--- oh wait, Homerton's union of students does that usually!!
x x

Sorry to hear that. Best of luck with your other choices.

Hey,

Just wondering whether anyone has a conditional pgce offer for primary from Cambridge according to gttr website but hasn't got the "letter from the insitution" telling them what the condition is yet???!!!!

Thanks

Thanks Exeter was my second choice but that was full before I even had my Cambridge interview.

Hey,

I got a conditional offer yesterday :-) The letter on GTTR says that 'the offer is subject to you obtaining'. In the interview they said that undergraduates would need to get a 2.1 as a condition..... I'm guessing thats what mine is as the letter didn't say anything else.