Successful Cambridge Applicants Chat - 2006

College applied to: Jesus
Course: Economics
Conditions: A in Maths
Deferred entry? Nope
Nationality: English
Where are you living right now: At home in Devon!
A few details about yourself: Currently doing a third year in sixth form :frown:

as I didn't do mathematics A level, and discovered I needed it for most economics courses. *sigh* It's rather boring

You Met Him!?!?!?

bazlette

You Met Him!?!?!?

geet shook his hand n'all, and like made some unintelligeable noise instead of saying something clever or witty... oh well, there's always next time :p:

P.S. my dad met him in soho a few weeks later and he recorded a message for me on my dad's phone.

ooohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhmygoooooooddddddddddddd

hehe

Reply 303

bazlette

I am so distressed... and impressed... and other things ended in "essed"... WOW. That must have been incredible.

Reply 304

Mr. Jim

bazlette

I am so distressed... and impressed... and other things ended in "essed"... WOW. That must have been incredible.

if you're good i'll let you shake my hand too...it hasn't been washed since.

lol! /endbigheadedness

i have a feeling you and i are gonna be study buddies come this autumn :biggrin:

what are you erring towards? literature or language?

Reply 305

jay87

Has anyone on had to take Maths step papers II and III ? and wat is the round about mark you need to get? am really finding the papers difficult,
I got them with a AAA offer to read maths with physics
any information/advice would be grateful
:rolleyes:

Reply 306

Robert602

jay87

Has anyone on had to take Maths step papers II and III ? and wat is the round about mark you need to get? am really finding the papers difficult,
I got them with a AAA offer to read maths with physics
any information/advice would be grateful
:rolleyes:

Some grade boundaries are here. It's 15 marks per question + up to 5 bonus marks for completeness per question.

At the time I did them it was mostly for fun, so I didn't put much practise in, I got through by completing 3 questions and then just starting a few more questions for whatever extra marks I could grab. It's true that complete answers are worth more, but don't get bogged down for too long on one question because you think you have to finish it.

45 minutes per question ought to be quick enough to get a 1, although I found there were a couple of questions I could do in 15 minutes, and others took me an hour. IMO the pure questions are easier than the applied ones, though this is probably a matter of opinion.

You've probably seen this booklet, but if not it's definately worth a look.

And don't feel dismayed about finding them difficult, everyone does at first.

What else can I say? Good luck, keep up the practise. If you have any more questions or want some assistance with a specific problem then feel free to PM me, I've got plenty of time on my hands at the moment.

Reply 307

mrcheese

mr jim

lol! i'm just a general obsessive...

hung around for aaaaaaages when he came on tour with sexie so i could meet him, ended up getting like five autographs even tho we were only sposed to get one each! slap my wrist! :p:

totally worth it like.lol

Aaarg, im so jealous! I saw sexie live in the NIA in Birmingham, was sooo funny! But unfortionately was surrouded by fair weather Eddie fans, so when i was laughing so hard that i couldn't breath ('A2 B9, 3Z, which is code for 'aha! nurse, the plaque we planted here last time has settled nicely... warm up the drill! yee haw!'') they were all staring at me uncomfortably...

Reply 308

panda11

Oops - thought this was the Cambridge Applicants Chat, now see it's the Eddie Izzard Chat. My mistake.

Anything interesting happen to anyone today? Or yesterday? Or last year? Or tomorrow? *tries to throw thread a lifebelt* :smile:

Reply 309

panda11

Ooh my Cambridge offer just came up on track :biggrin:

Reply 310

sarahliz12345

I can never be bothered digging out the paper with the identity numbers etc on it! Should really check it... maybe tomorrow.

Reply 311

N9ne

7

panda11

Ooh my Cambridge offer just came up on track :biggrin:

Just now?

. Which college is it? Seems quite late.

Reply 312

dappleddawndrawndauphin

3

panda11

Ooh my Cambridge offer just came up on track :biggrin:

Yaay!

Mine came up on February 3rd, it finally seems real :wink:

Unfortunately that means it has also just hit me that I need A's... argh :p:

Reply 313

mrcheese

panda11

Oops - thought this was the Cambridge Applicants Chat, now see it's the Eddie Izzard Chat. My mistake.

Anything interesting happen to anyone today? Or yesterday? Or last year? Or tomorrow? *tries to throw thread a lifebelt* :smile:

I'll let you off for the Eddie Izzard blasphemy because you have gir in you avatar...
How about making it an Invador Zim thread?

Reply 314

popop12345

Unfortunately that means it has also just hit me that I need A's... argh

I am also starting a real panic about AAA :eek:

, i need to repent
for all the sins i commited last year (not work hard enough) but in the A2 context making it twice as hard! I really could do with the safety net you all have from last year!

AAAHHHHAHHHA

Reply 315

sassygirl

My UCAS has finally updated! It's ironic that my Imperial offer came through before my Cambridge, even though I received my Cambridge offer about 2 months earlier!!

Our Deputy Head of 6th Form is throwing a 'kid's party' for us upper sixers tomorrow. Sleeping lions, lots of pink food that kind of thing. It's to help us 'destress'.

Sounds fun eh?

By the way, anybody admired the smoshness before?

http://www.youtube.com/w/Pokemon-Theme-Music-Video?v=XPqkkFDDcWI&search=smosh

Due to the success of their videos, they have nearly 10,000 members on their website (a lot of which appear to be girls going 'oooooh, anthony!'<--I will confess to doing this too).

I LOVE geekdom.

Reply 316

friendlyneutron

11

sleeping lions...?

I only really accepted that I had an offer when it came up on track, and every time I log on I'm convinced it'll have disappeared!

P.S. I LOVE Eddie Izzard! I love that bit he did about orange vs satsuma.

Reply 317

**noooni**

3

ive seen that video before!! omg soooo funny!! i love those guys

Reply 318

**noooni**

3

sassygirl

My UCAS has finally updated! It's ironic that my Imperial offer came through before my Cambridge, even though I received my Cambridge offer about 2 months earlier!!

Our Deputy Head of 6th Form is throwing a 'kid's party' for us upper sixers tomorrow. Sleeping lions, lots of pink food that kind of thing. It's to help us 'destress'.

.

you head of 6th form is nice, we get nothing!

Reply 319

friendlyneutron

11

Well, we got a lovely visit from the police today about driving safely. *Is scarred for life from all the gruesome videos they showed us* I'm never going to drive, too clumsy!

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