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Successful Cambridge Applicants Chat - 2006

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friendlyneutron
oopsies...

17th eh? That should be roughly when i come out of my alcohol-induced coma if I make my grades! Does anyone have an exam that they're worried the most about? Maths for me, I think. There's just so much to learn! My brain feels saturated just now :s (cant type that word without thinking of ruddy op-amps, damn you, school!)

Chem for me actually...easier than maths, maybe, but we only need B's for maths...

My driving test is on Monday :frown:
Duke Flipside
Chem for me actually...easier than maths, maybe, but we only need B's for maths...

My driving test is on Monday :frown:


funnily enough our other natsci said that the other day, which is surprising considering! ooh didnt know bout your test, gluck! :smile:
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I'm going driving on the motorway tommorow, uh oh...
Liz150888
do u englishers sit a separate exam for every module?!


Got very confused there - thought you meant people studyng English. No idea how highers work, but A levels are split up into 6 modules, 3 AS and 3 A2. I don't know if there are any subjects where coursework is more than 2 modules - most of the ones that have coursework seem to have it as either one AS module and one A2 module, or just one A2 module. Then there's an exam paper for each module that isn't coursework.
And practical exams in physics. :frown:
sarahliz12345
And practical exams in physics. :frown:


Really? Maybe thats only certain exam boards/specifications - physicists at my school do one coursework practical in each year and two exam papers each year.
what on earth dyu have to do in a practical exam? my experiments never work...i can imagine how good id be doing A levels.

ah i sort of understand ur a-levels now. in scotus u have ur highers which are split into three units, u sit a NAB at the end of each unit and u have to pass that to sit the exam (but these count for nothing towards ur final grade) and an exam in May which covers all three units and the mark u get in that is the final mark for the course. most people do five but some do four and some do six. advanced hgihers r the same sort of effort except in some subjects u have an investigation to do as well, or a dissertation in the case of english, which is worth something towards the final mark. investigations can be on anything really but the sciencey ones normally involve u doing an experiment and then spending ur writing up explianing why it went wrong. dissertations for english are just as varied (mine is on passion in tolstoy/flaubert) and has to be 4500 words long. most folk dont do adv highers cos they arent usually needed for scottish unis, some only do one but then there are ur few weirdos who do four. :smile: sorry to bore u all with the ins and outs of the scottish exam system.
wanderer
18 exams. :p:

And for those listing maths modules: C3, C4, FP1, FP2, FP3, M2, M3, S2, S3, STEP II, STEP III.

Although someone I know is doing those and resitting M1. And she's doing STEP for fun.



OK you look like your into maths!! I only thought of doing C1 for fun:rolleyes: :frown: :rolleyes: :smile:
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wanderer
Really? Maybe thats only certain exam boards/specifications - physicists at my school do one coursework practical in each year and two exam papers each year.


I have a practical exam for chemistry
For AQA physics spec B there is 1 practical exam in AS (done in June exam period) and 2 in A level year (one in exam period and one tomorrow!!). You walk in and there's apparatus out - you don't know what till you walk in - and a sheet of instructions. You have to do the experiment, results table, graph, logarithms and a couple of questions on the topic. Teacher lingers about then collects it in at the end. Did the chem practical on Thursday - but it's part of coursework rather than a practical exam. Hate praticals! Oh well, nearly there. :redface:
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I survived driving on the M6, yay.
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I have a practical exam for chemistry


I have one for physics and chemistry, ahh they are so badly done in my school its basically the only practical we get to do all year, and its an exam!!:mad:

Yay im at the top of the page!
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popop12345
I have one for physics and chemistry, ahh they are so badly done in my school its basically the only practical we get to do all year, and its an exam!!:mad:

Yay im at the top of the page!


Sounds pretty rubbish. We do a practical each week (unfortunately accompanied by a write up...)
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friendlyneutron
oopsies...

17th eh? That should be roughly when i come out of my alcohol-induced coma if I make my grades! Does anyone have an exam that they're worried the most about? Maths for me, I think. There's just so much to learn! My brain feels saturated just now :s (cant type that word without thinking of ruddy op-amps, damn you, school!)



Argh op-amps... I detest physics more and more every day, especially since I'd have the most amazing free periods if I wasn't doing it, i.e. sleep in on Mondays (MONDAYS!) and Wednesdays, and the whole of Tuesday & Friday afternoons off. I'd feel a little silly dropping it now though as I have about 30 schooldays left..

Strangely I'm most confident about maths, although I haven't really absorbed ANY unit 3 yet. I think it's just because I'm incredibly worried about my as-yet unfinished projects dragging my science grades waaaay down. Also worried that my hand will fall off in the bio exam due to the stupid amount of writing, and that chemistry will contain stupid higher questions on topics I've long since forgotten.

Has anyone else now got a permenant label of 'got into Cambridge'? I was at a party last night with a lot of people from school I didn't know very well, and they all seemed to feel the need to greet me with 'So, Cambridge, eh?'.. or occasionally 'So, Oxford, eh?' Grrrrr. Not that bad a label though, admittedly.
Loocy
chemistry will contain stupid higher questions on topics I've long since forgotten.
Has anyone else now got a permenant label of 'got into Cambridge'? I was at a party last night with a lot of people from school I didn't know very well, and they all seemed to feel the need to greet me with 'So, Cambridge, eh?'.. or occasionally 'So, Oxford, eh?' Grrrrr. Not that bad a label though, admittedly.


ha ha tell em about it. the only marks i lost in my highwer prelim were sg questions i couldnt remember :redface: im feeling a repeat of tht for ah.

i get the cambridge label too, especially because im the only one in my year who applied. they sometimes i ask what college and i say "girton" and they go wit?/ahh right, that one. now look guys we all know its far out but....
friendlyneutron
funnily enough our other natsci said that the other day, which is surprising considering! ooh didnt know bout your test, gluck! :smile:

Other natsci..? Gandhi, and not Troon, I presume?
How could Gandhi say that? He needs an A! Hehehe. :biggrin:
But then again, he's a maths god...:frown:
popop12345
OK you look like your into maths!! I only thought of doing C1 for fun:rolleyes: :frown: :rolleyes: :smile:


Well, I am going to study it - but thats only one extra module above Further Maths (we're taking S3 to give us some leeway with module scores), and I need STEP for my Cam offer, so its pretty much compulsory.
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Loocy

Has anyone else now got a permenant label of 'got into Cambridge'? I was at a party last night with a lot of people from school I didn't know very well, and they all seemed to feel the need to greet me with 'So, Cambridge, eh?'.. or occasionally 'So, Oxford, eh?' Grrrrr. Not that bad a label though, admittedly.


apparently me getting an offer was the only interesting thing that has happened all year so it's been in the paper. twice. it's too embarrassing for words, even worse when my mam thinks it's brilliant and carries the articles round in her handbag to whip out at a moment's notice.

:frown:

i don't like it.
mr jim
apparently me getting an offer was the only interesting thing that has happened all year so it's been in the paper. twice. it's too embarrassing for words, even worse when my mam thinks it's brilliant and carries the articles round in her handbag to whip out at a moment's notice.

:frown:

i don't like it.

:hahaha:
Oh, dear...
Makes me feel lucky
So many people in my school get into Oxbridge it's a so-so accomplishment. Only 2 people in my chemistry class DIDN'T get in, and one of them just got into LSE for economics anyway too...

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