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Reply 380

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erm ... they give me BBB offer based on international student status ... so .. not very keen on the university any more :frown:

means that i have to pay more for it

Reply 381

wackysparkle

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14

I didn't do English A level and I'm here :smile:

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They do prefer Art A level, but DT is fine, there are actually lots of people here who've done DT or graphic designing.

Concerning Portfolio, I only have one example.
I didn't have to do one and I suspect that it's because I had done Art A level - but a friend did Graphic Designing and was asked for one.

Reply 382

Dust-

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Secret_F

ooooone thing ... my offer has general studies included ... is that normal ?

It seems to be normal for Sheffield, people in my year got in by getting the 3rd A in General Studies.
I know someone who just did graphics (not art) but I don't know if they required a portfolio or not, also they deferred entry so they got accepted before the entry requirements increased.

Wakcysparkle: I think I have P4 sorted now, I pretty much started again, took one aspect that I found interesting and am running with it, seems to be working much better now. Perhaps my next tutorial will suggest otherwise but we'll see!

Reply 383

wackysparkle

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alrighty. Just one more point if I may.
When you get tutorials you would have noticed by now that you get a different tutor each time - this gets quite frustrating after sometime as each say something different and encourage different improvements and changes. Don't try to please everyone.. you need to begin to appreciate which inclusions are definite improvements to your design- I know it may seem extreme. But I found that if you begin to include everything that they tell you to do you soon begin to hate the design as you don't have anything that you actually like, and nothings worse than having a design that you need to run with for the whole project that you really don't like as this will definitely show in your final presentation.

If you don't like something that one tutor has said.... e.g.
tutor: have a wall to seperate public and private spaces
you: I don't really like to have a huge wall as it wouldn't compliment the aesthetic of my design
tutor: okay, how about this...

the tutors are always open to your opinion and are willing to suggest alternate ideas that may suit your work. Just don't go over the top and say ' no, I don't like the idea' :rolleyes:

Hopefully you know what I am trying to get at, as I don't want you to not include anything that the tutors say, as right now, you have to accept the fact that they do know more than you and you should listen to them, but you should also begin to ask questions about things and ask 'why' so that you can gain more out of this module.

Reply 384

Dust-

5

Yea I get that completely, the first turtorial didnt help at all because the tutor didn't say anything constructive and I wasn't really liking how the project was going but now I'm more confident with where I'm going I can get more out of it.

Reply 385

wiz

erm ... they give me BBB offer based on international student status ... so .. not very keen on the university any more means that i have to pay more for it

yeh im the same, im english but lived in dubai all my life, they can be really annoying bout givinn us homestatus... fingers crossed tho!
thanx guys, big help

Reply 386

wackysparkle

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14

Dust-

Yea I get that completely, the first turtorial didnt help at all because the tutor didn't say anything constructive and I wasn't really liking how the project was going but now I'm more confident with where I'm going I can get more out of it.

good good.. I guess by now you know which tutors are good and which are.. er... crap :rolleyes:

Reply 387

jrhartley

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Izzismith

yeh im the same, im english but lived in dubai all my life, they can be really annoying bout givinn us homestatus... fingers crossed tho!
thanx guys, big help

hate to be a bearer of bad news, but i've spoken to a few people at cardiff who're english but who have lived outside the UK for more than 3 years and they are categorised as international students with fees depending on where they have been living.

Reply 388

wackysparkle

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my friend is English, and lived back home for most of her life, so she came back to the UK for 4-5 years (basically GCSE's and A levels) so that she can be applicable for home student status.

Reply 389

wiz

well, its not so bad in dubai if you can prove your on a temmporary visa, my sister and brother were here for 14 years prior to goiing to the uk and both of them got home status... it is getting harder but its possible

Reply 390

wackysparkle

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14

really?

that's news to me... most of my friends had to leave by the end of year 9 to the UK so that they can get home status.

Reply 391

wiz

yeh, its a bit different here tho because (until recently) you cant live here without working here, and you cant buy houses and stuff like that. If you get a job here they give you a temporary visa and on the visa you can sponser ppl, so my dad sponsers me and my mum to live here, its strange... i ges its just one of those places which in some cases can fall thru the system. Almost all of my school will get homestatus, as most ppl still have ties to the uk and are paying tax there and have houses and stuff like that.

Reply 392

wackysparkle

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14

don't have to explain that much mon amie.. I live in the middle east as well :wink:

Reply 393

Dust-

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wackysparkle

good good.. I guess by now you know which tutors are good and which are.. er... crap :rolleyes:

Possibly, my opinion seems to be different from everyone else though :s-smilie:

Reply 394

wackysparkle

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14

well, generally there is one tutor whom every one hates and one whom they all like.
But it really depends on what type of critique you prefer, sarcastic/blunt/soft - I preferred the blunt in your face critique so the tutor I preferred not many people liked.
Having said that it was quite irritating when you got those tutors who went 'round and round the mulberry bush' :rolleyes:

Reply 395

Dust-

5

I don't think I have seen all the tutors yet but I get the impression I'm better at handling criticism than other people. I don't care how harsh they are if they explain why they have an opinion because you can learn better from that, it's when they don't explain I get annoyed...

Reply 396

wackysparkle

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lol yes I understand - that's good then, at least you can take the critique - last year we had a drop out who couldn't!

yes, I had that problem with some - some were actually so vague with their critique I went away thinking.... what?!

Reply 397

Dust-

5

yeah that's not good, the tutors only say those things so that we can learn from our mistakes, everyone makes them and it's nothing personal! (or at least I assume it isn't...)

I've got one that beats the vagueness, my last tutorial my model got laughed at and then told it was an interesting concept :P

Reply 398

wackysparkle

OP

14

I am somehow debating on which tutor it was..

Reply 399

Dust-

5

I think it's better not to name anyone so you'll have to keep debating :P Today went realllllllly well, we had the old year one head person tutoring us! she really like my new idea and gave me lot's of advice, she made some weird mathematical equation which I get but she said I should "explore it" and I don't know what that means...I think she just meant shuffled the rooms..maybe. But it was a lot more helpful than the first tutorial so im a lot happier with whats happening.

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