High School Grades in Poland will worse it all?

Hi guys!
Before I'll proceed to my question I need to explain to you how does the 3rd level education in Poland look like (very briefly, obviously )
So, there are 3 years of High School - the first one is very general, we take up between 17 and 18 subjects including bio, chemistry, physics, IT, languages, history, maths, etc. We DO NOT choose them, they are required. I have to admit that this is the worst and the most difficult year for everyone, because it's hard to cope with subjects you were not made to understand. After this tiring year, we finally can choose between 2-4 advanced level subjects and 3 standard level subjects.
And now as you understand how does it look like I can finally ask my question - I just got to know that after graduation all the subjects we took (all 18!) will be listed on the diploma with the grades we have achieved... I am going to apply for International Relations & Politics, my grades at all of my advanced level subject are clearly perfect but the thing is that during the first year I achieved 2 (equivalent to D) in chemistry. I am really afraid that even though chemistry has nothing to do with the course I'm going to take I will be rejected
Do you know whether Cambridge cares about one particular subject taken while ago that has nothing to do with current advanced subjects? Will it worsen my application?

HUUUUGE thank you to everyone who read it all <3

Hi guys!
Before I'll proceed to my question I need to explain to you how does the 3rd level education in Poland look like (very briefly, obviously )
So, there are 3 years of High School - the first one is very general, we take up between 17 and 18 subjects including bio, chemistry, physics, IT, languages, history, maths, etc. We DO NOT choose them, they are required. I have to admit that this is the worst and the most difficult year for everyone, because it's hard to cope with subjects you were not made to understand. After this tiring year, we finally can choose between 2-4 advanced level subjects and 3 standard level subjects.
And now as you understand how does it look like I can finally ask my question - I just got to know that after graduation all the subjects we took (all 18!) will be listed on the diploma with the grades we have achieved... I am going to apply for International Relations & Politics, my grades at all of my advanced level subject are clearly perfect but the thing is that during the first year I achieved 2 (equivalent to D) in chemistry. I am really afraid that even though chemistry has nothing to do with the course I'm going to take I will be rejected
Do you know whether Cambridge cares about one particular subject taken while ago that has nothing to do with current advanced subjects? Will it worsen my application?

HUUUUGE thank you to everyone who read it all <3

Judging by your question a lack of fluency and grammatical accuracy in your English is likely to be a bigger barrier than one low grade from a while ago. Cambridge do care about this. I would suggest you work as hard as possible on this and then your grade in itself may not limit you. I admit my Polish is absolute rubbish but then I wouldn't attempt to go to University in Poland!

Sorry, but your opinion is wrong. You've never seen me speaking, you've never read my essays, so your judgment is only based on some sentences. And even if you can judge my grammar, how do you know ANYTHING about my fluency? Just how, please, explain it to me, I'm curious.

Hi guys!
Before I'll proceed to my question I need to explain to you how does the 3rd level education in Poland look like (very briefly, obviously )
So, there are 3 years of High School - the first one is very general, we take up between 17 and 18 subjects including bio, chemistry, physics, IT, languages, history, maths, etc. We DO NOT choose them, they are required. I have to admit that this is the worst and the most difficult year for everyone, because it's hard to cope with subjects you were not made to understand. After this tiring year, we finally can choose between 2-4 advanced level subjects and 3 standard level subjects.
And now as you understand how does it look like I can finally ask my question - I just got to know that after graduation all the subjects we took (all 18!) will be listed on the diploma with the grades we have achieved... I am going to apply for International Relations & Politics, my grades at all of my advanced level subject are clearly perfect but the thing is that during the first year I achieved 2 (equivalent to D) in chemistry. I am really afraid that even though chemistry has nothing to do with the course I'm going to take I will be rejected
Do you know whether Cambridge cares about one particular subject taken while ago that has nothing to do with current advanced subjects? Will it worsen my application?

HUUUUGE thank you to everyone who read it all <3

Hi,

it is really unclear for me, whether you are speaking of gimnazjum or liceum diploma. Have you finished your last year of liceum already? Ignore these guys above, I am polish myself and I hold an offer for Physical NatSci at Christ's. I have met a lot of other applicants while I have been in Cambridge for my interviews, and your English is just fine.

It interests me that a Pole who chooses the user name Arrogant thinks they are in a better position to judge somebody's English that a native speaking Cambridge Economics graduate.
The advice I gave was "your English is likely to be a bigger barrier than one low grade from a while ago. Cambridge do care about this. I would suggest you work as hard as possible on this and then your grade in itself may not limit you".
I stand by this advice and I think you should note that he is applying for an essay based subject not NatSci. He is of course at liberty to dismiss my advice, as indeed he did.

Hmm, I really do not see the reason why you are still here taking in account your advice was unwanted by the thread starter as well as my post was not aimed at you whatsoever... . I agree with the point you make in the second half of your post, however you have started it off from a really bad perspective - I have never said that I am in a better position to judge somebody's English than you. I just know that posts like yours tend to discourage people, which is exactly what I have tried to prevent.

Hmm, I really do not see the reason why you are still here taking in account your advice was unwanted by the thread starter as well as my post was not aimed at you whatsoever... . I agree with the point you make in the second half of your post, however you have started it off from a really bad perspective - I have never said that I am in a better position to judge somebody's English than you. I just know that posts like yours tend to discourage people, which is exactly what I have tried to prevent.

Hi guys!
Before I'll proceed to my question I need to explain to you how does the 3rd level education in Poland look like (very briefly, obviously )
So, there are 3 years of High School - the first one is very general, we take up between 17 and 18 subjects including bio, chemistry, physics, IT, languages, history, maths, etc. We DO NOT choose them, they are required. I have to admit that this is the worst and the most difficult year for everyone, because it's hard to cope with subjects you were not made to understand. After this tiring year, we finally can choose between 2-4 advanced level subjects and 3 standard level subjects.
And now as you understand how does it look like I can finally ask my question - I just got to know that after graduation all the subjects we took (all 18!) will be listed on the diploma with the grades we have achieved... I am going to apply for International Relations & Politics, my grades at all of my advanced level subject are clearly perfect but the thing is that during the first year I achieved 2 (equivalent to D) in chemistry. I am really afraid that even though chemistry has nothing to do with the course I'm going to take I will be rejected
Do you know whether Cambridge cares about one particular subject taken while ago that has nothing to do with current advanced subjects? Will it worsen my application?

HUUUUGE thank you to everyone who read it all <3

Hi
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I am in really challenging school so my grades were mediocre. Aside from Physics and English (6), my grades were are not better than 4. And I got 2 from Geography. I think they only look at subjects important for your course.

The most important part of your application is your Personal Statement and Reference Letter. Of course predictions are important but I think you will achieve average of 90% from all subjects on Matura.

Do you have any evidence for your assumption? Have you had a chance to asked your DoS about your application?
I'm not too sure if your advice applies to all applicants (polish or not) because afaik every application is looked at and assesses individually and holistically without any fixed weighting on any aspect of application. And I can't believe PS and reference would always play a bigger rule than othe aspects of your application, especially your grades and interview.

If that was the case in your situation, it might be because of your particular situation (the 'challenging school' you went) because your PS & reference could give admission people necessary Info about your background and explained your less than stellar academic records in earlier days? It certainly would have enabled them to assess you fairly against other candidates who had come from more advantages background than you.

I really don't think it'd be very appropriate to suggest that PS & reference are the most important parts of the application for everyone because we know it's not the case for many applicants.

I didn't mean that they are the only important parts. Maybe it is because of my school but over 10 people received offers from Oxbridge this year and everyone of them had bad or mediocre grades from subjects irrelevant to their course. Maybe they don't consider grades that important for applicants from Poland. And of course interview is really important.

I am just anserwing the question posed in this thread. That having bad grades does not destroy your dreams of studying at Cambridge.

I didn't say you said that's the only important part. You said it's the most important part and that's what I'm disputing, because it's rather misleading especially people who are not familiar with Cambridge application. There're too many misconception about Cambridge application and we do not want to create another one in TSR.

Hi

I suppose you will be applying for 2017 entry and you are now in second grade. Of course I received an offer for Engineering but I think that same rules apply here.

First thing is that you are required to provide transcript from 1st and 2nd grade of High School ("Świadectwo" and if you have good results you "Egzamin Gimnazjalny" results and last transcript from Junior High. I don't even know if Cambridge will look at my High School leaving certificate since my offer is based only on Matura results.

I am in really challenging school so my grades were mediocre. Aside from Physics and English (6), my grades were are not better than 4. And I got 2 from Geography. I think they only look at subjects important for your course.

The most important part of your application is your Personal Statement and Reference Letter. Of course predictions are important but I think you will achieve average of 90% from all subjects on Matura.

So yeah. I don't think bad grades from irrelevant subjects will ruin your application. But be kind to people who just want to help you here. And you really need to work on your essay writing skills since in almost every college there is a pre-interview written work for you to do for Arts subjects.

Feel free to ask more questions

Where do you go to the liceum? Do they really want to see applicants' 1st year grades? I was almost sure that while applying through UCAS we are only asked to share 2nd year grades, PS, predicted matura results, references and nothing more