How Lenient is Imperial With Conditions?

spencer11111

is he at Imperial already? Is the 1st yr too hard?

yep

Reply 121

fais

15

That's weird.. just checked Extra and almost all of the flagship courses still have vacancies on them.

What's up with that? *is confused* :s-smilie:

Reply 122

tinypony

But I heard Swedish has a high standard of education? I mean the public education sector over there is quite reputed I think. I heard that some teachers in high school are MSc holders! Or is it Finland???

Hehe, the Swedish national system is c-r-a-p. That's as much as I know about it. In Malmö there is a skateboard-high-school, and near where I live you can go to a golf-high-school. In the same town as where I do IB there is a horse-high-school. As you can see hardly anyone does traditional subjects...

Reply 123

chrisjorg

Hehe, the Swedish national system is c-r-a-p. That's as much as I know about it. In Malmö there is a skateboard-high-school, and near where I live you can go to a golf-high-school. In the same town as where I do IB there is a horse-high-school. As you can see hardly anyone does traditional subjects...

I confused it with Finland I guess.

Reply 124

fais

That's weird.. just checked Extra and almost all of the flagship courses still have vacancies on them.

What's up with that? *is confused* :s-smilie:

If you check the staistics guide you would find that those flagship course normally have an applicant to place ratio if 7 to 1. Most probably in Science the quantity does not matter, but the quality. They may have a lot of applicants but the school may only want students with certain things, eg, AAA and A in a special subject. So they are going Extra to get more applicants. No harm in doing that.

Reply 125

The_Luvbster

OP

chrisjorg

.... where I do IB there is a horse-high-school.

What a very progressive country, educating horses is the way forward! Do they do IB or A levels?

*slaps knee*

:redface:

I don't understand why biology isn't on extra... I thought it was a relatively unpopular subject in Imperial.

Reply 126

The_Luvbster

What a very progressive country, educating horses is the way forward! Do they do IB or A levels?

Lovely...

Reply 127

The_Luvbster

I don't understand why biology isn't on extra... I thought it was a relatively unpopular subject in Imperial.

The cut off for Biology is ABB. There are definitely enough students with ABB hence the bio dept does not feel the pinch. For flagship courses at Imp such as EEE and CS, the depts really cannot take in with anyone less than AAA and A in maths, physics and perferably further maths. Hence even the applicant per place ratio may be higher for EEE and CS than for Biology, effectively, the EEE and CS depts are having fewer applicants to choose from, since the buttom line is so much higher.

Btw... The_Luvbster, can we just have peace? :smile:

Reply 128

Does anyone know how hard the maths and computer science course is? especially the programming part to it.

Reply 129

CityMonkey

11

Econometrician

Does anyone know how hard the maths and computer science course is? especially the programming part to it.

Very. On some accounts, around 70% of the normal Maths degree, and 70% of the normal computing degree. Programming is something you either get, or you don't, so depends on that really.

Reply 130

MonteCristo

Very. On some accounts, around 70% of the normal Maths degree, and 70% of the normal computing degree. Programming is something you either get, or you don't, so depends on that really.

Ohh, i always thought maths and computer science was a softer option to straight maths, i guess i was wrong then. But what do you mean programming is something you get or you don't? i need to get as much information for my brother.

Reply 131

fais

15

It either clicks and you can move forward pretty rapidly or you'll bang you head against a wall for hours to get the simplest of things working. Clearly progress is much slower in the latter and can be fairly depressing if all those around you are zooming ahead.

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fais

It either clicks and you can move forward pretty rapidly or you'll bang you head against a wall for hours to get the simplest of things working. Clearly progress is much slower in the latter and can be fairly depressing if all those around you are zooming ahead.

SO your basically saying programming is very logical?

Reply 133

fais

15

Logic programming is. :wink:

And no, sometimes it can be quite mind bending.. I know lots of mathematicians who had a very hard time trying to understand recursion.

Reply 134

Bad.. i always thought maths and computing are so closely related that they are inseperable

Reply 135

Econometrician , what is your background? Which U did you graduate from?

Reply 136

spencer11111

Econometrician , what is your background? Which U did you graduate from?

LSE Econometrics 2nd year

Reply 137

That BSc degree with an annual intake of 14?

Reply 138

spencer11111

That BSc degree with an annual intake of 14?

Yeh, lol.

Reply 139