MAT Prep Thread - 2nd November 2016

When will the paper or the solution be available?

For all those asking about space - you should have plenty of room inside the booklet (note that you not only have the space next to the long answer pages you have the space for the questions you didn't answer (e.g. 6 and 7 for mathematicians) and there are 6-8 pages at the back of the booklet (hence why there's the wording at the bottom of every other page "If you require additional space please use the pages at the end of the booklet". If you used all of these spaces then by all means ask for additional paper - but bear in mind that additional paper runs the risk of getting lost (particularly when it's not properly attached to the booklet). We strongly prefer students to keep all of their answers and working inside the booklet.

Thank this clarification. Unfortunately I wasn't informed that I could use the pages next to unanswered questions, and so ultimately did request extra paper. I'm very concerned that this work isn't going to get marked since the majority of two of my long answer questions were filled in in this way. Would a request via my centre to ATS to mark the extra paper, provided the paper were kept in order in the booklet with the appropriate page for the question, would be sufficient to have a realistic hope of it getting marked?

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Also, I didn't remember my UCAS Personal ID, and couldn't write that down on the third page. -_- though it was written 'if known'.... Now will this create any problem? :/

We'll mark it, but we strongly prefer people to keep to the booklet for the reasons outlined above.

And I realise this might be taking the biscuit, but if we had applied to other universities which use the MAT as well as Oxford, would the same apply for them too?

Seriously need advice

- I'm not very space-economical and ended up running out of space on the blank pages at the back of the booklet. My center gave me some extra paper on which I wrote huge parts of my final solutions. It was quite clear from layout that they weren't rough workings However, I've just seen that Oxford's website says "Only answers written in the booklet will be marked. There are spare blank pages at the end of the test paper."

I've just sent a message to my exams officer asking if a note could be sent with my paper explaining. Has anyone had similar experience and know if I'm doomed or not? Honestly at least 30-35 marks worth of work was on my extra pages...

We'll mark it, but we strongly prefer people to keep to the booklet for the reasons outlined above.

Sorry i'm just super anxious, it's 100% ok for me to have used extra paper?

Some of my working out was a complete mess, do you reckon it'll be a problem?

We'll mark it (provided we receive it), but as I said, we strongly prefer people to keep all of their working and answers inside the booklet.

as long as you can actually read it then it wont matter. Youll not lose marks for presentation or anything

Well that was the issue.

well if they can read it then youre fine, if its that much of a mess that its impossible to read then how could they mark it? although I doubt its possible to write working out so bad that its unreadable unless you tried to

Idk, my dyslexia has caused some real problems in the past. Hopefully it's ok though!