Anyone going to the LSE Saturday School 03/04?

Hi, finally got my confirmation of a place at the LSE Saturday School to do Maths there today! Wished I got it earlier though because the introductory session is on Wednesday and the first lesson is on Saturday. For those who don't know what I'm blabbing about, it's for those who got B/C in their AS subjects such as Maths and want help to improve it to an A. I got a C (6 marks of a B) and I need like 270 points to get that A in my A2 Maths! It's every Saturday for 22 weeks from 10:00-12:00 and you get paid £7.60 for every Saturday you manage to attend. Here is some more information about it: http://www.lse.ac.uk/collections/studentRecruitment/services/sixthform.htm#id2708310

I don't think you can apply anymore as there was only about 150 or so places and I managed to get in! I have already been there; spent a week in the summer 2 years ago doing Maths (again!) so that might have helped me get in! During that week, I only had like 2 other guys in my class but 15 girls there which I found surprising since I thought Maths was more of a male subject. Hope it's the same this time! Need some motivation if I have to wake up early for Saturday School!

So is anyone here going to it? If you are, can you tell me whereabouts you are from, what course you applied for and what you got for it in your AS? Cheers.

Regards

P.S. No-one else is going from my Maths class at college so I'm going to be very lonely, much like the weeks course I had in the summer!

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No-one then? :frown:

well, since u seem so desperate for a reply

my friend who goes to a college in london had the chance to go last year for maths, but he turned it down in the end

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well, since u seem so desperate for a reply

my friend who goes to a college in london had the chance to go last year for maths, but he turned it down in the end

You get paid for having someone teach you? Usually you are supposed to pay tutors to teach you. All I can say is make the most of the opportunity and score an A grade!

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Hi, finally got my confirmation of a place at the LSE Saturday School to do Maths there today! Wished I got it earlier though because the introductory session is on Wednesday and the first lesson is on Saturday. For those who don't know what I'm blabbing about, it's for those who got B/C in their AS subjects such as Maths and want help to improve it to an A. I got a C (6 marks of a B) and I need like 270 points to get that A in my A2 Maths! It's every Saturday for 22 weeks from 10:00-12:00 and you get paid £7.60 for every Saturday you manage to attend. Here is some more information about it: http://www.lse.ac.uk/collections/studentRecruitment/services/sixthform.htm#id2708310

I don't think you can apply anymore as there was only about 150 or so places and I managed to get in! I have already been there; spent a week in the summer 2 years ago doing Maths (again!) so that might have helped me get in! During that week, I only had like 2 other guys in my class but 15 girls there which I found surprising since I thought Maths was more of a male subject. Hope it's the same this time! Need some motivation if I have to wake up early for Saturday School!

So is anyone here going to it? If you are, can you tell me whereabouts you are from, what course you applied for and what you got for it in your AS? Cheers.

Regards

P.S. No-one else is going from my Maths class at college so I'm going to be very lonely, much like the weeks course I had in the summer!

Hmm that sounds quite cool, shame there's nothing like that where I live, just immigrants and dole dossers.

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Hmm that sounds quite cool, shame there's nothing like that where I live, just immigrants

Whats that supposed to mean..........? :frown:

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You get paid for having someone teach you? Usually you are supposed to pay tutors to teach you. All I can say is make the most of the opportunity and score an A grade!

Well, the £7.60 is really used to pay for your travel expenses. But I already buy a weekly bus pass every week for college so I can take the bus to LSE instead, which takes about 45 minutes from where I live.

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I'm applying to LSE, and it was my second choice uni until someone told me it's really anonymous and there is no sense of community. (not helped by the fact so many students are foreign)

Is this true or? ;x

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Whats that supposed to mean..........? :frown:

It means I live in a complete dump, and there's many factors as to why it's a complete dump. :smile:

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hi
im going to teh sat skools but for sociology.
we get the seven pound and our travel paid lol

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Well, good news. 1 girl is going to join me but I have never been in her class so I don't even know what she looks like.

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jediknight007

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Well, I went to the Introductory Session today and it was so long! Sat there for 2 hours in the lecture hall and they were going on and on about student life and UCAS etc...Then I went on a tour around the LSE, even if I had already been there and knew most of the places. Finally got home around 6pm!

And I managed to see one of my old secondary school friends there as well! Funnily enough, I could have represented his borough (Newham) with him since we both went to a school in E London but now that I live in SE London, I'm representing the Lewisham borough instead! The last time I saw him, which was a year ago, I had no interest in learning a foreign language at college but now I'm looking forward to speaking in Italian with him now since I have no Italian friends!

But still....22 Saturdays doing Maths at 10am man! Well, at least I get paid for it...

Anyone going to the LSE Saturday School 03/04?

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