[Official] Computer Science applicants thread 2024 entry

ooooh...that's a bit of a dilemma. If I were you, I'd firm Sheffield and then choose between Leeds and Nottingham for your insurance choice. What happened with your other two options??

Yeah I like all of them and would be happy at any. I had applied for Oxford to just give it a go but was rejected and the other was Plymouth which was just to have a low offer within the selection as they only offered me 104 ucas points.

The other thing I'd recommend is looking at the course structure and the modules on offer. Try to grasp which course will suit you better, which course has the better graduate prospects and which university is of higher value. Now, in that list, they are all kept in high regard for their respective areas but for engineering-related courses (which includes Computer Science), I'd say choose Sheffield and Nottingham. They are just that small level above Leeds for Computer Science. Leeds is great, don't get me wrong, but it's more well known for Mechanical Engineering and Building in the engineering related fields.


I, too was in a bit of a dilemma (which was then cleared up by my Cambridge rejection pre-interview). I applied to Cambridge and Imperial and I wanted to be able to make a decision on who I would firm and insure, should I get both offers back (I wasn't anticipating that I was going to but on the off-chance I did). I looked at the course structure and the Cambridge course was extremely theoretical and focussed more on people who want to become academics (I don't fall under this category - I want to get into industry but this may all change. Who knows?) while the Imperial course had a mixture of both practical and theoretical options in addition to the multitude of internship opportunities available while on the course. While Cambridge does carry the name, I felt that Imperial would suit me better so I decided that if I got both offers back, I would firm Imperial and insure Cambridge (which can be construed as a little controversial but I'm not the only one who has this thought).

Congrats! Is that going to be your firm or insurance choice? Being from Leeds, I'm sure you will enjoy your experience at this university.

You’re from leeds? Same bro

Yes I'm from Leeds. 😂😂 Both from Leeds and both applying for Computer Science...

I also have an offer from Leeds for CS!!!

Are you an international Applicant? I'm still 'waiting to hear from Edinburgh, Bath, Bristol & Southampton.

Are you an international Applicant? I'm still 'waiting to hear from Edinburgh, Bath, Bristol & Southampton.

Just to add further, I am an international student. TMUA score 5.4...SAT 1600 and ILETS 8.5

What was the purpose of doing TMUA?? I'd recommend looking at rankings to decide who to pick. In terms if grades, I am in a different ball park so I can't say much.

I'd recommend university of Lancaster based off your ABB grades but not sure about their minimum entry requirements

Doing Maths, Physics, Further Maths, Computer Science
Applying to Cambridge, ICL, KCL, UCL, Warwick; picked unis in London, and Warwick because they offer a great education
GCSE:9998877765 (6 in Geography and 5 in Spanish), predicted A*A*A*A (A in computer science, asked my teacher to bump up that A to an A* and it might work and it might not)
AS level grades: AAAB (B in computer science)
First started because I heard the course make good money, but I enjoy them now.
TMUA in 2 weeks, feel prepared now.
Did not go to any open days
Exciting
Nope

Hi I’m currently in year 12 and I’m doing computer science. I wanted to ask you since your predicted are really good how do you revise for a level comp sci and ensure you’ll get an A*? I didn’t do it for gcse so it deflated my confidence as my class is able to understand and the content more easily compared to me. I currently have a week left until college starts again.what should I do to ensure I get an A/A* in upcoming exams? (Also everything above goes the same for physics and maths I’m so clueless on how to revise but I’m predicted As for all 3 which obviously I want to live up to. Also sorry for such a long message)

Hi I’m currently in year 12 and I’m doing computer science. I wanted to ask you since your predicted are really good how do you revise for a level comp sci and ensure you’ll get an A*? I didn’t do it for gcse so it deflated my confidence as my class is able to understand and the content more easily compared to me. I currently have a week left until college starts again.what should I do to ensure I get an A/A* in upcoming exams? (Also everything above goes the same for physics and maths I’m so clueless on how to revise but I’m predicted As for all 3 which obviously I want to live up to. Also sorry for such a long message)

Hi, I’m sorry for the late reply. My mock exam starts in a week and I was busy revising.

For Maths, I’ve covered all the topics back when I was in Korea (I’m an international student). If you’re doing further maths and are comfortably predicted an A, you should be completely fine doing normal maths.

For Further Maths, I didn’t have much trouble doing them. (except moments and Centre of mass in Mechanics part of Further Maths, I missed half of the mechanics lesson because of basketball team training/games) Nowadays, I regret not doing further mechanics topic as much as mechanics is getting trickier. My exam board for further maths is OCR MEI, which requires you to choose to do more of either mechanics and statistics. I hate stats like most people, so I decided to do mechanics and I can tell they are getting harder and harder for sure.

For Physics, I’ve learnt the topics earlier than my cohorts in my own time, which made my understanding better when the teacher talks through the contents I’ve already covered. Once I was sure I know all the contents, I went on physicsandmathstutor.com, complete every questions related to the topic, then repeat for the other topics. At the end of Year 12, I asked my teacher for all the available past papers from 2010 to 2022, and I’ve done them all. When I sat my AS level exam for physics, it was a pure lightwork. I strongly recommend you to do as many questions possible before going in the exams.

For Computer Science, I was in the same situation as you, where I didn’t take the subject for my GCSEs. (did PE instead since I loved playing sports and still do ) ) I felt like everyone were much better than me in class as most of my cohorts already have covered quite a bit of contents, while I had no idea what was going on. Sometimes the teacher expected us to know stuff which I have never got taught about, which frustrated me the most and it made me want to quit for few months in the start of Year 12. I was predicted a C until December after small mock exam at college, then got predicted up to A in January where I sat my second mock exam. I just did loads of questions on PMT (same method as Physics), and I did all the past papers out there on the internet.

I do OCR computer science, and I bought a book from Amazon called ‘A/AS level computer science for OCR’ by Alistair Surrall and Adam Hamflett. The book gives detailed information about the topics you need to learn about A level and AS level, and the contents you need to learn for the first year and second year is distinguished clearly so you will know what you have to revise for your year.

I think you just need to learn the concepts of the topics quickly (applies for every subject), and do as many questions as possible. This requires a lot of time, and I want to tell you to use your time wisely. Many of my friends waste their time watching TikTok, YouTube videos, and other meaningless stuff, and they complain for their **** grades they get. Obviously you need to get some rest after revising hard, but try to find something that won’t distract you much for revising. (I go gym when I get tired from revising then start revising again)

I hope my response helps.