I'm completing S6 and I'm bored.. come ask me questions or just chat!

Hi everyone!
I finally got my last uni decision back and I have a week til my next exams. I'm bored so I figured why not answer some questions or just look for conversation lol.
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omg girl our interests are so similar, I love kpop too and also skylines!! I’m sitting my highers right now, I hope you do well 💗

How has Edinburgh rejected you when you meet the entry requirements or is there something extra you needed

Hi everyone!
I finally got my last uni decision back and I have a week til my next exams. I'm bored so I figured why not answer some questions or just look for conversation lol.
Qualifications Studied:
Uni Applications:
Interests:

Hey!
How have you found the workload of 3 Advanced Highers and a Higher in s6?
Good luck with maths tomorrow and physics on Thursday!

Hi, I am also doing pretty such every subject you are doing. I just did my advanced maths exam today and currently preparing for advanced physics. How did you found the project for advanced graphics. My school actually doesn’t offer advanced graphics as a subject, so I had to do pretty much every thing on my own without any help. Regardless I still got an A in prelims and I think my project went pretty good.

what did u do for ur graphics assignment? i applied for architecture and i did kind of an architecture based assignment so i was wondering

How did you find the transition from nat 5 to higher and higher to advanced higher?

I was planning to do an architecture based one but I just felt the way the assignment was structured for the technical graphics I couldn’t really think of a good way to do it. I ended up making a kettle instead and did my cvmg on a kitchen installation and supply company!

yeah it was kinda difficult but i ended up doing a flatpack playhouse thing for kids and it was great for the technical and the CVMG

A little update now that it is results day! I got As in all 4 of the subjects I took this year which means I am going to Manchester next month!

aaaaaa!!!! congrats!!! , wishing u the best of luck with your future studies! <33
Emily
Year 3, Chemistry
Official University Of Strathclyde Rep

Thank you!
The workload was definitely a lot, I kinda knew that going into S6 but I feel like I didn’t realise exactly how much it would be. A lot of that also has to do with the fact that I have a lot of other activities on outside of just class work—I take part in our school show, choir, lead the school magazine which includes doing the graphics for it, also am a house captain and I have a job outside all of this too. My uni applications as well, I had to make a portfolio too, so it all kind of amounted up and was pretty stressful at times. I took on a lot of the extra things as I do enjoy them and I wanted to make the most out of my last year, but it was definitely not easy.
For the subjects themselves, I don’t think people quite realise how much is expected of you for advanced higher level. I remember being in S4 and people telling me the jump from N5 to Higher was much worse than Higher to Advanced Higher, and while I feel that is partly true (in terms of coursework and theory, for example) people kind of forget to mention the work load expected from advanced higher. It’s so much more demanding than the levels below. AH graphics, for example, has a really demanding project that is nothing like the ones in N5 and Higher level since it’s completely self directed. Physics, theory wise, was similar to N5 and Higher. I found the course fairly simple in terms of content isn’t too difficult to grasp and there isn’t much of it but the concepts themselves are more advanced. The project definitely prepares you more for something you’d do at uni (although I’m saying that without having gone yet lmao). AH maths is painful to be completely honest. Maths has always been my strong subject but it is a LOT at AH level, there is just so much content and so little time. As for higher computing, it definitely added work load but for me it was my laid back subject as I’ve found it easier to pick up higher content having already done 5 and also now doing advanced highers as well. I spent a lot of time in that class working on my advanced highers instead since I usually finished work quickly. It was a subject I could’ve dropped early in the year but I do enjoy it very much.
All in all, it was stressful and I definitely procrastinated a lot. It did take a mental toll on me at times, but I’m finding it rewarding now that I’m almost finished! 😊
Sorry for the extremely long post but I wanted to try and share all aspects of how I found it this year!