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How is everyone preparing for January TMUA coping with the stress and pressure?

I’ve started recently due to focusing on my Cambridge interview (land economy) + UCAS + life issues and the questions are so hard that it makes me feel dumb and more demotivated. I just need a 5.0+ for Imperial EFDS & LSE Econ and Data science, but idk if it’s even possible with the time I have left. I don’t have mocks in Jan, so will try my best every day, but man it feels like it’s for nothing if I’m gonna get a bad score. I find further maths a-level much better than TMUA lol.

I’d appreciate any advice on preparation, resources and on improving my mindset 🙏

Reply 1

I feel this on a spiritual level 😭

Reply 2

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by Ishti54
How is everyone preparing for January TMUA coping with the stress and pressure?
I’ve started recently due to focusing on my Cambridge interview (land economy) + UCAS + life issues and the questions are so hard that it makes me feel dumb and more demotivated. I just need a 5.0+ for Imperial EFDS & LSE Econ and Data science, but idk if it’s even possible with the time I have left. I don’t have mocks in Jan, so will try my best every day, but man it feels like it’s for nothing if I’m gonna get a bad score. I find further maths a-level much better than TMUA lol.
I’d appreciate any advice on preparation, resources and on improving my mindset 🙏

Sorry not helpful but I'm nosey how did you find the land econ interview? (mine was an 'experience' actually nearly choked on air when I started getting quizzed on law for most of my first interview but most of it was decent tbh). Actually for TMUA I think tmua ninja is meant to be good and R2drew2, however in terms of mindset I can't help, I changed all the courses that required TMUA to ones that didn't (part of the reason I applied to Land Econ at least initially). You'll be fine tho just practice and practice it is meant to be hard and even if it doesn't go great at least you'll be better at maths then before you prepped

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by Frazzzer_Who
Sorry not helpful but I'm nosey how did you find the land econ interview? (mine was an 'experience' actually nearly choked on air when I started getting quizzed on law for most of my first interview but most of it was decent tbh). Actually for TMUA I think tmua ninja is meant to be good and R2drew2, however in terms of mindset I can't help, I changed all the courses that required TMUA to ones that didn't (part of the reason I applied to Land Econ at least initially). You'll be fine tho just practice and practice it is meant to be hard and even if it doesn't go great at least you'll be better at maths then before you prepped

Hey, I didn’t get asked about law in mine, I think both my interviews went well, my second one was much better than my first. It was stuff about housing, impact of policies in cities, social & environmental impacts across the two.

Reply 4

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by Ishti54
Hey, I didn’t get asked about law in mine, I think both my interviews went well, my second one was much better than my first. It was stuff about housing, impact of policies in cities, social & environmental impacts across the two.

Oh yeah I got some of that aswell but I was just surprised by the amount of law and even pure econ questions (in the second interview the first 15 minutes was just pure econ) I got.

Reply 5

Yeah i had this when i did the exam last year too, honestly best advice is just to expose yourself to as many different qs as possible as they could ask anything tbh, gather questions from as many places as u can, r2drew2 mocks or questions banks, tmuaboost.com was decent asw but my advice is just spam as many questions and make sure to understand solutions properly.

Reply 6

Hi guys, how’s everyone getting on for tmua, I’m terrified also applying for imperial efds and lse econ and data science but averaging at around 10/20 on past tmua papers

Reply 7

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by Anonymous
Yeah i had this when i did the exam last year too, honestly best advice is just to expose yourself to as many different qs as possible as they could ask anything tbh, gather questions from as many places as u can, r2drew2 mocks or questions banks, tmuaboost.com was decent asw but my advice is just spam as many questions and make sure to understand solutions properly.


Hii, I'm going into yr13 in 3 months(international student). I'm gonna apply to cambridge for econ and idk where to start tmua prep. Do I learn each topic individually and then do practice papers and if so where do i learn them. My school curriculum is diff than a levels. And I've had people say to keep tmua prep for summer and some say to start now.

Reply 8

Original post
by Ishti54
How is everyone preparing for January TMUA coping with the stress and pressure?
I’ve started recently due to focusing on my Cambridge interview (land economy) + UCAS + life issues and the questions are so hard that it makes me feel dumb and more demotivated. I just need a 5.0+ for Imperial EFDS & LSE Econ and Data science, but idk if it’s even possible with the time I have left. I don’t have mocks in Jan, so will try my best every day, but man it feels like it’s for nothing if I’m gonna get a bad score. I find further maths a-level much better than TMUA lol.
I’d appreciate any advice on preparation, resources and on improving my mindset 🙏


Hii, I'm going into yr13 in 3 months(international student). I'm gonna apply to cambridge for econ and idk where to start tmua prep. Do I learn each topic individually and then do practice papers and if so where do i learn them. My school curriculum is diff than a levels. And I've had people say to keep tmua prep for summer and some say to start now.

Reply 9

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by Uxie
I feel this on a spiritual level 😭


Hii, I'm going into yr13 in 3 months(international student). I'm gonna apply to cambridge for econ and idk where to start tmua prep. Do I learn each topic individually and then do practice papers and if so where do i learn them. My school curriculum is diff than a levels. And I've had people say to keep tmua prep for summer and some say to start now.

Reply 10

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by Frazzzer_Who
Sorry not helpful but I'm nosey how did you find the land econ interview? (mine was an 'experience' actually nearly choked on air when I started getting quizzed on law for most of my first interview but most of it was decent tbh). Actually for TMUA I think tmua ninja is meant to be good and R2drew2, however in terms of mindset I can't help, I changed all the courses that required TMUA to ones that didn't (part of the reason I applied to Land Econ at least initially). You'll be fine tho just practice and practice it is meant to be hard and even if it doesn't go great at least you'll be better at maths then before you prepped


Hii, I'm going into yr13 in 3 months(international student). I'm gonna apply to cambridge for econ and idk where to start tmua prep. Do I learn each topic individually and then do practice papers and if so where do i learn them. My school curriculum is diff than a levels. And I've had people say to keep tmua prep for summer and some say to start now.

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