TMUA when optional for course
Hiii,
I applied for LSE for financial mathematics and statistics, which doesn't require the TMUA, however it is optional. I only found this out in November, and I wasn't even sure I was going to do it until I did more research about how competitive it was to get in. But now that I've been really revising for it, I keep doing terribly; I average an 11-14 on the papers, and I heard that the 25/26 ones are a lot more difficult with higher grade boundaries. I have no idea if it's even worth me doing the test, as when I looked up stats, around half of the offers given were given to people without TMUA. Idk if maybe a really small percentage of people applying even do the TMUA, and so the pool of which TMUA takers are picked is smaller, so there's a higher chance to get in, but I'm worried a bad score will hinder me badly, worse than not even doing it.
I applied for LSE for financial mathematics and statistics, which doesn't require the TMUA, however it is optional. I only found this out in November, and I wasn't even sure I was going to do it until I did more research about how competitive it was to get in. But now that I've been really revising for it, I keep doing terribly; I average an 11-14 on the papers, and I heard that the 25/26 ones are a lot more difficult with higher grade boundaries. I have no idea if it's even worth me doing the test, as when I looked up stats, around half of the offers given were given to people without TMUA. Idk if maybe a really small percentage of people applying even do the TMUA, and so the pool of which TMUA takers are picked is smaller, so there's a higher chance to get in, but I'm worried a bad score will hinder me badly, worse than not even doing it.
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Hey I’ve applied to lse for Econ and ds, pretty much the same situation, idk if it’s any reassurance but if you do bad on the tmua, lse won’t consider it since it is optional, only a good score is considered! It’s worth taking, and if it makes you feel better I got an A* in further maths but average at 10 per paper lol
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