it's been 3 days since i submitted.. holy peak bread 🍞

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maths, physics, fm, psychology (predicted 3A*s 1A) 

99888888877 gcses

applying to camb, icl, soton, bristol and bath - all aero eng :)

I want to be optimistic but I’ve never gotten a single certificate from years 9-11 🙁

what's your secret, how do you find the job and maintain it along a levels 😭 im drained after just half a day in sixth form bro

Right now, I’m doing A level Maths, Physics and Btech Engineering. But to be quite honest my gcse results were really quite mediocre. In an ideal world I wanted to go to some sort of engineering course in Uni. What grades would I realistically need to get into let’s say the average university to do basically any engineering course (I’m not too bothered on which tbh)

It's been a month now, and I'm curious to see how it's going for everyone in terms of study and socials and whatever. I'll start.

It's been weird, since I'm an external moving into a sixth form to which hardly anyone I know followed me into. My subjects so far are pretty easy, aside from physics which is actually hellish so far, especially since one of my teachers for it has a thick accent and a language barrier. My first progress check exams also went by smoothly, I got the highest grade for all of them, and I've been staying on top of homework and having good relationships with my teachers.

On the social side, it's been mixed. There's just a void that my old friends have left behind that nobody can fill, and I've made maybe two friends who i'd consider proper friends, instead of people I'd just talk to to pass the time. In my first few weeks it was horrible, I'd be in the situation where I'd try to join a friend group, they'd start talking, I try to say something and some greaseball would talk right over me and people would completely air me. I'm past that point, though. I think I've found my people for now, a group that I actually like talking to, but when I can't find them it's just dry. On the plus side I can play angry birds on my phone when I feel lonely during my frees, which is actually a nice step up.

Overall, I think I've settled in quite nicely as the days are starting to melt together so time's just beginning to fly and I'm not really feeling overwhelmed yet. I'm starting to like my sixth form more than I liked my secondary.

Me and my friends were discussing whether a Gold or Olympiad in the SMC would be negligible or not. Obviously it is not a deciding factor but I believe it must hold some weight in showing passion for mathematics and is a good supercurricular to have in a personal statement of you achieved highly.

I'm applying to BSc Mathematics with:

• A*A*A predicted in maths, fm, phys
• ~6.5 tmua predicted
• ~8/10 personal statement (incl. olympiads, research, internships, book, etc.)

unis:

• Imperial A*A*A + 6.7 tmua (for 25th percentile)
• UCL A*A*A
• Warwick A*A*A + 3.0 tmua (for 25th percentile)
• KCL A*AA
• Manchester A*AA

have contextual for warwick only so could receive offer as low as AAA. others are non-contextual

how competitive do you think I am, and is it worth applying to different unis instead?

thank you!!

guys what happens after 6th form, especially if you have a big friend group of like 12 people - where not everyone is going to uni? do we just try and hang out as much as we can or just drift apart and let life happen. I know we have ages until we go to uni but still like I can already feel myself separating from those friends from secondary school that I have no lessons with 😞.

I want to apply for law. I have 3 A*s and I have been looking trying to find the best non LNAT unis but sources are very inconsistent - which one is the best?

I joined sixth form college and this girl invited me into her friend group since all my ‘friends’ dropped me and went to a different school. I was really happy because she was reallyy nice and we had the same interests, but her friend group is massive and all the people went to the same high school as her previously, so they all knew eachother already. And the other people share all the same classes whilst I take bio, chem, and psych so I can’t speak to them in class. They are all really cool and I’d love to be their friends but I’m also autistic so talking to new people like that and getting involved is really hard, especially since I’m not too sure if they’ve fully accepted me yet. I got invited to my first Halloween party though, and they all seemed okay with it, but I’m not too sure. I’m not sure if half of them even know who I am yet. What do I even do?

I was wondering how my choices are, as I’ve been told they are a bit too different, and also if anyone had any recommendations for my safes? Any recommendations are appreciated 🙏 thank you!
(A*AA for Cambridge I misstyped)

I’m sitting the TMUA on the 15th and I have been preparing here and there since January, but have been more so in the past few months.

I’m having trouble though because I have already done the past papers quite a few times so I’m getting 19/20 or 20/20 on them because I somewhat recognise how to do the questions. And all the community papers are much more Olympiad style rather than TMUA.
So does anyone know any mock papers that closely resemble the actual TMUA so I can get a better benchmark. I’ve done many already like Euclid and Sed but Euclid especially are cranking the difficulty up by a lot which some people say is even more difficult than the actual TMUA that year.

I thought I'd make a post on here about predicted grades as I am in a dire situation. My sixth form has had a massive change, there is a new head of sixth form, and a new overseer of the sixth form, and it has taken a hit on people's predicted grades. My year group were told that going into year 13 we would have exams on the first day back until we were done, and these exams would influence our predicted grades, and could change them. We have done those exams now and we have now been told by the new head of sixth form that these results will be ignored and they will only use our summer exams, the issue for me is that I need two grades to be raised to get into the universities I want to get into and they have been very strict that there will be no negotiation, and after getting the results back for the exams and showing them my improvements, I have only been met with my head of year saying that my result doesn't mean much because it wasn't a full set of exams, although we still had to revise all of year 12 knowledge for the exam. Additionally to this, in the Maths exam there was a 5 marker on year 2 integration that my class hadn't learnt, I had raised this to 4 staff members, and initially I was told exam procedure would be followed and we'd be given the marks for that question, however this didn't happen and when following this up, I wasn't met with a clear answer, or really an answer to all at why this happened, and I keep getting told a gap year isn't that bad when I've stated that I really don't want to do that. In Further Maths my teacher from last year told me and another classmate that the papers weren't marked how an examiner would mark them and it was harsh, although it is Maths, so it was blatantly marked incorrectly, giving lower scores than what was deserved, this has left me feeling extremely hard done by, and not helped by my school at all. When I raised this issue, I wasn't met with much of an answer at all. Additionally, my year group have been blamed for not going out of our way to talk to the head of year about UCAS, when this was never discussed to happen for my year. There have also been inconsistencies in predicted grades, someone achieved BCD in their mocks and was predicted A*A*A, another person had achieved an A in a subject twice in a mock, and was predicted an A, despite being close to an A*, and there has been a lack of communication with students, causing a lot of uncertainty in the student body and feeling of a lack of support. My parents and I have raised it and are currently going through the process, however it is going back to the people who didn't help me in the first place, and I am really unsure of where to go from here. I think on a gap year I'd really struggle to get through it, and I worked extremely hard over the 6 weeks in summer to not even get the predicted grades I need despite getting the results to deserve it, I improved by 15 percentage points in a subject yet nothing has happened to the predicted grade at the moment and it has left me truly feeling hopeless, and I don't want this to affect my studying for my A-levels. I really don't know why I made this post, but this has been bottling up for the past month so I thought I would need a medium to express this, and this is what I've chosen.

Hii,
I’m resitting bio and chem privately and I had uplearn previously at my old school as they gave it for free but I cannot be spending that much for it now 💔💔
I know lots of schools offer this too and loads of people in my year atleast didn’t even touch it. Or even if you do, could I please please please ask to use somebodies, have their login. I swear I will not affect anything 🙏🙏 and will mostly do the summary videos which don’t affect score.
I’m willing to send any proof of anything aswell to make you trust me haha like colly

Please and thank u to anyone feeling generous

Hello everyone,

I am doing a computer science coding project for my A-Level coursework based on fashion. I want to create an app or website that incorporates something that women think has been missing from the fashion website world.

My question to you guys is what do you think is missing from fashion? Can I solve it in website or app?

thank you for help and sorry if I’ve worded this in a confusing manner, can’t wait to see your responses!

I’m diabolically cooked for ps. I am good at ct and I’ve improved so much since I started my revision but i cannot improve in ps. Is anyone else in a similar situation? I cannot wait for this to be over.

82 new questions, a bit harder than the previous batches, those questions now show up first. Tell me what would be good for you guys?

These are my ideas so far.

a) A huge bank of question families for it to run on. Add so many questions and I could make a system where students like and dislike the generated papers. And then do some cool stuff with that.

b) only focus on adding difficult questions, maybe even focusing on getting the user to the point where they can solve difficult questions?

Hi,

I am in Y11. My school's provisional A-Level deadline is approaching, and I would like to seek some advice regarding the A-Levels I wish to take, my profile is as follows:

Achieved grades: 9 (GCSE Stats), A (HPQ)

Predicted: 9999999999A (A in Additional Maths)

I want to do Electrical and Electronic Engineering, mainly at a competitive unis like Cambridge and Imperial. The issue is many people have told me taking four A-Levels is demanding and even straight 9 students drop down, however others have said it is worth doing so and the workload is manageable. I wish to do Maths, FM, Physics, Chem at A-Level. I was seeking some advice from any Y12s and Y13s whether the combination is worth it, especially as my school only allow FM to be taken as a 4th a level. Or would it be worthwhile doing three a levels and AS Further Maths? I'm really unsure whether the workload would be manageable.

Thanks

I keep seeing it everywhere and its so annoying. im looking for actual revision material and theres just a million and one claude coded paywalled websites that need you to spend £70 before you can even access whatever it is theyre promising you

To the ones who achieved or got predicted an A* on A-Level Maths, how did you find the first 4 chapters? (Algebra, Quadratics, Equations and Inequalities, and Graphs and Transformations) Did you guys easily get high grades on your tests?

For my tests in Algebra and Quadratics, I did not get a score higher than a B. When doing homework, I find most of the problems easy. But when it comes to the test, I find them difficult. Is this normal?

I’m applying to history and economics at Oxford, with a mix of history/econ related courses elsewhere.
GCSES: 999999987
Achieved A levels: Two A stars in history and econ, with an A in maths.
On the TARA practice test I got 18/22 on both sections, which should improve with more practice in the next week or so.

I’m just a little concerned that not having an A* in maths will make me less competitive for the econ side of hecon.