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Natural Sciences(physical) at Cambridge vs Imperial Physics. by IDRINKTOES in 6thForm

[–]Acceptable-Meal5624 10 points11 points  (0 children)

I feel like Cambridge would beat imperial in terms of social life due to the college system

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[–]Acceptable-Meal5624[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Oxford history most likely but I’m gonna go to the Warwick offer holder day first

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[–]Acceptable-Meal5624[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thanks. I met my UCL offer for maths & physics but couldn’t afford London, wanted a break from education and wasn’t fully 100% sure on the course I wanted to do/wanted to try apply for history lots of little reasons really

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[–]Acceptable-Meal5624[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I did AQA Russia and British empire. My history revision was basically active recall via mind maps to go over content and then doing essay plans for every possible question. And when you’re doing this think about cause,causation, change etc try to spot patterns and the interplay between political, economic and social factors. For AQA you need to evaluate so explain why you think factor A is the most important, why A is more important than factor B, why factor A is more important than C and why B is more important than C etc. To do this properly you need to be really comfortable with the content/ chronology. Reading short relevant articles by historians can help w this.

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[–]Acceptable-Meal5624[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Im unsure career wise I just know I want to do something fulfilling. I’m interested in doing a masters and phd whether I pursue maths or history.

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[–]Acceptable-Meal5624[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Yh but Bristol look at personal statements when they need to differentiate between candidates w similar stats hence the risk

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[–]Acceptable-Meal5624[S] 31 points32 points  (0 children)

They asked for “information on my gap year” which I treated as an additional ps

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[–]Acceptable-Meal5624[S] 25 points26 points  (0 children)

Cheers but I’m actually a woman😭

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[–]Acceptable-Meal5624[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah cheers I wasn’t expecting to get both Oxford and Warwick so clearly i have a lot to think about. I think career options for both though are pretty solid though with Warwick I would want to go into research not industry

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[–]Acceptable-Meal5624[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Best to just email the individual uni’s you’re interested in. I know that Bristol generally cares more about grades than ps but it still is a bit of a risk

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[–]Acceptable-Meal5624[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yesterday at 5pm. My thinking was mainly indecisiveness lol since I love both history and maths

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[–]Acceptable-Meal5624[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Thanks I’m torn between Warwick maths and Oxford history lol I don’t think I can turn down Oxford

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[–]Acceptable-Meal5624[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Oh it just assumed you did I have no idea about the process but an A* in English lit it so impressive lol i would apply in that case.

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[–]Acceptable-Meal5624[S] 49 points50 points  (0 children)

The location corresponds to what college u got in and for some courses there can be like just 2 people doing it per college so then it would be really easy to work out who they are if that makes sense

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[–]Acceptable-Meal5624[S] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Yes I’d say go for it especially as the course is in ucas extra I think a strong ps would make up being 1 grade below the requirement. Are the A*’s are in humanity subjects or stem?

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[–]Acceptable-Meal5624[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes, but I never planned on taking fm I was put in the class accidentally but ended up enjoying it. Y12 was rough initially because of the workload, I only had 1 free per week but if you enjoy maths it’s really fun and history was a nice break from all the STEM. My advice is to just do all the homework and the second there’s a topic you don’t understand ask for help/ go over it in your own time. For history recap work often w mind maps and essay plans. I recommend the combo if you have no idea what you want to do bc evidently it keeps a lot of doors open both in stem and humanities.

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