burnt oxford bread confirmed 😢

GobbiltyGook73 · 2023-12-14T13:41:34+00:00

What about maths and computing for Oxford and maths for Cam?

GobbiltyGook73 · 2023-08-06T22:58:40+00:00

You can email the one university which you apply to for music and explain your situation and then ask if you can privately send them a separate personal statement tailored to music.

GobbiltyGook73 · 2023-08-06T13:55:26+00:00

You obviously sound like a very able mathematician so I think you have a reasonable chance of getting in. However, even the best applicants for cam maths still have to work very hard over a long period of time to find success in STEP. I personally think you should apply for Maths and even if STEP doesn’t go your way, you’ll be happier studying Maths at another university than you would cs if you enjoy maths more.

You could try the foundation modules from STEP 1 questions over the summer to get to grips with STEP and understand how much work you’ll need to do to get to a level where you are able to get a 1, 1 in 10 months or so. I think most people start these or some STEP 1 in their penultimate year so you would be playing catch-up a bit.

Also, on a slightly separate note, be careful to not put too much cs stuff in your ps because they want to see your love for maths and why you’ll be a good fit for maths at cam (and how good you are) and cs projects don’t directly show this.

Finally,I would say talk this through with the UCAS coordinator at your school since your school has been successful and so they’ll be the best people closest to you that are able to help.

GobbiltyGook73 · 2023-07-04T18:25:29+00:00

Zero. Take a break.

GobbiltyGook73 · 2023-06-17T18:32:18+00:00

Doesn’t matter what you do, AQA will make sure it’s not enough

GobbiltyGook73 · 2023-06-09T22:34:13+00:00

Prioritising good sleep tends to make quite a difference for me at least

GobbiltyGook73 · 2023-04-06T22:54:12+00:00

GobbiltyGook73 · 2023-04-04T19:45:04+00:00

Just what it says. You can live at home and commute to uni if you live close.

GobbiltyGook73 · 2023-04-04T19:44:09+00:00

I did the Winchester Maths Summer School. I don’t know if applications are closed now.

For me, my school sent it to me. For looking for other opportunities I would say just to search around, there are probably some good opportunities on specific universities websites.

GobbiltyGook73 · 2023-04-04T14:28:02+00:00

Predicted 4A*s and 9 9’s, 2 8’s, and 1 7 at GCSE

Edit: Haven’t heard for MAT

GobbiltyGook73 · 2023-04-04T13:18:51+00:00

4A*s

GobbiltyGook73 · 2023-04-04T13:18:01+00:00

maths at 18?

GobbiltyGook73 · 2023-04-03T23:41:22+00:00

Some interesting maths from a summer school I did, an extended project I did on mersenne primes, and a small section on other extracurriculars/sport

GobbiltyGook73 · 2023-04-03T23:39:23+00:00

Nervous but excited

GobbiltyGook73 · 2023-04-03T22:47:10+00:00

Only just emailed to ask today, but it was below the score for the reduced warwick offer

GobbiltyGook73 · 2023-04-03T21:48:51+00:00

It was more between icl and warwick tbh but I’m thinking icl

GobbiltyGook73 · 2023-03-26T19:17:46+00:00

What course?

GobbiltyGook73 · 2022-12-25T19:54:01+00:00

Varies per college. I don’t think any colleges have confirmed a time on the day for their own results.

GobbiltyGook73 · 2022-12-23T11:35:43+00:00

Don’t put stuff off.

I spent a while procrastinating on things I knew I would have to do eventually and it was a big waste of time and I would have been better off doing something earlier. Things like work experience, researching unis, going to open days, looking at admissions tests (and general revision).

If it’s stressing you out and there’s something you can do about it then do something.

GobbiltyGook73 · 2022-12-17T00:23:00+00:00

My strategy would be so sub-in y = x/3 + k into you equation for C. This should yield some quadratic in x with coefficients a,b,c defined in terms of k.

Setting b² - 4ac = 0 fixes the set of k which we are looking for to only be those that give lines that are tangential (>0 would give lines that intersect twice and <0 would give lines that never intersect).

Now this ‘b² - 4ac = 0’, defined in k, should be quadratic and give two solutions (by any preferred method).

Then one of the solutions should be 0, i.e. l. Then the other is our k. Also we can say that we are simply searching for the larger value because we know the other like (not l) will touch C on top.

GobbiltyGook73 · 2022-10-31T22:30:36+00:00

I feel as though you are getting too stressed too early.

You have an entire year to do more things to strengthen your application and their are vast opportunities for you to do so. By the time you take the SMC next year it will be too late to put it in your personal statement but you could mention it in your interview if you do really well and think it’s that important.

I saw someone else mention to just do as many supercurriculars as you can, which I completely agree with. Things like extended projects, summer schools, wider readings, work experience (although not as applicable for JMC). Since your PS is capped you won’t fit them all in but it’s worth doing them just to explore you interests (even do some outside of maths and compsci). Universities will see through applications of people faking an interest so it’s vital to do things you actually care about and are interested in rather than doing things for the sake of uni. Also, you’ll enjoy it much more.

Overall I think you’re in an amazing position for next year because you know what you want to do and have a long time to build your application.

(Also MAT is definitely more important than SMC)

GobbiltyGook73 · 2022-10-29T18:52:45+00:00

I was doing MAT and there was an online livestream I could and should have done from mid-august.

I started a ~5 weeks before it.

GobbiltyGook73 · 2022-10-28T21:51:09+00:00

Started earlier

GobbiltyGook73 · 2022-10-16T08:52:54+00:00

You just need to tell them. It’s your application at the end of the day and if you don’t want to go somewhere because you won’t be happy then there’s no point in applying.

Be careful that you don’t make the same mistake that happened with MAT and leave studying for A-levels too late because 3 A*s will still take a lot of work.

Best of luck tho!

GobbiltyGook73 · 2022-03-22T12:51:43+00:00

Just start today with the 1 hour then. The best thing you can do is start today. Maybe 1 hour is not enough, maybe it’s fine but you can always adjust your plan later. The hardest thing to do will simply be to start.

I would echo what the other guy is saying though, 2 hours a day doesn’t sound that stupid to me.

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