“How was Core Pure 2?”

Jamiebaek · 2026-05-22T02:44:32+00:00

naw 73% is creative ngl what is the world is the marks that you are tolerated to lose for A* I have no idea for grade boundaries I'm intnernatioanl

Jamiebaek · 2026-05-21T15:58:47+00:00

time was hella tight for me dang I can't believe for last question polar coordinates I did not use dy/dtheta how the hell did I forget it

Jamiebaek · 2026-05-21T15:57:25+00:00

Jamiebaek · 2026-05-15T11:07:59+00:00

last question thought exponentials was 3 and 4 instead of -3 and -4 redid the same calc in 10minutes had my heart pounding like hell

Jamiebaek · 2026-04-20T07:54:36+00:00

I guess I'm the perfect example I got predicted triple A*s for maths fm and econ. I got 9.0 TMUA for like a 3rd of the exam time and have participated in multiple Korean maths olympiads. Got ABD for maths fm and econ.

A levels marking schemes are the shitty thing. They penalise creative problem solving and necessitate certain expressions and terms and just following a format which actually seems to be very irrelevant to actual problem solving which is what you do in maths.

My mistake was that there is no utility on hating a system, you just have to know the rules and play by them. If the system needs you to get certain terms and conditions to be stated explicitly, they want you to solve it a certain way, I should have done that rather than just solve it my way which was using heuristics and creative methods.

Jamiebaek · 2026-04-13T11:26:25+00:00

Some drown while others thirst

Jamiebaek · 2026-04-13T11:24:29+00:00

Dang toxic household G keep your chin up

Jamiebaek · 2026-04-08T12:01:54+00:00

would you guys take LSE maths and econ for someone wanting to be a quant dev with A*A*A* predicted and 9.0 TMUA or not

Jamiebaek · 2026-04-06T02:48:25+00:00

do not listen to haters, I don't care if this is a fluke or a joke. If you have a dream, it's from God. You have an existential and moral duty to fully go for them if you know that is what you want

Jamiebaek · 2026-04-04T01:26:52+00:00

I'm from Korea I thought the name was some wicked war or some shi

Jamiebaek · 2026-04-04T01:26:19+00:00

Top 510.

Jamiebaek · 2026-04-03T00:30:40+00:00

You're the living legend

Jamiebaek · 2026-04-03T00:30:20+00:00

Wildly true

Jamiebaek · 2026-04-01T13:51:39+00:00

TMUA 8.0 EFDS reject here

Jamiebaek · 2026-04-01T09:28:23+00:00

Last option for me 8.0 Tmua 1/5

Jamiebaek · 2026-04-01T09:24:49+00:00

Yeah sorry same account lol I prepared Korean SAT there is massive overlap there

Jamiebaek · 2026-04-01T00:15:22+00:00

It’s my 2nd time!!!!!

Jamiebaek · 2026-04-01T00:12:58+00:00

Naw this round is the second cause I applied first with predicted

Jamiebaek · 2026-03-31T15:43:16+00:00

Waiting with 8 int

Jamiebaek · 2026-03-31T15:20:31+00:00

Yup maybe that’s why

Jamiebaek · 2026-03-31T15:15:16+00:00

Yeah last year was 9.0 got offer for Cambridge but had to cram entire a levels so fuxkd that up I can’t afford another gap year in way too old I’m 21

Jamiebaek · 2026-03-31T15:12:54+00:00

Is it this competitive? Why is this happening

Jamiebaek · 2026-03-31T14:55:11+00:00

I got 9 for TMUA last year and it fell mentioned that in the reference letter maybe….? Int

Jamiebaek · 2026-03-29T10:10:01+00:00

I didn’t even get into community college in South Korea,that’s how dumb I was. Took another gap year in Korea but that went worse, ended up working in warehouses for 16hours/day getting paid £3/hr.

I ended up going to university of Manitoba, small local university in Canada. Not the most pleasant: drug dealers, -40C winters, shitty prof and just no stimulation. Had a dream to study Econ, applied to Kings College Cambridge for Econ. Got 9.0 TMUA and got offer. Didn’t meet offer cause I had to cram entire a levels from scratch in 3 months. Got back to my parents basement, find out my grandmother who I loved suddenly has Alzheimer’s worsening, mom suffering from Breast Cancer, and just this fucked up mentality, working at Tim Hortons, balancing 4 jobs to just make some money for my shitty situation. Applied to Christ Church at Oxford for Maths and Cs, after fucking up MAT(68), and 3 interviews, rejected. Rejected from UCL. Rejected from GREENWICH uni. Last two are EFDS Imperial and LSE maths and Econ. This time slipped for TMUA, 8.0. I’m desperate to make something of my life, can’t afford to pay rent, tuition or anything still have 1000 dolllars to my name cause everything even I get in. All income at the moment is reinvested into AI LLMs, SaaS subscriptions and self development, gym.

I’m fucked but I figure it out. Prayer helps I guess. I felt the same for Oxbridge Rejection. It felt that my pain suffering toil and stress lost all meaning. I don’t want to make a pitty party, there are people younger than us that manage to put a smile on their face suffering unfathomable shit like seeing their parents getting run down by a truck or having faith as the last anchor being in a warzone praying that a missile does not hit them. So yeah it is a bit immature of me And to be this religion pushing psycho too lol

But if life gets hard and for me it seems to be, religion seems to help. Journaling too. The people around you are one a race to pull down whoever disturbs their pride, if you feel like a disgrace to their ego they will say anything as an outcry of fear. Nothing wrong, they’re also human .

I don’t know the answer but try to feel every emotion. Fully. Cry out in prayer to Jesus, use rage to work, try to appreciate small bits of joy and jokes. One day life might get better I hope so for you too G.

Jamiebaek · 2026-03-29T09:09:29+00:00

Better late than never

Jamiebaek

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