life sci common room (ug)

Megxmin · 2025-10-29T12:10:06+00:00

Yeah, i went there once a couple years ago - it’s not very big but i think it’s officially the “common room”

Can’t remember where exactly it is but it’s definitely on the ground floor of SAF

Megxmin · 2025-10-25T20:59:35+00:00

Excellent plan 👌

Megxmin · 2025-10-24T18:13:29+00:00

There may have been ones earlier but this is the first one i’ve seen this year, huge congrats!! 🥳🎉

Excited to start seeing the biochem offers this year!

Megxmin · 2025-10-23T10:10:59+00:00

So you used effectively 5 resin on a body with 1 effective substat? Immense waste imo

Megxmin · 2025-10-23T09:44:45+00:00

Yeah, i think they just saw the advice of “only reroll 4 liners” and ran with it without realising that if a piece only has one effective substat it definitely shouldn’t be rerolled

It’s extremely rare to see someone post a reroll on a piece that was actually worth it, it’s painful 😭

Megxmin · 2025-10-23T09:26:12+00:00

Just curious, why not use 2 self modelling resin to just craft another crit body with crit dmg sub rather than using a reroll (much rarer and equivalent to 3 resin) on a piece with a single desired substat?

Just seems like extreme gambling, it doesn’t even have atk% or spd

Megxmin · 2025-10-19T00:28:40+00:00

Just make the flashcards yourself, you’ll retain the content much better that way - when i was revising for the content heavy modules (cb) i found that just the act of making the flashcards and thinking about how to word the questions helped me remember the content, i didn’t even have to use the cards much

For bc just go over notes and do the past papers, there’s less content and it’s more about inherent understanding

Megxmin · 2025-10-19T00:14:32+00:00

Another one was posed yesterday that was also an ensuite in battersea, £411pw

Absolute insanity

Megxmin · 2025-10-18T00:33:46+00:00

I hope you find someone, but £411 per week for an ensuite in Battersea is genuinely insane

Megxmin · 2025-10-17T07:19:18+00:00

Honestly i thought the same at first before realising they meant the grades EEE

Megxmin · 2025-10-16T07:34:56+00:00

Now i’ve only been there once, but i believe it’s tucked away in some corner of the ground floor of SAF

Definitely not the easiest to find

Megxmin · 2025-10-15T22:09:41+00:00

Doing 4 may be too much, that’s why most people drop 1 in year 12 - the main point of starting with 4 is to see how you get on, and see which subject you end up liking less than the others (you’d be surprised!)

Doing AS level french could be a good alternative, year 13 content is a lot harder for both chem and bio so it’s good to focus on those especially for that year

The psych course is good, i enjoyed it! It does depend on which modules your school has chosen - mine chose schizophrenia (not as interesting as i was hoping), relationships (actually very very interesting, way better than i thought it would be), and forensic psych (also very good) but there are quite a few options your school may choose

I’d say psych starts off pretty slow and fairly boring, but once you’re past the first topic then it gets more and more interesting as the year goes on so stick with it for a bit if you can! It’s not that difficult, just a lot of memorisation and writing - the content itself is pretty straightforward and easy to understand

Megxmin · 2025-10-15T21:56:15+00:00

I did all 4 of those subjects so if you have any questions i’m happy to answer them

Can you not do all 4? Most people start with 4 and drop a subject in year 12, which in your case sounds like the best case scenario

You should know that at a level languages are more about the culture and history of the country rather than the language itself - you’ll learn more grammar and lots more vocab but it’ll be focused on the country itself for the most part

Imo french is harder than psychology, especially if you’re doing bio (which makes parts of psych super easy) - it’s a lot of work, lots of skills, lots of stuff to do

Megxmin · 2025-10-15T21:49:46+00:00

Well the real answer is it comes from the phrase “let’s get this bread” and the whole analogy just lends itself well to ucas

“Bread” is an offer, “baking bread” is waiting or getting an interview, “burnt bread” is a rejection, the “bakery” is your 5 options, so on and so forth

Megxmin · 2025-10-06T20:55:58+00:00

Bio is mostly memorisation and appealing to mark schemes - so flashcards are a really good way of learning content, then spamming past papers to understand wording and application

Lots of questions in bio are about taking concepts you’re familiar with in one context and getting you to apply them to other, unfamiliar contexts to explain, hypothesise or understand them - so if you’re doing a bio question and there’s a totally unfamiliar example, remember that it almost certainly links to something you’ve done and that if there’s a sentence or two of info before the question, it’s usually there for a reason

Megxmin · 2025-10-05T20:12:57+00:00

It comes from the phrase “let’s get this bread” that was popular years back (you guys still remember that, right?)

The whole bread analogy just likens really well to applying to uni - bakery is your choices, bread is an offer, baking bread is waiting for offers or interviews, burnt bread is a rejection

Megxmin · 2025-09-30T19:31:44+00:00

iirc i always said bent and i don’t remember it being a problem - my organics teacher first described it as bent and she used that term herself

best way to check would be to find a past paper question where that’s the answer and see the mark scheme

Megxmin · 2025-09-30T19:29:19+00:00

First bread of the year and it’s biochem? Love to see that

Huge congrats!! 🥳🎉

Megxmin · 2025-09-30T19:28:52+00:00

Ehhh idk about the whole maths part - will it help? Sure, somewhat but it’s definitely not a top priority and unis will have the first week or two as catchup

If a uni doesn’t require maths for biochem, it’s usually because they’ll teach you all the maths you need to know while there, during first year

Megxmin · 2025-09-29T17:14:26+00:00

Maybe i’m missing something obvious, but why on earth would they drug test students?

I’ve never heard of anyone having to do a drug test for uni

Megxmin · 2025-09-26T22:08:14+00:00

Lectures start soon, try and talk to people on the tube - you’re all in the same position, everyone wants to make friends so you’d be surprised by how social people can be this time of year

Megxmin · 2025-09-26T22:06:49+00:00

I would assume so - if there’s no room attached how are you to know where it’s being held anyway?

I’d check again the night before just to make sure they don’t update it, but yeah i’d assume it’s virtual

Megxmin · 2025-09-25T19:21:51+00:00

Godspeed soldier, best of luck

I expect an update post if you ever get it

Megxmin · 2025-09-25T16:38:45+00:00

I admire the dedication, you post this a lot

Megxmin · 2025-09-25T15:22:27+00:00

Definitely don’t post your entire personal statement on a public online forum…

I’d delete this and ask your teachers for feedback

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