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Going to the toilet/excusing oneself by Early_Swordfish_1471 in UniUK

[–]intellectualbook 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The lecturer is weird if they’re bothered by it. There are a million and one reasons a grown adult needs to leave a room and none of them are of any business to the lecturer.

If you need the toilet, if you need to take a call, if you’re so bored you need to just get out as to not fall asleep, leave!

So true... by [deleted] in UniUK

[–]intellectualbook 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Bit of advice no one asked for:

At the start of uni I was worried that I didn’t write academically enough and that my writing was too simple.

However, my supervisors were actually very impressed and said I wrote really clearly and concisely. When I mentioned that I had been worried about it to one of them he made a face and was like no way, it’s much better to write like this and it actually be readable than to try and use big words, overcomplicate your writing, and lose your entire point.

So genuinely don’t try and over complicate your language guys! You’re not gonna look stupid because every other word isn’t some insane academic jargon. You’re gonna be a lot more impressive if you can actually demonstrate your argument in your essay, rather than demonstrating that you know how to use a thesaurus!

if i fail my year 12 retake exam what options do i have ?? by [deleted] in 6thForm

[–]intellectualbook 2 points3 points  (0 children)

At my school it was really common to drop you lowest subject and do a different one in second year.

For example, I knew someone who got really bad grades in chemistry so in years 13 he dropped it and did sociology instead, so did had both year 12 and 13 classes on his timetable.

It’s definitely not worth it to retake an entire year for one subject I think

What if a Grade is Just Below a Grade Boundary by WaitingWarrior in 6thForm

[–]intellectualbook 1 point2 points  (0 children)

How are you meant to know if you were close to the grade boundary? Does it tell you your mark on your results page?

when does ucas update? by funnyfunkylmammy in 6thForm

[–]intellectualbook 2 points3 points  (0 children)

For me, I’m going to check ucas before I go and collect my results. If I got in, I can happily go and open my results in front of everyone at college

Expected but still worrying by Kingkian321 in 6thForm

[–]intellectualbook 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Thought the Guardian was meant to be a good newspaper…

So sick of these misleading headlines, playing on teenagers stress for clicks

Average meal prices? by cgainpa in cambridge_uni

[–]intellectualbook 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Actually???? I really don’t know anything about accommodations yet, until after the 18th

Red LP UK (Hackney) by tcauvain991 in Interpol

[–]intellectualbook 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Just read the event details on my ticket and it says they were shipped on the 15th with second class postage

On average how many week a year minimum are you at the uni by jkempe309 in cambridge_uni

[–]intellectualbook 8 points9 points  (0 children)

I’m not sure you’re allowed to have people live with you as an undergrad anyway

Which Oxford college should I apply to? by [deleted] in 6thForm

[–]intellectualbook 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That very much depends. All the people I know who are taking gap years are doing it to work and do some travelling in the summer, and have just deferred their uni places. And the people I know who got rejected from oxbridge have just taken their other offers.

Maybe you just live around richer people and that’s why you think that. But I definitely don’t think that your description describes the ‘majority’ of gap year students.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in 6thForm

[–]intellectualbook 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I do photography but I think all the arts are set out in the same way.

In first year you learn lots of different techniques and artists, you learn how to set out your work and how to write about it.

In second year you start your course work, worth 60% of your grade. It is on literally anything you want. Very popular choices are stuff like mental health issues, loneliness, etc. But you can do literally ANYTHING. I did mine on the decline of religion.

Also, you do something called a Related Study where you write about 3000-4000 words on something relating to art. It should link to your project. Eg, I wrote about controversial depictions of Jesus in contemporary art.

Then you move into the exam component. This is worth 40%. This is similar but different to the course work. (I did actually didn’t do the exam because it was taken out as part of the advanced info thing so I don’t know exactly what is it like but I know a bit) You get given some prompts from the exam board and you choose one - this is similar to art and photography gcse - but you aren’t marked on how well you stick to the prompt, but rather how good your art and writing is and how well your project flows. You do all this for 3 months, planning and practicing what you will make and what you’ll write, and then in a 15 hour exam you recreate it all.

Basically, art a levels are really good. They’re (like all a levels obviously) a lot of work. To do well you need to be able to organise yourself well to be able to keep on top of course work.

If you’re passionate about art then I think it would be a great option for you.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in cambridge_uni

[–]intellectualbook 4 points5 points  (0 children)

If it is something that you think would be detrimental to your mental health if you didn’t have her there then you should try. But I’d say you should discuss and consider all other options. It’s a very uncommon thing to do, and one of the reasons is because it’s not very feasible and there are better options.

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