guys don't let anyone tell you that you can't do it

because you can xx

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A*A*A*A*A*A*A*A (the A was in mongolian throat singing grade boundaries were too high)

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brooooo where are all the compsci girlies at 😔 what happened to women in STEM 🫩

it's so awful. the teacher didn't even have to call my name for registration in the lesson he just looked at me immediately and nodded 💔

it also doesn't help that i've never been to a mixed school before. i'm so fried

So my mum gives me 25 pound every week for college to eat but I want to save that money and honestly I am planning to not eat anything for lunch to save it. Is this the right thing cos honestly I feel bad for my family because although we are not poor, we are getting work done in the house and my parents are working more frequently and I feel bad for them

Education Maintenance Allowance - NIDirect

16-19 Bursary for those in England - gov.uk

Education Maintenance Allowance - mygov.scot

Education Maintenance Allowance - Student Finance Wales

Sacrificed English literature GCSE knowing a 6 was needed in language to go to the sixth form of choice which was going to hard enough. Managed that hurrah! But the grade in literature was, well a bomb. Does it have to be declared in UCAS form or is just listing other GCSEs (8 in total, 88876666) ok?

Just planning ahead, in year 12 now

Thanks!

hi, i’m an international student planning to apply to imperial business EFDS for 2027 entry. would anyone know the percentage of the cohort who receives scholarships, especially the business school excellence award? thanks!

Hello! I am on this sub looking for advice. I’m fully aware this is going to sound really weird but please read the whole thing before you make a judgement. I suffer with pretty bad social anxiety and in my old school (which was a normal comprehensive/non-selective school) I was pretty much bullied/probed for being a ‘neek’ (I got 99999988887 in GCSEs), people used to come up to me and do the whole “are we best friends” thing ppl who have had the same experience as me probably know. In my new school (I now go to a grammar) people are always coming up to me and speaking to me like we have known eachother for ages? A guy whose name I didn’t even know offered to carry my chair back to my class (we have outside assembly) because “I was wearing heels”. I have made a lot of friends for someone who’s really awkward and has only been there for three days now. When I walk around and walk into my common room a lot of people stare at me (or I at least feel like I am being watched) and the only thing that I wear that I would say it’s a little bit outside of the dress code are small maybe 3 or 4 inch stilettos, but apart from that I make it a point to blend in with others clothes wise so I don’t stand out. Again I know this sounds stupid but due to my social anxiety I am really overthinking about all of this stuff :(

Do people think I’m weird? Or are they genuinely nice?

ik i should get over it atp but a 29 mark range is js mad 💔 Missed Imperial offer cus of ts btw

I wanted to study math related degree (either math, data science or economics) but my school does not offer Further Math which is sad because I wanted to study at a Russell Group uni where they either require or expect a Further Mathematics to these subjects. What I can possibly do with that?

I’m currently a resit student aiming to break into finance in the future. My grades are:

• Economics: A (Achieved)
• Business: A* (Predicted)
• Maths: A (Predicted)

Based on this profile and the fact that I'm resitting, what are the top 5 universities where I can realistically secure an offer for an Economics related course?

My current shortlist includes:

• University of Manchester
• University of Birmingham
• University of Nottingham
• University of Bristol
• University of Bath
• University of Leeds
• Durham University
• University of Sheffield
• Loughborough University

Any advice on on any other unis you would recommend or which ones i should apply for would be appreciated.

Can anyone tell me if they used a tutor for the ESAT, and if it genuinely helped?
Wondering if i should do it but im not sure what they can teach me really, feels like more of a grind on your own kind of thing to me.
If anyone can lmk their experience with one and if you actually found it helpful and what kind of things they taught you, if its just explaining questions eg its not that helpful as I have teachers and AI, but if they teach genuine helpful tricks to save time or whatever it’d be useful for me.

does anyone do ocr law and WHAT DO WE THINK OF THE UPDATED SPEC😭😭 mid course btw, i have to go back and teach myself a bunch of stuff weve already learnt, surely they shouldn't be able to do that💔💔

not sure what it is exactly, what are the pros and cons of doing it, just want some details on it thanks

Should i take a gap year ? 

So recently i got back my yr 12 end of years (during May)  i got ACC.  I know this sounds like a lack of accountability but a week before the exams my grandpa passed away, it was also the week where most schools were shut down due to extreme heat wave (poorly conditioned exam rooms) and top it all of literally as soon as i got back from school i had to head straight to my mom’s shop everyday since the beginning of Yr 12 and usually arrive back home at 11. But i know that i still didn’t revise though so i am to blame despite this. 

For UCAs , this is below standardised entry requirements for a law degree (which is AAA for most of the top 30 unis) . 

And it’s kind of annoying because since the mock i’ve been getting A/A* . And my GCSE grades are pretty strong : 8s and 7s. But they said after Yr12, they’re not going to change it regardless because they don’t believe in such thing as ‘substantive improvement’ from yr 12 to yr13 and that the resits were just a ‘confidence booster’. 

So now i either have these options (a) I take a gap year but i do my a levels this year get my results and apply next year (also in my gap year i can travel , start my fashion business, tennis (currently county level). 

Or b) there’s this private school (i hate my current school) , that’s willing to change my grades to match my performance so A* A* A . So i could still apply to my choices and go to uni next year. It would be good as i’d HATE to be a year older than my peers (social reasons) .But the con is it’s a private school, £8,000 a term (my parents said that i’d have to stay at home or supply my own accommodation fees for uni if i want them to pay for my main uni fees). 

Please because my parents don’t care at all since the being. They chose my A level, my sixth form literally basically everything and are blaming it on me.

The unis i want to apply: Oxford , LSE, Birmingham, Loughborough and Nottingham. 

what a level subjects should i take if i want to do biomedical engineering / medical physics?

Hi, for context i just joined year 12 and am doing physics maths further maths english lit (most likely gonna drop it) and epq.

For a topic i want to do something related to theoretical physics as that is what i plan to take at uni, however most topics under that are not very easy to evaluate and write a good essay about, i am also fairly certain my teacher is not going to allow anyone to do an artefact.

Additionally, for bridging work we were set to do a [800-1000](tel:800-1000) word essay on 3 areas of debate within a topic, which is due on thursday and i havent started. (This is the thing i am panicing about and actually gonna cry)

The main problem about choosing what to do is that most actually interesting things are unresolved and the best topics are very practical and personally i am not very interested in. Originally i was planning to do my topic on the locality of gravity, but understandably it will be very hard to write about. Furthermore for the homework i was gonna do it on time but i realise that it is equally annoyinng to talk about.

One extra point is that i didnt do hpq and i have no idea how to research anything, like do you think youtube videos will suffice at least for the homework?

But yeah TLDR just want some epq ideas related to theoretical physics and maybe some advice on how to research

For context, I’m an external student at a competitive sixth form, and this is only my third day of Year 12. So far, I’ve spoken to around 10 people. We mostly talk during lessons and sometimes hang out, so I do have “friends” in my classes who I sit next to, but we aren’t particularly close yet.
My sixth form also has quite a large study room where people can go during break and lunchtime to eat and hang out. I’m just wondering whether you think I should make more of an effort to join a friendship group to spend breaks and lunches with, or whether I should just study by myself in the library.

I will be applying this January and wanted to know how much of a job security does a student have after doing Bachelors from one of these Universities.

I plan to pursue Bachelors in Economics and Mathematics

The emphasis on making folders is actually unbearable.

My school recently got taken over by an academy, cos it's like one of the worst in England lol and has become a lot stricter, and it's sort of incentivised the 6th form to follow suit.

In year 12, they did go on about making folders, how they'd check them every week blah, blah, but they never really did and I got away without making any.

I did have a close call however in Psychology where they asked us to bring our folder for a little like one-on-one meeting to see how it is, and basically ourselves. I ofc rocked up to that without a folder, and somehow talked my way into having them check it the following week. Lucky for me, I knew that there was a 99.9% chance she would forget and I was right!

Since coming back, now in year 13, they have stressed so much about having folders completed and having checks pretty much everyday for some reason. They seem to think that folders solves all, and that if your crap, having a folder will boost your grades on something.

Now, I don't believe in folders lol, especially in my case. Me having a folder isn't going to make me revise more, isn't going to make me somewhat smarter or learn all the knowledge in there. It's only useful if you actually use it, and I just don't intend on using one. In addition, I take like BTEC Computing, with hardly any written work so that's one folder down. In History, practically everything we get given or do is in our notebooks so I can't see a need for a folder. Psychology I can kinda see where they come from, but I'm not going to revise using my folder, I'm sorry.

It's not like I did bad or anything in year 12 mocks, I probably did considerably better than most, especially in my computing lol. Yet, they generalise this 1939 style folder checks everyday when I cannot see how this can be beneficial - just adds more stress tbh.

I revise perfectly fine without them, have done well so far so there's proof I'm alright without them, yet they still bang on about it. Surely their emphasis should be on something different or am I just stupid and difficult?

Also, how much has having dedicated folders helped you?

Slightly late bread but YAY!!!!!!!!!!!! I got 2A* 3A in bio, chem, maths, drama & epq

Feel free to DM me if you want any unc wisdom :D

Lmk if you want any ps advice as well

Honestly none of them seem that great and the modules seem mid in all the ones I’ve seen, but these are the one I’ve got for media/film related stuff, on the track to getting D*AB right now but im actually so stuck

Hi, just wondered if anyone could help, or anyone been in the same position. My daughter has enrolled into college today, but just been told she won't get any finance as our household income exceeds the threshold. I work part time, but my 6 yr old gets middle rate dla, and my wife gets carer allowance. I didn't think they were allowed to include this?

Okay so I’m a current year 12 student who got 99999888887 in my GCSE’s and initially planned on applying to the well known academic sixth forms on results day but obvs didn’t get in due to 273748 other students having the exact same plan as me. Because of this, i applied to my plan b sixth form which is actually an alright school on results day and they gave me an offer which i accepted. However, im extremely anxious and highkey insecure and have always struggled making friends (only found a solid friend group in year 9 lol) so despite being happy about this offer at a better school than my secondary school, i let my anxiety get the best of me and i un-enrolled like an idiot. I kept telling myself I’d be happier at my current school’s sixth forms since I’ll be with my current friend group but I’m only 4 days in and I’m hating everything.

A part of me thinks all will be well if i just lock in pro max, especially because unis contextualise offers and my schools alevel results aren’t great. So this post is just me asking if you think i should still look into better sixth forms (the school i un-enrolled at is now full and my options are quite popular so not too sure about other schools 💔) or just accept my fate and lock in for 2 years. I aspire to go imperial or oxford if possible to study maths and comp sci and im just worried if me staying at a lower performing sixth form may affect my future grade. Also if anyone who struggles with social anxiety has moved schools before please give tips on how you overcame it and made friends!!🥹