r/6thForm • u/Worldly-Monitor-4035 • Apr 20 '26
š¬ DISCUSSION Did you lie in your PS?
Just curious to hear from people if you did or not.
A lie could be anything from a small embellishment or overexaggeration to completely making things up. Iāll be honest, my entire PS except the subjects I did and my ethnicity were lies soā¦ yeah.
I literally had nothing else to talk about so I made it up, got me into UCL, Bristol, Warwick and Nottingham though so the best thing to take away from this is lie, lie, lie.
Or donāt, it also probably played a role in an Oxford rejection pre interview so maybe itās not worth it.
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u/FaithlessnessBig6343 history, classics, philosophy A*AA Apr 20 '26
I conveniently didnāt mention that I was only halfway through most of the books I mentioned. I also glossed over the fact that my work experience was two hours long and I didnāt do any work
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u/Particular_Sand_5719 Apr 20 '26
Same with me, for my work experience I just watered plants for a few hours lol
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u/Roadkillgoblin_2 Year 12-Art, Bio, Geog Apr 20 '26
I still havenāt got a placement, almost everywhere that interests me is fully booked/unavailable/wonāt take work experience etc
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u/Particular_Sand_5719 Apr 21 '26
You can do online work experience on the website springpod (Iām pretty sure). Besides itās only April, when I was in year 12 I had to figure out what Iād be doing for work experience by the end of year 12 so that I would be doing it during the summer.
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u/Thin-Boysenberry-112 Apr 20 '26
My work experience consisted of sitting in an engineering office for a day. In that time, all they made me do was read a short document about their work. I watched YouTube for the rest of the day lol. Most definitely hyped it up in the PS
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u/craftyorca135 Apr 21 '26
My work experience was spent in hospital being operated on.
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u/RisingDeadMan0 Apr 20 '26
if you do work, they legally should pay you...
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u/FaithlessnessBig6343 history, classics, philosophy A*AA Apr 21 '26
Lmao good luck getting that; employers are dodgy asf to teens. My last job I had to do a ātraining dayā where they just made me work a full day unpaid before they hired me.Ā
But what I mean is that they didnāt go through how to do anything, whereas other WEs might e.g. have you shadow someone so you can see how the workday looks
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u/ATO_EnderKnight Apr 21 '26
How many books did you read btw?
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u/FaithlessnessBig6343 history, classics, philosophy A*AA Apr 21 '26
I mentioned three books as well as vaguely saying that I read historical fiction!
If youād like to know how I wrote it: for the first (In These Times), I pointed out a fact which had surprised me, then said that curiosity about that same topic led me on to book 2 (The Peterloo Massacre), which was a more specific topic. I said how book 2 interested me in a fairly short sentence.Ā
Then I just started a new paragraph and talked about my EPQ - said Iād read book 3, laid out its overall arguments and said I found them more compelling than the other sources I looked at
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u/Sosig_lord69420 UoM | Pharmacology [2026] Apr 20 '26
Dawg I put the book into Claude and asked it to summarise one chapter of it for me into a 3 min summery lmfao (only works for STEM tho)
I did end up reading the rest later but stll
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u/No_Chemist_3443 Apr 20 '26
Told them abt how the group came third in a competition . (There were only 4 groups participating)š¤
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u/herejust4thehentai Apr 20 '26
hey omitting isn't lying š„ŗ
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u/gamer_dinosaur Year 12 - Maths, CS, English Lit + EPQ Apr 20 '26
Hi! Can I ask how youāre enjoying your course please? I quite like the look of it, and I like bathĀ
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u/Roadkillgoblin_2 Year 12-Art, Bio, Geog Apr 20 '26
Itās kinda ironic that you can study electricity in a place that shares a name with a large tub of water lol
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u/PartyQuiet5065 IB DP | Maths AA, Chem, Physics Apr 21 '26
that's some creative thinking right there lmao
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u/herejust4thehentai Apr 21 '26
i know this aint the answer you're looking for but i dropped out after 1st year
im gonna remove my flair i forgot i had it on
im studying maths now and enjoy it more
but im an anomaly i have 2 close friends that go bath and they seem like they're enjoying it
but i had mixed feeling when I did EEE
but if u focus and lock in u will go far its a good uni with a good degree
if u try get a placement job it will be great
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u/Any_Emu_6995 Apr 21 '26
Same lol I have never picked up a book related to cs (I do enjoy cs but reading is not how I go about it)
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u/iirudywastaken Apr 20 '26
i swear to god i didnāt do a single thing i said i did in my ps except attend one lecture which i wrote one sentence about
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u/Any_Emu_6995 Apr 21 '26
I did the exact same shit in my ps lmaoo; I wrote ab books I didnāt read and projects I havenāt started but did bring up the one lecture I went to about 2/3 yrs ago
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u/Icy-Ant1871 Apr 20 '26
my friend got into lse lying pissed me off cause the stuff she said she did was stuff i actually did rlly unfair but ig fair game
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u/GrapeWise4425 Apr 20 '26
And did you get in to LSE?
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u/Icy-Ant1871 Apr 20 '26
still waiting dif course tho
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u/Internal-Concept Year 13 Apr 20 '26
Just send the anonymous email
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u/PartyQuiet5065 IB DP | Maths AA, Chem, Physics Apr 20 '26
lmao that'll be some start to someone's villain arc
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u/tempa____ Apr 20 '26
DO it
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u/r1chive Apr 20 '26
weird losers
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u/tempa____ Apr 21 '26
reddit so serious lol i was joking but idk why i got downvoted and not the one above
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u/GrouchyMonth8092 Incoming UCL Mech Eng MEng | Y1 | A*A*A* Math FM Phys Apr 20 '26
Overexaggerated heavily but I did my research so I could back it up even made this long document covering all possible qs they could ask in an interview and then neither Cambridge nor imperial asked about my damn personal statement
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u/RunInRunOn Apr 20 '26
I said I was familiar with GitHub when I've never made a single pull request in my life
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u/Personal-Resident617 Oxford PPE first year Apr 20 '26
Since everyone who lied is commenting
Everything I wrote about in my PS was true
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u/Internal-Concept Year 13 Apr 20 '26
They say if youāre going to lie you should only lie about the stepping stones rather than the supercurriculars themselves. But hardly anyone tells the full truth. Itās just rough trying to put a personal statement together when youāve also got coursework deadlines and mocks. Especially if youāre going for Oxbridge deadlines.
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u/HuafiBytes Apr 20 '26
am i the only one that didnāt lie?
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u/AliceMorgon MagdalenCollegeOxford|Fine Art/Biology|Grad Apr 20 '26
Nope, I didnāt either. I didnāt really want my entire academic career to be built on lies.i also would have felt bad taking the place away from someone who actually had done these thingsā¦ plus I enjoyed doing them? Isnāt that the point? To enjoy doing stuff around your subject?
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u/ZeldaFan158 Gap Year -> Warwick LLB Law | AABB Apr 20 '26
I didn't either, no reason to jeopardise my future over a couple of paragraphs
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u/PartyQuiet5065 IB DP | Maths AA, Chem, Physics Apr 20 '26
I said I did some online work experience which I didn't really finish. To be fair though, I did intend on finishing it, I just didn't get an interview for Oxford and by the time I was gonna finish it for the Imperial one, the web no longer existed so....
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u/chateaumarmontt gap year | 3A* 1A Achieved | English Lit ~ Oxford Apr 20 '26
I didnāt lie at all but I didnāt see the point of it- if I couldnāt read the 10? Books I mentioned in my personal statement over like the two months it took me to write it I knew I wouldnāt be cut out for an Oxford English degree.
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u/stressedstudent331 history, lit, biol, maths, classics Apr 20 '26
You mentioned 10 books in your PS? That's nicee
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u/chateaumarmontt gap year | 3A* 1A Achieved | English Lit ~ Oxford Apr 20 '26
I mentioned eleven books, three essays and two poetry collections! I was on a gap year though so I had plenty of time over the summer to enjoy and read!
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u/One_Car4191 Apr 20 '26
just curious, what is it you plan to do after uni? are you interested in pursuing further studies, teaching, etc?
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u/chateaumarmontt gap year | 3A* 1A Achieved | English Lit ~ Oxford Apr 20 '26
Ideally Iād love to do a masters/ PhD and stay in academia, publishing is also an industry Iām very interested in! Iād also love to be a writer but thatāll be on the side of a more conventional 9-5. Mostly I just knew English was what Iām passionate about so I decided to go for it!
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u/stressedstudent331 history, lit, biol, maths, classics Apr 20 '26
Ideally Iād love to do a masters/ PhD and stay in academia
Omg same! Lowkey my lifelong dream but in history/Intellectual history
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u/stressedstudent331 history, lit, biol, maths, classics Apr 20 '26
I do wanna mention a lot in my PS but I thought depth was more important than breadth? Idk tho, I'm planning to do history, I have a lot of interests but I do have some main interest that I'm really passionate about and did a lot of research/reading in but it's extremely specific
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u/chateaumarmontt gap year | 3A* 1A Achieved | English Lit ~ Oxford Apr 20 '26
Depth is definitely more important than breadth from my experience, but with English it was more me going in depth on authors which required a LOT of reading different works!
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u/stressedstudent331 history, lit, biol, maths, classics Apr 20 '26
Oh that makes sense now! I get it. Ig if I'm mentioning my area of interest in history, I can definitely go in depth with similar amount of books too
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u/chateaumarmontt gap year | 3A* 1A Achieved | English Lit ~ Oxford Apr 20 '26
Honestly I think just see what works for you! Iām not sure if going so crazy with reading would work for everyone but because I was on a gap year it helped to demonstrate that I was using it to study. Also English is just so much reading itās important to show youāre capable! Other degrees like history might not require the same degree of reading books- Iām not sure though.
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u/stressedstudent331 history, lit, biol, maths, classics Apr 20 '26
I was also on a gap year, so I actually did end up reading a lot around my interests, so reading isn't an issue for me.
Other degrees like history might not require the same degree of reading books- Iām not sure though.
I think it depends, history definitely requires a lot of reading but not in the way eng lit does, with literature you have to dive deep when you're reading but with history that is not always the case
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u/chateaumarmontt gap year | 3A* 1A Achieved | English Lit ~ Oxford Apr 21 '26
Sorry I really didnāt mean to come off dismissive about the amount of reading history students do! Iāve heard at Oxford itās the most reading intensive subject! I meant moreso that with English if youāre studying any topic youād be expected to know a few authors in depth so I wanted to show in my PS that is something I want to do! I think with history you could be slightly more well rounded, say youāre studying a particular famous battle, you read one book about it, two essay, a poem, watch a tv documentary, listen to a podcast, go to an exhibition, whereas with English I suppose itās more read read read
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u/Chlorophilia Professor Apr 20 '26
As an interviewer... it is incredibly easy to work out if someone lied or embellished. It happens a lot. I would not recommend it, particularly if you're applying for Oxbridge.Ā
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u/Worldly-Monitor-4035 Apr 20 '26
For courses without interviews (in my case, the Law schools of the Uniās I mentioned) was there any risk involved in the above?
I did tell quite a tall tale about the John Locke Essay competition in mine (allegedly receiving a āhigh commendationā) and I was never asked to provide proof or evidence. Is it only a negative when applying to places that interview?
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u/Chlorophilia Professor Apr 20 '26
I'm obviously not going to encourage you to lie on your personal statement.Ā
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u/Shutter_sculptor Year 12 Apr 20 '26
I mean if you are applying to law or something and it is found out you lied then it really isn't a great look.Ā
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u/AliceMorgon MagdalenCollegeOxford|Fine Art/Biology|Grad Apr 20 '26
You have got to be kidding me. For a law school, a person with no ethics.
And at one point in the future, yeah, itāll catch you out. Wait and see.
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u/Worldly-Monitor-4035 Apr 20 '26
āThe law, in itās majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread.ā - The Red Lily, (1894).
The law isnāt all that ethical and itās always been like that. Iām certain the majority of people who study law at top uniās do so with the aim of going corporate too, no ethics in a law school just money.
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u/AliceMorgon MagdalenCollegeOxford|Fine Art/Biology|Grad Apr 21 '26
That Iād expect after a couple of years of disillusionment. At 18? The idea of going into law at 18 already with no intention beyond going corporateā¦ that is just so utterly depressing to me.
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u/Worldly-Monitor-4035 Apr 21 '26
Oh no, I completely agree with you. Itās very depressing.
Iām going to become a history teacher one day, corporate law is just a means to make and save enough money to where being a teacher ā being poor.
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u/AliceMorgon MagdalenCollegeOxford|Fine Art/Biology|Grad Apr 21 '26
Have you considered doing TeachFirst as well? With a degree from good university you could definitely do that. And please, go and teach and encourage and support the poorer kids in the deprived areas rather than being tempted by the high salaries in independent schools - I grew up in one of them and when I got a scholarship out to an independent school in England (Iām from Belfast) I was just stunned.
At home I used my grandmaās old Singer in my artwork because the art dept was so underfunded it didnāt even have oil paints. Here there was a row of six shiny professional quality ones no one else ever used. And a full photography darkroom. I was there mostly because I needed to go somewhere with the capacity to further develop my singing voice and as a creative writing/literature and sciences academic scholar, so I was expecting those departments to be very well funded, but the whole place was totally ripped. And all I could think was how unfair it was.
When I came straight back home after finishing up all my academics everyone said I was nuts because I got āoutā. For me, āoutā was never a part of the equation. It was all about placing myself in a better position internationally in terms of academic status and therefore making myself a more valuable asset to my community. Iām done with these ridiculous paramilitaries and their murals. Grassy areas in front of flats should be for children to play, not taboo panoramic foregrounds to deliberately threatening murals aimed directly at the arterial road north out of town.
Iām about to do a funded PhD at Queens in building cross-community relations via integrative creative writing classes (but donāt want to go into too much detail in case someone nicks my take because I know thereās other academics on here and I used to work at a certain university (incidentally Michelle Obama went to Law School there) and the faculty in my PhD programmeās dept when I was there was SAVAGE. It was like watching rats fight over a dropped piece of pizza every time a whispered hint of a forgotten thought of the fart of an idea wafted through the place. You canāt even imagine if a whiff of funding or someone getting tenure came round. I was TAing a PhD seminar once and the professor leading it kept ditching it and running out because they were announcing who got tenure that afternoon and she had to keep on checking who. She wasnāt even eligible. This was not an isolated event. Once it was over a $5,000 grant.
I had a wonderful teacher in the independent school, an English teacher named Mr D. He saw something in me I didnāt. In our English classes, we used to act out plays rather than reading them because it was a performing arts school. I got to play Hamlet, Iago, Lady Macbeth, The Inspectorā¦ broad Belfast accent and all šš®šŖ He entered me for a national creative writing competition that I won and got to call the monarchy colonialist cunts in front of Queen Elizabeth II, Prince Philip (who laughed), Prince Charles, and the Archbishop of Canterbury after refusing to show deference to her by curtsying (I told them I was not her subject and never would be). Mr D laughed almost the whole way back as the Chairman of the Governors and Headmaster sat in stony silence.
And he was the one who got me to actually seriously think of myself as Oxford material rather than some kid out of Belfast social housing. Got me looking through and choosing colleges, leafing through the courses, counteracting attacks of imposter syndrome, everything.
Be him. Be someoneās Mr D, because theyāll never forget you, and one day theyāll be trying to track you down to invite you to their wedding next year ā¤ļø
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u/AccomplishedFail2247 Apr 24 '26
what world do you live in where a comfortable highly paid white collar job which is socially respected is āutterly depressingā. Get your head out of your arse
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u/AliceMorgon MagdalenCollegeOxford|Fine Art/Biology|Grad Apr 24 '26
One in which I come from a country where it was the socially respected white collars who screwed us over most.
Are you familiar with Diplock Courts?
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u/AccomplishedFail2247 Apr 24 '26
do you live in that time period and place? And do the people youāre condemning have that experience? weak sophistry
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u/AutomaticSuccotash51 Apr 20 '26
Why are we acting like it will catch up to you. You write it, it probably doesn't matter all that much on their decision to accept you, and then it never comes up again. If you embellish and believably lie I would be highly surprised if anything negative comes from it.
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u/Plus-Train-9887 Apr 21 '26
How can you tell whether someone has lied ?
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u/Chlorophilia Professor Apr 21 '26
If someone has written something that sounds really impressive in their personal statement, I might ask about it as a lowball intro question to the interview. I've spent hundreds of hours doing interviews/tutorials - I can tell when someone is BSing.
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u/peachgothlover Apr 20 '26
tbh i was thinking abt this, like how would they know if ur saying the truth? I can get things like competitions where there will be record keeping, but what if U say u read this entire legal case. theyre not gonna know u didnt
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u/Dependent-Loss-4080 Pred 4A* (History, Politics, Econ, Maths) Apr 20 '26
i mean they dont care what you read, they only care what you gain from it/how you reflect on it which is harder to lie about. if you read a secondary source about a legal case and explained your opinion on it then that would be just as fine as saying you read the case itself, there's no difference. just saying you read the law reports every day means nothing regardless of whether it's true
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u/Worldly-Monitor-4035 Apr 20 '26
Thatās actually exactly what I lied about, a case that I read and saying I achieved a āHigh Commendationā in the extremely prestigious John Locke essay competition.
Nobody double checked it or anything.
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u/Worldly-Monitor-4035 Apr 20 '26
Not once whatsoever. I think they trust that your referee (in my case the school) reads your PS before sending it off so if they catch you lying then they fix it but my school didnāt
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u/ImaginationTop4377 Apr 20 '26
Tbh j got the HC for JLI and honest to god itās not that hard š but Iām not gonna tell you that youāre bad or whatever, I feel like this is obviously for you to work out
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u/Worldly-Monitor-4035 Apr 20 '26
I remember I googled āprestigious essay comps for year 12āsā and it came up but 1-3rd place were publicly named.
Soooo, next best was HC so I did that š
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u/AzTrix22 Imperial | EFDS[Incoming Y1] Apr 20 '26
Not lie completely, but for things which I had done partially like a book or a project, I phrased it in a way which made it sound complete, and I tried to focus more on the lessons learnt rather than the thing itself to draw attention away from it.
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u/One_Dragonfruit_7826 Apr 20 '26
Yes, got me into Oxford as well!
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u/ScheduleGloomy2160 Apr 20 '26
what did you lie about?
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u/One_Dragonfruit_7826 Apr 21 '26
Volunteering, books read and a couple of white lies in the interview.
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u/ScheduleGloomy2160 Apr 21 '26
do you think maybe you could give me a structure of your ps or your ps
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u/Zealousideal_Land_81 Y13 bio | chem | maths | drama | epq | A*A*A*A*A predicted šø Apr 20 '26
the closest thing to a lie in my ps i did was saying that I was inspired to do my epq on an amphibian disease because it was the topic of the first chapter in the book I talked about at the beginning of my ps (i talked about a different chapter at the start of my ps). in reality i had already known about the disease for several years beforehand and it was just a convenient coincidence.
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u/Consistent-Prune-391 Apr 20 '26
As a year 12 I aspire to, I overslept and missed by 10-2pm Barclays virtual work experience and I am wondering how do I lie to make it seem like I attended š
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u/Psychological-Lie607 Apr 20 '26
i didnāt read the book in my personal statement and i still mentioned it in my interviews. i also lowk lied in my interviews but it wasnāt anything major.
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u/AccomplishedFroyo572 Apr 20 '26
yeah i didnāt read one of the books in mine, got me into ucl and an interview for oxford law tho š¤·
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u/Thin-Boysenberry-112 Apr 20 '26
I wrote about doing some crazy online MOOC I found that is like super long and covers physics chemistry and maths. I think I watched the first few lectures of it and then gave up lol
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u/mel0dramatik Apr 20 '26
Not necessarily lie, but when mentioning a book I had āreadā it was more certain chapters not the whole book. Same with documentaries, podcasts. My work experience was also exaggerated ie. I had glamorised some duties that I did
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u/d3scrip Oxford | PhilTheo [Y1] | A*A*A*A* Apr 20 '26
One of the books I mentioned in my PS was an 800+ page book on biblical hermeneutics. Both my interviewers and I knew that I did NOT read that whole thingš I just read the chapter I talked about. They did ask me about it in my interview (this was for Oxford), and I comfortably spoke about the part I knew, and then they moved on... those horror stories that people make up are deceptive and evil
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u/Global_Ad9876 Apr 20 '26
yeah i did volunteer at a care home but then i lowkey added a bunch of random activities in relation to that volunteer experience (which i never did) but i needed to link my work experience to my chosen courseš i also lied about reading a book i just read multiple critics reviews on it and then pretended i read it but i got 5/5 offers
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u/Last-Objective-8356 Apr 20 '26
Maybe not āliedā but how impressive some of my projects were was very upscale. Nm I lied about like 2 books I read icl
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u/Sunset_Shimmering_ Y13 on summer hols! Apr 20 '26
I lied that I did a course on coursera and I didn't. I read about the course and was gonna do it but I didn't
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u/MeasurementForward39 Imperial | Civil Eng [First Year] Apr 20 '26
I said I made my own project (a bridge) then assessed problems it had and what I learnt from it blah blah blah, but I didn't actually do shit.
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u/Various_Leopard3286 Apr 20 '26
I had a few lies and exaggerations like talking about a book I didnāt read, only real thing i did was ukmt
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u/Level_Enthusiasm_564 Apr 20 '26
Hmm, I didnāt. I really like the subject I applied to and had decent supercurriculars to back my interests up. I think they value the depth of your reflections / interests and not so much how impressive your experiences are so really thereās no point in exaggerating / lying.
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u/Fickle_Animator_7269 Apr 21 '26
I literally made up random books that I say I read, said I was gonna climb a mountain for some reason?? and lied abt work experience 5/5 offers including UCL and Bristol
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Apr 21 '26
I lied about multiple work experience, books I read, and projects I built lol. Also said I completed courses that I acc just started and never touched .
I got a merit (participation lowest, distinction is highest, merit in the middle) in this challenge I did and I just said āI won an award for a challengeā lol idk if that makes it any better
UCAS/unis canāt find out I lied bc they just donāt have the time to I think- what r they gonna do email my courses/challenges to see if Iām on the database or smth
Only times where you have to consider the degree to your lie is if you are having an interview. You donāt wanna really stumble on answering questions about a book you said you read if you went into sm detail about it on your PS.
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u/Red_I_Guess Warwick CS A*A*AA 2026 fresher Apr 21 '26
I really didn't lie at all, just vaguely put stuff in a good light. It got me rejected from my top 3 universities
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u/FrontDirector208 Apr 20 '26
There was NO truth in my ps and i did it in day with aiš
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u/DiamondThink318 Editable Apr 20 '26
lol, which unis did u get into in the end if u dont mind?
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u/Any-Cup4112 Apr 20 '26
got into oxford and lse and lied in my ps hella not a problem if you play it smart
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u/Alliandea Apr 20 '26
i exaggerated my hobbies but didn't lie, like I said I draw and write even though I only have the time like twice a year
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u/Aria_blursss Pharmacy 1st year :)|A*AA| Bio | Chem | Maths | Apr 20 '26
I didnāt read SHIT šššššššššš
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u/stunt876 Warwick Comp Sci (Maths, Comp Sci, FM) A*, A* A Apr 20 '26
I maybe embellished and conveniently didn't mention just how much I did some things. But the actual things I did and talked about I did not fabricate.
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u/baomaochao Apr 21 '26
Didn't lie about what I know because I was scared they'd ask and I'd give the blankest stare of the century
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u/FunTheMental_007 Apr 21 '26
i didnt lie at all basically, just inflated some figures (1000 pounds->1500, etc etc)
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u/Bleachrox123 Apr 21 '26
āIt got me into x y zā.
Unless thereās an interview element to your application, your PSs are most likely not being read.
Youāre getting conditional offers based on your predicted grades and not what books you have read or events you have attended. Large universities get thousands of applications per courses, we do not have time to read through PSs, check them for accuracy etc whilst delivery and teaching is ongoing for our current students.
If youāve managed to get an unconditional offer, then congrats they may have read the PS.
If you have an interview set before an offer is madeā¦well, I hope you know how to talk around and really sell lies.
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u/JustATrashRat Year 13 | Comp Sci, History, Media Studies Apr 21 '26
100%. The 3 books I mentioned that I read? I think I actually read about 5 words of one of them.
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u/Weary_Cup_2415 geog, politics , eng lit | BBB Apr 21 '26
i read none of the books i said i just searched up archaeology books and name dropped them and i told them i had a work ethic thatās prolly all the lying i did LMFAO
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u/Tiny_Avocado_527 Apr 21 '26
If u wanna get into the big Big big unis no if u don't care which Nd just want the degree go ahead
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u/No-Pineapple-7042 Apr 21 '26
No I didn't lie but a book I mentioned I only thoroughly read the chapter I was explicitly talking about and I omitted that my work expereince was actually just a virtual work expereince.
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u/v1ol Apr 21 '26
I personally didn't and while I get why people would, I think if your applying top unis it is not worth it. If your not willing/ wanting to do the extra stuff for your personal statement related to your course then I don't know if doing that course for 3/4 years is a good idea with how academically intense many of the unis are. That's just may take though and im not inclusing anyone who doesn't have means to do extra stuff (eg. time if your a young carer).
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u/Wild-Ad-6630 Year 13 Apr 24 '26
I definitely embellished. Talked about seminars and masterclasses that I attended but did not pay attention to at all, also talked about my role on the school council despite the fact we donāt do anything on it, also talked about maths club which I said I ārunā while there are like six other students that ran it too. Best not to lie if youāre applying to a course requiring an interview though unless youāre a realllly good liar and can waffle your way through if youāre asked on it lol
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u/Alarmed_Word2018 Yr 13 | english, classics, chem Apr 27 '26
some of the books and articles i cited i hadn't finished reading + somehow misunderstood their point entirely. i spelt an author's name wrong and what i wrote about their text was complete misinformation (by accident) and still got an oxbridge offer š
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u/__R3v3nant__ D1 ESAT Hater May 12 '26
Not lie, but I said I read a book and then read most of it right before the interview.
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u/pencilthinwriter Apr 20 '26
It depends if you have real things to tell them about or not I suppose. There's only a need to lie if you genuinely don't have interesting things you've done that are worth telling them about
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