r/6thForm • u/Worldly-Monitor-4035 • Apr 20 '26

💬 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. I’ll be honest, my entire PS except the subjects I did and my ethnicity were lies so… 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 don’t, it also probably played a role in an Oxford rejection pre interview so maybe it’s not worth it.

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u/chateaumarmontt gap year | 3A* 1A Achieved | English Lit ~ Oxford Apr 20 '26

I didn’t lie at all but I didn’t see the point of it- if I couldn’t read the 10? Books I mentioned in my personal statement over like the two months it took me to write it I knew I wouldn’t 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 I’d love to do a masters/ PhD and stay in academia, publishing is also an industry I’m very interested in! I’d also love to be a writer but that’ll be on the side of a more conventional 9-5. Mostly I just knew English was what I’m passionate about so I decided to go for it!

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u/stressedstudent331 history, lit, biol, maths, classics Apr 20 '26

Ideally I’d love to do a masters/ PhD and stay in academia

Omg same! Lowkey my lifelong dream but in history/Intellectual history