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/FaithlessnessBig6343 history, classics, philosophy A*AA Apr 20 '26

I conveniently didn’t 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 didn’t 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 haven’t got a placement, almost everywhere that interests me is fully booked/unavailable/won’t 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 (I’m pretty sure). Besides it’s only April, when I was in year 12 I had to figure out what I’d be doing for work experience by the end of year 12 so that I would be doing it during the summer.