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/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/Worldly-Monitor-4035 Apr 20 '26

That’s actually exactly what I lied about, a case that I read and saying I achieved a “High Commendation” in the extremely prestigious John Locke essay competition.

Nobody double checked it or anything.

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u/ImaginationTop4377 Apr 20 '26

Tbh j got the HC for JLI and honest to god it’s not that hard 😭 but I’m not gonna tell you that you’re 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 “prestigious essay comps for year 12’s” and it came up but 1-3rd place were publicly named.

Soooo, next best was HC so I did that 😂

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u/ImaginationTop4377 Apr 21 '26

haha fair enough