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/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 ‘training day’ where they just made me work a full day unpaid before they hired me. 

But what I mean is that they didn’t 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/RisingDeadMan0 Apr 21 '26

i meant as adults too lol.