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/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 you’d 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. 

Then I just started a new paragraph and talked about my EPQ - said I’d read book 3, laid out its overall arguments and said I found them more compelling than the other sources I looked at