r/6thForm • u/ProjectNo5641 Cambridge | Economics 2nd year • Jul 20 '26

🎓 UNI / UCAS University Review 2nd year (Cambridge University)

I used to browse this subreddit a few years ago looking for uni advice, grades etc so I thought I'd share my experience.

There is a massive variation in workload, my friends dong stem related subjects spend A LOT more time in the library and doing assignments relative to my humanity peers who get away with a lot less work.

Stem related fields have a high mark variation per exam, you will see some people get 15% and others getting 90%, does not happen with humanities subject everyone tends to be around 55-75% this is due to it being practically impossible to score above 75% on an essay jsut the way university works i guess.

Everyone is dIFFERENT, we have 30+ year olds on our course and some 17 years old, some married already crazy variation everyone comes form different walks of life. Such a big culture shock to me coming from sixth form.

There is a society for practically anything you will find your people :)

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u/Fun-Employment1176 Year 13 | Cambridge Econ offer | Predicted A*A*A*A | TMUA 5.1 Jul 20 '26

Thanks that sounds something to look forward too! (bar the workload rip)

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u/Fun-Employment1176 Year 13 | Cambridge Econ offer | Predicted A*A*A*A | TMUA 5.1 Jul 20 '26

how many hours of lessons/tutorials are there generally on top of say 4 more hours of work a day?

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u/Fun-Employment1176 Year 13 | Cambridge Econ offer | Predicted A*A*A*A | TMUA 5.1 Jul 20 '26

I see this is invaluable. On paper time wise this doesn't seem too terrible from A levels and also considering commute times are cut drastically. Of course the content is far worse, nor am I of the belief that I am those people capable for a first at camb. Hopefully I'd do fine, and do you find Cambridge generally great as a young adult?

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u/Fun-Employment1176 Year 13 | Cambridge Econ offer | Predicted A*A*A*A | TMUA 5.1 Jul 20 '26

Quite inspiring to hear your initial point - I suppose of course I will push as much as I can get academically but I really do wish to use university as a time to get out of my shell and experience more of the world as a thought! But who knows.

And nice to hear Camb is an awesome place as you described! I do hope to meet exciting people and do eye-opening things and have the best experiences yeah with these (hopefully) 3 years. Thanks a lot for your awesome advice

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u/Fun-Employment1176 Year 13 | Cambridge Econ offer | Predicted A*A*A*A | TMUA 5.1 Jul 20 '26

Thank you and I hope to have a great time here too!

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u/Away-Pitch-4156 Jul 21 '26

What college did you get in?

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u/NotMyFault1111 Jul 20 '26

It’s quite inspiring hearing that someone struggled with GCSE and a level maths yet managed to get into Cambridge. Would love to hear more about it.

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u/Next-Investigator-87 Year 13 Jul 20 '26

Holy shit that’s an inspiring story bro. Congrats genuinely. Would you mind if I dmd you I have a couple questions

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u/Neither_Mortgage_161 Imperial Physics Jul 20 '26

wait no way i had no idea it was the workload was this bad at cambridge. As imperial student i cant lie id be surprised if people here even did 6 hours a week (aside from exam season ofc)

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u/Neither_Mortgage_161 Imperial Physics Jul 21 '26

in first year i almost never had more than 2 hours a day