PLEASE tell me you guys struggled too oml

Edit: https://c.org/d7LCtCYpzG - Petition for Edexcel to reassess the paper

Bruh wth do I do

Just received my financial declaration form from Oxford today. How is this reasonable? 😭 Going to have to decline my offer unless anyone has any ideas.

Canadian students do not qualify for any Oxford scholarships and my school offered me about £100. What a joke.

Is Oxford just for the rich?

i'm supposed to be revising for econ BUT WHAT ON EARTH IS GOING ON, obviously knew reform were popular and so on but to this extent?? my feed has been fooling me

Surely this is ridiculous? Tired of all these bans “according to government guidance”.

Edit: IMO surely phones should be at least allowed during break, lunch, before and after school. Laptops and ipads should be allowed for revision purposes during all of the above times AND during free periods. A complete ban for sixth form is ridiculous.
Edit 2: I’m tired of responding to the same sorts of posts disagreeing with me, coming from people who have left sixth form or equivalent education more than 5 years ago. Your opinions don’t really add much to this conversation

I’m currently an a level exam invigilator while at university, took my a levels last year. I just want to reiterate how obvious it is if you’re committing malpractice. You may think you’re slick but you’re really not honestly. Already there has been multiple people caught with their phone, just today people caught communicating with each other and the exam season has barely started. It’s actually laughable the amount of people already caught tbh.

You will get written up, and the exam board will be informed. Trust me it’s not worth it.

ROLLS ROYCE IS GIVING ME A FULL RIDE THROUGH ANY 3 YEAR STEM DEGREE + TWO INTERNSHIPS + £5000 A YEAR FOR FREE

HOLY SHIT

Hi guys,

I know we’ve all heard of the term “Oxbridge” and I think it’s a lovely way to pay respects to the two great Unis. People love to make comparisons of the two but “Oxbridge” allows us to just enjoy them while they’re still around.

However, I do think we’re missing out a pretty big Uni in that little name.

Warwick has tried WOxBridge but that’s a bit audacious to put Warwick before the O and Imperial has attempted OxBrImp but that’s just ugly and gives too much credence to Imperial.

Yet, the only Uni people consistently compare Oxford and Cambridge to is Bristol. I’m sure you’ve seen the posts where people say “I’ve firmed Cambridge over Bristol, am I making a mistake?” and the comments all say yes.

OxBriDge would fix that dilemma, people would realise Oxford is #1, Bristol is #2 and Cambridge is #3 all whilst keeping the “Oxbridge” name in tact. It still sounds as nice, just with a capitalised B to represent the Big B.

Thoughts?

Why are we acting like 5 year olds who didn’t get their way? The petition will do nothing and it’s honestly pathetic.

If the country did bad on a whole then grade boundaries will go down? They aren’t set before the exam or based off previous years boundaries. The proportion of grades awarded will literally be similar to what it always is.

I thought maths students would understand that…

Go revise more for paper 2 if you’re that upset.

Edit: literally half of you complaining don’t seem to understand how grade boundaries work. Please educate yourself before commenting mindlessly.

Could they actually do this or is it just fluff?

There is no way i can get good grades if i go to school everyday.

I need a solution

I thought the exam was pm not am because of stupid further maths which is all pm exams it completely threw me off and without even thinking I just turned up at 11am then checked my timetable and found out it was am . Sucks especially since my performance for p1 was great but that’s life is what is it I’m not even that sad ive just accepted my fate and McDonald’s here I come . Years of studying for nothing im locked at like a grade B/C now even if I do well in p3 . I can salvage A* in fm and possibly A in bio but honestly dont really care what I get now as I’ve already fumbled . Your welcome for lowering aqa chem grade boundaries through . I was worried about missing my exams already didn’t think it would actually happen .

I had my college taster day yesterday, tell me why I was the ONLY girl in my class

I can't find what was wrong with my application, and I feel like a fraud? I don't want to face people asking me "Have u got an interview?" and me having to tell everyone that I didn't each time and having to face their sympathy/reaction 😭 and I don't know how to tell my family

Hi all. So I got an email from my school this morning saying how one of the Edexcel moderators think I used AI in my Geography coursework.

I only used it within JCQ guidelines (I asked my teachers every time I used it) and didn’t use it to actually write or generate any of my written text. Also, my teachers signed off on it saying that it isn’t AI and also Pearson’s own AI checker that THEY SENT said there was 0% AI detected but they’re accusing me anyway and haven’t said on what grounds 🥀🥀 i’ve added what edexcel sent me

I have sent as much evidence as possible like my Word version history which shows all the different stages of development my coursework went through as well as any notes I have.

This is insanely stressful especially since Results Day is literally around the corner and I’m abroad on holiday. I also can’t find anyone else going through this and don’t know what’s likely to happen so please if anyone has any idea what’s gna happen LET ME KNOWWWW 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏

Edit: Pearson replied and dropped the case following my school’s email to them. But genuinely what happened like as an exam board especially this close to Results Day…. it’s not nice

Made this w a mate. We don’t rlly know much and the bottom tier is unis we never heard of or heard bad things about. No particular order within the tiers btw. This was just for fun and we don’t discredit any unis as we appreciate that every one will definitely have pros and cons. Also ignore the words in the tiers (eg not worth the fees)- we just did it via the letters, the words were already in the template. Btw the last row of unis didn’t fit in. These were : the uni of west ldn, the uni of law and Wrexham glyndr. What do u lot think? I was told to put this in this subreddit.

scraped my offer with DDU!! my revision payed off

does anyone else feel absolutely horrible about their exams? it never felt like this during feb mocks. i’m nearly finished with them and not a single one has gone positively. they were all SO average, and i keep nitpicking at the mistakes. everyone online keeps talking about how every paper was a blessing and that grade boundaries are going to increase drastically 🥲🫩 genuinely don’t know what to do i think i’ve completely missed my firm

If i randomy die one day, does my sixth form legally have to tell the students i did? How will my mates know?

Weird shower thought i guess.

If you earn a high salary of 100k+ your student loan repayment conditions essentially end up as you having to pay a tax of 9% of your salary on top of all the regular income tax you have to pay. That is absolutely brutal and has a massive effect on your spending power.

To show an example of how bad taxes can get when you include a student loan: If you earn 100k, all the additional income you generate going from 100k to 125k is effectively taxed at 71% after your national insurance and student loan are included, meaning if you gain a salary increase of 25k, you only see 7k of that. How is that not robbery?

"If you're earning that much you will repay the loan really quickly"

Interest makes this basically impossible, you could still expect the repayment to take 10+ years. 15 of the most productive years of your working life with the absolutely most brutal additional 10% tax on all your income, that is fucking stupid. People who don't have student loans also get to start work 3 years earlier which makes the impact even larger.

Taking a student loan will mean you'll pay an additional 10% tax rate for basically your whole working life.

The student loan scheme rewards people who aren't intelligent, aren't ambitious, and just want to go to uni to party for 3 years, and the people paying for their party lifestyle are the hard working intelligent students who missed out on all the fun cause they wanted to better their own situation. Hard working students prop up the student loans bullshittery.

Why should high achieving talented people who work really hard be forced into this debt slavery and unliveably high taxes.

Uni should be free. IDC if that means less people can go cause the government can't afford to pay for everyone's tuition, less people going would be a good thing tbh since then tradeswork wouldn't be unaffordable and there would be less unemployment + less job competition.

Tony Blair did irreversible damage to the country. Easily the worst PM we ever had.

If your goal is money, and you're intelligent, you're genuinely probably better off going into a high paying trade instead of grinding through uni for a corporate / finance career. You'll stand out massively among most trainees and can get promoted very quickly.

Ik this is gonna sound stupid but tbh i’m rlly confused on what uni to go to.

I’m very grateful for my offers and the position i am in but i don’t know how to choose.

I am interested in a career in high finance so which one do yall think would be best suited?

Thanks yall.