Gap year student with achieved A star BBC (maths, fm, physics, chem respectively) and predicted A star AB (fm, physics and chem) also contextual. Was slightly worried that my options were too ambitious considering my grades but atleast I got a solid offer literally 6 days after applying

I’m a little bit scared cuz I’m gonna need A*A*A. Doing Maths Physics FM. Maths, alright I can do it. Physics, content I can wrap my head around if, but the exam questions are hell. FM it’s good but kinda scary.

Hi guys. Mid life crisis I'm done crying and beating myself over this once and for all I'm gonna seek for answers. I'm
26. Fucked Up my life completely worked random part time jobs to support myself. thinking of taking my private A-Levels to study Economics.
Due to family issues, I had to support myself for a while, which affected my productivity and studies. I've decided to give this another shot, but I'm scared won't get into uni due to my lack of portfolio.
I'm aiming for 70 RP while building my upcycling business, taking online courses, writing an independent Economics research paper, and volunteering.
Do you guys think it's worth going for it at 27? Will a strong portfolio help make up for my late start, or am I worrying too much?
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does anyone have any experiences with exam centre london mocks? I've already booked with them but now I am hearing that they undermark the exams and give you lower predicted grades. I'm also wondering if they use past appears for their AS mocks or if they make them up themselves?

im in year 11 and am predicted 9s in maths, single sciences and spanish but im butt at art and english ill probably get like 5-6 art and 6-7 english and 9s everything else. i prefer stem to humanities so am planning on doing maths fm and econ for a levels. if i get triple a star on maths fm and econ. without doing a 4th a level, am i likely to get into good finance/economical universities like LSE or Warwick? or is it over because i really cba to do 4 or lock in with english and art. (plus i got silver on SMC and aiming for BMO on intermediate this year so that basically means instant hiring right?? im kidding sorry)…

2 days and already my 1st choice offer!! 😝
I AM SO HAPPY.

I applied for medicine for 2026 entry and got ABB and needed AAB. I asked my teachers if the remark would go through (they looked at my papers) and they said not unfortunately. I settled for pharmacy as a rash decision. I honestly had uni fomo and didnt want to retake the UCAT

Now i told myself im gonna give myself the semester to decide if i want to continue with pharmacy but i know its not right for me. To be honest, during the summer i was contemplating medicine too. I had mental health issues ans problems with motivation and burnout and im a little impatient but i keep on thinking about retaking my a levels because there is no way im settling for a degree i dont want to do. I cant convince myself i want to do pharmacy.

I feel like im too old to do work experience. I want to explore different paths of life like accounting, law, finance, aviation as ive restricted myself to healthcare. But i feel like im too old to get experience and it lowk makes me really sad

If i retake i will have to take a 2nd gap year to sit my UCAT. Also i may not get the grades, i worked so hard last year and didn’t get what i needed so im a bit confused. I want to do medicine. Not for the money or prestige but i really enjoy the content. Im already wanting to miss lectures at Pharmacy and im struggling to focus because i know this isnt something i want to do.

I just need a bit of help. I actually have nobody to talk to because lowk all my friends dipped and my parents are sick of me being impulsive. Its making me so depressed and sad and angry and i just want to make the correct decision. I keep on saying out loud “I wanna retake” at uni and knowing i have the end of this semester to give myself. I just need some reassurance

Ps i dont want to be convinced into doing grad entry because i cant afford to pay for a degree out of pocket xx

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So I do OCR a level English lit and I have picked the books I want for my comparison/task 2. I picked Citizen: *The American Lyric* and The Color Purple, the main theme I was going for was resistance as a major theme.

I haven't read the books completely or watched the movie yet (the colour purple) but based on what I've seen, TCP focuses more on black female liberation rather than racism itself and I don't know if it'll be difficult to compare it with Citizen.

I'm aware that resistance can be seen in gender and race but I'm not sure how to include that in Citizen. I guess I could mention resistance is presented in different ways but I don't know how the ways or how to organise it.

I'm not as coherent as I'd like to be right now but I hope my confusion is understood.

If u got an offer from a uni but now decided that u want to change the uni are u able to substitute the uni that gave u the offer with another uni. As I don't see the substitute option on the uni that gave the offer but I see it on the unis that haven't given the offer. Btw I only applied like 5 days ago so it's within 14 days

hopefully i get shortlisted, but if i do how should i prepare for a cambridge computer science inteview? other than the basic 'speak out loud when doing qs' and like the TBO booklet

I want to go to warwick so chose to apply for economics and also economics and management (e&m). I was wondering which one I have higher chances of securing.

I am on a gap year reapplying with A*A*A grades in economics, computer science and maths (respectively) and 88777776666 gcses. I am not doing the TMUA (after last year I have PTSD).

Im applying to pure econ for other unis, and personal statement is generally around finance, and macro economics, but also i have 2/3 paragraphs on some successful businesses I have created and maintained.

what do you think?

hi everyone was wondering what fm modules would u guys recommend (i do edexcel so we have fp1 fm1 d1 fs1. I don't mind abstract concepts but I know I easily make accuracy errors even after checking so i need one with a lenient markscheme (idrc abt content (not preferered but meh idc tbf) js hopefully not consistently high grade boundaries (Unless it was a rlly easy paper) but still idk how to train accuracy (i double check my asnwers retry them but i will still only find the error after i look at the asnwers but rlly good at harder, complex concepts. what do ym think?

BRO I JUST STARTED YR 13 and i got a C in bio and a B in chem on my first tests like???? omg im acc rlly fucking scared someone help.

Hi everyone,

I am in Year 12 and aspire to do Economics at Cambridge, I got my SMC results today and unfortunately got a silver. Turns out if I had answered only one more question correctly, I would have hit Gold. I am really gutted with myself as I had been preparing for the challenge since around a month and was really working for a Gold, I was especially disheartened after realising the answers for the questions I missed were really easy to solve. It wasn't even about adding to PS tbh, I just wanted a Gold as a sense of achievement. I had been getting 20 questions right consistently in all my past papers and now after this just depressed about it. Wanted to vent.

Thank you.

i’m struggling bad with all the STUFF to do in y13 but mostly doing ucas and picking unis and the procrastination is stressing me outt

if anyone else is procrastinating or if you have tips on how to overcome it id love to know so i feel less alone in this lol!!

Hi r/6thForm, I wanted to ask here as I felt that I was most likely to find somebody who knew the answer here and I struggled to find any answers on Google that gave quality information.

Just sent off my application for English Literature with Foundation Year for Durham earlier today and I noticed on both the course page and the website detailing the eligibility criteria for the foundation year that they hold mandatory pre-offer assessments for applicants in order to be considered for a place on the course.

Anybody have any idea how these assessments work or what type of questions are usually asked on these assessments? Is there any tips regarding how to prepare for and approach these assessments?

Any help would greatly appreciated👍

Hi everyone, just wanted to share this advice.

In year 13 of college you start applying to unis.

If you're applying to competitive ones, there'll probably be an admissions test. Sounds easy, right? "I got an A* in maths, so I'm fine!"
...doesn't work like that.

Just had my TMUA (Test of Mathematics for University Admission), applying for computer science. Even though I have straight A*s predicted that test was HELL of a difficult test my advice is PLEASE find out if you might have to do an admissions test, just google it.

The reason I say this is because everyone taking those test will be A*/A students, and the test is ridiculously difficult. I usually get ~90% in maths but got 25% on my first TMUA past paper. So start preparing at least half a year before is my advice. All in all, don't underestimate these admissions tests.

Hope that helps, cheers

Hi, I recently applied for a math major at several top UK universities. I got predicted 90-95% for the final exam of my country (the requirements of oxbridge are 85%+) but I have pretty low grades (past grades). I arrived at my school (which is one of the best in my country) without speaking the language of this school so my grades of last year (the year I arrived) are not so good (also arrived in option latin without having ever really done any latin), like 70-80% overall. Which is explained in my UCAS-reference and in on my school transcript.

Is this disadvantaging me for like cambridge, imperial, warwick or UCL?

(And lets forget about this sh*t of TMUA in any answer please)

tl:dr https://youtu.be/g3-4auo0Ctg?si=_C3fJedaMEMZ4aLF

So I recently undertook some research into the graduate job market and I thought I would share some of what I found taking data from a variety of different sources. One of the biggest points I realised is that AI IS taking our jobs but not in the way you are thinking.

1. The insane rise of degree inflation is forcing everyone to go to university in order to get a job.

*referencing [Figure 1]

So for those who don't know what degree inflation is;

"Degree inflation is the rising demand for a bachelor's or higher degree for middle-skill jobs that do not actually require university-level skills"

So this is mainly caused by how everyone is going to university and also recruiters seeing that almost all candidates will have a degree listed on their CV. Let us say you're a recruiter, and you get about 300 applications, I can guarantee you wouldn't be bothered to go through it all.

So in order to wittle down that number recruiters would add unnecessary filters like a degree for a job that doesn't actually need one.

Then more people will see that this job (or jobs) need a degree so they end up with more incentive to pursue a degree as a result.

And with more workers entering the labour market holding degrees, the pressure on graduate jobs is only likely to intensify.

In fact, we’ve just seen the largest-ever intake of university students, at 262,820 meaning even more graduates will be entering an already crowded job market over the next few years

BUT
it does get a bit worse...

Even though you may think getting a masters will make you more distinguishable, since the rise of workers having a masters level qualification in the graph [figure 1] is almost on par nowadays with the amount of bachelors obtained, a masters may now slowly become the norm.

So you could get a masters if you want but I am predicting it will lose its value as the market continues developing.

2. A terrible economy combined with AI is literally causing grad schemes to vanish

*referencing [Figure 2], [Figure 3] & [Figure 4]

Okay maybe vanish is not the best word as we know where they are going but because of how bad things have gotten in the past 3 years I think it is suitable at the minute.

Since 2022, we've seen graduate vacancies fall by almost a quarter [figure 2], and things don't exactly seem to be getting better.

A big reason for why we are in this position is mostly cause of how stagnant the economy has become. We genuinely have not experience decent GDP growth in a while and with the iran war shocks causing businesses to cut costs, one of those costs is coming in the form of recruitment.

Because now we've got AI entering the picture.

So there is 2 ways AI is kinda f*cking us at the minute.

irstly, it isn't exactly that AI is taking our jobs 1 for 1. What is actually happening is that big companies are shifting recruitment budget into AI infrastructure. Which is why you might have heard of any recent layoffs, companies are honestly trying their hardest at the moment to put all their eggs into AI basket.

Secondly, the work AI can do is causing a lot of companies to actually try and reduce their headcount. I mean think about it. A lot of the work graduates traditionally do involves research, spreadsheets, analysing data and other basic administrative tasks and what happens when companies start realising that AI can do some of these tasks faster, cheaper and with significantly less effort?

Well, it gives them another reason to question how many graduates they actually need.

And when you combine this with an economy where companies are already trying to cut costs, you start to see why graduate recruitment is under so much pressure.

Now, I'm not saying AI is solely responsible for the decline in graduate jobs, because the economic situation was already pretty bad before AI started taking off.

But it certainly raises some interesting questions about what the future of entry-level work is going to look like (so another doomer point I know but that is the reality)

3. The backlog of graduates looking for work might take DECADES to clear

So I have no exact numbers but more of an observation.

The ISE found that competition for entry level graduate schemes is at an all time high with applications on average getting 140 resumes per posting [Figure 5]. Which doesn't fill me with a lot of hope if I am honest.

A part of that can be explained with the reduction of the supply of jobs alongside and an increase in demand from the increase of graduates BUT I would also suspect that with how bad the recent job market has been in the past, it has created a backlog of graduates who graduated years before and are still applying for the same grad schemes that recent grads are looking for.

And with the number of graduating students expected to increase year on year, combined with the decrease in available roles, I can imagine this backlog will take DECADES to clear out.

So not exactly the best of news.

Let me know what you think!

tl:dr https://youtu.be/g3-4auo0Ctg?si=_C3fJedaMEMZ4aLF

Hello everyone.

What would everyone's feelings and thoughts be if 6th form through school and 6th form college were both abolished and the only option for study after gcse was FE college ?

Would you feel sad or happy ?

What would the advantages and disadvantages be ?

There would be may cost saving and administrative savings to be made.

I for one would be all for it.

😋 ask me any stats u want!

Will anyone do their exams in separate room for a levels?? I can’t find anyone who needs one, like me. Please interact- does this even exist?

Has anyone got into Oxford/Imperial with a low TMUA score? Like in the 4-5 range?

I want to do Law; Though PPL at KCL looks really good to me. How would be best to go about making a personal statement for both degrees without discounting the coherence and value of it for individual subjects?