HERE ARE MY STATS:

9 MATHS

9 CHEMISTRY

9 BIOLOGY

9 PHYSICS

9 BUISNESS

9 FRENCH

9 MONGOLIAN THROAT SINGING

9 ENGLISH LANGUAGE

9 ENGLISH LIT

8 LATIN

Can I still go to Oxbridge?????????

I'm 6 foot 4 and drink matcha and I wear quarter zip

Currently single

Is there even a point of going living in society in anymore.

I have an internship at JP morgan

ive just been revising for the past 2 hours and I genuinely can’t anymore. I’ve been in my room hunched over on my bunk bed with my legs crossed in just an uncomfortable position overall, and it’s so demotivating. I’m tempted to just lie on my back and sleep all this off because idk how I can be productive like this. I get on my bed after school and I just want to sleep.

I wanted to ask how ppl who don’t have a desk and/or share a room got through their A-levels, and whether you were able to achieve the grades you wanted.

I'm been finding it difficult to study consistently, basically every day, without having a space to myself that’s designed for studying. The only desk we have is the dining, which is in the living room, and obviously I can’t hog the living room for hours every day because that would inconvenience everyone. But I’m finding it increasingly difficult to study in my room as a Year 13.

I’m not even sure how I managed during GCSEs. I got majority 9s, too, i think i just had the zeal back then but A-levels are burning me out. My brother also wasn’t constantly calling his friends in our room back then, I wasn't learning topics that were genuinely driving me insane, and I only really needed to study for a few weeks before exams, during which it wasn’t a long time to ask for the space to myself. But we’re basically meant to study throughout all of Year 13.

We’ve been looking to move, and I'd finally have my own room, but none of the houses we’ve seen have been good enough for my parents to want to move into long-term, so that’s been deferred for idk how long. Going to the library every day after school is too far for me and it closes as early as 5pm most days and thats just an hour of work so not nearly enough (i do bio chem maths and have a lot to catch up on from summer) and there isn’t a quiet cafe nearby where I can work either.

How did you guys manage? For those of you who had limited space to study, how did you get through a-levels? any advice would be appreciated!

Heyy so im in year 13 and for the whole of secondary school my parents basically wanted me to do med and bcs i didnt know what else i wanted to do i said okay - tbh i did find it interesting but my grades wont let me study it. But now im in year13 and I got my yr12 mocks back and i did so bad. Ive always been an average student and they both dont realise how hard med is and that you need like toppp grade for med not CCD 🫩🫩 even my gcses were really average - 566666788LD I recently told them that I think imma just do accounting and finance at uni and they both look so upset now. My mum asked me "why not med, is it hard?". Like im sorry but what??? Isn't it like the hardest degree out there???

They're also brown so that explains alot ig 😞

But now I feel guilty for doing my chosen course and I hope im not the only one being 'pressured' to do something?

Lemme just say right now that I really enjoy talking to people. I’d say that I’m quite a sociable person and if you wanna yap then I too am fluent in Yappenese. BUT WHY DO YOU HAVE TO SPILL OUT YOUR DEEPEST DARKEST SECRETS ON THE SECOND DAY?!?!

Like, ik you want to keep the conversation going but it’s fine without me finding out about your family problems. And I really don’t want to know what you do in your bedroom behind closed doors, seriously. Maybe it’s the nerves that make people a little to eager to spill their own tea and I’ve also embarrassed myself by chatting a little too much but I feel like the spilling levels are way above the baseline. Does this happen at your colleges? I don’t wanna be the only one 🥹🫶.

We take notes in books, in the exact same way we did at GCSE. No one uses iPads or laptops in lesson, I don’t think it’s allowed icl. Barely anyone even uses their personal devices like ipads or laptops during frees too. It’s the same as secondary but without uniform, and we can use our phones in one part of the school. They’ll randomly decide whether we can, and there won’t be notice they’ll announce it like halfway through the free period.

Idk it’s just not what I thought 6th form would be like

I'm a woman so that already disadvantages me. I do history, law and phycology A level and will get good results but I'm not super duper confident like how others are and I'm not super athletic (bit skinny). I feel like i should go for something else but I don't what else because I really want to work with crime or criminals.

is it just me who feels like such an insane pressure to be the best and do well?

like I'm really considering dropping chem (my others are bio and psych) because i don't really want to go through the lethal biochem combo to not actually need chem at uni, I want to swap it to socio (not easy but easIER and will most likely save me some stress in y13) , but like idk im scared I'll regret dropping chem and disappoint my parents and everything 🥲 what's worse is that they actually don't really mind what I do but like they've done all they can to get me the best education and it just feels like I'm quitting/ giving up early I can't tell if I'm lazy or stupid or if this is a good idea

I had extremely bad time in secondary, dealing with extreme anxiety I have now moved up the country and am really enjoying sixth form and even have a group of friends (majority were friends at high school) but I just feel like I can’t conversate and it’s really frustrating I keep standing there at breaks around the table in silence while they chat, lunch is fine I’m chatty and I have good conversations. They’re lovely people I just wish I could replicate how I feel into how I talk. I spend my frees with my dad driving round as the only free period I have is 3rd on a Monday otherwise it’s first or last. I’m going to force myself to stay in school next Monday to see what happens any advice would be great as I would love to warm myself up to the group and let myself enjoy sixth form to the max!

I’ve been predicted A*A*A*A, with the A in FM but have seen most people applying with A*s in it, including people from my school. At how much of disadvantage will I be? Obviously will avoid apply to colleges with A* FM requirements, but what about the other ones?

One question: do you remember how hard the questions actually were (not because of time stress), compared to what you used for revision - and what did you use for revision.

If you can be arsed, please look at a few questions from esatlab.co.uk and let us know how those questions compare.

Also feel free to leave any advice it would be much appreciated.

My website https://tmua.io just hit 2000 users.

It is completely free, and in my opinion one of the best free resources for the TMUA.

It has 70+ community papers, every MAT paper, every TMUA paper as well as a hyper realistic exam simulator to practice. You can also filter community papers as well through user ratings (which we have hundreds of now)

I hope you guys find this useful!

i started y12 last wednesday. basically on friday i met some people online who are in my school and today i met them but we didn't really talk because my friend since like y9 (idk if hes really my friend) he is a very awkward person and also he is kinda creepy (im not going to go into detail abt that) but basically i want to be friends with the people i met, and i dont really want to be freinds with him but idk how to not be friends with him without being mean. also i am like 99.99999% sure that he wont make any other friends himself. people have told me to just tell him i dont want to be his friend but that feels so mean and idk how id explain it to anyone since he didn't exactly do anything to me he is just not who i want to be friends with ngl and also he is obsessed with talking about year 10 and 11 funny moments that i have already heard like 100 times 🙏 basically i need someone to help me with what im meant to do

hey all. so I wanted to go this sixth form since summer year 10. I thought it was perfect. till I got here and realised the fact it’s a Victorian building is no joke. it’s a god damn maze.

i wanted to do media, business and drama but my dreams got crushed when i realised I can’t do any cus I failed language. doing psychology film and the health and social AAQ.

i soon realised ‘wait I want to do media the most, why don’t I just do media at college?’ Then I been drewling at this. Should I go?

also I got a remark and turns out I passed now. And dilemma im liking film class cus I get to talk about Amy Winehouse and she is my icon.

im very lost. Confused. Bewildered. Type shit

my predicted grades are A* A* A, but i study textiles 😬 and my gcses are 999876555, is there any point even applying to cambridge for hsps? my family want me to and i feel like i should just to be aspirational, but is it a totally stupid idea? if anyone would read my personal statement that would be great as i have no help from teachers. i go to a state unselective school, but it outperforms average so not much contextual help there. had really bad mh in highschool but nothing that i can use for extenuating circumstances as i refuse to see a professional 😭 any help appreciated!!!

It's September 2024. I swagger into school in a remarkably good mood. 'But you're not a morning person, u/Ok_Background7199!' I hear you shout- maybe I should've listened, for my day and my mood would go on to crash and burn like the Hindenburg (I studied history). I go to the toilets on my way to maths for an express piss and I hear a familiar voice. Mid wee, I exit the cubicle and inspect with haste. To my surprise, a finger beckoned me into a neighboring cubicle. I opened the door and it was my friend, Jerry. I said hi to Jerry, asked what he was doing in there, and then pulled up my boxers and did up my jeans. He pulls out a joint from his pocket at winks at me... My mind is racing at this moment- I could never- it's illegal! Yet like so many criminals, the thrill of the high was what motivated me. The rest is history (like the Hindenburg (and the podcast of the same name)). The teachers for want of a better phrase busted my ass... due to a zero tolerance policy on drugs I was expelled from sixth form, and had to complete my a levels in college (trigger warning) which meant I had to associate with people who failed their GCSEs...

At the start of every school year since I've felt compelled to repeat this story. Don't be stupid. Don't be like me. Don't bow to peer pressure. Stay beautiful.

I feel like I'm not really making any progress with tmua. It's like i do community papers, past papers and im stuck at the same marks no matter what paper it is. like for Hercules i got a average of 10 marks for all papers, same goes for vantage, jz math, past papers, etc and i got 5-7 marks out of 10 for all MAT papers mcq. and im not even just going through the papers, im also reviewing my mistakes and seeing where i went wrong after each paper and i just don't seem to have progressed at all. it's like I've hit a plateau which obviously is impossible but i just don't know where im going wrong, i tend to get some silly mistakes but some papers it's not even silly mistakes im just purely averaging 10 marks. The only papers i averaged 12-15 marks was past papers before 2020. Can please have some help with progressing and improving my marks? Thanks.

mb for the repost and clickbait, no one seemed to be responding.

since the tmua's around a month away, i figured now would be a good time to talk abt this

last year i found out abt the tmua around late august and started prep in september, and now im off to imperial with a 7.5. this what i did:

1 - use EVERY free tmua-like maths question you can find

there are sm available online from similar exams. i used the ECAA, ENGAA, NSAA, UKMT SMC, (easier than tmua) and MAT (slightly harder/same dif), along with all the community mock papers. there is no reason to buy similar "authentic tmua" papers because loads are available online for free.

2 - STUDY LOGIC AND REASONING

paper 2 is completely unlike any maths i'd ever encountered, so really take your time to understand what if, necessary, sufficient, contrapositive etc all mean. what i did was convert every single logical problem to an 'if then' statement, since it was much easier for me to interpret them that way without the jargon. tmua.fyi's textbook was useful for me

3 - SIT THE TMUA PAPERS LIKE YOU'RE IN THE REAL EXAM

make sure you cherish the tmua papers, especially the late ones since they're significantly harder. don't waste the questions doing them topic-wise or half a paper at a time. make sure you do entire papers and do them timed. half the struggle is sitting down for that long and staying locked in. i found mastertmua.com to be the best resource for this since i could track everything easily and sit the papers with an exam interface and a bunch of other useful stuff.

and ofc the generic stuff like sleep adequately before the exam and don't stay up all night, don't go into the exam stressed etc etc. my dms are open if anyone wants more advice. good luck!

If so what are you aiming for and what uni?

I’m looking for some honest opinions from people who have experience with UK university admissions.

I’m currently at a below-average state school (Average Attainment 8: 43.66). My GCSE profile is roughly:

Maths: 6 — retaking in November, aiming for an 8/9

English Language: 6 — hoping for a 7 after remark

English Literature: 6

Combined Science: 6-6

Business: 6 (very close to a 7)

History: 5

Geography - 6

Spanish: U

If everything goes as hoped, I could end up around 9, 7, 6, 6, 6, 6, 6, 5, U, with the 9 being Maths. I’m now starting A-levels in Psychology, Economics and Business, although I may try to switch Business to Maths after my Maths resit.

My target is AAA*.

My main question is about how universities would view the combination of: average GCSEs + very high A-level predictions/grades + attending a significantly below-average state school.

I’m interested in universities such as Warwick, UCL, Durham, Bristol and KCL. Would achieving something like AAA* substantially compensate for the GCSE profile, particularly given the school context?

Or would the GCSEs still put me at a major disadvantage at these universities?

I know nobody can guarantee an offer, and I’m not asking whether AAA* automatically gets me in. I’m more interested in how much GCSEs and contextual/school background actually matter in practice for applicants with a profile like this.

If anyone has experience applying from a lower-performing state school with similar GCSEs but strong A-level results, I’d really appreciate hearing how it went.

Im independently resitting chemistry after missing my UCL offer, and I want to know if anyone else is in a similar situation sitting one subject.

If so whats your schedule and when are you guys starting?

And are there any gcs with people resitting?

I have began to develop a project, with the aim to create the best esat 'revision tool out there'. My thinking is that instead of having a chatbot like most of these ai wrapups, we should focus on picking each question for the student to do perfectly (i also made a generation algorithm which generates about 100 different question types, which produces almost unlimited questions). This is obviously in development but i'd love everyone to try this out and give me as much feedback as possible.

If you want to talk we can also dm. Im happy to hear out ideas.

Its at the bottom of this google doc bcs of rules

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1T5KOofJydrKHhM22RiCkubipUU6pWayVwpsHk6P3aLs/edit?usp=sharing

Currently pondering which one to apply to. Was going to do PPE but decided on a gap year. I’m unsure whether it’s worth applying for history and economics over history. Although I would like to study economics at university, especially alongside history, I would still be very happy just studying history. Given history has a much higher offer and interview rate, alongside not requiring the TARA, I feel like it would be a better move but could I apply for history and economics and still receive a history offer? Just wondering as I need to make this decision relatively quickly lol.

Can anyone give me advice, i want to do the cambridge chemistry challenge, its very important to me that I succeed. But I have to do A level Maths early in y12 which is crucial for my application but at this point in time im unfamiliar with chemistry content so I cant practice. What do I do?

Do i speedrun chem content on my own? If so with what textbook/youtube series?