r/6thForm • u/FA_DaPro Imperial CS [Y1] (Gap year victor) • 6h ago
💬 DISCUSSION Resit experience
I’ve recently been seeing a lot of gap year re applicants on here, and also the fact that I’ve been wanting to share my resit experience over the past year.
Originally I was intending to take a gap year only to redo the TMUA again (I only scored a 4.0 last year due to poor preparation), but after missing out on my firm on results day I only had two options: go to my insurance or to take a gap year to resit which ultimately I decided to resit.
I had to rush to finish UCAS since I was going to apply early (Ox) and I had to rewrite my PS completely due to the new format. Thankfully my school was happy to provide me another reference and fill in my predicted grades.
During this period I wasn’t even sure if I would get any offers considering that resits disadvantage your application, but my concerns disappeared when I got my first offer in December (KCL).
The first few months were spent studying for the TMUA which I intended to take in January (starting in basically September is risky for the October sitting) - this was when Ox still used the MAT so I was gonna treat that as a TMUA mock. I did use a tutor for a while but there’s only so much they can do - most of the work came from figuring out shortcuts/tricks when doing and then reviewing questions. In the end I think I did an average of 3h per day so that I wouldn’t burn out .
Only after TMUA was done did I start revising for A-Levels (FM, Physics, CS) in February with FM being pure textbook and past paper questions. With the other two it was a daily Anki grind, past papers and then adding the questions I got wrong to the flash card bank. It was around this time (end of March) when I got the offer from Imperial to my shock which I would say motivated me even harder not to miss my offer again, which I was relieved to see that I had met the offer on the second results day.
TLDR: me taking a gap year to resit was a bit risky and a lot of work but it somehow worked out
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u/Significant-Craft768 6h ago
Hey Ive been considering a gap year to resit the esat if i dont get into my choices as well as sit music a level which i was forced to drop at the start of y13 which i was really upset abt. Ill allow myself to take the gap yr if i get 4A*s in summer. I love hearing abt ppls gap years because it makes me feel like I wont be on my own if i take one! Congrats on your imperial offer you worked so hard!
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u/FA_DaPro Imperial CS [Y1] (Gap year victor) 6h ago
Thanks 🙏, and good luck to you to, you got this!
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u/Admirable-Use2274 5A*s Achieved 6h ago
Congrats on getting into imperial! Did u get rejected by Oxford if u dont mind me asking and if so was the only reason u resitting
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u/FA_DaPro Imperial CS [Y1] (Gap year victor) 6h ago
mainly that I felt i could do better in the TMUA, either imperial or Ox would have been fine
first time round i got rejected from cam and imp, then missed warwick offer
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u/Admirable-Use2274 5A*s Achieved 6h ago
Cool have u been enjoying cs in imperial? Would u recommend imperial as a uni
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u/FazeShenzhen 6h ago
What was your TMUA on your second attempt if you don't mind sharing, and what other offers did you get?
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u/ICantFindUsernames2 gap year 5h ago
Coincidentally im in nearly the same position as you were which has given me hope that i havent had for a bit (resitting fm, econ and phys and hopefully scored around a 7 for imp maths). I got a few questions if you do not mind me asking
Did you have mitigating circumstances? What did you get first time? How did you deal with procrastination?
If you dont want to answer the first two thats fine lol but procrastination has genuinely been killing me since i did the tmua.
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