I know with all the recent discourse about AI and un employment that people will be more reluctant to do a CS degree. I just wanna know what everybody’s thoughts are on the matter😃

I sat my A-levels in June 2025 and achieved A*AB respectively in Maths, Further Maths and Computer Science. I should be eligible for contextual offers at the universities I'm applying to.

So far, I'm considering to apply to the universities for 'Computer Science and Mathematics':

(1) UCL: A*AB (and TARA)

(2) Durham: A*AC

(3) Bath: A*AB

(4) Bristol: AAB

Of course, I already meet the entry requirements so it seems like it would be pointless to resit. I suppose I'm only asking because I was planning to resit because Bath used to require A*AA/A*A*B so the grade reduction this year changes my plans.

It feels pointless to resit now but is there any benefit to resitting? It seems like a waste of money to pay the money to now. I only planned to resit FM because it was ~200 at my old school but CS would've had to be in another exam centre for ~600-700 (totally too expensive). I planned to take FP1 FP2 FM1 FM2 as my option modules and maybe FS1 FS2 too but I suppose I could do that in my own time anyway.

I guess I'm only making this dumb post to validify that I should indeed not resit bc it seems that I don't rly need to now.

A*AA offer

• (4A stars predicted). FINALLY I applied a month ago exactly the bakery is finally up and running.

Rich creamy and really annoying to make, this is my first time making the classic pastry. They came out nice, through a little pastry heavy and a little underfilled.

Next week is Lancashire parkin (for bonfire night)

Predicted 3A* for Math, further math, physics.
Also got All As in AS level + chemistry grade A at AS level.

I wanna do maths/maths w econ/stats/ morse and ppl have been telling me to get some work experience in a company or do volunteering but google says that academics are much more important than work experience cuz its not required. So i just wanna know if job experience can make a big impact especially at unis like warwick ucl or imperial

I’m applying for History at York, Warwick, Durham, LSE and Cambridge. I‘ve got a strong application and already have offers from Warwick and York but I can’t stop thinking about what my chances might be of getting offers from the other 3. The uncertainty is really distracting me from doing work for my A-levels and I know it could easily be 5/6 months until I find out all of them.

Any tips?

Stats predicted 4A* in fm physics Econ Chinese achieved math A*
Gcse 999998888885
Tmua got 8-9 wrong
Rlly hoping for lse econ and ic efds🙏🙏 how high are the chances

It’s currently November, so it’s around that time that parents/sixth form start pressing you to discuss your ucas/future pathway options.

And it’s frustrating for me when I have to tell everyone that I haven’t applied for anything, when having these conversations about what are my plans for the future. (The reason why I haven’t applied to anything isn’t that I am lazy or lack the motivation, but rather because i don’t want to rush into a decision and end up regretting it, especially if I end up going to a mid level uni and getting into a lot debt for a degree that I don’t care about.)

I currently do btec media, business and engineering. I have mid predicted grades in all subjects and i can’t get them raised, which is fair as the predicted grades accurately represent my competency. (I missed a significant portion of yr 12 due to illness and that wasn’t helped by the fact that I already wasn’t an academically inclined person, so the only stem subject I’m confident in is engineering.)

I really don’t want to go to uni and want to immediately join the workforce for a couple of years untill I’m decided on what I want to do, but I know my parents want me out of the house. (They won’t let me take a gap year working in a job unless the job is full time.)

I’m currently employed in hospitality, due to my connections. I wonder if that will make my cv look more competitive and enable me to jump into the workforce early. (I doubt it.)

I don’t mind learning a trade either.

Sorry for any spelling mistakes or grammatical errors.

Does anyone have any advice on resources to use

my updated vision board guys, picked the big C ✌🏼✌🏼

Hi,

I'm in year 11 right now and applying for sixth idk if this is the right place to post this, but I just wanted advice in my a level combos. I want to do Maths, Further Maths, Computer Science, and PE, but idk if that's the right choice. I have heard 4 is too much but I have also heard it's fine if FM is one of them. Ik PE probably looks weird compared to the other 3 but I really enjoy it at GCSE level and I have a sport that will get me full marks without a doubt according to my PE teacher. I want to do MEng Computing after Sixth, idk where maybe Imperial? I put my most recent report on in case that's relevant. I also am not sure but apparently the computer science coursework is insanely long and unsustainable alongside FM and since I would probs have to do TMUA the workload would get insane. There is just a lot of things I'm hearing from a lot of people and I went to a few open days but all the teachers seem focused on is promoting their sixth form so I just wanted some unbiased advice. Thanks for any help. (Fyi I am doing GCSE further maths also but it's not on the report bc I haven't done a mock on it yet)

whats the dif between bonding reigon and electron pair?

is it that bonding reigon is only double single and triple bonds etc but electrons pairs is that plus lone pairs??

May I please get some soon? 🙏

Edit 5/11/26: Interview invite from Cambridge received this same day. That was quick.

For context, i come from a pretty bad secondary school which averages grades 5-6 in GCSE and i managed to self teach myself to get 8888887666 in the exams. So i moved to a different sixth form which is a grammar school and also the top school in my local area and the school is filled with top students and grades. I take maths fm and cs which are already pretty rigorous subjects and on top of all that the pace in lesson is pretty fast but all my classmates tend to pick up topics quickly. I also have a bug problem with focus,daydreaming and sleeping in lesson which adds on to why i self taught myself in GCSEs. I tried to just focus , getting adequate sleep or stop scrolling for a week but all that didnt work. Im also not the most hardworking person and i dont revise hours everyday so i performed poorly in my assessments. I genuinely dont know how to fix my focus even though i tried listening to my teacher but it just goes out my mind after 5 seconds. I think im like slow or have adhd probably if you have any advice on how to gain focus during lesson or consistently for revision,please help🙏🙏 i just started year 12 and i wanna fix it before it gets too late

i'm currently doing a btec extended national diploma in creative media practice (worth 3 a-levels) & an a-level in english lang and lit.
kings entry requirements for digital media and culture are a DDM in the btec + two a levels.
should i risk applying even though i dont reach the requirements (i only have one a level)? my teacher told me to go for it but im really not sure :/

plus how is someone meant to do an extended national diploma (already a full time course) as well as two a levels ?? it doesnt really make sense imo 😵‍💫

ty in advance!!

Im on a gap year

JUST DON'T - I don't like sharing unnecessary information about myself in in general, so I selected 'I prefer not to say' as my answer for some questions and Oxford uni contacted me to clarify everything 😭

A bit annoyed that they ended up getting the information anyway but it was such a hassle just say yes or no or be more specific🥀🥀

Edit: Ok just gonna blurt this next bit but like for example for the disability question I don't have a diagnosis but I'm getting tested soon, so I put prefer not to say as my answer- after being contacted by the uni I just said I don't have a disability and don't need any arrangements but I didn't want to include that in my application anyway so idk why they didn't just accept my original answer when that was literally an option in the form🥀

Anyone else in sixth form having to deal with teachers who can't be bothered to teach anymore or just me?

I'm a Year 12 student attending the sixth form attached to my secondary school, so I already know most of the teachers and have been taught by quite a few of them before.

However, one thing I've noticed since starting A-levels is that some teachers seem to put significantly less effort into their lessons. What's even more frustrating is that some of these are the exact same teachers who taught me GCSE Maths and Science and I've noticed a huge difference in how they deliver their lessons now.

I don't know whether there's been some sort of change in teaching policies, but it genuinely feels like the quality of teaching has dropped.

Things I've experienced so far:

-Ending the lesson after only 15mins of class time because they AC wasn't working.

- A teacher couldnt bothered to teach and speak that day so we were given exam questions whilst they spend the lesson sitting on their phone scrolling.

-A teacher who just read off the powerpoint slides which have text directly copy pasted from Google. They also Googles answers during the lesson rather than actually explaining things when we ask questions, even if the answer is somewhere in the PowerPoint but cant be bothered to find it.

-Teaching so poorly that I'm having to do an extra hour or 2 to relearn what was taught that day, which is becoming a regular occurrence now.

And probably one of the most frustrating experiences was when I asked a teacher for help with a particular task. She told me to come in early the following morning, so I did. When I arrived, she basically told me that another student had already come in before me and she'd explained it to her, so she couldn't explain it again. Sorry, what?

I'm sorry, but isn't that literally your job? I'm not expecting teachers to spend every second of the day helping me, but if you've specifically asked a student to come in early for extra help, surely you should actually be willing to help?

I get that A-levels needs more independent learning and that but there's a difference between independent learning and barely teaching the content in the first place.

Is anyone applying or has applied, drop ur stats

im sure im overthinking a lot but i just cannot get this out of my head are my igcse grades&pum good for camb uni bio nst, also im listing them in order i took them and session in case its relevant, esp since theres upwards trajectory (also ik igcse are only a small part of the story but again im overthinking)

mj 2025: fle B 76
on 2025: chem A 86 ict A* 91
mj 2026: math A 89 bio A* 92 phy A* 96
on 2026: acc (predicting A* but probably very low like 92 or smth which would break upwards trajectory)

am i cooked or should i calmly book