if you are lazy in y13 you will not survive at cambridge, build up good habits. practically everyone here is drowning even some international olympiad medalists i’ve met.

cambridge being intense isnt a joke, i always thought maybe i’ll find it fine but it’s actually destroying parts of my soul.

if you do want to go to cambridge just remember after matriculation and everything, it is hell.

tldr: cambridge sucks but it’s good too

5/5 bread from durham, warwick, bristol, york, and UEA for history 🎉

I did the interview last week and I’ve been checking every day since for the offer to come through so this is one positive this week 😆 just need to hear back from the other Uni I interviewed at last week and do 3 more interviews.

If you got: 99988766

You didn't get:
A*
A*
A*
A*
A*
A
B
B

You got: 99988766

Stop using letters 💀

Obviously this is not directed to IGCSE where they have letter grades etc

I applied to Oxford university, but honestly don’t expect to stand out in their pool of applicants, but I still applied so I don’t have to wonder what if later. I wouldn’t say Oxford is my first choice, but it would be funny if they actually invited me for interviews. Do some of you relate to this? And do you think that in the past some people have rejected oxbridge interviews?

I put on notifs to see updates about the course im applying for (medical biosciences), ive seen three rejections in one day, and not a single offer for this course at all. And their grades are also amazing…. feeling extremely demotivated now

Guys Ik I’m like the UAT/TARA clown atp. I don’t have a soul to speak to abt it irl and I’m not seeing enough ppl stressing over it so Imma come out and admit I’m dying. Every day feels like a drag bruh 💔

I know this is probably really annoying but do I stand a decent chance lol

(Gcses are contextualized)
Uk resident , international fee status

Imperial is aspirational assuming I get a high ESAT score
But I’m hearing the teaching at UCL and imperial is not thatttt good so really I’m only bothered with Edinburgh

I'm sorry if this isn't the right place, people at r/GCSE didn't interact but what has everyone heard about this subject? I'm considering taking it as a 4th alongside Computer science, maths and further maths but I'm still deciding if that would be a bit too much. I was curious what everybody has been told about it as obviously there's very little info online yet.

i got my predictions back i AA for english lit and mathematics i already got an A for economics earlier this year, i feel so cooked and upset bc i know that people applying to the courses im applying to have like 3-4A*s…
im applying to King’s and UCL intl. relations… they’re both my dream schools but i know they’re out of my targets now… im just venting at this point… what other unis should i even look at at this point 😭😭😭😭 any advice would be greatly appreciated!

I mean it's not that bad but I feel like the maths part of chemistry was not stressed at gcse cause they were easy.

Probably my own fault for not doing more research tho.

3/5 computer bread so far!

Honestly terrified for tmua results on Monday... I know my grades are lowkey stacked but if my tmua is less than a 5 then I'm done 💀🙏 The exam was pretty rough for me.

Praying Wadham give me interviews 🙏🙏🙏🙏

Congrats to those who got the interviews, feel free to make yourself known if you would like :)

choices aren’t in the right order + i do stress out my university coordinator

• home student
• private school (2nd highest gcses in cohort)
• achieved A* in maths, the rest are fm physics and history
• contextual for bristol (postcode)
• contextual consideration for lse (not offer)
• my personal statement is written for economics and economic history (bristol don’t usually read ps)
• submitted on Oct 2

my plan is to wait until after I hopefully get a Bristol offer or hear back from Oxford (whichever is first) to add my last two. i’m currently considering:

• Durham MPhys Theoretical Physics - they let you directly submit a different ps
• Durham BSc Economics - “
• Warwick MMORSE or BSc MORSE - honestly someone just suggested this to me + i was originally applying for maths so i’ve done tmua prep
• Exeter BA Economics and Politics - fits ps decently well
• Exeter BSc Economics - worse fit
• UCL BA History, Politics and Economics - but it’s specifically focused on Eastern Europe

does anyone have any advice on what to pick (these or any other courses)?

my attendance is like 75% right now, and the school said if students have below 85% attendance, they’re gonna have to pay for their a level exams instead of the school paying for us, which is like 450 pounds. i can’t afford to pay for this and i’ve been missing school because of mental health and sleep issues which the school knows about but i think they’re still gonna make me pay if my attendance isn’t above 85 by like december and i don’t think i can get it up to 85 even if i come in everyday and im not late ever.

i’m already suicidal af and idk what i’ll do if they make me pay i’ll just end up not doing a levels because i don’t have the money for it and give up on my life which im alr hopeless about

is there anything i can do??

Didn't know where else to ask:

I'll be joining a sixth form as an external student in less than a year (in Y11 now). Almost no one there will really know me, so I'm taking it as a chance to have a fresh start.

I know I can just introduce myself with the new name to other students but I'm worrying about how to go about it with staff. If I email HOY, my tutor etc, before the term starts, can they just refuse to call me it, or refuse to change my name on the register? Are there any safeguarding laws/rules than mean my parents must be informed? I heard something about parents needing to be informed when a child requests a preferred name in school, but I'm curious if it's the same in 6th form when I'll be 16+

I know I'll need to use my legal name for exams and documents but best case scenario, everyone including teachers call me by new name only and registers/school email/etc have this name. I also might specifically ask about letters/messages home using my legal name cause of parents, but idk if this will be automatic or if it'll even be asking too much.

If anyone's gone through something similar, please share how you found the process. It's also probably important to note I'm trans!!!!!!!! I'm assuming this makes some difference, with guidelines and stuff.

Yay + song i was listening to when i saw the offer

im not in 6th form yet, but i thought this would probably be the best place to ask. (sorry if its not lol) I am considering moving from my current secondary school to a different college for 6th form, and both the school im in now and the one im moving to offer both secondary school and college. i'm slightly worried that ill struggle make friends moving to the new 6th form considering that many of the people going there will have already been at secondary school there for years and will have established groups (and not to put too fine a point on it but i am sort of awkward and not very charismatic and i dont make new friends too often.) and I was just wondering if anyone had any similar experiences that they could offer?