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mercyofmurdock · 2 years
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I know this isn’t really related to my blog but i just got into university and i am so relieved so i wanted to share with y’all how proud i am of myself :))
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thursdayg1rl · 1 year
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just realised this term ends on the 31st...
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candyradium · 2 years
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my bass teacher: so your mother mentioned that you're thinking about doing grades for bass
me: [nods]
my bass teacher: alright, so i was thinking we'd just jump straight into grade 6 or 7,
me (has been playing bass for less than 5 months): uh
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oswinsdolma · 8 months
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i've been reading a bunch of modern aus lately, and i've noticed that quite a lot are a bit uncertain about how the british education system works. it's not a problem by any means, but for anyone who wants it, here is a brief explanation:
we don't say "grades", we say "years", e.g. 7th grade would be year 7. we also don't say things like freshman/sophomore/senior etc. it's just the numbers.
however, some primary schools split into infants and juniors, infants being from yR-2 and juniors being y3-6
we also have a national curriculum all throughout compulsory education, which means everyone studies the same thing, more or less. there are discrepancies at GCSE/A-level with different exam boards, but in general, most people take either the same, or very similar exams, and are taught the same skills.
you start primary school when you are four or five in year R, and continue through primary school from years 1-6.
at the end of year six, you take the SATS, which are a really insubstantial national standardised test for english, maths and spag
it is also optional to take an exam called the 11+ at the end of y6. if you pass, you can go to grammar school. these can be state or private, and are basically redundant nowadays, and just used so parents can say that their child passed the 11+ and got into the Smart School. These are usually single gender and low-key cult like, but otherwise, are exactly the same as normal state "comprehensive" schools.
secondary school is from y7-11. at the end of y11, everyone takes the GCSEs (General Certificate of Secondary Education). you have to do english, maths and sciences, plus several other subjects. most people have between 7-13 GCSEs, and if you fail english language or maths, you have to retake until you pass, even into college.
GCSEs are graded on a scale of 9-1, 9 being an equivalent to A** and is the top 1% of the students who got 7+, and 1 being an F/U. the pass mark is a 4.
the grades you get in your GCSEs are kind of irrelevant, except they determine which subjects you can take for A-level.
After secondary school, you have to stay in full time education for another two years (allegedly, though ik a few people who dropped out), and most people do A-levels (Advanced Level Exams). Instead of doing loads of subjects like at GCSE, you pick 3-4 and study them for two years. these are a LOT HARDER than GCSEs.
if you do four a levels, you're kind of a try hard. honestly, if you do it, good for you, but as a cultural thing, so many people who did four a levels were the most insufferable people who only did it to gloat, and then couldn't handle the workload.
oh, also this entire system is pretty much 100% exam based. for 2/3 of my a levels, i had a coursework essay that was pre graded, but it was only worth 20% of my final grade, and those were rare occurrences. at GCSE, unless you do art or something like that, everything is exam based.
A-levels are graded on a scale of A*-E, and then a U if you literally get nothing. which happens more often than you might think.
this is the bit that i see a lot of people get confused about. in the UK, we don't call university "college". college, to us, is where you take your a levels. if it's an independent institution, it's a "college/further education centre". if it's attached to a secondary school, it's called a "sixth form" (because y12 was year six of senior school in the old system).
i'm sorry i'm trying to be as clear as i can but our education system is complex af
your A-level grades determine where you can apply to uni, which you HAVE to do through a system called UCAS.
UCAS (the university and colleges admissions service) is a national system where you put in all your details required to apply for uni. you start it in the june of y12 and send it in by January** IN MOST CASES
to apply for uni, you need to list all your qualifications/details, predicted grades, personal statement essay and teacher references. this all gets submitted by your school.
HOWEVER. if you are applying to medicine, vet, dentistry, oxford or cambridge, the deadline is in october, and you have to submit written work, do multiple assessments and do rounds of interviews in addition to everything else (would not recommend).
you can also apply to conservatoire for music/drama schools, which tend to have their own deadlines and systems because they're not technically universities
okay nearly at the end
the closest thing we have to an Ivy League is the Russell Group, but it's not as prestigious. Russell Group unis tend to be higher ranked, offer niche courses and demand high grade requirements.
Oxford and Cambridge are not normal universities. i CANNOT stress this enough. you apply through ucas, but the courses themselves are unique and highly competitive (the one i applied for had like 10 spaces)(i got rejected lmao). also they are arranged in colleges within the uni, so it's like a collection of tiny unis linked by a larger institution. colleges are not subject specific and most of them have weird cults. if you're writing oxbridge students, google it, not just for accuracy, but because it's absolutely hilarious.
interviews are also more like interrogations. i was reduced to tears on several occasions, and you also have to swear not to reveal the questions you were asked (everyone does it anyway but STILL IT'S WEIRD). for example, one of my interviews, i was given a poem about feet and asked to analyse it on the spot over a blurry zoom screen. they don't ask you about yourself. they don't ask you about school. they just quickfire questions at you for forty minutes and roll their eyes when you take more than a few seconds to answer.
we also don't have majors/minors. you choose one subject that you apply for specifically, and spend 3-7 years studying that subject pretty much exclusively. the only deviations from this might be if you were taking archaeology and took an art history class or something — everything is really closely related.
we can also drink at 18. not that an age limit has ever stopped anyone in the uk from getting drunk. getting pissed in a field is a major pastime for anyone from the ages of 12-28. it's a problem.
instead of having dorms at uni, most people live in flats. there will be like ten people on a corridor with a shared kitchen. you only live in university housing for your first year, unless you are at oxbridge, in which case i think it's mandatory to live in your college for your whole course.
community college and private universities aren't a thing either. when you apply to uni, you apply to student finance (unless your parents are absolutely LOADED and pay for you) and get a loan for your tuition, and also a maintenance loan based on your household income, which is used to pay for rent, food, etc. you cannot be exempt from financial aid but a lot of people do not receive enough, particularly in recent years when the cost of living in the uk has gone up so much.
university is roughly £9-10k per year (depending on where you study) which is a Lot. but why are people in the US paying hundreds of thousands of dollars, are you guys okay???
also, if you're scottish, university in scotland is free. they also have a standard four year systm rather than the three year system in england and wales (idk about ni i didn't apply there). why?? because the english government is absolute shite and they got rid of the state university programme for england (blame the tories)
don't do your research on the student room. just don't. for your own sake.
and a couple more cultural things before we leave off
we all wear uniform until we get to year twelve. everyone. even the four year olds.
Nottingham Trent university is just the butt of so many jokes and I really don't understand why (they're not even the lowest in the league table 😭😭)
Durham is full of Oxbridge rejects who are in denial about it, and is also the butt of a lot of jokes
everything i have mentioned so far is about STATE education. private education runs on different tracks: you have prep schools, which run from yR-8, and senior schools that run from y9-11, and most of them have attached sixth forms. there is a massive cultural and economic divide between state and private school kids, because they get so much more help applying for uni, and also there is so much nepotism in our government. like. politicians wear their old school ties in parliament so they know who to give favours to. it's AWFUL.
some private schools are so fancy they loop back around and are known as "public schools". they're schools like Eton, Harrow, Winchester, Marlborough, etc. really old institutions that basically guarantee you a place at oxbridge because of family legacy (though this has got a lot better over the last decade or so)(but they still have an unfair advantage).
a lot of compulsory education schools are really religious because education in the uk used to be run basically by the church, and the church still own a lot of schools. universities though, even the ones with roots in the church, are atheistic, their religious links symbolic or supplementary to their main purpose.
okay that ended up being way longer than i thought, but i hope someone finds this useful when writing, or at least interesting.
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esoanem · 9 months
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What are your masters in?
This is kinda complicated because Cambridge is a silly place for silly people and so there are several possible answers
The course I applied for was a 4-year combined master's in natural sciences
As you go you specialise into a specific science and I specialised hard into theoretical physics, so by the time of my third and fourth year that was all I was studying
So then I get super depressed, have to take a year out, and when I come back for my second fourth year have to withdraw from the final exams again but am "deemed to have deserved honours" and allowed to graduate as normal
Cambridge, being silly, doesn't actually officially put the subject or a grade or anything on its degrees (only on the full transcripts). Only the name of the degree and if it's honours or not (in the UK honours is actually the norm at academic unis at least, and an "ordinary" degree is generally understood as a sort of soft-fail). At this point I have a BA from my first three years (Cambridge doesn't award any bachelor's degrees other than BA's for silly reasons we'll get to in a sec) and an MSc from my fourth year
Some years later, they let you graduate a second time to turn your BA into an MA. Because this MA doesn't actually require any extra work (only not getting imprisoned, divorced, bankrupt, etc) it's kinda fake, and not including a "Cantab" (from Latin Cantabrigiensis "from Cambridge") after it on a CV to point out that it's not really real would definitely be misleading and potentially fraudulent. Because of this, actual arts master's degrees at Cambridge are MPhil's instead. Technically the MA outranks other master's degrees (except theology, which outranks everything), despite not having required any real work because again, Cambridge is a silly place for silly people
So now I have an MA & MSc, but what are they in?
Well according to the certificate, MA is just in arts; according to the course I applied to (and never transferred off), it's in Natural Sciences; according to what I was actually doing most of the time I was studying for the degree that became this one it's in (Theoretical) Physics; and according to what I was doing in order for it to become a master's it's in Not Getting Imprisoned, Divorced, Bankrupt, etc
Likewise, the MSc is in Science according to the certificate; Natural Sciences according to my external UCAS application; Physics according to my internal fourth year application; (Theoretical) Physics according to what I was actually studying for it; and Nothing(!?) according to my fourth year exams
On my CV I don't list a subject for the MA (Cantab), and put Theoretical Physics for the MSc
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hella1975 · 2 years
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Bro wtf the British system sounds ass so glad I moved...the Australian one isn't as bad tbh. We've got primary, secondary and tertiary here as well. We've got NAPLAN which is year 3,5,7,9 which are for the government to see generally what the level of education is and then GATE in year 6 which is if U wanna get into gifted programs or schools. Then at the end of high school it's ATAR in year 11 and 12 but only year 12 marks count. Basically you choose 5-7 subjects and then take an exam and you get ranked in the state. The highest you can get is 99.95 which means you're better than 99.95% of ppl. Idk how uni works lmao
they RANK YOU????? that seems??? kinda mean omg?? like people are dicks enough over here about grades (peak me rubbing it in my tory neighbour's face that we got the same amount of ucas points despite his fancy education) i cannot imagine what would happen if we had an actually determined percentage rank lmfaooo
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The 2022 writing Advent calendar: Day 14
14. What is a snowman
“Hm hm hm, frosty the snowman 🎵…” Matteo hummed and strummed his guitar at Rollers. In front of him was a Christmas songs book and he had been just lightly playing some Christmas songs to pass the time as he and Luna were waiting for Simon and Ambar. 
Ambar had a law school exam at her university UCA and Luna was helping run a junior Rollers group today. The whole group had been her idea. So they had agreed to meet at Roller afterward. Matteo glanced at the clock. 
Simon and Ambar were going to be late soon. It was not that odd from Simon, but from Ambar a little bit more… but Matteo was not going to question that since the most probable answer was that Ambar had taken over time with the exam. Luna’s skating lessons always ran late too.
“What are you doing Chico Fresa?” Matteo was just about to turn the page in the book when Luna’s voice startled him. 
“Oh, your class is already over?” Matteo asked after picking up the guitar pick he had dropped, “How did it go?”
“Oh, you know… those kids are the cutest things in the world.” Luna started explaining at the rapid pace she always did. “I taught them the double pirouette today and Juliana says that we could possibly even sign them up for a junior showcase next year,”
“A competition?” Matteo questioned. The Junior Rollers had only been a thing for six months and most of the kids were only ages eight to ten. “Already?”
“Not a competition, just a small showcase.” Luna laughed, “I mean these kids have potential. Maybe they will be the next team of Jam & Roller.”
“Hopefully just in the name, and with the drama,” Matteo laughed too.
“So you did not answer me yet.” Luna changed the subject, “What were you doing?”
“Just strumming on some Christmas songs,” Matteo explained and nodded toward the book. “I thought that maybe I did a video on my Instagram with one of them or something. To open up the holiday season for my fans and stuff.”
“Frost the Snow Man?” Luna read from the book, “What kind of song is that?”
“Well it goes something like this,” Matteo played the chord progression on his guitar.
“Well, that's not what I meant,” Luna continued to stare at the book turning it upside down, “I meant like, what is a Snow Man?”
“You don’t know?” Matteo asked confused.
“I mean it is a man made of snow… or it the man just really loves the snow?” Luna rambled. Matteo just shook his head. How was he surprised? 
“Luna, Snow Man is a thing people make of snow that kind of looks like a man,” Matteo explained and pointed to a picture in the sog book. 
“Oh,” Luna looked at the picture, “It looks so much fun! Can we make one?”
“We don’t have snow here,” Matteo pointed out.
“Oh, right,” Luna tilted her head, “You know I have never actually seen snow.”
“What have you never seen?” Simon and Ambar walked into Roller at that second. “Sorry that we are late, but I got stuck with the last question.”
“No problem,” Matteo responded, “I was just explaining to Luna what a snowman is, since she did not know.”
“I don’t know either,” Simon piped up. “There is no snow in Cancun. I always just imagined it was just really white sand.
“You have never been skiing?” Matto questioned after glancing Ambar a bit skeptically.
“Nope.”
“I have been to the alp couple of times,” Ambar said. “I had to ski by myself since Sharon didn’t want to do that. Simon, darling, snow is frozen water. It is really cold.”
“Uuf, then I do not wanna know.” Simon shivered and Matteo tried his hardest not to laugh. “I hate the cold.”
“They did have snow at UK right now, right?” Luna asked. “You all saw that picture Nina and Gastón sent.”
“Of course we did.” Ambar smiled, “You’d think they both are majoring in photography.”
“I’m really sad they are not coming here for Christmas this year.” Luna lamented
“Well, they must be busy, even with the vacation.” Ambar noted, “Gastón is finishing his bachelor's after all now.”
“And maybe they just wanna spend it just two of them. I am sure they can keep themselves occupied.” Matteo smirked. “I am just super happy they worked it out, because I cannot take another Christmas like last year.”
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steelycunt · 1 year
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hiya! just wanted to know what course you're doing and how are you finding it/uni generally? doing the UCAS stuff now and it's just a nightmare :/ also good luck with the assignment! xxx
hello bab!! i am studying politics!! on balance, i'd say i really enjoy my course...sometimes some modules are more relevant to my interests than others but thats inevitable--i think youd be hard pressed to find any degree anywhere where you enjoy every module for 3/4 years...also with most subjects/unis generally there is a degree of freedom (especially after first year) in as much as being able to choose some of your modules and tailor the course a little more to what you enjoy so like. Dont Stress if things feel a bit dry to start with because chances are you'll get more of a say in what you study later on :-)
in general: without rambling about all the little things there are to think about, i'd say the most important thing to know abt uni at the start is that its very okay and also very normal if you do not enjoy it straight away lol. Big Uni wants everyone to contribute to the myth that theyre having the Best Time Ever from the moment you get there and that freshers week is the Best Week of your Life and that in the space of three days you'll make Friends for Life but actually...as with any change there is an adjustment period for most people before you might feel properly settled/start enjoying yourself. personally i absolutely hated freshers week. it was miserable and i was far too drunk to remember the names of anyone i met let alone. establish some sort of blood bond with them in the corner of the pub idk
GOOD LUCK with ur exams (assuming you have some coming up?) and good luck with the ucas stuff!! its tedious but it DOES end <3 if you've got any other questions feel free to shoot me another ask/msg me!!
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bfbkg · 1 year
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i believe it’s only the one major and minor, and some degrees you can only have a minor if the degree is huge like one of my friends is doing law, she can only do one minor bc of how huge the law degree itself is
and we have something similar with the creative writing but it’s called like creative industries but the degree includes journalism and all that stuff not just like creative writing but one of my friends did that and french as a minor lmao so you can do things unrelated but with her, her major wouldn’t be able to be creative writing bc that’s already her degree
when i took note of some of the degrees offered at the uni near me i think i was looking at going into a bachelor of arts majoring in creative writing but then i can’t minor in the writing stories module
i have like a whole google doc from when i was looking at courses LMAO
do you enjoy the journalism part of it? my friend hated it so much lmao, but that’s bc her only aspiration is for writing stories that she doesn’t like the writing she does for journalism
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i find that so surprising ????!!! the specific minors you get with the majors. in my creative writing class, half of the class is americans and they’re there for a term from their course. and their actual major is like business or something so random?? for us our modules are to do with our course.
also not realllyyyy about the enjoying journalism. mines very newspaper politics based and i don’t really care too much about it? so i think i’m the same as your friend but i’m only doing it till christmas!
and yeah we apply for unis from this website called ucas with our points from our a levels (the big exams we do at 18 lol) a depending on our grade a b c or whatever. and specific courses have specific points.
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incognito-girl · 2 months
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apparently there’s some criminology exam tomorrow for ucas profiles that no one told me about
i’ve lost my bank card somehow
and i’m supposed to of been revising since october for all 3 science exams but no one actually knows the date of them and i’ve done the tiniest bit of revision ever
anyways how’s your day been!?
oh that’s an awful day tbh
i loose my card once a week cl
do some work!!
alright
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violetacademia · 2 months
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Hey, I know you aren't really active here rn. But, I am an Indian student (12th grader) and I wanted to ask about foreign unis. I want to study there if I get a chance but I really don't know anything about it. I remember that you got an offer from university of glasgow, when and how did you applied for it? (sorry if i am not making any sense right now)
thank you
Hi!! I am active actually, I just haven't posted in a while ik, but i will from now on.
Hope ur 12th is going well, my best wishes r with you!
(Note: I re-read ur question properly after already typing this long answer out below, so I'll keep it for now)
I applied to universities in uk, singapore and korea, so i can tell u about that.
Uk : there's a website called UCAS through which u can choose to apply to any 5 universities, no more. The requirements might have changed a bit, so do check for yourself, but you'll roughly need good results in 10th and 12th (if u were of the batch that had 10th exams~), strong extracurriculars, recommendations, sats/act scores, toefl scores and a banging personal statement essay. TAKE CARE OF THE ADMISSIONS TIMELINE AND DO NOT MISS DEADLINES
About Glasgow in particular, I got a decent scholarship with my predicted 12th grades, but the cost of living, accommodation and travel were still pretty high for me. Just something to keep in mind. The process of application was the same as I have described. I didn't have an interview for this. I didn't end up going, mind you.
Singapore: expensive :( I applied to three uni s, NUS, NTU and SMU. SMU is, in particular, really expensive. Same procedure as before, but more stress on extracurriculars, volunteering experience etc. In my opinion, this was harder to get into.
Korea: SNU, yonsei, korea uni, ewha women's etc. were on my list. Be careful tho, their admission timelines and schedules are different from ours, so keep careful track of that. Otherwise it's pretty much like the uk admissions.
I hope u have a lot of success whatever u choose to do. Ik 12th is stressful af, but don't worry, you will get through this. Take care, and thanks for the ask :))
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utdmoon · 11 months
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can i ask u something as a year 12.
is it the end of the world if i don’t do well in my mocks this week? i do bio maths and chemistry and have been getting like Ds all year. if i fuck them up and i fucked for good and getting no uni offers?
hiya, of course you can ask!
firstly i just wanna say that it’s important to remember that one exam is never the end of the world! it honestly depends on your school and the way they determine grades, but w me we got another set of mocks and so another opportunity in year 13 to improve our grade
for me, year 12 mocks determined your initial ucas predictions, and then any exams we did in year 13 (before applications were sent) could make your grade go up if you did well, but even if you did bad your grade couldn’t go down (so it stayed the same as the year 12 one)
i would say that if you’re not doing early entry, don’t stress too much because you’ll have plenty of opportunities to improve your grade. if you are, ideally it’d be good to do well in these mocks but i’m sure your sixth form will give you more chances to improve
it also depends on what you’re planning on applying for in uni, from what you’re studying i’m assuming it’s a degree with high grade requirements but maybe not? even if it is, i know plenty of ppl who’ve decided to take a gap year because their ucas predictions weren’t great but they know they’ll do well in their actual a levels
i would say don’t stress yourself too much – your exams are this week so there’s not much you can do apart from trying your best! doing bad in these will not prevent you from getting uni offers next year, especially if you put your head down and work hard before you send off your application
so sorry for the essay 😅 i got a little bit carried away but pls feel free to ask me anything, either here or in dms!
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