Offers/rejection Thread

**Singh.Simran** · 08-02-2010, 01:24 AM

I like this.. after about a week from the day offers go out, there's no more posts at all, in the whole forum..

One might think that offer holders would want to know more than anyone what they're letting themselves in for :P

**Dr.Black Knight** · 19-03-2010, 08:38 PM

Got My results
C1 98/100
C2 100/100
M1 87/100(retaking)
Chem 1 118/120
Chem 2 120/120
Chem 3 53/60
bio 1 120/120
bio 2 doing this June
bio 3 38/60(retaking)
phy 101/120
phy 2 96/120 (retaking)
phy 3 56/60

WHat are my chances for doing medicine at Cambridge?
I'll be doing A2 this jUNE
Chem phy and maths
Would I get invited for interview??

**magpie7** · 19-03-2010, 08:41 PM

They seriously won't like you taking 3 resits at all. They state that clearly on their website; something like "we don't mind one or two resits, but if you're taking resits this early on..." and go on from there.

I'm sure they ask on the SAQ about any resits you've taken too.

**Dr.Black Knight** · 21-03-2010, 08:58 PM

Originally Posted by magpie7

They seriously won't like you taking 3 resits at all. They state that clearly on their website; something like "we don't mind one or two resits, but if you're taking resits this early on..." and go on from there.

I'm sure they ask on the SAQ about any resits you've taken too.

Is too ok, for bio 3 and phy 2
or shall restrict to only bio 3
but then my physics avrage will be less than 90
is it ok
please help??
is my marks ok,
For GCSE I have only AAABBBBBC

**Rippy** · 22-03-2010, 03:01 AM

Originally Posted by Dr.Black Knight

Is too ok, for bio 3 and phy 2
or shall restrict to only bio 3
but then my physics avrage will be less than 90
is it ok
please help??
is my marks ok,
For GCSE I have only AAABBBBBC

Well to be honest, I don't think you actually resitting will matter, it's more getting the score that makes you WANT to resit in the first place would be a problem, if you understand.

Eg, say you got 119/120 but wanted to resit, that would look better than getting 80/120 but NOT resitting. So I'd imagine it's more the marks they'd be worried about, as opposed to a number of resits. In your position, I'd probably have resat bio and chem, but I'd be unsure about the M1.

**magpie7** · 23-03-2010, 07:34 PM

Originally Posted by Rippy

say you got 119/120 but wanted to resit, that would look better than getting 80/120 but NOT resitting

All you've done there is state absolute common sense.
Let's look at it from another angle...

You score 80/120... You resit; However, Cambridge University don't actually care at all what you got in your resit because you've already done two other resits (and that's even before you've started A2) and as Cambridge state themselves... They don't really like people taking a load of resits, as that's far from a good start and could very well be a glance of what's to come.
That is, you have resat an exam that they will only take your first mark into consideration anyway. That's hours of revision down the pan, that could have been used to help boost your marks in A2.

Boosting your marks at A2 Level at the moment is more important than boosting your marks at AS-Level. Assuming you're aiming for an A* grade, AS-Level is only taken into consideration upto the point where you get 80%+... And A2 then becomes the deciding factor.

On another note (concerning your example), what's to say someone looking at your marks and resits notices you resat a paper that you scored over 99% in. This can genuinely annoy some people, and gives the impression that you are hell bent on getting 100% in everything, when in reality this is unlikely at Degree level education.
I don't like stereotyping people myself, but we all do it... And my first impression of a person who resits anything over 95% is simply "get a life".

Being that Dr.Black Knight will be sitting his A2 in the Summer, he will of course get his grades in August and (I'm assuming) apply for Medicine in September with those grades. So going back to my previous point, I'd advise him to simply aim for as many A* grades as possible. Which in turn means resitting any AS-Level modules is pointless if he is already averaging 80%+ in them.

To sum it all up:
Don't waste your time resitting AS-Level modules, and just focus on getting 90%+ in your A2-Level.

**Rippy** · 23-03-2010, 11:31 PM

Originally Posted by magpie7

All you've done there is state absolute common sense.
Let's look at it from another angle...

You score 80/120... You resit; However, Cambridge University don't actually care at all what you got in your resit because you've already done two other resits (and that's even before you've started A2) and as Cambridge state themselves... They don't really like people taking a load of resits, as that's far from a good start and could very well be a glance of what's to come.
That is, you have resat an exam that they will only take your first mark into consideration anyway. That's hours of revision down the pan, that could have been used to help boost your marks in A2.

Boosting your marks at A2 Level at the moment is more important than boosting your marks at AS-Level. Assuming you're aiming for an A* grade, AS-Level is only taken into consideration upto the point where you get 80%+... And A2 then becomes the deciding factor.

On another note (concerning your example), what's to say someone looking at your marks and resits notices you resat a paper that you scored over 99% in. This can genuinely annoy some people, and gives the impression that you are hell bent on getting 100% in everything, when in reality this is unlikely at Degree level education.
I don't like stereotyping people myself, but we all do it... And my first impression of a person who resits anything over 95% is simply "get a life".

Being that Dr.Black Knight will be sitting his A2 in the Summer, he will of course get his grades in August and (I'm assuming) apply for Medicine in September with those grades. So going back to my previous point, I'd advise him to simply aim for as many A* grades as possible. Which in turn means resitting any AS-Level modules is pointless if he is already averaging 80%+ in them.

To sum it all up:
Don't waste your time resitting AS-Level modules, and just focus on getting 90%+ in your A2-Level.

Well yeah I agree with everything you've said basically, but if people want to resit modules to get even higher, it shouldn't matter. I agree with you that it's pointless, but IMO, resitting a high mark wouldn't annoy Cambridge, since they can see you did well the first time. One could interpret it both ways - like you say, maybe it looks like they'll never be satisfied, but you could equally say that it shows they are prepared to put it lots of effort to achieve their best, but to be honest, I'd imagine Cambridge would be indifferent.

In this situation, however, as you say, with him doing his A2s in June, it's probably better that he doesn't resit.

(One thing I do disagree with however, is you saying Cambridge disregard resit results? Saying they disapprove of them doesn't mean they completely ignore them. Returning to my original example, I can't imagine they'd hold it against me if I resit 3 papers at 99% to get 100%, not that I'd actually do that lol.)

**Dr.Black Knight** · 24-03-2010, 07:24 AM

Originally Posted by magpie7

All you've done there is state absolute common sense.
Let's look at it from another angle...

You score 80/120... You resit; However, Cambridge University don't actually care at all what you got in your resit because you've already done two other resits (and that's even before you've started A2) and as Cambridge state themselves... They don't really like people taking a load of resits, as that's far from a good start and could very well be a glance of what's to come.
That is, you have resat an exam that they will only take your first mark into consideration anyway. That's hours of revision down the pan, that could have been used to help boost your marks in A2.

Boosting your marks at A2 Level at the moment is more important than boosting your marks at AS-Level. Assuming you're aiming for an A* grade, AS-Level is only taken into consideration upto the point where you get 80%+... And A2 then becomes the deciding factor.

On another note (concerning your example), what's to say someone looking at your marks and resits notices you resat a paper that you scored over 99% in. This can genuinely annoy some people, and gives the impression that you are hell bent on getting 100% in everything, when in reality this is unlikely at Degree level education.
I don't like stereotyping people myself, but we all do it... And my first impression of a person who resits anything over 95% is simply "get a life".

Being that Dr.Black Knight will be sitting his A2 in the Summer, he will of course get his grades in August and (I'm assuming) apply for Medicine in September with those grades. So going back to my previous point, I'd advise him to simply aim for as many A* grades as possible. Which in turn means resitting any AS-Level modules is pointless if he is already averaging 80%+ in them.

To sum it all up:
Don't waste your time resitting AS-Level modules, and just focus on getting 90%+ in your A2-Level.

Yeah so is it ok if my physics average is low, and by the way does cambridge want 95+ in A2 units as well or just A*?

**Rippy** · 24-03-2010, 08:25 PM

Originally Posted by Dr.Black Knight

Yeah so is it ok if my physics average is low, and by the way does cambridge want 95+ in A2 units as well or just A*?

You don't need 95+, it's just it probably looks a bit better than 90. To be honest, if you're getting A*s no matter what the percentage, that should be fine (in my opinion) since that's what their offer would be for anyway.

**Dr.Black Knight** · 24-03-2010, 08:41 PM

Originally Posted by Rippy

You don't need 95+, it's just it probably looks a bit better than 90. To be honest, if you're getting A*s no matter what the percentage, that should be fine (in my opinion) since that's what their offer would be for anyway.

So if you were in my situation what will you do?
I am confused thats why am asking you, by the way I have very low O level results jusrt AAABBBBBC/
and can you share your results/ums/bmat score and gcse results?