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24 May 2024: The Option Internationale du Baccalauréat is an international version of the French Baccalaureate, and is taken as a set of school-leaving exams in the academic year when most students have ... If you are applying for Maths you will also need to take

24 May 2024: In first year, for each paper you'll write five essays, and have supervisions for each, as well as a few revision supervisions to practice for the exam in Easter term. ... At the end of the year, after my exams, I also got involved in the Christ's May

24 May 2024: from the exams at the end of the year.

24 May 2024: much. After two years, I think I'm getting there with these differences, although doing an essay in an hour or so for an exam will always be a challenge! ... This exam season, I have worked in our College Library, the Department of Psychology library, my

24 May 2024: Academically, I’ve never had to ask College to intervene (e.g. moving deadlines or aiding with exams) but I’ve talked about the options with my tutor before and so

24 May 2024: It is a lot different here! The system of having all exams at the end of the year means that it’s entirely up to you to motivate yourself to work

24 May 2024: It has a privacy about it, especially in the mornings and afternoons and during exam term. ... I found the exams a bit stressful, and I was quite tired when they were all done.

24 May 2024: Sometimes I also go to cafes and in exam term, the extra study rooms that College provides were really helpful to work in when the library got fuller. ... s less to focus on in exam term.

24 May 2024: The interviews were done in December, which was around the time I was preparing for mock A-Level exams at my school, so this may have helped. ... There are end-of-year practical exams for some course options, so they end up being quite important.

24 May 2024: from the term before to help consolidate them before exam term starts.

24 May 2024: However, College puts on extra work rooms in exam term, and I found the Function Room the best place to work – it was a quiet space with other people, but without

24 May 2024: The exams went quite well in the end – although I muddled one up and was a bit too pessimistic about it up until results came out. ... Stratos. There are a bunch of those, but a two which spring to mind are: unwinding with friends after exams and

24 May 2024: Fortunately, I had a PhD offer by early Lent term, allowing me to redirect my efforts toward exam preparation. ... exams. I am really glad and grateful that all the efforts eventually translated to a First!

24 May 2024: Over the year I mostly worked in my room, moving to the College library as exam term approached in order to separate my work space from my 'chill out' space. ... I also found it really helpful to use the shorter holidays to do some work in preparation

24 May 2024: I spend a lot of time there during Easter term studying for exams, but I prefer it during Michaelmas and Lent, when it’s much quieter.

24 May 2024: We put a timetable up so we knew when each others exams were, and would cook meals for each other when we'd had an exam day. ... Plumb Auditorium is one of the rooms College opens up for people to work in during exam season.

24 May 2024: The second-year Natural Scientists getting ready for a post-exam pool jump!

24 May 2024: In academic terms, I was also looking forward to a less exam-based approach to teaching in the supervisions, and not having to memorise mark schemes etc. ... I had practical classes two or three times a week, which were either assessed continuously

24 May 2024: Senior Tutor's tea in exam term is great! Tea, coffee, cakes and strawberries are set out beside the outdoor pool in the Fellows Garden once a week in the afternoon. ... Lent Bumps take place near the end of Lent term, and May Bumps take place in Easter

24 May 2024: When it comes to exams, there’s also plenty of opportunities to organise extra revision supervisions if you feel that you need them. ... At the moment I’m thinking ofand Materials Science – they’re the subjects I found most fascinating this year

24 May 2024: I remember seeing a question similar to one in the admissions papers in a part IB Plant and Microbial Sciences exam, in my second year! ... I tend to put immense pressure on myself during exams, which led to a stressful Easter term - thankfully followed

24 May 2024: before the start of my exams (exams in Singapore are at a different time to in the UK). ... the Singapore A level General Paper and Economics) was something that I had to navigate.

24 May 2024: I have found the College really good for welfare, especially in first year when I had various things going on at home during exams. ... I actually specifically chose Christ’s because there was no written harmony exam, although I had a few very informal

24 May 2024: Keyboard Skills, again worth only half a paper, are assessed with a practical exam. ... do. Coming to Cambridge, I was very worried about the Keyboard Skills and Aural exams.

24 May 2024: Lectures are divided equally between these two halves and the exam consists of one half as a set work which is provided 2 weeks before the exam, which is a more

24 May 2024: There are also two oral supervisions a week, which are also conducted in the target language, and prepare you for your oral exams (in exam term, when the oral exams are

24 May 2024: through the first two terms before the exam at the end of second term). ... In exam term, contact hours slowly fizzle out and we end up having two weeks of no contact hours just before exams (still with supervisions though).

24 May 2024: SECHI had small group seminars with students from other colleges, and the college had ISBM supervisions close the ISBM exam.

24 May 2024: People are nominated for sporting awards by their clubs (e.g. in Easter term (the third and final term of the year), and then the awards are presented after exams in

24 May 2024: This year we had two smaller exams at the end of Lent term, and the rest at the end of Easter term.

24 May 2024: supervisions. Overall, I’d say I maintain a reasonable work/life balance – even in exam term, I found the time to go running and play touch rugby every week! ... Special occasions included the College May Ball, held after exams in June, an

24 May 2024: Exam term can be quite intimidating at first since it is something very different from what you are used to in secondary school. ... Chaplain’s Tea’ during exam term, the atmosphere becomes more relaxed and allows you to perform at your maximum

24 May 2024: It is also important to practice some of the papers under exam time conditions. ... for upcoming exams and also complete assignments.

24 May 2024: Exam term was OK overall – I was pleasantly surprised at my preparation for exams, but due to external stresses and illness I missed one of my exams. ... I also had good support from my tutor and the College nurse following my missed exam due to illness

24 May 2024: which was great to work from during exams! ... In first and second year, there were more contact hours, but less extra reading was expected (to be honest I had basically no time to do any); exams were much more

24 May 2024: It’s great to have something to look forward to through exam season, and there’s plenty of other events such as society garden parties or enjoying the sun on a ... Celebrating with friends finishing their final exams is very cathartic, and the

24 May 2024: material is key for doing well in the exams at the end of the year. ... I have found that working over the Easter holidays at home relieves a lot of the stress of exam term because you can then prepare well for the exams over a

24 May 2024: The application process wasn’t too invasive: two interviews (usually on the same day), then preparation for STEP, and finally the actual STEP exam.

24 May 2024: Other than that, I'd occasionally work in the Library, or the Plumb Auditorium (one of the study spaces College opens up during exam term). ... These are big parties that take place in different College's after exams: ours started at 8pm and went on

24 May 2024: You only choose which topics you want to prepare for choosing in your exams quite close to the exams themselves. ... Easter Term (the last one of the year, when our exams take place) works very differently to the other two.

24 May 2024: At Easter, I spent most of the holiday working as it’s the run up to exam term. ... I did the other two CATAM projects, and then got on with some exam revision.

24 May 2024: In terms of preparing for an exam, from my perspective, I think an organised plan (or timetable) is very helpful. ... I think my exam term went well, and I was really happy with my results.

24 May 2024: Everyone is willing help you when you need it; for example after doing what felt like a really bad exam at the time (it turns out it wasn’t actually that

24 May 2024: I looked at courses in pretty much everything you can imagine, including Human Social and Political Sciences at Cambridge, but also International Relations, Politics, History, English, Sociology, Economics, Philosophy, Journalism, Liberal

24 May 2024: I also liked varieties of English because I love learning about accents and dialects, but while I liked the supervision tasks I didn’t find the lectures and exam-style questions ... I generally like to work in the College library, but during exam

24 May 2024: I really liked Semantics and Pragmatics - meaning and stuff. Our exams this year were open-book and fairly long, which meant that when I saw an interesting question about the concept ... In college, I like the Plumb Auditorium (one of the extra study

24 May 2024: in the few days before each exam, and do extra reading around them. ... I loved the time after exams ended, when the weather is beautiful and you just get to enjoy Cambridge as a place.

24 May 2024: Likewise, concerning exams, Cambridge lawyers complete exams at the end of year, with second and third year contributing to your overall grade, whilst Oxford students complete their exams only at the ... BGS is a society that seeks to represent and serve

24 May 2024: He took A-Levels in Maths, Economics and English Literature. Ayomide, First year. ... Throughout the year, I have continuously learned more about what I require to prepare for exams; this has meant I can tailor notes to what I will need for exam season.

24 May 2024: In exam term, I found that as long as you approach exam revision with some sort of plan so that you are prepared for each paper it will be OK and