Applying for Uni 2019 Part 5: UCAS, offers and exam season looming

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I suspect that's just the date beyond which they don't guarantee accommodation. I'd get on to it sooner rather than later!

DS has Spanish oral tomorrow. Almost lost his voice shouting at the football

He seems surprisingly well prepared.

Decorate some universities have options for longer beds.

warwick.ac.uk/services/accommodation/studentaccommodation/apply/19/new/allocation_policy_19.pdf

HOW WE ALLOCATE
If you hold an unconditional firm offer of study at Warwick and have applied for accommodation online before Monday 15 July 2019, we will aim to allocate and send your offer of accommodation to you before 31 July 2019. If you are restarting from year one of an undergraduate course, it is important that you contact Warwick Accommodation as soon as possible to confirm your arrangements in this instance. You will be allocated accommodation subject to availability.
The majority of applications for students holding a conditional offer are allocated through a series of computer ballots which aim to match students to one of their six hall preferences. A ballot will take place around the third week of August for students who have met all three conditions outlined above, and subsequent ballots will take place on a rolling basis.
While we take your preferences into account, there is no guarantee that you will be allocated to accommodation which matches your preferences. It is also possible in years of very high demand that further accommodation options ^will be
added or removed after you have notified us of your preferences, and you may be allocated to an option that was not advertised when your application was submitted^.
Once you have been allocated to a hall, in most instances, the Residential Life Team will consider the information you have provided on your application form to allocate you a room within the hall. We will then generate your contract, and you will receive your offer of accommodation by Thursday 12 September 2019.

The three conditions referred to are

1. Made Warwick your firm choice before 31 July 2019
2. Submitted your accommodation application online by 31 July 2019
3. Hold an unconditional firm offer of study at Warwick by 22 August 2019

Piggy glad to see my DS isn't the only one fitting football matches of significance into his revision time.

Good luck to all doing oral exams this week. At least it starts the countdown process for exams left to do.

It's important to have downtime between revision sessions. Last year DD and one of her friends used to watch episodes of Plebs between revision sessions.

Oh, believe me, he has plenty of downtime! More worried about how much up there is! Hopefully, today will go OK. His first GCSE was a real shock to him and threw him.

The first exam can be a real bummer if it doesn't go as well as hoped, I would have thought. Let's hope that's not the case.

DS is obsessed by all types of sport. If only he could apply his ability to absorb sporting facts and figures to his academic work, he would truly fly! Ideally he would like to be a sports journalist but doesn't think his writing style is good enough. I have told him that practice makes perfect...

Fingers crossed for everyone.

IB students are in full exam mode.

One of DC1's classmates yesterday did the classic of forgetting that there was a 3rd essay Q over the page. 25% gone. It really does happen!

This morning, the bus didn't turn up. Emergency Grandparent Taxi plan implemented.

Sigh

My DS is another one who seems to fit in a tiny bit of revision between ‘downtime’ . His sport is cricket which of course takes nearly a whole day, no question of giving it up during the exam season. . Now decided to go for an interview today for a totally unrealistic job which he can’t possibly accept if he is going to uni .....

I have a dilemma. My DS has a tutor who does 2 hours a week for his maths and economics. It has been going well and his mock grades are ok. He announced yesterday that he doesn't want him to come anymore, for no other reason than he feels he can cover the work himself and no longer needs a tutor. My panic is that this is a big mistake so close to his exams and he only needs 5 more sessions. I said use him for exam technique, but he says that this is covered in school. He is adamant he doesn't need the tutor, but my view is take all the support you can. Dont know what to do.

minesawine that's a difficult one.

Has your DS got a conditional or unconditional offer? If the former, then strongly remind him that five sessions of tutor input on exam technique could make the difference twixt getting the grades or not.

You could compromise - three sessions rather than five (and potentially up them to 3 hours apiece...)?

You could say that as an adult, the decision is his, but maybe go through the pros and cons of continuing the tutoring with him, hoping that the positives will outweigh the negatives. If he comes to the realisation himself, without being 'told what's for the best' he is more likely to accept it.

Ragwort DS has been known to set his alarm for some unearthly time of the morning to watch a far-flung F1 event.

Re downtime, there was a comment piece in the Times today which may or may not be of interest to some of you.

All work and no play is not the way to revise for exams

www.thetimes.co.uk/article/all-work-and-no-play-is-not-the-way-to-revise-for-exams-sjc8qx5vr?shareToken=54c7c7af472c5ead61d0c293f78dd250

Of course, all play and no work isn't the way either :-)

Catching up.

Fazackerley congrats to your DD. Just in time to hopefully set her in a positive mindframe for the exams.

errorofjudgement - waves!- DD can apply to go on study leave from 18 May, but plans to stay on as she can concentrate better there and teachers readily available. That might all change when 60% IB leave.

Piggy hope the oral goes well.

First written exam started with two hard 10 mark questions and DD's mind went blank (in retrospect she knows what else she could have written). Luckily general concensous it was hard though. Luckily there are three more geography exam papers. She's one that revised hard (evening turning down Costa with friends) and wonders if she over-prepared.

Piggy hope the oral goes well.

So - DS is taking the IB so is fully into now.
Finished geography today which he said was 'good' - (he's a man of few words)!
Then - Biology this afternoon and tomorrow morning and then that's all done too!
The next week is going to fly by!

mine I would try & encourage your DS to have at least a few more tutor sessions ... can you remind your DS that this is the tutor’s job & you would have to give ‘notice’ to stop the tutoring (not sure if that is strictly true but presumably morally you wouldn’t want to stop the tutor without notice?). My DS also has a tutor & the sessions are essential, even if just for revision. (And at the very least, I know he is getting some uninterrupted study time ).

mine is it your DS hoping to do Economics/Business at NTU?

Errol that’s an interesting article, at least I can be confident that my DS isn’t part of the reason cricket is going out of fashion in schools .

Thanks all for your advice. I am going to push him to continue with his revision. He has come so far and it's just a few more weeks. I think he is just being over confident because he has had some good results recently.

Ragwort yes, he has a conditional offer at NTU to study economics and business management. So he needs to get the grades

mine our DSs might meet, same course . My DS also has a conditional offer & needs to achieve the grades (which will be challenging).

Rag I feel yr pain. Good luck to him. Where is he staying. My DS is in Sandby Halls.

Mood swings and an appetite for lots of sweet things anyone? DS is veering all over the place, eating like a horse. Either laughing and joking or growling like a bear with all the revision.

Mood swings and an appetite for lots of sweet things anyone?

Yep - and that's just me!

Mine is just generally grumpy bugger with occasional bouts of silliness and fart jokes...

He reports that the Speaking exam went well : he ran over the 10 minutes (usual clear communication from his teacher there!) but doesn't seem to think it will make a difference.