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Millylovespuddles · 28/11/2019 19:46

Hi all
It looks like there’s no medicine 2021 entry thread yet, so it might be an idea to get the ball rolling.
My DD is getting stuck into her A level course, doing well so far, but I’m guessing we parents could do with some mutual support and advice from parents who’ve been here before.

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goodbyestranger · 07/03/2020 16:17

GANFYD Monkey has been completely open about her DS on many, many occasions and while you made a catty comment about my own DC perhaps having had to re-apply (which none has), I personally see no shame in re-applying. A student I know well recently re-applied with UCL and Bristol in hand, to try for Oxbridge (and succeeded). Lots of people reapply. Had Monkey not been utterly open and discussed the situation a lot (which now has a happy ending) I of course wouldn't have made the point. But it's valid. She seems to set great store by your advice, and yet her DS had a rotten time first time around. She may well say she didn't use TSR for 2018, but I would expect she did. Please stop personal attacks, they're not supposed to be allowed.

GANFYD · 07/03/2020 16:27

Her son received 8 out of 8 interviews. He has done amazingly well and Monkey has used experience gained to support and offer help to others.
You are an elitist, truly awful individual who totally lacks self-awareness and I personally refuse to interact with you in any way. You are not worthy to comment on the achievements of people like Monkey's DS.

Report me, if you wish, but I would then take great pleasure in reporting every one of your posts which are personally insulting. So there would be few left

goodbyestranger · 07/03/2020 16:32

I completely understand why KISS is such a useful strategy for you

It almost pains me to have to point this out, but the final S in KISS refers to the person one is addressing, in this case I suppose that would be....... :) It isn't the person speaking who is stupid. The whole point is that the person being addressed is making a massive difficulties where there are none, hence my using it here.

Sorry GANFYD!

Also, did you get the point about the 2017 cohort being the cohort to which the latest Oxford statistics refer? Because you got into a muddle about that too, so just clarifying because you seem to avoid acknowledging these various errors and just let them stand.

GANFYD · 07/03/2020 16:37

Also, did you get the point about the 2017 cohort being the cohort to which the latest Oxford statistics refer? Because you got into a muddle about that too, so just clarifying because you seem to avoid acknowledging these various errors and just let them stand.

You cannot even fact check the obvious.
The info on the Oxford website is for 2020 entry, meaning most of the cohort sat their GCSEs in 2018.
People should simply ignore everything you say as you have no idea what you are talking about

goodbyestranger · 07/03/2020 16:39

I was among the first to congratulate Monkey's DS GANFYD, check back, I was genuinely pleased for him. It's there in black and white.

It's a serious question. If people who have a rotten time have that rotten time having relied on your advice, perhaps that reflects on the quality of your advice. It's relevant. Others have picked up factual errors; it's important for people to know which sources are utterly reliable. Uni websites are, unverifiable sources on the internet less so.

I don't report for personal attacks. That's not something I do.

GANFYD · 07/03/2020 16:42

Truly odious. There are no words for the depths you will sink to to try and get one over on somebody.
My advice involves directing people where to find the information for themselves.
Your "advice" is mostly confabulation

goodbyestranger · 07/03/2020 16:45

Grrrrrrrrrrrrr.

The statistical report relates to those who sat their GCSEs in 2018. Did I type 2017? That was a typo but the point was you made an error about the year group to which they referred, and I had to point out that that was the first year in which the majority of GCSEs were graded 9-1. Agreed that the 7 should have been an 8 but the substance was clear and the point valid.

GANFYD · 07/03/2020 16:48

None of that is clear or valid.
I am not even sure you have the faintest idea what you are talking about or what you are trying to say. Certainly, nobody else does

mumsneedwine · 07/03/2020 16:51

If anyone is interested, I'm in the pub watching the rugby. It's a great way to spend an afternoon. Think any viruses have been drowned in beer. And they have loo roll 😂

GANFYD · 07/03/2020 16:54

I have friends round. They have entertained themselves with a certain poster's comments on here and are now cheering loudly whilst my husband sulks in the corner!
Beer is being swilled and I am gifting them loo roll from my pre-existing massive supply (DS1 is a HUGE Costco fan!)

goodbyestranger · 07/03/2020 16:56

My own DD was in the guinea pig year of 2018 and has just completed the uni admissions round, and so that was a particularly silly typo, although not material.

Personal attacks are the ones where people name call etc. I've challenged your position and disagreed with some of your opinions, sure. That's legit. And like others, I've corrected things you've stated as fact which are wrong (albeit with a dose of typos, one of which you've quite rightly called out), just as Toby did, but nowhere have I called you names or done anything which amounts to a personal attack. I don't make personal attacks.

goodbyestranger · 07/03/2020 17:00

Cross post.

It makes complete sense. You were muddled about the cohort to which the latest Oxford statistics relate and I pointed out that this was the first cohort to take most of their GCSEs as 9-1s. Fair, I typed 2017 rather than 2018, but that's not material. The point about mostly 9-1s remains. Perhaps check back to understand what was said.

GANFYD · 07/03/2020 17:02

Hear what so many people have told you and just be quiet.
MN needs a mute button for individual posters

You are making yourself look stupid trying to prove you are relevant and valid and get one over on me.
I choose to share my experience with those who are interested and always suggest they fact check for themselves, whether I am right or wrong is for people to work out for themselves, so you carry on showing how low you will stoop

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GANFYD · 07/03/2020 17:04

You are boring and irrelevant and usually plain wrong and I do not want to derail the thread, so you can bang on about any rubbish you want.
Have fun, it is at least making for entertainment for the people laughing at you

goodbyestranger · 07/03/2020 17:05

But not bit - another typo, just to be clear.

goodbyestranger · 07/03/2020 17:10

The graph is on the link. The distribution can be seen at a glance. It's, er, quite spikey actually GANFYD. And given that this year's applicants took the harder 9 - 1's, I probably wouldn't be making too light of 10.8 A! Not a vast amount of headroom to go much beyond 10.8 A so the logical corollary is..... (Me)

Also 9-1 GCSEs were in place for most subjects last year. My son who will be applying this year has 11 out of his 12 subjects as number grades. (You)

goodbyestranger · 07/03/2020 17:12

Incidentally when I referred to this cohort being 9-1s I was of course referring to the cohort to which these Oxford statistics relate. They are the cohort which sat GCSEs in 2017, the first year in which the vast majority of subjects were graded 9-1. You misunderstood. (Me)

Complete with silly typo.

So, hope that helps. It's enormously minor!

GANFYD · 07/03/2020 17:14

And where did I say last year was the first time it was mainly numbers?
I was referring to what applicants for this year's cycle had experienced as that is what matters to most people on here, as we have DCs applying

GANFYD · 07/03/2020 17:17

So your defence for what my children would call "chatting sh1t" is that you have "accidentally" typed 2017 whenever you meant 2018?

Ooookay! We all COMPLETELY understand you. You are entirely right. Always. Carry on. As I say, entertaining!

Now the rugby and the drying paint are much more exciting, so you keep trying to explain how amazing you are and how terrible I am and we will all ignore you Smile

goodbyestranger · 07/03/2020 17:20

You'd be hard pushed to isolate any thing I've posted as fact which is wrong but obviously you're welcome to try. if you like. Have a good evening/ weekend.

goodbyestranger · 07/03/2020 17:23

The guinea pig year was 2018 and I typed 2017 but I still had to make the point that the cohort to which the statistics relate took the harder 9-1s. Good grief, get over a typo when it doesn't affect the substance of what was said. You're waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay over exercised about all this GANFYD - just relax.

mumsneedwine · 07/03/2020 17:41

@GANFYD just drink beer. Or hand your phone to the drunkest person there to take over answering. It's not a bad game. Loo roll streamers just been fired round the pub. I'm surprised their isn't a scrum to pick it up.

GANFYD · 07/03/2020 17:45

@mumsneedwine sounds like you are having fun. We have been answering by Committee. A bit like Cards Against Humanity. Read out the original comment and see who comes up with the favoured answer. Losers all have to down their drink!

goodbyestranger · 07/03/2020 17:45

Souns like GANFYD need something a bit stronger than beer mumsneedwine.

It's not a great game tbf, no-one here thinks so.