grr

[juliet]

13 yr old wanting to go to university

Oh for *fuck's* sake. He's 13, my arse would he "have no problems coping with life at university". And there's plenty of ways to avoid him "stagnating" at secondary school if they stop just pushing the poor kid to take exam after exam. Not to mention the fact that just possibly, if he'd *not* taken A level Maths early, he might have done better than a B.

grRRR. This sort of thing really pisses me off.

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[hsenag.livejournal.com]

What's meant by experimental work in this context?

I guess practical researchy type stuff.

What happened to your maths teaching after the age of nine then? Did you get to go on to uni level study?

Yeah, part-time. I got a degree from Surrey when I was 13, while continuing other subjects at school up to age 18 (then went to Oxford and did an MSc and DPhil in Comp Sci).

[karen2205]

You got your first degree at 13!

So what did you do between the ages of 13 and 18?

[hsenag.livejournal.com]

GCSEs and A-levels in other subjects (already having done Maths meant I could do History and Latin for A-levels as well as the obvious sciency Physics and Chemistry, which made for some nice variety).

[karen2205]

Good, now I don't feel quite so inadequate, for only having one degree, four 'A' levels and ten GCSEs:-)

(Only weirdly motivated people do higher degrees:-) (present company excepted))

Has Latin ever proved useful to you? It's the kind of thing I sort of wish I'd had the chance to learn for the joy of learning - but not really something I'd ever be able to pick up in the future.