Category: Experience

Applying to Cambridge Natural Sciences, a guide

This blog post will walk you through to applications process for Natural Sciences at Cambridge, sharing my advice and personal experiences. I currently hold an offer to study NatSci but, due to the current situation of all A Level exams being cancelled everything is a little up in the air currently so with all my free time I’ve decided to sit down and write this guide.

This post will contain advice for applying to university in general, specific Oxbridge advise, and even more specific Physical Natural Sciences at Cambridge advise.

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Isaac Physics Senior Physics Challenge

Last week (1st- 4th of July) I attended the Senior Physics Challenge boot camp held at Churchill college, Cambridge. 41 attendees were selected due to high performance in the Senior Physics Challenge (which ran from the end of last year to April this year) in which students answer questions of varying difficulty across different areas of physics including mechanics, waves, fields and circuits. The Senior Physics Challenge (SPC) bootcamp looked at an introduction to quantum mechanics. Throughout the week we had lectures in the Pippard lecture theatre held by Professor Mark Warner and solved problems from the Cavendish Quantum Mechanics Primer (co-written by Professor Warner).

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