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Sparkles87

Don't forget PAP when you start your degree years (so 1 or 2 years time) then you can apply for student finance for housing so you don't have to stay at home, plus you won't pay any council tax. Lots of landlords will take on mature students as tenants, as they know the rent money is guaranteed and the NHS courses have bursaries so you're overall student "debt" will still be very low.

tootallulah

Dear Pap I am so sorry that you have had this set back but that is what it is, and six weeks ago even applying was a dream and you have moved to definitely applying and wanting to do the course desperately. If you can find a way it looks like Maths GCSE is the way forward. Perhaps you could trade some tutoring for baby sitting or something? I got my own place through shared ownership at the grand old age of 35 IT IS NEVER TOO LATE to get yourself a real career that you will enjoy.

beanielou

Keep plodding xxx

timetogrowup89

postingalwaysposting wrote: »

Failed! No interview for me:


Thank heavens yesterday when work offered me Lvl 3 NVQ I said yes otherwise I would potentionally waste a year.



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hi..

You're always in my diary and just realised you have one too!
Much reading for me! LOL!

What are you doing your NVQ in? Health and Social Care?

x

postingalwaysposting

I have kind of decided to give up on this idea totally. After phoning both colleges it will NEVER work.

College A says that even if I complete a maths gcse and still fail the assessment I still won't get a place/interview. College A won't allow me to do a maths gcse at all and the 'improve your maths' is free but gains you no reconised qualification. They also said that the goal posts may change for the 2014 access intake where all applicants will need a gcse in both maths and english. So taking 'improve your maths' with them will be useless anyway!

College B's access course is also test related, if I fail the test I won't get a place. Thier maths gcse is free but its 2 years not one. Meaning I will be approching the access at 30.

All I want is to be able to earn more than the min wage so I can move out. I can't even rent a ROOM on the wage I am now!

None of the prospectus' are out until the end of July so will decide by then

TTGU, Yes Health and Social care.

skint_spice

Oh PAP that's rotten, but they are saying might change not definite? Defeats the point of an access course if you need qualifications to get on to it...

Keep your chin up, there must be a way...

timetogrowup89

Im a health and social care assessor so when u start it feel free to look for support :-)

In regards to uni if they don't fill all spaces/ people don't accept offers they do a thing called clearance spaces. Where i went to uni they lower criteria to fill every space.

Don't give up on your dream, the care profession needs more people that want to be in it...

Have you looked at the open uni nursing access courses?

x x

Sparkles87

Isn't college A and the GCSE the best bet though? Please try not to be defeatist about the test, after a year then you might be able to do it. Sounds like a very small thing to give up on a dream over. You gotta be positive and fight for it hun x

postingalwaysposting

skint_spice wrote: »

Oh PAP that's rotten, but they are saying might change not definite? Defeats the point of an access course if you need qualifications to get on to it...

Keep your chin up, there must be a way...

Skinty, yes it is a maybe not a definite but as you say defeats the point. Also how is someone pre gcse's going to have gcse's anyway :mad:

timetogrowup89 wrote: »

Im a health and social care assessor so when u start it feel free to look for support :-)

In regards to uni if they don't fill all spaces/ people don't accept offers they do a thing called clearance spaces. Where i went to uni they lower criteria to fill every space.

Don't give up on your dream, the care profession needs more people that want to be in it...

Have you looked at the open uni nursing access courses?

x x

Thanks TTGU, I heve just completed lvl 2 hence me going onto lvl 3. It was completing the nvq that made me think I could go onto the nursing. I haven't yet applied for uni, this is to get onto an access course to enable me to apply for uni. Open uni does do nursing but it has to be backed through your employer and I guess within a nursing environment i.e. if I were a healthcare assistant in the NHS I could use the OU. Alas I am not

Sparkles87 wrote: »

Isn't college A and the GCSE the best bet though? Please try not to be defeatist about the test, after a year then you might be able to do it. Sounds like a very small thing to give up on a dream over. You gotta be positive and fight for it hun x

Thanks Sparks, I haven't given up completely but I am in limbo as to what I can do until the end of July. I think what I will end up doing is my nvq through work and GCSE maths through college B. If the maths is two year then so be it. I would then apply to both college A and B to do the access once that has finished. After all the gcse if free so have nothing really to lose.

The reason why I am not positive about this is because in 2005/2006 I paid £400 to redo my maths gcse at college A. Alongside us adults who had payed full price were a bunch load of school leavers who had failed their gcse and had to take it alongside there college course. They didn't want to be there, they were disruptive and abusive. The maths tutor made a beeline for them and never taught us adults so each mini test we had I failed! I approched the college alone and with a group of other adult learner and were basically fobbed off and told to do the course or leave. I left in the December.

Prior to this in 2002 when taking a keyskill in AON at the college I took the btec with. The maths tutor in a class full of students singled me out, told me I was stupid and didn't even understand fundemental maths in front of everyone! The reason I stuck that out was because I needed that keyskill to pass that course and a new tutor was assigned.

Now you may understand why this has made me so angry and fustrated. Each and everytime I have tryed to understand and grasp maths (including in school) I was either looked over, told I was stupid or not given the tutoring needed. Also I wrote in my personal statement that my maths was poor so its not as if I applied for the access hiding the fact I don't understand maths I was open and honest but it seems like they take into account a 20min computer test and don't look at the overall package. So because I was never given the chance (I feel) to be taught maths from year 7 I will now have to wait up to three years before gaining entry to uni.

There are other financial things floating around in my head too which is not helping matters.

So I may not have given up on it but I am not going to continue to feel like I have been since I read that email a few days ago. I just want to forget I ever applied and see what college B's prospectus is for September.

postingalwaysposting

So back to finances...

It would appear I have underpaid tax for last year so now my tax code has been changed to reflect this The car seat I purchased is out of stock, I knew I should have purchased it earlier. Now I need to find one before Aug as its an mot fail

£201.18
£40.00 Rent
£40.00 Petrol
£40.00 Bills
£10.00 Phone topup
£70.00 CC

= £1.18

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