She must have improved over the years, but the stuff she said about her Oxford interview kinda gave me the impression that she's not very good at thinking independently and creatively and is very quick to panic as soon as she ventures out of her comfort zone. Her book reviews etc. also corroborate this. And the fact that her reading taste is pretty basic and not very complex.Maybe not naturally, but at university level you don't get top grades by just knowing the material extensively. You literally have use critical and analytical thinking to achieve high marks.
I think the fact that the grading system at uni is less rigid and less about memorising material (compared to a level for example) is something that Ruby struggles with though and why she maybe 'preferred' school. Personally I'm the opposite (I was awful at a levels) but a lot of people find it hard when they get to university because they can't understand the fact that they can know the learning material inside out yet still get a low grade. Idk just some thoughts
I really hope she's not so dishonest to actually lie to her viewers about her grades. Like that would be actually insaneAt the risk of sounding cynical, is there actually proof that she is getting 70s and 80s for all her essays? Has she talked about all of them on her videos? (I only started watching her stuff recently so have missed out on a lot)
I'm not sure she'd notice she's been outclassedI would love to see her take part in a heated academic debate and just have someone wipe the floor with her.
She's done end of year videos where she goes through all her grades though, and talked about her disappointment in certain grades.To be totally clear, I've never said that I think she lies about her grades! But I do think she is possibly selective about them, and might not talk about her lower scoring essays. Now she's doing English I doubt she'd want to admit to 'failure' (she has a very weird view of failure, ie less than a first...)
What? When did this happen? Must have missed it.She also gets very stressed about people using ‘her’ ideas so I can she why she wouldn’t talk about her work in detail.
There was a recent video where someone in one of her seminars discussed the same points as she’d written about in one of her essay plans(?) and it very clearly rattled her, to the point where I think she ended up asking for a meeting with her tutor to explain that she’d had that idea already and had planned work around it.What? When did this happen? Must have missed it.
If this is the instance I'm thinking of, they had discussed the same scene in a play that she was planning to write her essay about and didn't think she could now write an essay on the same topic that they had just discussed in the seminar. But I didn't interpret it as if she thought that somebody had "stolen" her idea. I interpreted it as if it was just an unfortunate occurrence for her and she thought she had just been unlucky that that specific scene ended up being the topic of the seminar.There was a recent video where someone in one of her seminars discussed the same points as she’d written about in one of her essay plans(?) and it very clearly rattled her, to the point where I think she ended up asking for a meeting with her tutor to explain that she’d had that idea already and had planned work around it.
Why not?! Unless they were told they couldn’t I suppose...If this is the instance I'm thinking of, they had discussed the same scene in a play that she was planning to write her essay about and didn't think she could now write an essay on the same topic that they had just discussed in the seminar.
I know nothing about how UK unis operate so I have no idea why she would think that. Tbh I found it pretty odd too, it seemed something that could easily be sorted by emailing the lecturer and explaining the coincidence. She had been planning her essay before that seminar after all.Why not?! Unless they were told they couldn’t I suppose...
In seminars (U.K., not English Lit though) if the topic matches the question no one cares if you’ve discussed it in seminars, it’s rare you’d write an essay on something you HAVEN’T previously discussed. That discussion gives you a start to analysis and questioning?I know nothing about how UK unis operate so I have no idea why she would think that. Tbh I found it pretty odd too, it seemed something that could easily be sorted by emailing the lecturer and explaining the coincidence. She had been planning her essay before that seminar after all.
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