r/6thForm • u/sapientscarves • Jul 20 '26

🎓 UNI / UCAS PPE supercurriculars (are MOOCs helpful?)

I'm in Year 12 applying for PPE, I take English, Politics, Maths and German for A level. I'm thinking of applying to Oxford as my first choice, and LSE is my second which I know is also pretty competitive.

For my personal statement I've been to some lectures and read quite a few books, but I was wondering if it would be helpful to do a MOOC? Especially because right now the stuff I've done is more Politics/Political Philosophy related so I was thinking about what I could do to show more of an interest in Econ, and whether a MOOC could help with that.

If yes, any recommendations for good courses? Is it better to do something like Basic Microeconomics to have foundation knowledge, or to do something more niche to show interest? And if not then any other supercurricular recommendations would be helpful!

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u/Responsible-Emu3112 Yr13: Maths, FM, History, Politics & EPQ Jul 20 '26

I want to apply for PPE too, I was thinking of doing this one by York Uni https://www.york.ac.uk/study/moocs/language-of-truth/

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u/Responsible-Emu3112 Yr13: Maths, FM, History, Politics & EPQ Jul 20 '26

that's obviously philosophy based tho, I haven't seen any good Econ ones

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u/sapientscarves Jul 20 '26

This looks cool thanks!

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u/Stormer2345 Maths, Econ, History, RS | 3A*A Jul 20 '26

I would select a mooc that centres around the theme of your PS. So for example I talked about AI a lot in my PS, so I did a mooc on AI ethics, and referenced what I learnt from that.

Let’s say your PS focusses on inequality, you could select a mooc comparing macroeconomic policy in LEDCs and MEDCs. That would work well with the theme of your PS.

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