The Student Room is an online forum for teenagers, primarily, but you'll always find adults who exercise their bragging rights because their little Annabelle or Toby got 14 A*s at GCSE and 4 A*s at A Level, and is going off to Oxbridge. This bragging is omnipresent among students too.
There are many different kinds of forums, ranging from 'I got rejected from Oxford. Am I still special?' to 'My friend got into Teesside and is happy. How do I let her down?'. As demonstrated by these forum names, there is a lot of fapping to Oxbridge and its equivalents, where a common mentality is present, that being 'if you
don't get in, you fail at life'.
Politically, it is leftward skewed. Surviving for a
day as a righty is impossible, as you are hurled abuse from the left majority, being referred to as more -ists and -phobes than there are made up genders. Consequently, an admin or rep will fish you out of the crowd and shut you down.
Things not to criticise on the Student Room: Islam, Positive Discrimination, Wage
Gap *coughs*
bullshit *coughs*,
Racism against white
people (rEVerSEd
RaCiSm),
feminism, gender being a spectrum, Oxbridge (the OJW (Oxbridge Justice Warriors) will be on your back), Immigration etc.
Typical 'The Student Room' threads and responses:
OP: How do I get into Oxbridge with 7
Bs and 3 As?
Reply: Hahaha you must be joking, try somewhere of your level,
maybe Leeds Beckett?
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OP: Anyone going on the Durham open
day?
Reply: I got an offer, but I
don't need to
go as I got an offer from Cambridge instead.
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OP: My RE
teacher told us
Mohamed married an 8 year old but didn't consummate the marriage. Is she lying?
Reply: Uh no! Islam teaches love and acceptance, and will benefit the western world!
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OP: I think immigration should be stricter as it's not economically sustainable to have open borders.
Reply: XENEPHOBE!!!! AHHHH HOW DARE YOU CRITICSE IMMIGRATION. @cakeinmyface DELETE HIS ACCOUNT NOW, GATHER ALL YOUR FRIENDS AND DESTROY HIM.
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OP: How do I live after a Durham rejection?
Reply: Lol your personal statement must have been proofread by someone at Leicester.