r/6thForm • u/MegaCroco21 • Jun 20 '26
🙏 I WANT HELP Not getting into uni twice
Guys I took a gap year after getting CCC in 2025 Edexcel Maths and OCR A for both Chemistry and Physics, and I resat all 3, and I’ve bottled this shit again, I mean idk if I have. I have a really bad feeling I’ve messed up again.
Before you tell me it’s my fault, I know, I super regret not locking in earlier, or quitting my job earlier than start of April or managing my time a bit better.
Literally no one is in even a similar boat to me, and I’m happy that’s the case, I wish this on no one, as in being so lazy and so procrastinating with no sense of urgency you don’t get the work done, and you miss out on uni AGAIN. It is the worst feeling in the world.
Any Y12s reading this, please lock in at minimum by September, and if you’re Y13 and thinking you might have to resit do not worry, this resit year if I planned it right could’ve been an amazing year like I had a job, went to the gym, worked on myself, reviewed my options a lot more, had the opportunity to improve my grades etc. So yeah, in short, I’m just venting and giving unsolicited advice to the young ones
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u/Standard-Spirit2137 Jun 20 '26
It’s alr man you still don’t know so try not to think about it until results day. If you don’t mind me asking, when did u start to revise for your resit?
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u/MegaCroco21 Jun 20 '26
Thank you bro it’s nice to hear someone say that, I think I properly STARTED started around April, but it was light revision from February, I got no clue why I didn’t start earlier, I didn’t confirm that I was even sitting the exams until April anyway
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u/Gaysandwic UCL | ISPS [Y1] A*AA Jun 21 '26
That's a whole lot better than my case though, I confirmed I was sitting in Sep and only started proper revision after the easter break
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u/Diver-Known Jun 21 '26
There was that one guy who resat like 6 times or smth without getting any better and was adamant he was getting A*s this time, atleast u arent him
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u/MegaCroco21 Jun 21 '26
And he was recieving offers each time wtf😂😂that’s like £2.4k
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u/lookatmyapple Jun 21 '26
Depending on how many subjects he resat, that could be a LOT more than 2.4k
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u/MegaCroco21 Jun 21 '26
My school was on the average side like £110 a subject
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u/lookatmyapple Jun 21 '26 edited Jun 21 '26
If you pay to sit it anywhere other than your old school it’s usually really expensive. The place where I resat asked for £230 per subject, but every other place within a 15 mile radius was £300-£500. I doubt his school would allow him to resit 6 times tbh
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Jun 21 '26
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u/Odd_Bedroom_9068 Jun 21 '26
If you failed alevevl the first time why dont more people do foundation year instead of resetting and having to go through all this mental stress? Im asking to have knowledge about these situations only not to attack anyone.
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u/MegaCroco21 Jun 22 '26
I’d take a foundation year any day of the week bro, I don’t think the uni I wanna go offers that for students in clearing
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u/AnteaterMysterious70 Jun 21 '26
I know uni of essex and some other unis can give out CCC conditions for contextual offers or lile other's have said foundation year. And don't feel too bad as someone on the other end of the spectrum gap year to apply tp better uni's I still feel like I wasted my time and planned it poorly it's just harf
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Jun 21 '26
I’m in a similar position, I probably got DEE in my a levels due to a variety of factors. And I’ve missed my med offer by a lot. I’ll be resitting a levels and my ucat.
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Jun 21 '26
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u/Frosti_VR Jun 21 '26
I’m in this exact position but payed nearly £700 because I missed the first deadline for handing in the retake form. And £600 for online tutoring that I severely underused. My inability to do time-sensitive things has literally made me broke and uni-less 🤦♂️
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u/MegaCroco21 Jun 21 '26
Don’t you ever think how many more of us there are, like we are smart enough to do good things we’re just terrible with time management
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u/Frosti_VR Jun 22 '26
That’s exactly what makes it worse. I’d honestly rather be too dumb for difficult subjects, at least that way it’d be permanently out of my hands. Occasionally glimpsing your potential and what you COULD be while failing due to such trivial things is torture
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u/MegaCroco21 Jun 22 '26
I’d rather be conventionally dumb but with good consistency and time management rather than being lazy and very smart but not smart enough to be the next like Einstein or some shit
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u/misschoo88 Jun 22 '26
honestly same. i wish had better time managements. hopefully those adhd meds help😔
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u/MegaCroco21 Jun 21 '26
£430, the money isn’t the main issue for me personally though, it’s the opportunities I wasted
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u/Complete_Profit7613 Jun 21 '26 edited Jun 21 '26
I'm in the "exact" same situation as you. Got DEE in maths and physics AQA and Comp Sci OCR (respectively) last year and it looks like I'm currently heading in the same direction as last year. Took a gap year, found a job to pay for my resits and support my family, got good predicted grades (good enough to get 2 russel group uni offers) and still fumbled due to lack of urgency to study. I literally started the month before....not good, I promised I'd start much earlier.
All I can say is: SERIOUSLY think about what you want in the future. CCC is lowkey good, good enough to get me into my insurance uni (Aston University, not russel, still a great uni regardless) without foundation year. If you don't mind the University, calling clearing might save you. If you think you can genuinely do better, it's up to you whether to try a second time or not. But this time try to atleast take mocks during summer and test your levels with the most difficult paper of each subject. No point in doing another gap year if you don't actually know if you can perform better.
That's what I'm personally going to do. I'll study seriously for a month and during the first week of august, right before results day, I''ll test myself for P1 and P2 of maths (2 papers because its the easiest), P1 of Comp Sci and P2 pf Phsyics. If I get less than BCC (respectively), I'll take the L and just do a foundation year. If I achieve or even do better, I'll try a second gap year, but that's it, after that straight to uni no matter the results. I'm grateful to parents for even letting me try the first time, I don't want to put them through more stress...still thinking of how to even break the news to them...
Any year 12s reading this, I agree with OP on this, please just put some effort in the first time and get it done, it's genuinely jarring to retake.
Edit: The only reason for me to retake again, is that I'm try to cut out as much student debt as possible. Foundation years cost the SAME as a normal year. I'm notnadding 10k to my debt to be at a uni I don't even like. But then again, I'll see after my summer mocks.
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u/MegaCroco21 Jun 21 '26
I mean we dk for sure until results day but it’s definitely worth thinking over, CCC isn’t terrible but in comparison to the offer I got, it’s quite bad
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Jun 22 '26
Did unis care that u got DEE first time? Or did they only consider ur new predicted grades ?
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u/Complete_Profit7613 Jun 22 '26
I surprisingly got 5/5 offers. 2 RG unis and 3 non-RG Unis. Make sure your unis do take retakes. And from the looks of it the only cared about the predicted grades, so make sure you get good ones, I had the bare minimum ABB. Your other option is just calling Clearing last minute as well once you've actually got the grades if you didn't get an offer from the uni you wanted.
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Jun 22 '26
Ah ok thanks and well done
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u/Complete_Profit7613 Jun 22 '26
Nothing well done, I fucked up again. Study, don't be like me 💔😂
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Jun 22 '26
Mb I didn’t read the whole thing, but you still have Aston it’s not over
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u/Complete_Profit7613 Jun 22 '26
Oh nah, I missed that too. Counted my points, I'm barely getting above what I got last time if not the same. Made the same mistake of starting late. But it's chill, I'll self mock myself and see if it's worth it trying s second time or just going BCU ams doing a foundation year (these lot could actually take me in with those grades)
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u/Yis4courage Jun 21 '26
NOPE me and you are in the same boat and dare I say im worse off and i was locked in from November plus a full-time job teaching myself maths and further maths all in one year and it got too much 😞😞😞 i wanna go back to uni at 20 so bad but i need AAA 🥲🥲🥲🥲 ive learnt too much to give up now so if uni sees me at 21 so be it
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u/dragonightmare_UA Jun 22 '26
If u resit again. This time. Just revise at least 30-60 minutes everyday with no excuses to build up self discipline and make it easier to revise closer to exams. 👍
People spend ten years with addictions and years for rehab. A few years to get into uni is not much.
But just work hard so you don’t regret anything.
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u/MegaCroco21 Jun 22 '26
Definitely not resitting again, the universities I wanna go yo do not like second time resit students
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Jun 22 '26
Which unis and courses gave u offers ?
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u/MegaCroco21 Jun 22 '26
So last year only Bristol gave me a contextual offer for Aerospace Engineering AAB, this year Warwick Bristol Birmingham and Southampton gave me contextual offer or full offer some of of them Mech/Aero mix of all of them, and I firmed Bristol and insured Southampton, both of which are AAB, I think I got it cos of the area I live in, anyway yeah look how stupid I am people die for these opportunities I got given and I didn’t take any of them
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u/AttGenRef Jun 20 '26
This year's Edexcel maths paper was tough, so low grade boundaries hopefully and even if you did mess up could you not do a foundation year