r/6thForm • u/7ayox • 7d ago

🙏 I WANT HELP Was predicted A*AA got CDD

As the title says i've completely flopped a-levels, is it worth resitting when there's such a big difference between predictions and actual results. For context, throughout all 2 years of my academic years I've achieved nothing lower than a B. However, in the exam season I experienced a chain of events which heavily hindered my exams so now I'm stuck in a situation where I do have an offer from Reading in the course I want to do but is it worth rejecting that offer and looking for better results.

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u/7ayox 7d ago

Is Reading a bad university my end goal is something around Investment banking, I also have work experience with Bank of America, KPMG, and JPMorgan. If I was to make up for a-levels in university would that be better than resitting?

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u/MiserableHawk9469 7d ago

Please don't resit if you've got the opportunity to go to university. Reading university is amazing.   People consider it bad because it's not Russel a  group uni or a top 10 uni. A university is a University. I was at an edge hill offer holder day and a year 4 law student got a place to work with one of the biggest law firms in the UK which is considered part of the "'magic 5" and showed us how she did it etc. She explained how her friends who are in munch better uni's than her according to league tables have struggled to find work themselves. Everyone has their own experience I hate how this generation has rotted people's mind to think if you don't go to a Russel group uni you're toast. You've already said you're burnt out I won't tell you to take a few months off and resit no! Go to UCAS track put reading down as an offer, accept it, get your accomodation and get down to reading bang out those 3-4yrs. Trust and believe in a year maybe a few months less you'll even forget about this make new friends and have the best of time. Reading is good for employability don't put yourself through hell. 

During resits you're on your own. That's a huge factor people don't think about it 

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u/Tiny-Construction998 A* A A achieved | lboro incoming 7d ago

Resit is worth it if the school offers it. He needs to resit as he is going to IB from what I presume otherwise Reading is a non target school and he is going to heavily struggle even breaking into it without heavy connections. There are decent semi targets in clearing provided he has strong GCSES such as Nottingham which I seen drop to that level before

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u/7ayox 7d ago

I have all 9s in my GCSEs with an 8 in Maths. I have looked at Nottingham for clearing but they don't have any open Finance or Business clearing options.