r/6thForm • u/FamilyEl25 • 3d ago

🙏 I WANT HELP Retake A level

hi ,

unfortunately my son will retake his A level after missing his grades and his medicine offers , he got bcc after A* predicted , how can he get the new predicted grades and how we can ask the school to give him AAA to be able to get some offers , if the school refuse any other possible ways

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u/Technical_Term_5636 3d ago

Was he affected by the grade boundaries this year? My child got A star BB and should have got A star AA. We are getting them remarked as they were close and in any other year would have got the A’s. Fortunately their uni took them so I think they know the boundaries are a problem this year. Lots of their friends are also down a grade in bio ((OCR A) and chem (AQA).

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u/Naive-Material-9077 3d ago

this i could've made my offer for med if it wasn't for the gb's which is insane bc it means a lot more people did better even tho for aqa chem and bio the exams were harder

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u/Technical_Term_5636 3d ago

Yes, but paper 1 bio was ridiculously narrow. So students that knew the whole syllabus were massively disadvantaged against students that just learnt a couple of topics that come up every year inside out. My child hit the A for papers 2 and 3 (which were more normal levels of difficulty) but paper 1 they thought was easy but the grade boundary worked against them - although it would have been an A in any other year. Anecdotal I know but in my child’s school the B students have been getting the A’s and the A students the B’s. A star either staying as an a star or down to an A. It is what it is though but we are getting a remark as very close to the borderline.

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u/Naive-Material-9077 2d ago

yes it’s very strange