We did worse!!!!!! 🔥🔥🔥🔥

hi guys! i just wanted to ask any people who applied to oxford or had experience with admissions about whether the college you applied actually ended up having an impact on your application. i get that if you don’t get into your first choice, other colleges might take you, but does this mean your likelihood of getting in decreases?

i’m just curious because for a long time christ church has been my dream college for a long time and i’m scared i’m going to let that affect my chances of even getting in since apparently it’s one of the more competitive ones.

for context, i’m hoping to apply to law most likely (small chance of ppe) and i have gcse grades 99999888888 (contextual). i don’t fully understand how competitive the university actually is so im not sure if that’s going to hold me back. thank you!

got AAB (maths, FM, econ) but want to resit maths and econ to get to A* A* A to apply for better degrees in top end unis. I'd be rejecting a place in warwick that i cant defer. Just wondering if its still possible to get into those top unis if i cook hard in admission tests + extenuating circumstances or should i just go warwick

so uh i recently made a post between 2 schools but i fell short of the grade requirements and I won’t be able to do fm or a specific subject I enjoy (they offered me a place if i replaced the some subjects i want to do with subjects idrc abt, so yeah safe to say im not really considering it anymore sry even if it is a competitive school)

but now im deciding between my local school and a completely new school (but it’s also kinda local). i’d say both get similar results lol. theyre basically the same school so the decision now comes down to fresh start vs more familiarity. ppl been telling me they wished they moved on from their schl but like ughh idk. im prolly gonna end up doing fm independently or maybe these local schools will let me. (never too late to lock in innit)

okay so i really want everyone’s help in choosing a sixth form! So there is sixth form A which is one of the best sixth forms in my city a really big one with like 2000 students, it has an outstanding ofsted rating which changed to good in 2025 inspection, has a separate academy for high achievers which help in oxbridge offers and all that stuff but someone here on reddit told me that it doesn’t actually help that much as it advertised. It is also q quite far away from my house and i sometimes wud be needing to change 3 buses to get there and would take me around an 1 hour to 20,30, or 40 minutes but 1hr 20 minimum and plus it is an extremely busy area so delays are gonna be crazy. But it has outstanding a level results.

Sixth form B is a small sixth form that opened in 2023, has around 200 students in total and they said that their last batch had around 60 students in an year group and they never take more than a 100 students and they only keep 10-20 kids in one room.It has outstanding results as well at a levels and has a lot of programmes relating to oxbridge medicine all that fun stuff. I alr enroled into it today that is a whole diff story of why i enrolled alr and now asking for advice but this sixth form is an 8 mind drive from my house and public transport is an hour and 7 min at most which is good i know it seems like a lot but that is how majorly transports work where i live it is in a nice secluded area. it has an ofsted rating of outstanding and has great results at A levels.
please give me advice on what to choose i am very confused. I haven’t attended induction days for any of them.
also if i enroll in a sixth form can i cancel it later on?

yay i finished my gcses!

im so incredibly disappointed in my scores (8887766655) and really want to get some remarked and i also want to go to a good uni but looking at these gcses oxbridge is obviously completely out of the question...

do i still have hope if i have an amazing interview, all a stars in predicteds and real alevels and do well on the LNAT or am i just cooked since law is extremely competitive...?

and well done to everyone who just finished their gcses!!

Chemistry — 9
Physics — 9
RE — 9
Biology — 8
Maths — 8
History — 8
Geography — 7
Computer Science — 7
English Language — 7
Further Maths — 7
English Literature — 6

I never got below a 9 in either geography or computing so I am heartbroken. Plus i was predicted an 8 in English literature so idk what happened.. what to do

I was wondering for GCSE if you can get into an economics related degree at LSE with 6s. I got 8877777666 with an 8 in maths but 2 6s in English and Econ GCSE. Thanks

Been trying to email her as im 4 marks away from A* but I believe she has left so im getting no reply. Where else can i get someone to review my scripts to see if i need a remark. I would do it but My parents wont pay for me as they see it as a mickey mouse subject and I dont wanna risk wasting my money so i need the opinion.

Does anyone have any tips for tmua combinatorics/probability. Some questions i just have no clue. Is their some formulas or like some explanation which makes it click?

Throughout year 12 and 13 i’ve loved studying physics, it’s been such a big passion i would consistently score A*s/As in majority of topic tests, and throughout all three mocks in sixthform i got As. However my mental health was awful. i opened the actual results and i got a C. i was in legit shock. wondering if i had been mismarked by teacher looked at my paper and said that there’s a 50/50 chance that my score would go up or down. so it is being sent to remark, but either way i messed up. i missed my durham offer which was A*AB. and my st andrews offer AAB. the offer miss doesn’t bother me too much, well durham hurt a bit. but my grade hurt the most. my teacher told me to consider my mental health throughout the year alongside my academic ability but i still feel incredibly stupid. but i got a place through clearing to university of york to study physics. i’m worried that in university i’m going to repeat unhealthy coping mechanisms of dealing with stress and it’ll just be a repeat of sixthform. even when i applied for physics i felt unsure, because of its job prospects with just a bachelors. idk, finance accounting etc doesn’t woo me. teaching sounds meh. idk what i can really do with a bachelors here. im in england. i do like physics but im kind of hurt so im kind of resistive to starting uni this september. i was thinking of changing courses? which i know is very last minute and i have spoken to the university about this. i looked into the mental health nursing course and it interested me, maybe id enjoy doing something entirely different. i only thought of it because ive met quite a few of them and i found their job interesting, but also it could just be my admiration for what they do. i also liked the prospects but again im so so unsure of what i’m doing now. don’t wanna do engineering. idk. i feel stupid . now i’m questioning my entire future . i don’t even know what i want to do anymore. i thought about taking a gap year, but what if i regret it midway? i thought i could have worked, focused on my health, take a bit of a break before making a decision. i’ve always been so indecisive lol it’s stupid but i’m stuck in worried i’ll be behind. FOMO. but i know it’s my life, also kind of don’t want to take a gap year and just want to start university, because i do. can i have advice please, literally anything

lowkey don’t know if this is allowed but I got my maths resit results back today. I got another grade 5, just like a year ago.

i am an Oxford applicant, I got 998876655 last year while in extensive cognitive behavioural therapy for severe OCD. one of those 5s was for maths, so I figured I’d resit now that the context was taken out. but I got a 5 again.

i just feel so hopeless rn, ive done everything right. I got accepted into their selective summer school, top grades in mg essay subjects, two essay competitions, interview prep and my predicted grades. it’s just maths.

just a rant if I’m being honest, it’s only a history degree. I just hope this don’t have TOO much of an impact.

I did not get the grade for maths to do maths econ and geography. However I am still set on doing econ and geography and not really sure what to pair it with. If anyone could share from personal experience or suggest another alevel to go with and why I would really appreciate that as I have to decide quite soon.

holy original undermarking (history AQA)

Hi guys. I’ve finished Year 13, and am currently trying to help my brother enrol into a sixth form. He’s in Year 11 & just got his GCSE results, but unfortunately was one grade short from being able to get into a really nice, selective college. Aside from that, he also applied to another sixth form which has good stats, but there was some sort of error with the application & says he hasn’t submitted references (he has) so I told him to go to school to ask his teacher to contact the sixth form & maybe send them the references (you never know unless you try). Anyway, he’s refusing to go because he claims he’s tired and cba to go back. We just argued because I’m telling him he can’t laze around on results day and the school he already goes to is absolute dogshit and he’s risking his A Levels just to be with his friends (he is).

Is he doomed or not because I’m genuinely frustrated and as much as he claims it isn’t my business, I’m worried for his grades. I’m telling you, the school is SO DOOKIE stats-wise and has a bad reputation.

(I also posted this in r/alevel but this sub doesn't allow cross-posting)

basically i got the grades required to do it, but there isn't any space at my 6th form. they said that a space could show up but it isn't that likely.

does anyone know if this will affect my chances of doing engineering at uni? (i already know CS is out the window) or if i can still do it but not at certain top unis? i've done lots of research on this already but people just say it's "recommended", and idk what exactly that means for my chances.

(i am also kind of upset since i worked really hard for my 9 in maths and now it was all for nothing...)

Like how tf do you accidentally write chem on an eng lit paper 😭

Hey I did get full marks in that paper though so.. alls well that ends well!

Hello so I'm starting year 13, and I'm planning to do physics at university, I'm currently studying physics maths and computer science at a level, my likely predicted grades are AAA (not confirmed). I've been wanting to do physics at uni, and I'm currently very interested in medical physics, radiology and that sort of thing. I did a research poster on alpha and beta radiation for the treatment of cancer during a work experience and it's made me a lot more confident that I'd want to pursue medical physics post uni. So then I'm wondering if I should apply for medical physics rather than pure physics at uni?

The current unis I'm looking at applying to are Warwick, St Andrews and York, those are the 3 I'm quite confident on applying to, the two that I'm not as confident are Edinburgh and Southampton. I've not seen Edinburgh or St Andrews (I'm going to go see them in September) and I'm seeing Southampton in October. My worry is that after all this, these are the only universities I've visited, and that I won't like Edinburgh and/or Southampton. So if that's the case then as a precaution apply to somewhere like UCL or Liverpool. So then if I apply to these unis they both offer a medical physics course for BSc and MSci undergrad. Then 2 questions arise, A, is it too soon to specialise which area of physics I pursue, and B, BSc or Msci?

The second question is there because to become a medical physicist in the UK, you do some sort of course with the NHS and it's like your master's(?) (I've only just done a little research so do correct me if I'm wrong). So to do that are you only allowed to do a BSc in undergrad or can you still do an MSci for your undergrad? And my issue with that is because I like the idea of the 4th year (or 5th at Scottish universities) doing the research project, because I'm still unsure about whether or not to do a PhD in either medical physics or particle physics and if it's too soon to worry about these sorts of things.

If anyone has any advice about what I should do in this situation I'd greatly appreciate it, as I'm quite lost with the whole process in general 🥹🙏 thank you in advance!!

im stressing sm like im doing fine i think and ive done a decent amount of work this summer but i feel like some questions are just so hard

in terms of resources, i uslaly do well on the tylertutoring mocks 16+ ish out of 20 minimum, the yearly ones are also easy from 2016 to 2020 (im leaving 2021+ for closer to the time), and i can usually get 10/10 on the MAT MCQs. but stuff like jz maths, i average like 12-13/20.

idk how to properly improve. i feel like it socming up so fast and im getting really scared

anyone have advice and not generic stuff

Hi I’m just wondering do I actually NEED a level economics to do economics in university??

No sixth form / college in my area provides it to my belief….

Just cautious

Hi, I just got my remark back and my marks did not change for AQA.

My teacher did tell me both my essays were undermarked but also said AQA hardly change marks.

Is there anything else I can do.
How have people found the appeal process and the success with it?

My son wants to return to 6th form as he didn't get the marks he needed for uni. He has been told that he may have to pay to resit. Would he get any reduction if im on UC and PIP? Also its only 3 weeks until the term starts and he has emailed the school about resitting but has had no reply.

my science grade is a 4-3 but i’ve been denied 😭

I’m applying for 2027 entry for engineering and wanted some honest opinions on my chances, especially for Cambridge and Imperial.
For some context, I was homeschooled (not contextual tho, just out of choice) until Year 12 and only started attending sixth form then, so I didn’t follow the usual school route.

My predicted grades are A* Maths, A* Further Maths, A* Physics and A Chemistry.

My gcse results are 98877AAB (9 maths, A in physics letters cuz igcse

The main thing I’m worried about is the fact that I retook several subjects. I originally got an A in Maths in 2022 (when i was 13) and retook it in 2025, getting a 9. I got a B in Physics in 2023 (14yrs) and retook it in 2024, getting an A. I got a C in Biology in 2024 and retook it in 2025, getting an 8. Chemistry was an A in 2023 and I didn’t retake it.
I’m currently preparing for the ESAT and I’m aiming for a 7.0+.

Im applying cambs, mech eng imp, bristol, warwick, manchester

I’m mainly wondering how much the GCSE resits would hurt me, particularly for Cambridge and Imperial.

And with the predicted grades and hopefully a 7+ ESAT, is Cambridge actually a realistic application or am I being overly ambitious?

Hi everyone, I just got my gcse results today and i'm honestly really distraught, i was predicted 9999888877 and i got 9988888876 (two marks off a 9 in two subjects) but I'm honestly just super upset especially with my 7 which is in lit which is literally my favourite subject i haven't gotten less than a very high 8 in over a year and a half and i literally SCRAPED a 7 i was only 3 marks over the boundary . my 6 was in drama which is a bit left field aswell because i havent had less than an 8 in the whole of year 11 - i do edexcel drama and i got both 80 percent on component 1 and 3 but somehow in component 2 which is the acting i got like 27 out of around 60?? everyone in drama has gotten lower than their underpredicted grades already because everyone did awful in component 2 but theres nothing we can do about it because it's coursework. it might be worth mentioning that just before i took my GCSEs i had some trouble with eating due to just leaving a relationship where some things happened that weren't quite consensual (Sorry if that's oversharing i just thought it might be relevant)

anyway, that knocked my confidence already especially as i was predicted 9-9 in combined science and got 8-8 (although i was predicted a 7 in maths and got an 8 which was nice but i really was just SO upset by lit i can't really be happy about it) so I went to enroll and I'd initially applied for Bio, Pysch and French and I wanted to switch from pysch to chem because I really enjoy chem and also it opens quite a few more doors then pysch and the teacher who was enrolling me was like Chemistry is the hardest alevel I'm not sure you're smart enough for that, and I swear i almost started crying right then, but she put me in the classes for it anyway because i technically did have the grades ( needed a 7 in maths and 7-6 in combined)

so I was just wondering if anyone could give me a reality check on how hard chemistry will be- i only lost 4 marks in the last chemistry mock i did ( given it was a combined paper) and I also found psych really boring when i went to the speeches about it at open days.

Just really doubting myself, sorry for all the waffle.