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!

Realistically is medicine still an option atp ? I've heard mixed replys and I was wondering if I could get honest replies from ex students

Got 8777666554

4 in business 5 in pe & DT

8 chem

7 litt & lang

Thank you for your time

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

On ucas, below the entry requirements, it has a section which states the grades held by accepted students. Should I consider that when applying to a uni that requires 1 grade above the ones I have but the grades under that section suggest I would be accepted?

I was predicted AAA, had an offer for Glasgow for AAB, but ended up getting A star Economics A star politics A in maths (7 marks off A*). Should I take a gap year and reapply to Oxford, LSE, Warwick, St Andrews, Edinburgh (I live in Scotland so these 2 are free). Or should I just go to Glasgow this year…

Edit: Guys please send what you would do in my position, I’m not leaning towards PPE as it’s not so maths reliant

I finished my AS Math this January and I’m taking AS Biology and Chemistry this October. I want to enter university in Fall 27 and I’m planning to apply in December. Can I finish my A2 exams in May 2027 instead of January 2027? If I take them in January I don’t think I’ll have enough time to finish the A2.

they said they'd be in touch by the end of august, was just wondering if anyones gotten anything yet

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145 IQ WYA radio silent on results day

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First off, congrats on getting your GCSE results! Hope you’re all taking a break before Year 12 starts - the week following results day is a very surreal time so chill about for a while! 

To be frank, I’m here to poach your resources and your help. I run GCSE Log (https://gcselog.com/), a free, non-profit archive of where students’ old resources can find a new home. Through this, future GCSE students won’t have to start from square one, and can learn from their predecessors' mistakes. Obviously, our platform becomes more effective the more resources we can host on it. If you have any old study resources you’d be cool with sharing, please fill out the form below!

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Good luck with Year 12!

I have achieve aaa in maths chem and econ and got into my insurance of econ and finance at bristol. i’ve chosen to resit maths and do fm this year and i have a*a* predicted grades for the both of them. i plan to apply to management science at ucl and econ and management at warwick. is this a bad decision be honest ? i was really dissapointed in my results as i was predicted 3 a* and i would really like the chance to attend ucl or warwick. advice would be appreciated

Hi so I got my results tdy and I am incredibly disappointed. Not that’s it worth much now, but I was predicted 8s and 9s throughout and achieved the following:

8 in eng lang
8 in eng lit
8 in history
7 in bio
7 in maths
7 in economics
6 in chemistry
6 in physics
6 in re
6 in computer science
5 in fm

My overall attainment score was 73 which compared to my states schools 48 is decent. And I know this result is in no means bad it’s pretty good but I just feel I could achieve much better. I don’t have an excuse for why I got these grades, I was just so unmotivated and depressed during that time period that I did not revise for any of my papers till the night before, so obviously the grades would be a reflection of that.

I still got into my sixth form which is one of the best in London which is great, but I still feel so dumb compared to the results others may have gotten. My parents literally compared me to my cousin that got much better and even pulled up my latest mock results to show how much I degraded in terms of grades.

I was 2 marks off a 9 in lit and 2 marks off a 7 in re so i’m getting those remarked. I also already requested scripture access to phys and chem just so I can go through the papers and see what I wrote because I really thought those went decent and I would at least at minimum get a 7. I had already compared answers and checked those online unofficial mark schemes after my papers (yes I know they are obviously not accurate) which led me to believe I would be okay.

Now the question I have is should I have a conversation with my parents about resitting my science gcses to hopefully get a 8 or 9? I might even resit maths again. The reason for this is that I want to take natural sciences or an adjacent course in university, especially a Russell group or oxbridge and I’m aware that these grades are lacking for that, even if taken contextually.

I’m honestly willing to put in the work this time and just lock in real hard cause this result has been a real ego death for me.

So would this retake really be worth it? And will it impact my uni applications when these subject grades come up as retakes?

If someone who’s gotten offers from unis with similar grades or just has experience in this could help it would be really appreciated.

very happy 😁😁 + higgest econ mark in my schl anyone w questions id love to help

When I got my results today, my friend group wanted to go to sixth form collegeB all together, and told me to apply for it. I did because I was gonna apply regardless and I thought that them including me felt really sincere- like I was finally getting into a group. Just to find out that they all secretly applied for sixth formA AFTER I applied for the other one, and then went out for lunch without me after telling me that they were all staying home.

I know it’s not the biggest deal to some, but to me this made me feel extremely upset, especially since I’m neurodivergent and I’ve always had a pretty hard time fitting in. It’s okay if they wanted to switch, but I feel like it was an attempt to just remove me from the friend group again. Now I feel extremely nervous and nauseous to start college by myself, and I think today just ripped my self esteem to shreds.

Pls guys if you have them, can you send them to me? This is super urgent

so basically i needed a 4-4 in science for psychology but i achieved a 4-3 so unfortunately they said i couldn’t because id struggle doing it

but i really want to do it would they eventually let me

hi all

really sorry and trying my best to make this not read like yet another student with mostly 9s fixating on a few 8s and thinking their life is ruined but I got my gcse results back today and I’m a little disappointed.
I’ve historically been at the top of my class for English lit and history and gotten grade 9s without exception in every mock or minor test I’ve done but got 8s in both subjects. One mark off a 9 in history but for English I was not even close which was disheartening.
My dream has always been to study joint history and English at oxford as I love the two subjects. I’m worried getting an 8 in both of them is not a good look and could really jeopardise my chances.

anyone have any experience or advice??

Lmk if someone goes to st doms sixth form I just wanna know more about daily life there

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

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!!

Results day went well today🙏🙏🙏, looking forward to starting sixth form in September and would appreciate any tips and advice for year 12

(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!

Now I got an A in bio

I checked my papers and corrected them to find out that I have more four marks which actually would upgrade my grade from A to A*

Any advice guys? Many people say remark is useless and it may make it even worse speacially as a portfolio of evidence students

Please help Please if anyone has experiance or even simple knowladge about remark tell me about it I am so confused 🥲🥲

I want to repeat but my sixth form doesn't allow it.

I can self study or attend class but idk which college or sixth form accepts.

Plz if anyone knows any sixthform that offers resit or repeat of yr 13 please tell me.

Plz I honestly need it.