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What uni's are these then? I know for some degrees you need a certain amount of A's at GCSE's, not A*'s.
Of course, but if you seriously want to be considering doing English at a top uni then you're going to have to get an A* at in in GCSE.
I only needed C's in English and Math at GCSE
and BBB in my A Levels so that is bullshit.
I got offers from some good unis despite "only" having 1 A star and 4 As..that was considered pretty good back then! But I guess today so many people get 20 A stars (what is the point of anyone doing so many GCSEs anyway?) they have to differentiate somehow.
(This was in 2000/2001)
I find it sad though that unis would take an exam you did at 15 or 16 over how you are today (eg, by interviewing an applicant). A lot of GCSEs are just about regurgitating information by rote.
I got accepted to a top 10 university. I had a A in History and a B in French at GCSE. Wasn't a problem to them, I didn't even need to go for an interview.
I'm not talking about Manchester, i'm talking about Warwick. I said I got accepted not I go to.
Disagree, it's only been three years.
A friends of mine wanting to study History got an A* in History at GCSE and an A at AS Level and was herself rejected from Warwick. A lot more than you think of it counts on your personal statement and extra curricular activities. For example, a university is more likely to accept you if you play a sport for your county. I've seen it happen with people who had Cs and Ds at A Level. Another thing is the school you go to. Friends of mine who went to Manchester Grammar got absolutely awful A Level results but were accepted very quickly on to their course or other courses.
Finally, I believe Oxford and Cambridge have to accept a certain number of people from certain areas. For example, a girl in my school got into Cambridge simply because she was the only one who applied from our year and ours was the "rough school". Her results left a lot to be desired.
Rubbish. When I was looking at which uni to go to, the subject I wanted to do, nearly every uni I looked at (including Cambridge & Oxford) all said A*-C in English, Maths & Science GCSE. Some did say Science or Maths though.
I agree, if you have Cs in the main subjects that's all they care about.
It depends what subjects you want to do. Certainly, doing dual honours with a language is going to increase you chances more than if you choose straight history, because us Brits are terribly monolingual and so the competition is going to be less - especially with fewer pupils doing languages at GCSEs.
When I got into Bristol (in 2000) they offered me a place to do History with German for 3 Bs. In the end I got ABB. My GCSEs were 1 A*, 3 As, 4 Bs and a C (the latter being Art ). I think the offers tended to be a fair bit higher for the straight history peeps.
True, offers for straight History for me were AAB whereas History and French was BBB. However there are 300 places for History and 30 places for History and a modern language at Manchester so I don't see how the chanes are more for getting into a dual course when there are less places. I can't remember how many applicants there were to my course when I looked it up before I went but I remember the number was huge.
What did he get?
I should be getting my Science GCSE resilt next week adn I've still not got my NVQ results yet. (should be a distiction though, as I was only one mark off before submitting my final unit and doing the exam) :crying:
Today is also the day I got a wonderful job offer from a very top-grade investment bank (although I already work for one, this job offer is definitely a step up) and am getting a good salary. But I've had to struggle for this. I am now 42 and it's 20 years since I graduated with a 2-i in Maths from University College London. I can now feel satisfied with my career path and I hope everyone else here will do the best they can, and not worry about what others have achieved.
Again, as you say, it completely depends on the number of applicants. It doesn't matter if there are only 30 places if only 45 or 60 or however many people apply, it's still likely to be a higher chance than for the subject on its own. Though maybe less so for French, as it is probably the most popular language, I doubt the applicants would be so many for a less popular/weirder language.....
i got 4 As and a distinction in my RS AEA. so i'm off to Cambridge in 6 weeks
That's mean. (I was just as bad at GCSE - one mark off passing GNVQ ICT; surely they could've found that one mark somewhere?) Well done.
Thanks I know, another annoying this is for one paper i spent 2 months revising it and got a C and then the other I spent 2 days revising and got an A, what's all that about