Predicted GCSE Grades and Medicine

Hi there everyone, I am currently in year 10. I would just like to know whether I would be considered in the medical field with the following GCSE grades: Maths: B English Language:B English Literature: A Science: B Re: B French:B Geography: B Psychology: B History: B ICT: B Media Studies: A Please take into consideration that these are o...

How important are GCSE grades when applying?

I noticed that unis in the UK tend to be quite heavy on their GCSE requirements for entry into medicine. I was considering doing a bachelor of biomedicine before then specialising in medicine in Australia, but was just wondering how much importance is placed on GCSE grades there- is the focus more on A/AS level results? The reason I ask i...

Predicted Grades

so, i just got my report card back with my predicted grades on it (year 12), and im predicted BBC, which im not entirely happy with. My standard of work is more like high B's-A's, so im wondering, is it even possible for me to get A's in the summer if I'm predicted C's, or is that is just too optimistic? and what do predicted grades go of...

Are my predicted grades good enough for medicine?

are these gcse grades good enough for medicine Biology-A* Chemistry-A Physics-B RE-A* PE-B Health and social care-AA (2 GCSE's for this subject) English literature-A English language-A History-A* Maths-A German-B (i completed this GCSE in year 9 i was in fast track german) 3A* 6A 3B I plan on taking these subjects for A-Levels, I hope to...

ONLY those who got lower than their predicted grades - do you feel gutted?

I got half of my predicted grades. I was predicted A*A*A*A*A*A*A*A*AA but ended up getting A*A*A*A*AAAAAA. I was a bit gutted before because I think I was fairly capable of achieving my predicted grades but I don't know what happened - guess I mucked up a few exams/coursework? What were your predicted grades and actual results? Do you thi...

Will LSE discriminate against me for mediocre GCSE grades?

Recently I've taken an interest in possibly doing Law at LSE but in researching it I've found that, according to others in a similar circumstances, that they pay attention to GCSE results. Unfortunately, my predicted grades can be described as mediocre at best. At the start I was predicted all As and A*s but due to some issues (depression...

My GCSE prediction grades?

Hey so I'm 14 and in year 9. I'm a little stuck when trying to predict my GCSE grades for year 10 and 11. I guess I could say I'm an average student, I don't know.. anyway, here are my national curriculum levels and the subjects: English: 5A (predicted a C or B) Maths: 5C (when I was looking at the foundation paper I thought that it was e...

Re-taking A2 year because of illness.

I'm currently a A2 student who hasn't been able to sit my exams because of illness; which has been diagnosed and I'm in the process of being treated. I have an entire archive of medical notes, good AS grades (AAAB) and predicted grades of A*AA (Maths, Biology and chemistry) I'm seeking to study medicine but I'm in fear that I may not be a...

Resit - put in grades on UCAS?

Ok, so after a pretty awful summer my A2 grades weren't at all what I was predicted. I therefore decided to retake. As I am retaking do I need to put in the grades I achieved this summer, or can I just leave it at my AS grades and predicted grades?...

A-level resit policy for Medicine - UEA

A-Level Resit Policy Norwich Medical School will consider A-Level resits if grades BBB was obtained at the first sitting. Candidates who are wishing to resit one subject will be required to have predicted A* Candidates re-sitting two A-Level subjects are required to have predicted grades of A*A Candidates re-sitting three A-Level subjects...

Will my grades get me into a good university such as Oxbridge?

Hi, I'm a GCSE student, and I was wondering that if what I get in my GCSE's would matter if I could get into a good university? For example, I like Oxbridge or the university of London, and in my GCSE's, I've predicted I would get; 5 A*'s, 1 A and 5 B's OR 4 A*'s, 1 A and 6 B's. The 2 A*'s would come from a Double Business BTEC course I a...

edinburgh law rejection help me

I applied to study law at the uni of edinburgh. I got a rejection last night and i'm a little confused why. My euclid went blank and the my fee details appeared - I saw on other forums that this means you will get an offer. Also, someone from the admissions office emailed me to ask my college to confirm my predicted grades because I'm doi...

Offer higher than predicted grades

In this exact position, predicted A*AB and offered AAA, have just about no idea how im going to get the third A, in that subject all my unit grades are high B's... Oh well will work my ass off and see what happens!...

Purpose of lower GCSE grades

Anyone else feel that the lower grades of GCSE are rather pointless, just a way to ensure that virtually no-one officially fails. In the American system a D is the only official pass grade below the average of a C and if you fail to get that, tough ****. With all GCSE grades below a C generally considered worthless anyway, might it make m...

Law applicants. what are your predicted grades and subjects?

I was wondering where you're applying and what your predicted grades +subjects are? I am in year 12 studying Law, English Lit, Geography and Philosophy and Ethics. Predicted A's for AS Thinking of dropping Law because it's not considered by some universities...

Failed my january exams oh my god help

so I really underestimated the gap between year 11 and sixth form. I got mainly a's and b's at GCSE and I am currently doing law,politics,history and eng lit A levels.When I took my Jan exams earlier this year, I was so stressed out and just messed up all my revision, I have got my grades today and I have done SO badly. I'm so ashamed of...

Do GCSEs matter?!

Hi, I'm in Year 12 and last summer I got my GCSE results. They were pretty average since I didn't revise (3A* 6A 1B). However, for my AS levels I've been working really hard and I reckon I can get 4A's. I want to do medicine but I'm afraid Universities may reject me because of my GCSE grades despite everything else. Do they matter?...

Predicted Grades Error

So I got my LNAT results a few weeks ago and found out that I got 40/42 so when I was on UCAS track and about to firm one of my uni choices I decided to call UCL and ask why I had been rejected. To my surprise I find out it was because my tutor had mistakenly put my predicted grades as AAA instead of A*AA which for Law at least is a huge...

do you have to put all grades on your cv?

I'm just writing my CV now, but I didn't get great grades at A-level (CCD) and AS level (C). I got good grades at GCSE (all A*-B), a 2.1 in my degree and am currently studying for my masters. I'm just wondering if it would look worse if I left my A level grades off because they would assume to worst? What would be best, I don't want my ba...

Secondary GCSE History - medicine (especially OCR) help

Hi everyone For anyone doing GCSE History in the next few weeks, this revision site is really useful... http://mrgodman.co.uk/ Also you can get an iphone app to help with the revision, especially if your doing medicine through time. https://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/gcse...5 27663351?mt=8 :D :eek:...

Birmingham university requirements????????

I'm considering applying to bham with 4A*6As2B after attending a grammar school. Predicted AS grades = AAAAAA in bio/chem/maths/psychology/english lit/generalstudies and I hope to get A*A*A* as my predicted grades if which two will be for bio and chem (not sure about the third A-level I am taking). Is it worth applying, have people gotten...

LSE or Cass Business School?

Im thinking for Accounting and Finance at LSE or Economics and Accounting at Cass but wondering which one of them I stand a better chance of getting an offer? Also, which one is better/have better reputation? My GCSE are: A*A*AAAAAABB A2 Predicted Grades are: Maths (A), Chemistry (A), English Lit and Lang (A) AS Grades are: Maths(A), Chem...

Secondary GCSE ICT or GCSE Business?

Need help choosing which of these to do for GCSE. I plan on doing Medicine at Uni and I've already done these: -RE -History -French -Latin -Geography...

IGCSE grades and Oxbridge

Hi guys! Just wondering, on Cambridge's website it states that: Because the University of Cambridge is a highly selective institution, incorrect assumptions are sometimes made about our GCSE and AS/A Level entrance requirements . If you’re considering applying to the University and would like some further detail about our requirements, re...

Training Contract Advice

Can anybody give me some advice.... Currently I am in my last year of college and have received an offer to study law at Cardiff next year. However I will be going to university with 2 A - Levels (predicted A* and A) with two AS's and Welsh Bacc, and I have 10 GCSE's A-C grades What are the chances of me getting a training contract with t...

Accounting and finance GCSE maths B

I want to do A&F at uni and have a decent set of GCSE results, 1 A* 5 As 4 Bs, and and predicted AAA for next year, but one of my Bs at GCSE is in maths... I want to appy to Durham, Newcastle, Leeds and Exeter but they require A in maths. I was going to email them and ask if it's worth applying and get the A in maths GCSE part of a condit...

What should I do for GCSE?

Hey guys I'm new here and I wanted to ask, what should I do? Well I do have two option that I wanted to do which are History and French/Urdu but what I really wanted to do was Triple Science, I hope one day of becoming a doctor and I've been doing my research and it turns out that I'm going to be needing Triple Science and good Maths grad...

Medicine and AS grades

Heyy I wanted to ask if worse case scenario I ended up with BBBB at AS and get A*AA predictions could i still apply to medicine and get offers if I retook the B's in A2. I have seen people get 3 offers for medicine this year when they got like AABB at AS and got A*AA predictions and only average UKCAT scores. Thank you for your help...

Will it look bad for medicine if i resit my gcse maths?

I want to apply for medicine, and last year when i sat my gcse maths i missed out a double page in one of the papers. i still ended up with an A (4 ums marks off an A*) which is very annoying, i currently take AS further maths and am more than capable of getting A* if i were to resit Getting this extra A* would say me up to 8 A*'s, but ho...

Acceptance to Cambridge/LSE with OK GCSE/AS grades?

Hi guys, So I was wondering whether I have a good shot at being accepted to Cambridge/LSE with my GCSE and current AS Level grades (I only have my January 2013 results). GCSE: Mathematics A* English Language A* Core Science A* Additional Science A* Sociology A* English Literature A History A Statistics A ICT B AS Level: Mathematics (C1):...

Biomed to medicine?

Hi so I was wondering due to my poor gcse results of 2a 6b and 1c and only doing 3 AS levels (wasn't allowed to do anymore) if it would be possible to apply for biomed at a uni that also provides a medicine course and switch over after 2/3 years? I'm pretty confident of obtaining 3As in biology chemistry and maths in my AS's. or should I...

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Question about predicted grades

Hi guys, I'm doing maths and further maths..So in my school I had to take whole a-level maths in my AS year..I've done 4 of my exams (C3 and C4 are left)...I'm likely to achieve As in all of them except one module (M1) which went really bad and I don't even want to think about the grade I would get :D Anyways lets say if my overall maths...

Is Medicine possible if I work harder?

My GCSEs results/predictions: Maths: A* Eng Lang: A Eng Lit: A* Biology: A Chemistry: A Physics: A History: B German: B Gov and Pol AS Level (early): C (But I think I can get a B :D) Anyway, basically, I'm doing Bio, Chem, Maths and Economics at A Level. Hopefully at UCL or Queen Mary's. My question is: If I do end up getting AAA at A2 fo...

Not getting the grades

Hi, I was wondering how I should approach life if I fail to make the grades for medical school having had an offer. I've seen an article on this website but I would like to know what to do within the possibility of different results ranging from getting close to 3 A's or very far from the conditional. This is taking into account I really...

Cambridge or Birmingham for medicine?

Hello I was wondering if anyone could give me some advice... I am in year 13 and doing the IB. I applied to Cambridge for medicine last October, but was rejected without interview. This would have been because I did not have a high enough predicted score (39) and I did not do well enough on the BMAT exam. However, I did get an offer at Bi...

Stupid to take an A-level I found hard at gcse?

I'm considering taking biology at alevel - the course looks interesting, plus I think it's a really great alevel to have, and keeps my options open - as I'm possibly looking at neuroscience for uni But... I found gcse biology hard, and overall, apart from the human biology topics, rather uninteresting - although it is likely this is becau...

How much emphasis does KCL and UCL place on GCSE grades?

Basically, I have top A level grades and 'meh' GCSEs. Are they like Durham in the sense of GCSEs, or don't they care? Thanks. Posted from TSR Mobile...

In GCSE Core Science, can you get two grades?

Hi, I would like to know if you can get two science grades in core science. Say if I got a B in core science and I did additanal science in year 11 would I get two grades. I am not doing BTEC. (so if I did core and additional science would I get two grades). Thanks to who contributes :).

A level chemistry or Latin?

Hey guys, I'm deciding my a levels, so far I've got maths, further maths and physics; I just can't decide whether chemistry or Latin would be a better fourth option. I find Latin easier and think that I would be more likely to take it to A2 than chemistry and would probably do better. I'm looking to do maths, engineering (maybe... Maybe f...