r/sixthform

Hi guys,
So my firm university offer was AAA, however would be reduced to AAB if I got an A in core maths. On results day I opened my results to see AAC, which left me really disappointed. However, miraculously my uni still let me in, I guess because I got an A in core maths so I was technically only 1 grade off the AAB requirement, however it was still a miracle and I believe I only barely made it.
I thought I’d be able to let the C (which was in maths btw) go considering I got into my firm, but it’s been really getting to me. I was predicted an A and it was only the first paper that let me down. I also just feel like a fraud since I don’t really deserve to have been accepted.
So yeah the point is that is it worth resitting just one A-Level? Just for peace of mind, and to become more competitive for internships/jobs. Also, I’m 8 marks off a B, so I’m not sure it’s worth requesting a remark but let me know if remarking would be the better option.

Thank you!

EDIT: I should’ve mentioned I’m doing a law degree. Will my grades affect my ability to get law internships to the point I should resit/request a remark?

My current school's 6th form enrolment is on results day and I want to keep it open as a backup. However the rest of the schools i have shown interest in begin or finalise their actual application process on that day. Not sure what to do as all 3 of the others are competitive 6th forms so simply getting grade requirements may not be enough to be sure of a place.

Hi guys. I just got my a level results. I got an A* in psychology, A biology, B chemistry. I have been predicted three A*s my entire sixth form so the B in chemistry was especially shocking. It has done a number on my self esteem and i’m wondering if i resit. I have a place at Nottingham to study pharmacology and in the future i’m looking to work either as a neuropharmacologist or in patent law. I’m wondering if I retake chemistry. I never considered myself a B student and am finding jt hard to get over. Will it make it easier for me to apply to internships in my field? Could I retake it alongside my first year in uni? is it worth me retaking it? I don’t want to be left behind by my friends and retake however I want to do what’s best for my career. I’m also wondering if Nottingham is the best uni. It’s really good for pharmacology but I’d like someone to confirm that. I don’t want to go to uni in london, or oxford or cambridge. I’ve already got my place at notts however I have been doubting myself and my decisions in the past few weeks. 

All in all. is my *AB ok or should I resit. 

Hi just got in alevel gonna start my college soon.I was thinking of starting head on so I want you guys to tell me which topical pastpaper and normal theory book are the best for Maths,Physics,Computerscience,chemistry.

I did olevel privately.I bougth the books and pastpapers (redspot) but they were so useless that they are just sitting in shelves( not talking about urdu isl pst) i am talking about phy,chem,eng,maths. I wasted my money buying such stuff.

I need peopl who already passed out from As level suggest me some reallllllllllllllyyyy useful books and pastpapers( I want to start preparing from now) i can buy for the subjects mentioned above.

Yeah guys if you also have some advice about how to ace the subject and how to save myself from the alevel trauma , please do share it with me. The situation going on with alevel studends ia kinda scaring me tbh🥹.

Thankyou for reading this whole.Have a great day. MAY ALLAH BLESS YOU❤️

I am going into year 12 this September and I need help deciding if I should get a laptop or an ipad. I'm doing biology, maths and sociology. Laptops are much cheaper than ipads so I would be able to get it sooner than the ipad but I feel like the ipad would be able to help me do past papers and take notes more easier.

Thanks for any help provided

Don’t know if this is right subreddit but I have 3A* predicted 2310 B2 ucat and 999988877 GSCES. where would be good for apply for Uni for medicine?

99977776664....

The 4 was in mathematics. I'm in shock. Lse doesn't like students who resit for examinations hence I probably won't be doing that.

Please be brutally honest. Doing law from lse is my literal dream I can't believe that 4 is now jeaprodizing that.

I know it doesn't entirely make up for it but - I have the best super curriculars in my city atm and they have reasonable global and local impact. I'm going to start alevels soon but that 4 is haunting me and it hasn't even been 2 hours since the results came out.

Hello, im currently studying litreature and predicted an A, but if honestly do not enjoy the subject and about to go into year 13, i may switch to business but need to learn all the content in one year for that, is it worth it?

Apologies if this is unrelated to the sub in any way, i posted this in r/gcse and someone said to post it here

I want to do some sort of BTEC at a college, an extended diploma to be specific in cybersecurity, i saw a post earlier saying not to go college and to do a levels no matter what a levels they are and that at 25 he cant get a job with college because all they ask for is english and maths GCSE and A levels.

Im scared, overall i think i got 4s and 5s. My friend told me if i wanna go university i would roughly need a minimum of top grades Being DDD (distinctions)

Do any of you know if its true? That ill be finished if i go college? Or arleast very limited?

I have 60 pages of maths bridging work, they told us to do all of it, they said it's equivalent to two fortnights of sixth form hw.

Do you actually get 60 pages of homework every single fortnight??? (30 pages a week, just over 4 pages a day if you work on it every day)

AS results came in and I was pretty happy. I wanna break into investment banking but I’m fairly sure that my GCSE’s may have messed up any chance of me getting into a top uni. For reference I’m predicted A*- business studies, A- mathematics and an A in economics. My GCSE’s were 866555555 with an 8 in maths 6 in English literature and 6 in physics. I really didn’t take GCSE’s seriously at all and didn’t revise at all for them but I’m happy with the comeback at A level. Have no clue where to apply though with my GCSE’s especially if I want to break into banking. Anyone got any tips/recommendations?

if anyone has gotten a remark, let us know here when you get it back with your exam board and subject for all those also waiting! :)

I’m going into year 13 and all of this uni application stuff + a level revision is stressing me out. I’ve had a lot of on and off mental health issues and family issues going on throughout this year. I struggled to decide on a uni course for most of this year and kept changing my mind. as a result, i don’t really have any hugely relevant supercurriculars. I don’t think my that part of my application is going to be strong enough for the unis that i want to apply for.
I have maintained high grades in my subjects and have been putting in consistent effort at least. but that’s really it. i haven’t done that much else.
I’m feeling really lost, especially after seeing these insanely cracked people on here. i haven’t really gone out of my way that much to find good supercurricular opportunities either. I just can’t seem to handle all these other aspects of sixth form other than my a levels without becoming overwhelmed. recently, i’ve been feeling as though this might mean that i’m not cut out for engineering at a top uni.

I’ve been thinking of perhaps taking a gap year after a levels and applying to uni then, rather than now. is this a stupid idea? am i cooked? i haven’t brought this up to my parents yet.

Bit of context — I'm going into Year 12 and last year going into my GCSEs I couldn't find anything that separated AQA from Edexcel properly, tracked what I'd actually revised vs just "done", or gave me board-accurate practice questions. So I built one myself over the past year — RevisionFlow, free, covers GCSE/AS/A-Level across AQA, Edexcel, OCR, WJEC/Eduqas and CCEA. No catch, still in beta so bugs are possible, genuinely just want it to be useful and would love feedback.

Unfortunately, my A-level results were so bad. I got an A**, D and U, an A*in Art, D in Business and U in Maths. I’m definitely going to retake my A-levels, but I’m quite confused about predicted grades.
I did talk to my sixth form leader, and she told me she could put my predicted grades as what I got in my actual A-levels. But what’s the point of me retaking if I’m just going to end up going to a uni I don’t want to go to, since the uni I want requires much higher predicted grades? For example, if I want to go to Warwick for Accounting and Finance, they aren’t going to accept me based on my current predicted grades before I even get the chance to prove myself.
At this point, I feel like I might have to take 2 gap years, which I really couldn’t imagine doing because my parents would be super mad at me.
This is honestly my biggest academic downfall ever. I’ve always been pretty decent academically, I got all 8s in my GCSEs and my parents are also VERY strict about academics. During this exam season, my mindset was basically fixed on the idea that I was going to fail anyway, so I thought I’d just try after the exams were over. Looking back, that was obviously pretty stupid because I ended up not revising properly and even missing most lessons.
I’m still not completely sure whether I want to do Architecture or Accounting and Finance, so taking a gap year would actually give me some time to think about it until November or December. I’m only planning to focus on retaking my A-levels and hopefully getting into a really good university. It might be a bit optimistic of me, but I still want to try.
Anyway, I wanted to ask: what is everyone doing, or what has anyone previously done, to get better predicted grades for their retakes? Where did you sit your exams, and roughly how much did it cost? And for anyone who has taken a gap year to retake A-levels, how did the whole experience go?
I’d really appreciate hearing about other people’s experiences because I’m honestly quite lost right now.

I’ve considered to retake year 12 and I’m unsure on what A levels to do.. I do bio chem pysch and the whole year chem was so horror for me but bio was my easiest out of the 3. I’ve recently been contemplating about doing A level maths as I was told it’s a really good A level especially if you are unsure what you want to do in the future, I’ve thought of doing finance in the future especially accounting but I’m not too sure yet. But I’ve heard about its versatility but I’m also scared that it’s a big risk taking such a big subject especially at a retake. I’m considering maths bio econ but I feel like having 2 hard a levels isn’t a good idea when I’m retaking but I really do wanna do them but I’m scared that I’ll flop them. Or replace bio with pysch (imo I find bio easier but I’ve only done AS).
So I’m basically unsure if I should do maths. If I should do biology. Either maths bio econ bio econ pysch or maths econ pysch I have no idea especially if I want to go to a russel group or a really good uni and do well. I only have 3 days to decide so I’m honestly not sure.. is maths a level as bad as everyone says I got a 7 at gcse and 8/7 in comb science. Someone help out…

Im going to going to 6th form however i will probably not meet the requirement for maths, for this reason im considering doing maths externally(self taught). Does anyone know if this can work out and if it will be fine for ucas and uni applications. Im stressing

How important is the sixth form you go to? I've got others from the school I am at currently where I get on well with the teachers and they have a new super-curriculum programme, and a grammar school that has really good connections and is quite well known. I haven't decided which i will go to yet. Also the grammer school has economics whereas my current school does not, which i would like to do as a fourth, alongside maths physics and geography. Thankss

I’m starting y12 soon and literally have a week until I need to discuss my options with my college. These are the options that I have thought about. I don’t really know what I want to do in the future- clinical psychology has always interested me but i don’t know how many years I’ll be spending at uni and I’ve been told it takes ages but I’m still willing to try.

I’m absolutely NOT good at maths and I might be scraping a 6 on results day.. econ I guess was a backup, it does interest me though if I look into law also.

But with this combination I struggle to see alternative paths that I could go down which I’m hoping to find through this post. I don’t know what to change and I don’t know if I want to.