Gaining extra UCAS Points

[muttonjeffmum]

Has anyone got any advice how my son could gain some extra UCAS points?

He has 60 points from a Music Tech course and will hopefully have a further 180 for the course he is on now giving him a total of 240. He has started to look at uni courses starting in 2017 and some of them require 240 which doesn't leave a lot of room for movement.

He's college doesn't do A levels and I'm not sure what to suggest. I have told him to talk to the UCAS co-ordinator at college. Has anyone DC's been in the same situation?

[sashh]

Key skills, extended essay, dance/drama/music grades taken outside school?

Have a look at the UCAS tarrif and take it from there.

[BertrandRussell]

And ring the admissions office of the place he wants to go to and ask their advice. The points score in the prospectus is usually a minimum for oversubscribed courses.

[RomComPhooey]

Its the academic qualifications that are relevant to the course that are most important. Points from music exams etc are the gravy rather than the meat, IYSWIM. If he's doing a BTEC, can your son extend his current qualification? Otherwise, extended projects are good.

[muttonjeffmum]

Thanks everyone. I don't think he can extend his current qualification but the college does do some HND's. I will get him to ring or email the uni and tell him about the extend projects.

[Lonelycher123]

Pls help.
To do computer science at Uni, do you have to do Maths A level? It's just that if he does A level Computer science at sixth form, why does Uni ask for Maths A level, isn't A level Computer Science enough to get in?

[bojorojo]

Lonely - maths is essential because university courses need students to have a deeper understanding of maths than computer science A level requires. Did your DS not receive advice before choosing A levels? Can he now do maths?

[Kaddy]

Computer science is maths.

Would he be interested in an slightly different computer/IT type course.
EG READING UNI Our BSc Computer Science and Information Technology degrees typically require:
A-level: ABB
grade B or above in Mathematics at GCSE