DD16 missed her GCSE exams and all of Year 11 do to personal family circumstances and MH issues. She has got onto a full time college course where they take 4 GCSEs over the span of a year, English and Maths, and then she's chosen Biology and Psychology to do aside. She wants to go straight onto Level 3 Health and Social care next year as if she did Level 2 followed by Level 3 she'd be there 4 years and would lose funding for a year. College's typical requirements to do Level 3 is 5 GCSEs from grade 4-9. However the college GCSE head has said that they allow students who they have taught GCSEs onsite to Level 3 as long as they get 4 good passes (so grade 5 rather than 4).
I'm confident DD will pass all 4 (was predicted 6s/7s at school) and therefore get onto Level 3, but I'm concerned only having 4 will be detrimental in getting into uni and jobs. She wants to do child nursing. Having looked, having 4 does rule out quite a few uni's (for example Manchester and Lincoln want 5), though there are some that just want passes in English and Maths. But even if they only require those 2 passes, surely if DD and another student who passed 8 GCSEs at school got the same grades on Btec both applied, the uni would choose the 8 GCSE student rather than DD with 4, wouldn't they?
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themunster · 28/08/2019 18:32
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