Active discussions

Please or to access all these features

Talk
Secondary education

Connect with other parents whose children are starting secondary school on this forum.

Original poster

oxbridge and module resits - Do they know?

92 replies

NotAnOtter · 12/03/2009 20:27

DS has got his AS results today from the modules he sat in January

They are all fine ...apart form one and we knew it was not going to be great

we had asked that ds not take it as he had really not grasped mechanics and had asked to move class . Unfortunately they insisted that as he was set one he take it - despite the three other sets not taking it until may/june.

Anyway whats done is done.

The results as a whole were not fabulous for mechanics and school are advising re-sitting the module for the majority.

I would be fine with this had i not read on here that oxbridge will know - if they are re sits.....

Any advice or knowledge on the subject gratefully received.

If he is repeating they need to know by Monday latest!

OP posts:
lazymumofteenagesons · 13/03/2009 11:58

Sorry my space bar is temporamental.

lazymumofteenagesons · 13/03/2009 11:57

I don'tunderstand why they take the modules early. Not even the top sets at my sons school do this. However, we had a HE talk the other evening and were told that the majority of the school successfuloxbride candidates got 89/90% inall AS modules and they got 85 places last year about 45%!

bagsforlife · 13/03/2009 06:57

Up until last year Cambridge had a separate 'paper' application form where students had to fill in every module and result for each subject, so they would know the exact marks.

Last year they axed the separate application form and it was done online. I think they sent the applicants an online information sheet to fill in, I do not know what they asked on that, presumably more or less the same info.

Most students at my DCs school re-take any 'iffy' modules. Many do Oxbridge (and get in).

Original poster
NotAnOtter · 12/03/2009 22:51

well done ggirl dd !! so pleased for you

OP posts:
brimfull · 12/03/2009 22:48

dd got her results today as well
she was pleased with her B though as she's not a natural at maths

Original poster
NotAnOtter · 12/03/2009 22:41

senua thanks so much for the reassurance

great link as well-thanks

i think that at the moment we are erring towards a re take

OP posts:
senua · 12/03/2009 22:28

Sorry, I'd forgotten that he was applying for medicine.

This is the admissions website. It implies that the Chemistry A Level is the most important. Also, he will have to take the BMAT; I presume a really good/bad performance in that will put an AS result in the shade.
Cambridge will invite most applicants to see them so if he can give a barnstorming interview then that will, again, put one wobbly module result to the back of their minds.

Original poster
NotAnOtter · 12/03/2009 22:15

thanks so much for that Catz!

Just been on the phone to a friend whose son goes private and only one boy in the year group got above 80% so feeling a wee bit more up beat

OP posts:
Catz · 12/03/2009 22:04

Only if the school give them in their reference at the moment but (a) lots of schools do and (b) that could of course change for next year or subsequently.

Original poster
NotAnOtter · 12/03/2009 21:58

Thanks Senua i understand !

hmmm medicine!

I do not know if cambridge is a dead cert but do not want him to fall at the first hurdle as it were and it all seems very complex...

his other results were all good btw!

OP posts:
senua · 12/03/2009 21:55

Sorry, I'm going to chicken out - I'm not that much of an expert and would hate to give the wrong advice. Some others on here are experts so keep bumping for them.
What is he thinking of reading?

Original poster
NotAnOtter · 12/03/2009 21:50

(he does not want to read Maths btw)

OP posts:
Original poster
NotAnOtter · 12/03/2009 21:50

Thanks Senua so would you advise repeating - or not???

OP posts:
senua · 12/03/2009 21:47

I believe that, for Maths, Oxbridge will not merely enquire into the grade for the overall AS but for each, individual module.

Is there any chance that there was an error by the examiner?

Will you have other evidence of DS's Maths ability - UKMT etc

Original poster
NotAnOtter · 12/03/2009 21:45

bumping

OP posts:
Original poster
NotAnOtter · 12/03/2009 20:46

Thanks science teacher

he is fairly certain that even with an abysmal 3rd module he will scrape an A

Will Oxbridge know that is is a low A?

Would he be better repeating for better more solid A ( he is much more confident in mechanics now he has changed teacher)

I was advising him to stick to what he had - he was keen to take it again....

OP posts:
scienceteacher · 12/03/2009 20:32

You can't turn back the clock. He will be better off with a higher grade, even if it means a resit.

If he is taking the subject to A2, he will want to have the extra UMS points.