A levels fail

[hardestdecisionever]

Hi

Our DD has just sat her A levels and doesn't think she has done very well (although the amount of effort put in may be a part of that!). She has a conditional offer from uni but has already decided to take a gap year.

Is it possible for her to retake yr 13 at a state school? She has been in a private school for 6th form but we are not willing to pay out for the additional year. I realise admissions for state 6th form are probably now over so how would we need to go about this?

Any help or advice much appreciated.

Hardestdecisionever - if you haven't already spotted it, go take a look in higher education at a thread titled Ucas/results 2014.
There are some uni admissions tutors on the site, and some up to date info regarding resits and how they are viewed.

link here

I teach in a 6th Form College and we accept new students to resit a year - the only problems arise when they have done different exam boards to the ones we do.

To enrol for a rest year do you take pupils on results day if they bring their results or do people generally need to contact the school and get a place before term ends and results come in? Not sure what is best to do, whether to wait for results or contact the relevant schools sixth forms now?

I would get in touch now to talk it over, don't wait till results day.

Both. contact the schools now, and ask if she can apply. Many schools have "closed" and "open" enrolment. Closed is agreed in advance, a conditional offer, which means the student can enrol straight away if they get the results needed. "Open" enrolment is when everyone who has a conditional offer has been sorted out, and any places still empty are open for anyone to apply to.

My dd has just retaken her maths by having a tutor once a week, twice during the exams. These were retaken at her college as an external candidate, was much more motivated with a university place to work towards and a really lovely young tutor.

My DS has just failed his a-levels. Looking for a 'fast track' correspondence-type course. Looking at the following:

NCE
NCC
UK Open College

Anyone have any feedback on these? Any other fast track distance learning orgs you'd recommend?

Tearing my hair out! And thank you!!

Where do you live? It may be better for him to go to one of the crammer type colleges mentioned above like MPW. They are currently advertising using a lad that got CC last year getting AA this year.

This is a ZOMBIE thread. Start your own @brightspice and you'll get up to date advice.