Education

[Flimingo]

Do’s & Dont’s on A-Level result day please.How can I support DC on the day?

Just tell them you are proud of them and they have done well.

I mean how to approach uni offers on results day

If they meet an offer there is nothing to do.

What do you mean? They are either accepted by one of their choices or they look at what they may like in clearing and call to ask to be considered.

If they don’t, try clearing. But ime the school handles that process with the student, providing support and laptop/phone. Bear in mind they already know whose places are at risk.

What if they got higher than expected grade and no longer want to go firm offer but instead want to try higher uni?

They can call up to ask but unless a uni/course is in Clearing chances of a place are unlikely. Meanwhile Firm will have confirmed.

Can we decline firm offer and want to go insurance one?(firm in another city and insurance is local)

You’d have to check if insurance have space first but in theory yes,

So basically it’s quite simple.the day involve making couple of calls to unis and that it?

He might need to cancel his firm on ucas before accepting another offer, but needs to secure that first. Is the offer from local uni higher than Firm?

No local uni has lower offfer but now we r thinking to stay local

staying local has its own benefits-avoid huge expenses/more focus on studies rather hassle of all sorts at other city

Hi @Flimingo so the deal is this: if your DC gets the grades for their firm offer (or don't but the firm is still happy to accept them) their UCAS portal will be updated accordingly at 8am. If they miss the firm and the insurance will take them, then that will be the update.

If they get the firm but want to switch to insurance, unfortunately there is no guarantee that it will be available. Say they have firmed Bristol and insured a lower offer at Newcastle. If they make the Bristol offer, the Newcastle place will be released to another candidate who may accept it.

So if they get their firm but change their mind, they need to contact the preferred uni asap. But they need to realise that the insurance uni will not be holding the place in case they do this. Does that make sense?

It’s a but late now as results day is tomorrow, but it might be worth a quick look now at possible Clearing courses if they have aspirations to go higher. What kinds of grades are we talking about?

Shocked to see poor grades of DC(BDD) in math/physics/chemistry—ALAS got his insurance choice and in desired course.
not expecting this score
shoukd he even persue the subject?

So they got into insurance? Are they happy with that? Is it somewhere they think they will enjoy (uni, course, city or town)?

If so it's worth doing surely? What uni us it

But wasn't his Insurance university the one he had decided that he would prefer to go to than his Firm?

Even if the subject he is due to study there is either one of the D grades or related more to that than his B grade subject, the Insurance university has looked at his A level grades and decided that it is happy that it will be able to educate him to bachelors degree standard based on what he got. Yes, he might find it a bit harder work, if he's missing some knowledge from the A level syllabus which is an essential foundation for his degree, but if the grades he got were lower than expected, he should be able to get his act together and get there.