Ums .where ha v e they gone?

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Dd's school has made their Y12 mathematicians and further mathematicians take take AS this summer (OCR) but there are no ums s ores? She is planñing on applying to Cambridge and I seem to I remember them asking for t his?

UMS scores haven’t been around since they introduced the reformed A Level specifications in about 2015. UMS was a way of scaling marks in a modular system so that marks from different papers and sittings could be given a score that took account of the relative difficulty of the paper for calculating final grades. Now that exams are all terminal, there’s no need for that system anymore.

She should be able to find out her raw scores if she needs them, but they aren’t used for university admissions in my experience. It’s too much of a faff. With UMS, for every qualification 90/100, 180/200, 270/300 etc was an easy shorthand for “A* territory” in the old AS levels. Raw marks can’t be compared like-for-like in the same way as the boundaries vary by exam board, paper combination and sitting.

OK thanks
Last child to take a levels was 2019 and o am sure they were around then
Certainly in 2015 ds had to putnthemn9j Cambridge application

In my subject (history) the first sitting of reformed A Levels was 2017, so the last we had UMS for A Level was 2016, and AS level was 2015. Other subjects switched a year or two later but in 2019, I am pretty sure that UMS was gone in all subjects. Maths (which was in the later group) last had AS levels with UMS in 2017 and A Level in 2018.

As others have stated, AS-Levels don't contribute to A-Levels any more: they are separate, stand-alone qualifications. So no need for uniform mark scale (UMS) marks to feed into A-Level grades.