Does Oxford or Cambridge accept applications from GCSE resit students?????

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DD has just heard not - could someone confirm or deny for me please as she is going mad! Her school is making Year 11's sit their English and Maths GCSE's early (in a week) unless they get A*'s they have to resit in June

Thanks

Not sure but if you call the admissions offices (for the university not the individual college ones) in the morning then I'm sure they'll be able to help.

I don't see why not - how would they know whether a result was a resit or not? Don't you just put the best grade down?

I would expect not.

They don't accept A level resits, as far as I know, and GCSEs are easier. They do know whether you have resat or not. Unless you are a mature student.

Ask them.

Thanks will phone asap

Oxford and Cambridge do accept module resits for AS because they know that schools run their courses differently - some enter candidates in the January of year 12 just to have a go and others don't actually sit ASs till the end of year 13 together with A2s. I know that several of the successful Oxbridge candidates from DD2's school resat AS modules.

The only course that DD2 that looked at specified no resits was Maths at Imperial but that has changed now that the A* has been introduced. Oxford don't actually know your modules marks anyway (Cambridge ask for them)

Not sure about GCSEs but its becoming more common for schools to give kids two goes at Maths and English. Oxford states on its website that if you take something early then no allowances are made. If it comes to it I would just put something in the personal statement that it is school policy to resit these two subjects.