Evidence of grades for UCAS

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I wonder if anyone can help. My son’s applying for art college at the grand old age of 45. He took his GCSEs in 1992 and his A levels in 1994. The results were anything but stellar, although he did get an A for A level Art.

The certificates were lost long ago and he can’t even remember which boards he sat. He’s tried to get the information from the school and college where he sat them but apparently they don’t hold the information!

Now obviously the success or failure of his application will be based entirely on his personal statement, portfolio and any other requirements of the individual colleges but UCAS - which is uncontactable needs the boards.

Can anyone in HE or who works for UCAS advise on where he goes from here?

Can he remember the names of anyone he did his Art A level with?

If so he could search for them on Facebook and message them to see of they still have their certificates and can tell him the exam board.

Or put a post on the local Facebook page for the town/ area asking if anyone knows?

It’ll be one of three exam boards so could he contact the boards directly?

This information is easily google-able.....top two results in fact.

There are four or five exam boards that have all the results from the legacy boards. He needs to contact them all.

UCAS finally came back to him. They told him to do a best guess of which board it was just so he can complete the form - in other words make it up!

All As wasn't it?!

Sadly no! Quite the reverse but it was so long ago the grades are irrelevant now, he’ll succeed or fail on his personal statement, portfolio and interview. Fingers crossed that they’ll see him as an interesting candidate who’ll put a bit of grit into his cohort.