Would unis mind GCSES spread over 2 years?

[Foxinthefield]

DD is in year 11 and unlikely to manage all her GCSES this year. She is thinking of taking 2 (Maths and Spanish) and the rest next year. Would universities care about that in the future?

Briefly, no. I did my gcses in two batches and went to Oxbridge

Thanks

Would she not be better to just delay them all until next year? Maths and Spanish alone aren’t going to get her on to an A level course so I don’t see much point in it to be honest. Would she consider maybe sitting a single module of a few of her subjects? A lot of students, especially at private schools do this

It's not been an issue for my kids, their school sits some GCSEs in yr10. My son has offers from two RG unis, it's never been questioned.

Thanks for the replies. We were thinking if she does 2 this year it's a bit less work for next year and she still has something to show for this year.

Would she consider maybe sitting a single module of a few of her subjects? A lot of students, especially at private schools do this

I had no idea that modular GCSEs existed, but a quick google shows that some iGCSEs are. Apparently pupils can just keep retaking modules until they pass. Interestingly, all the educators singing praises for this method are outside of the UK.

DD sat 2 GCSEs at the end of year 10, one in the January of year 11 and one at the end of year 11. This was how the school did them at the time.

I don't think universities care about when GCSEs were sat unless your DD is wanting to do medicine. However, I'm not sure any high ranking university would be impressed with the modular iGCSE route.

Universities are far more interetsed in students taking three A levels at the same time rather than piecemeal.

An explanation of why this had been necessary would probably fall into section 2 of the school's UCAS reference for her, looking at the template on the UCAS website.

Thanks everyone. Modules aren't an option, I don't think. She's done year 10 of mostly AQA non modular and was on track for high grades but has been ill for most of year 11.

Bless her - I feel your pain!! DD has had to miss more or less a full year of sixth form due to major spinal surgery, it’s been a nightmare trying to decide whether to sit A levels at separate times or not but in the end we all came to the conclusion that it would be best to just work on getting her fully better for next year so that she can sit them all in the same exam period

DD2's school did fully split GCSEs when she was there.
Y10 – maths, physics, chemistry, biology, ICT, PE (option)
Y11 – further maths, statistics, English Lang, English Lit, Spanish, history (last 2 options)

They've abandoned that structure now because of an unforeseen consequence, but none of her friendship group experienced issues when applying to university.

Sorry to hear that @Foxinthefield.
I hope your DD makes a full recovery.

Given she's been ill most of the year, as long as that context is included in the school reference don't worry at all. This is an area where an exception WILL be made if necessarily.

Hope her recovery goes well.

I am a former admissions tutor in an excellent STEM School (RG). Few if any admissions tutors I have known would care about this.

However because it is due to illness, a well recognised mitigating circumstance, the school should mention this in their letter.

Basically I’m just repeating @titchy