what does 'cashing in' mean?

[noddy33]

Hi, grateful if someone would explain 'cashing in' to me. My son is doing GCSEs and my daughter is doing ASs and not sure how it works. Many thanks

It means that you want a final grade for a course made up of several modules, taken over the last two, or possibly, three years.

thanks for response. I take it that it can't help if results of AS exams come out Aug 12 and application for medicine needs to be in Oct 12 based on AS results? I mean, you have to put down the AS results received - no good repeating. Does this sense?

Say an A level consists of 4 modules and you have taken 2 and got a gradde A.

You can 'cash in' for an AS grade A, or complete the other 2 to get an A Level grade, or cash in as an A Level with a low grade.

It's unusual to cash in AS results at this stage, even for the subject you are dropping.

Admissions tutors usually go by actual GCSE results and teacher predicted A2 grades.

thanks for explanations