Official AS & A2 Results Day 2016

How do you find the clearing list from last year?

Well yeah - but UCAS are just matching candidate and centre numbers to what's listed in applications. So that's a database matching job.

Universities have people manually comparing grades with offer conditions - it isn't (and shouldn't be) automated (data protection rules say automated decision making for things like job applications and university applications should only be used in exceptional circumstances). It's someone sitting down and looking whether the offer was met or not and prioritising the applications that missed their offer to decide which if any should be accepted.

Plus some of the 1/8 who don't have a decision are waiting for GCSE results.


No - on Monday evening universities have to have made their best guess about which courses will still have spaces. Quite often as they work through applications and decisions come through for insurance students on Tuesday and Wednesday the courses with spaces will change and be updated (with some courses added and some courses removed from clearing).

You can't access it online.

You need to go to your local reference library and ask for a copy of the telegraph from last year's results day. They might have it hard copy or on microfiche/scanned.

Where are the aqa mark schemes?


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Okay thank you.

Greetings folks,I received my CIE A level results today morning and unfortunately i missed my offer by a grade. Got AAA and the required grades were A*AA.Now the universities still dont know about it because the UCAS said the results will be transmitted to the universities over the weekend. So, this means I wont get a response from my firm (UoM) before the next Thursday (18/8) as the UCAS goes offline by tomorrow noon.What now? What's the best course of action at the moment? Should I email the university begging my way in? Should I wait till next week?As a side note, Im an overseas student so i need to get my confirmation letter ASAP so i can get started with my visa application. Also my course isnt on Clearing.

Begging is a waste of time - if there's any relevant information that they should have (including if there are any alternative courses you'd like them to consider you for if they can't take you on your firm choice) then let them know.

You *can* contact them on Monday and explain that you have your grades and would like to know if they're going to take you. They might not be willing to confirm over the phone but if they know that disclosing your status wont breach the embargo on results then they might make an exception.

A LOT of people are accepted with missed grades - what subject are you applying for?

I don't think you can.

Ahhh I didn't know about the data protection rules. It seems like a weird rule to me though...

results day is on my birthday

Software Engineering with Industrial Experience (MEng)

Why should i wait till monday? why not contact them now or even tomorrow morning?

Can't wait to read the examiner reports for psychology, especially for the gender question . AQA will have a field day

Guys , are people going to collect their results from school / college with their parents or friends or alone?? Hows everyone goimg about that ?

Doing AS and A2 subjects.

Anyone did As business studies exams this year for edexcel ... what did you thought of it??? Im just eondering

Which question are you reffering to?

They will have your results on Monday - they won't have them today or tomorrow during working hours, and even if you tell them your results they might not be in a position to decide which missed offers they'll accept until Monday or later.

If they can't answer on Monday I'd suggest calling their international team and asking them to put pressure on the admissions team for you for a decision ASAP.

Exeter relied on automatic decision making a few years ago - it accidentally accepted an extra 400 students
https://www.theguardian.com/education/2009/aug/25/exeter-student-error (200 later rejected or offered deferred entry, another 200 had their offer changed to cornwall campus)

Offer conditions aren't usually recorded in a way that allowa automatic decision making to happen (they're coded using a very antiquated system- most offers include a "k" code that just means "plus some free text" ). It's most sensible to have actual humans making decisions (and checking decisions) - it makes possible mistakes easier to spot (for example applicants where UCAS has only made a partial match of grades, or applicants who have a range of qualifications or qualifications taken over more than one application cycle) and it means things like special consideration can be taken into account easily.