Are my GCSES good enough for Economics at Cambridge?

Cambridge don't care about GCSEs nearly as much as Oxford as their research shows that a good performance in GCSEs does not correlate strongly with performance in the Cambridge Tripos as well as A-levels performance does. The most important factors are going to be your maths UMS (and UMS for any other nonon-reformed subjects you have taken in Year 12) and your score in the Cambridge assessment for interviewees, as well as the interview itself.

If you didn't take Further Maths in Year 12, take it as an AS Level in Year 13.

http://www.undergraduate.study.cam.ac.uk/files/publications/ecaa_specification.pdf

Cambridge don't care about GCSEs nearly as much as Oxford as their research shows that a good performance in GCSEs does not correlate strongly with performance in the Cambridge Tripos. The most important factors are going to be your maths UMS (and UMS for any other non-reformed subjects you have taken in Year 12) and your score in the Cambridge assessment for interviewees, as well as the interview itself.

If you didn't take Further Maths in Year 12, take it as an AS Level in Year 13.

http://www.undergraduate.study.cam.ac.uk/files/publications/ecaa_specification.pdf

Can you explain what you mean by this? Will UMS marks in reformed as level subjects not matter in an oxbridge application?

Can you explain what you mean by this? Will UMS marks in reformed as level subjects not matter in an oxbridge application?

There is no UMS in reformed subjects. At all. You may get raw marks but Cambridge isn't systematically asking for them and they aren't the same as UMS. If they are good you should ask your referee to mention them.

But your AS grades, if you have them, will still be important for Cambridge.

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Does this change only apply for england or does it include wales as well? I've sat the new physics as level this year with wjec and have been told my ums marks.

Ah, Wales (and N Ireland) are keeping UMS.

If you have UMS Cambridge will request it.

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Does the loss of UMS for reformed subjects disadvantage English students this year in any way?

I got 6.5 A stars and 5 As at a high-achieving selective school where over half got 9 A stars
Will my GCSEs affect my chances of going to Cambridge?