UCAS 2012 FAQ ***Look in HERE first***

Yes.

By and large, forget ‘career prospects’ and go for what really interests you and you are good at.


I was wondering why do you say this???

Isn't it quite pointless if you finish a degree in X but still unable to find a job?

Anyways, I am in a huge dilemma... I have great interest in Management but I heard that the prospects and prestige of taking an Economics degree is greater... Any advice?

Thank you so much!

I have a personal view - and it is purely a personal one - that undergrad studies in management are a waste of time. Far better to go for post-grad when you have some serious work experience under your belt and know what you're talking about. So I would agree that an economics degree is likely to offer someone far more in the way of career prospects than a degree in management.

However, most graduate jobs/training schemes do not specify the degree subject, only the class (usually a 2:1 in the latter case). If you do a subject you enjoy and are good at, whatever it is, you will stand a better chance of getting that 2:1.

As an example, history graduates are everywhere in the world of work - and relatively few of them are being paid as historians. The reason they get other jobs is because studying history teaches them enormously useful transferable skills, that can be usefully deployed in a huge variety of settings, whether public or private sector.

sorry if this is obvious but I have put my expected certification dates for A2 as August 2012 - but am resitting an AS in January - usually we get the results of a Jan resit in March - so do i put the certification date for that one as march or stick to August as I read somewhere they should all have the same certification date??

thanksxx

Hey guys, quick question - I took GCSE Law in year 9 and didn't do so well in it (ended up with a D grade). Do I need to put this down on my UCAS application?

Hi, can I know in which do we have to enter UKCAT score ? I can't seem to find any particular section for it. Any Help please.

Thanks for this thread!

I have a question though that I've been wondering for quite some time. I have asked this from three people living in the UK and from a Finnish student organization forum, but nobody seems to get my point... I'll give it a go here, because this is really bothering me.

So, in Finland we don't get any official predicted grades. So basically what I did was asked each teacher give me a predicted grade. They all said I could get 7/7 from my exams, but that 6/7 was just as possible. Only about 5% of the students can get 7/7 because it's really hard to achieve this. My teacher weren't able to say which one I should put as my predicted grades.

What do you think, which one would be safer? 7/7 is realistic, yes, but really unsure, because basically it depends on how other people did on the exams and the grades are based on that. Is it better to put lower or higher predicted grades?

You enter the name of the exam centre where you were/are registered to take the test, and then should be able to find the qualification in the list of options - check out 'other' and see where that takes you.

There is no option to enter the exam centre. I can just find school names. However, I am getting mixed replies about this. Now I am hearing that scores will be sent directly through Pearson Vue to the universities I apply to.

Hey, sorry if this has been asked before, do I need to mention "TSA" under pending qualifications in the "Education" section in UCAS?

Doesn't mean you don't have to enter the exam centre. If your centre isn't found by the Search function, you'll get 'my school/centre is not listed here' - click on that and you should be able to enter the details.

If the results are sent through directly they will still need to match up with your UCAS record, so don't leave it out. Also, if the unis that rely on the results can't see you have taken the UKCAT they'll reject you straight off.

Sorry if this is a silly question, but a university that I'm probably going to apply to states that they require 320 tariff points and an A grade in one subject. When they give out offers, will they only be able to give them out in that format - or could they suddenly say they require ABB?

Thanks!