Oxford Law Students and Applicants

Hey guys. I've heard that at other universities/on other courses, every year a percentage of the year group is dropped. For example, the bottom 15% from the first sitting of the exam have to re-sit and then on the re-sit, those who get in the lowest 5% are kicked out. Is that the case with law mods? Is it possible for everybody theoretically in the year to get 60? Or will the bottom 5-15% fail?

I know I want to do Law. I know I want to go to Oxford (lots of my family members went there, I love the library and it seems like a nice place etc etc etc)
People who are doing Law at Oxford currently
1)What GCSE results did you get
2) What A-Level results did you get?

Law at Queen's. Need to start doing a bit of reading!

Understanding Law's strangely expensive. Anywhere that doesn't have such an inflated price?

I'm not currently a student, but I have received an offer to study Law with French Law at Magdalen College, so i'm hoping my advice will still be helpful ;p
My GCSEs were average by Oxford standards; 7 A*s, 2 As and 1 B
And my AS results were : History ; A , English Literature; A, French; A and Philosophy and Ethics; A. Predicted A level grades - A*, A*, A*, A respectively.

My grades are standard, so my advice would be to concentrate more on LNAT preparation and making your personal statement perfect. I was told that the majority of people who were not called for interview were rejected on the basis of their LNAT scores, for Magdalen at least, so I would focus on the test !
Hope this helped

Offer holder with 2A*s, 2As and 6Bs.

Don't get sucked in completely by the myths.

7A* 2A* 1 B is really really good!!
even by oxbridge standards

Doesn't give me a lot of hope then.. I'm doing AS now and got 4A*6A's at GCSE and want to study law at Oxbridge.. hopefully it isn't as important as you say and my AS grades will overlook it?

out of interest what did you get at GCSE?
snap i go to one of the top state grammars in the country where results of 8 - 10A* are the norm, so I'm feeling slightly below average with my 4A*6A's.. regret not doing enough work/revision so much Really really hoping they wont hinder my application to oxbridge..

I think that if you get 7A's from, for example, a low achieving comprehensive where the pass rate is less than 20 percent then they would regard it as the same as someone who got 7A*s.. I think?

Wow, that is fantastic, congratulations!! By everything else do you mean interview, personal statement and AS grades?
Out of curiosity then, did you get get 95% + average in your AS? And what were you predicted?

I think they look at your GCSE's in context of your school. If you're in a private school where the average is 10 A's, and you get 10 A's, you're average. Averagely clever, but still average. If however you get 10 A's in a school like mine, where half of the students can't spell their own names, you look better. My UCAS reference was talking about how our AS class sizes were 20+.

Is this not normal?

I'm not sure, but there aren't enough seats for us all in some classrooms. I don't mind it, although when there was heavy snow there were four of us in History and it was great.

When there was heavy snow there were 20 of us playing outside in the snow, and that was great too ;

Got your offer letter for SEH yet then?

I have, I tacked it to the wall to encourage me to revise. No-one bothered to turn up when it snowed for us...