How important is the A* predicted grades for top-level universities?

What are you applying for? SOme courses are more competitive, and so the A* means more, as it helps differentiate just that little bit more

I'm applying to do a pure Biology degree at Imperial, UCL and Oxford, as I previously stated.

And my question is how relevant the A* is to me, based on the information I gave in the original post.

Thanks

I'll give you a quick summary of my progress so far. I got 10 A*s at GCSE, and I just got 4 As at my AS-Level.
I managed to get 100% for one module in maths, got about four marks off full marks overall in English, and got 144/150 for the final module of Biology. However with Chemistry I barely scraped the A.
Now I'm applying for pure biology in UCL, Imperial and Oxford (college undecided).

It seems that I should hopefully be predicted A*s in three of my subjects but not necessarily in Chemistry (unfortunate, considering my mock exams were strong to the point that in internal predictions I was predicted an A* in the A-Level).

Now the reason I'm saying all this is how important is it to get predicted A*s? I assume all my universities will see is my personal statement, my AS-level grades (but not module scores, that's only Cambridge, please verify?!?) and my predicted grades (and my interviewing skills for Oxford)... Assuming that my personal statement is good, how important are these predicted grades? Are Oxford expecting all predicted A*s, or is it more of an 'icing on the cake' situation?

Also for people who have had the experience, what does it take for a teacher to predict you an A*? If I've been a generally strong student, but barely scraped an A in the subject due to a mishap, will they assume that then I'll definitely struggle in getting an A* and therefore only predict me an A?

Thanks for reading.

You're exactly like me, I did Chem, Bio, Maths and Eng Lit, yet whilst Biology, Maths and English were high A's, I scraped an A with my Chemistry, when I'm one of the strongest students in my year.

No idea what happened, but it'll either go 2 ways:
- My Chemistry teacher will realise that I made a mistake (everyone makes mistakes!) and go ahead and predict me A* based on my overall class and mock performance
- My Chemistry teacher will start thinking that I'm prone to exam mistakes, and cannot be trusted to be predicted A*.

I think it depends on how lenient your Chemistry teacher is (and how much you beg them ).

Oxford are not handing out A* offers this year, but even so, due to the fact that you want to do Biology, it's much more important that you have the A* in Biology rather than Chemistry me thinks. As long as you meet a university's typical offer, such as AAA, A*'s really don't matter (unless, ofc, you want to apply to Cambridge, which also look at module scores).

I think you'll be fine howeer if you want your teacher to predict you an A* then you need to basically kiss ass lol
if your nice to her she'll predict you an A* andget more noticed in class (not for bad things ) I think you'll be fine just stop stressing and chill

You'll be fine they'll be lucky to have you