Declaring Grades on UCAS Applications **UPDATED for 2014-15**

I'm not sure if you will know the answer to this or not, but if you never ask you'll never know right? Well anyway, I've applied to UWE for psychology and I need 340 points. I included the ones I will hopefully get for the EPQ when I was working out whether this was a realistic choice for me but like a total idiot I forgot I could enter it on my UCAS application as a subject I was taking. I've sent my application off and everything but now I'm worried that because I didn't say I was doing the EPQ they won't count the points I earn from that in August! Do you think they would realise I had extra UCAS points from that? Or will they ignore that qualification completely since I didn't mention it in my application? They did mention in my offer that points from the EPQ are an acceptable way to build up the ucas points but I'm just worried as I didn't mention I was doing it when I applied Please can somebody help me with this?

You need to tell the uni about your EPQ and ask them if it will count towards your offer

You need to tell the uni about your EPQ and ask them if it will count towards your offer

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And if you want your result sent to your unis you'll need to ring UCAS too.

I know they do count the EPQ as points, but because I didn't declare it on my application I'm not sure if they will realise I do have points from it or if they won't look into what qualifications I actually did and just not see those points?

Just tell them that you are doing the qualification, and since you didn't declare it initially it would be wise to confirm that they will accept the points from it towards meeting your offer. If you don't tell both the uni and UCAS that you are taking the qualification your results won't match properly on Results Day and this will cause delays in confirming your place.

It's very unlikely that the uni will say you can't count the points from your EPQ towards your offer, but technically they could since they didn't know about it when considering your application. They may have set the points offer based on the grades they wanted you to achieve on what you did enter on your application. If counting your EPQ points means lower grades on your other qualifications this may be a problem for them. You certainly don't want to find out on Results Day that this is the case, so you MUST tell them NOW and clarify the position before making your firm and insurance choices.

Should I come clean and hope for the best?

When I was entering my IGCSE results, my University advisor at school told me I should not declare my Art grade (a D) because otherwise I have only As and Bs. I know it's sort of misinformation but in any way this problem remains: my confirmed universities asked for a copy of my IGCSE certificate (holding the D grade) and now I'm afraid I'll get disqualified. This was the best offer I got, so what should I do? Should I come clean and hope for the best? But that way it's also possible I'll get blacklisted on UCAS or something.

Hi there, I have a bit of a confusing situation here

I am doing a HND course this year
I failed my HNC exam last year so I am doing a resit a long with my HND exam.


In my UCAS I left my HNC grade blank to indicate I failed and I am yet to receive a grade (resit)

A few Unis have already declined me for resiting my HNC exam..

the confusion is one university have offered me a place and only stated to gain a B in the HND. No mention of a HNC anywhere...

Is this a mistake ? I have accepted this offer already

can UCAS change the offer ? or ?

This is a small issue, but if I were to somehow have a U in one tiny RS half-GCSE and a Fail in ICT OCR Nationals Level 2 (GCSE-level) must I declare these? My school consistently pressures me to finish my ICT, but I really don't see the point when I could focus on more important things. I do feel a bit bad about it though. Knowing whether I have to declare them or not would really help.

Is there an actual definitive answer to this? I know the OP talks about A Level grades, but would GCSE grades, being significantly less important in many cases for university application, be any different?

They still need declaring though they won't be certificated. Why don't you just finish your ICT though? A pass is always going to be better than a fail! And how exactly can you get a U in RS half course? Just give it a go going to help in the long run

This is a small issue, but if I were to somehow have a U in one tiny RS half-GCSE and a Fail in ICT OCR Nationals Level 2 (GCSE-level) must I declare these? My school consistently pressures me to finish my ICT, but I really don't see the point when I could focus on more important things. I do feel a bit bad about it though. Knowing whether I have to declare them or not would really help.

Is there an actual definitive answer to this? I know the OP talks about A Level grades, but would GCSE grades, being significantly less important in many cases for university application, be any different?

They still need declaring though they won't be certificated. Why don't you just finish your ICT though? A pass is always going to be better than a fail! And how exactly can you get a U in RS half course? Just give it a go going to help in the long run

No.

If MangoFreak fails the course, the qualification won't have been awarded, so no certificate, so no need to declare.

HOWEVER, MangoFreak, if you somehow managed to scrape a pass (and you might even if you fail to submit bits of coursework) that result will have to be declared. My advice would be to knuckle down and get on with it, and do the best you can.

So I got a U in AS physics, will I need to enter this grade?