[hkl1994215]

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ask the unis themselves, best way to know

[filren]

the best things is probably to call each university and ask.

I am also thinking about doing retakes in november.

For how long are you planning to prepare for your retakes?? Which subjects will you choose?

In this thread they are discussing doing retakes and how universities think about that:
http://www.thestudentroom.co.uk/show....php?t=1330689

Good Luck !

[New College of the Humanities]

(Original post by hkl1994215)
how does unis consider ib retakes in november?

i got a 34 but want to increase to 38/39, im confident that i can as my mocks were 40.

Courses that I want to apply is lse, econ and econ history, ucl, geo and econ,
edinburgh, econ and warwick econ

Dear hkl,

First you have to check that these unis would consider a retake candidate and if so, what offer they would give, as it is sometimes higher for retakes. Equally some unis have a 'no retakes' policy certainly Edinburgh does. In fairness, it is difficult to get a place as a retake candidate as so many candidates get the grades first time round. Is there any scope for a remark of some of your papers as your predictions were so much higher?

Otherwise, consider a uni that looks beyond the overall score and will look at the score of individual papers, particularly your HL papers if they are in the subject(s) you want to follow at degree level.

At NCH, as we interview all candidates, our academics (our Economics Faculty has moved to us from LSE) can judge for ourselves how accurate the exams scores are as we know that sometimes candidates are smarter than the examiners!!!

I do hope that helps.

Best wishes,

Jane

[Azland]

(Original post by hkl1994215)
I dont think I can get a remark after looking at the grade boundaries.
If it take the november exams the results come out on the 6th jan, and so my plan is to apply to unis depending on my results on 10th jan, before the ucas deadline. Hence, there would be no pending results, but I dont know how much risk there is on this.
Lse replied, saying that they do consider retakes if the results match tehir entry requirements.

Im an international applicant, and I am not sure how much this would help.

Do you have any more advice? I can go to an ok uni, but since there is the nov sittings, I would like to try again to the top unis.

Mate take my advice and go to the ok uni. As it is I've not heard many success story's about IB retakes. I know such people exist but its rare especially since stuff like IA cant be redone. And some part of me thinks that you were already pretty determined to go this year and probably tryed your best in the exams. The ones who retake are usually the ones who didnt try at all.

Even on the off chance that you do improve, reapplying to top uni's wont give you any sort of advantage because 1 - its a resit ( the highly selective ones do take this account) and 2 - They give out offers with the expectation that people will achieve them. They're not going to pick you over another candidate just because you already have the grades. If you dont believe me you can always check up on CIE applicants. They do A-Level exams in november and get results in early jan aswell but they have the same success rate usually as those with predicted grades.

If things dont work out again your going to be feeling like total crap this time next year after having wasted an entire year so there's that too.

[Azland]

(Original post by hkl1994215)
The thing is that my IAs were 6 and 7s but my exams were 4s and 5s, which i feel really **** about. Do u really recommend to go through clearing?
Ahhh, i feel really doomed

Clearing is a good option and there are quite a few good uni's there too so its not all bad. There's also no reason you cant resit in november but realistically speaking LSE, Warwick etc will most likely be out of reach.

[New College of the Humanities]

(Original post by hkl1994215)
I dont think I can get a remark after looking at the grade boundaries.
If it take the november exams the results come out on the 6th jan, and so my plan is to apply to unis depending on my results on 10th jan, before the ucas deadline. Hence, there would be no pending results, but I dont know how much risk there is on this.
Lse replied, saying that they do consider retakes if the results match tehir entry requirements.

Im an international applicant, and I am not sure how much this would help.

Do you have any more advice? I can go to an ok uni, but since there is the nov sittings, I would like to try again to the top unis.

Hi hkl,

Yes being an international candidate makes a big difference!

So, I think you have a plan but you must still check that those unis you are applying to will accept retakes. I would advise you to spread out your applications and include some who would take you with your first set of grades so on your application list you have two 'blue skies' that you would be thrilled to get into, two that you have a reasonable chance and one as near a dead cert as you can.

It's hard and not much fun retaking, so try studying something new and stimulating too as this wil help your overall performance.

We have a candidate here at NCH who has just missed his required IB grades but fortunately we have the evidence of his interview with us and have seen his written work so we know he will be able to thrive on our broad-based degree + liberal arts diploma diet.

Good luck hkl. Let me know when things work out for you.

Best wishes,

Jane