PwC Screening

Hi all,

I am lucky enough to have received an offer with PwC this week for September of this year, so the start date is looming.

I have checked my app and have two variances relative to my certificates - I don't think they are big and they would have boosted my application (though they are not material in the least).

* Issue 1 is that in a third year of A-levels (which I did to get more subjects relevant to my degree, not resit anything), I took an A-level which I completed in the academic year (3 AS level exams in Jan and three A2 in June). I achieved an A in this A-Level subject and marked it on my application. What I forgot to put down, and what I can see on my AQA certificate is that I cashed in the AS award in that June with the A-Level. Thus, my application says, for that June, A2 in this subject at grade A but my certificate (and college) will read out A2 and AS at grade A for the same sitting date. I didn't have my certificate to hand (they were at my parents) and I didn't remember this because I did A-levels years ago (I am a mature applicant) and my CV does not mention this AS because the A2 supersedes it. I'm not sure I would have put it down if I did remember as the UCAS points calculator may have overstated my points for this subject.

* Issue 2. I have a GCSE in food tech. That option was not available in the drop down selection boxes so I selected food studies instead. When I did the application I wasn't thinking ahead to screening and it was easier than trying to put in a manual comment about an irrelevant subject I did more than ten years ago.

I wouldn't normally consider these items an issue but I have heard that PwC can be very, very precise on these things and use it against offer handlers if they want to reduce the numbers joining (but I'm not sure if it's true in practice). It's rather huge because I have another big four offer, with whom I have passed the education checks because they took my certificates at an earlier stage. I also have a counter offer of a promotion from my current employer. So the stakes, in turning down the counter offer and the other big four, are huge if I am to have issues in the next few weeks with PwC.

What do people advise in this case?