Does Imperial College care about whole subject retakes?
How much do they care about that?
Original post by PVonShroeder
How much do they care about that?
From their website:
"We recognise that applicants can occasionally have a one-off bad exam so will not automatically reject applications which show that some modules will be retaken provided all other aspects of the application are strong and, in particular, when... only one or two modules are affected"
From that, I would imagine that a whole subject retake would look pretty bad, unless you had a very, very good reason for it. The wording of that statement above already sounds pretty tenuous to me - I doubt they'd look very kindly on you if you had to retake an entire subject. It's one thing having an "off-day" - being forced to retake an entire subject is something different.
As the above poster said, they wouldn't think highly of it. If you had some serious extenuating circumstances then you'd be OK. But they get so many applicants with the required grades or higher they can afford to be strict with stuff like resits which might show you're not as capable as others. Best of luck regardless 
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