do universities allow alevels taken over three years for law course?

A friend of mine is doing A levels over 3 years and had a Cambridge interview. Waiting for his LNAT, and based on that, will hear from Bristol and KCL. Also recieved a Cardiff offer, which they lowered for him as well. Just check with the university.

Ohh ok thank u for replying yh I will do that.

Do you really think you'll be able to do well at a Russel group uni if it took you an entire extra year to get your A levels?

Many (but not all, and not most) have and will continue to do better with poorer grades/longer time spent on A-Levels than the 'average' applicant.

This is because, in order to stay committed over the longer period, one has to really develop their motivation and immediately 'fix' the problem that caused the delay in the first place. If you can succeed after failure, you learn lessons (a lot of them).

One reason (that hasn't occured to you or many others) is that people simply change their subjects after AS - decide sciences or humanities aren't for them and switch.

Some who sail through due to natural ability may also struggle when they arrive at university, it's entirely dependent on the individual.

Changing your subjects after AS is not the same as spending 3 years doing the same A levels and unis would not look down upon an applicant for changing subjects after AS (assuming they got decent AS grades)

Point taken. However, even if A Levels were completed over three years, that doesn't mean someone is considerably less intelligent/able. For example, after 2 years you ended up with ABB, several UMS off AAA. You may take a gap year to resit a couple modules, before ending up with AAA.

Now those UMS you had to spend a whole year getting might have been accessible if you'd just revised a little differently (we're talking only hours here, with minimal changes). Or maybe they had a bad day for an exam or two.


I'm making the point because I'm actually on my third year of A-Levels right now and get good grades (As and Bs). It just so happened I didn't get what I wanted so have had to take another year to get to where I want to be.

Maybe I'm a little bias, I guess...

That example is sort of different as well because ABB are good grades and resitting a few exams in a third year isn't really 'retaking the year' it's just retaking some exams.

Regardless, I didn't mean to offend anyone but I was just trying to warn OP that maybe if he struggled with A levels he would also struggle at uni.

Good luck with your exams though

Point taken. However, even if A Levels were completed over three years, that doesn't mean someone is considerably less intelligent/able. For example, after 2 years you ended up with ABB, several UMS off AAA. You may take a gap year to resit a couple modules, before ending up with AAA.

Now those UMS you had to spend a whole year getting might have been accessible if you'd just revised a little differently (we're talking only hours here, with minimal changes). Or maybe they had a bad day for an exam or two.


I'm making the point because I'm actually on my third year of A-Levels right now and get good grades (As and Bs). It just so happened I didn't get what I wanted so have had to take another year to get to where I want to be.

Maybe I'm a little bias, I guess...

Changing your subjects after AS is not the same as spending 3 years doing the same A levels and unis would not look down upon an applicant for changing subjects after AS (assuming they got decent AS grades)