The "I'm scared I'm going to miss my offer" thread 2015

I am now so scared about the results it has only just dawned on me how close they are due to the very long agonising wait. Previously I had either forgotten or lost interest due to the amount of time we have to wait and therefore have not thought about it in much detail let alone things like clearing as my parents don't even think that anyone should be allowed to do this even if you end up somewhere decent.

Could have anything from BCC/BBC to AAA and I need ABB. I think I have either got ABB/BBB which should be OK but so many factors could have gone wrong. Why does your life have to be determined by these grades?

I am also worried about the way in which my papers will be marked as I used a laptop for the first time and feel that they may be a little harsher or something. I'm am also really worried that I put the wrong question number for questions where you get to choose which one you do. Doing something stupid like answering questions 7, 8, 9 and putting down the wrong ones e.g. 10, 11, 12. I am hoping they will just autocorrect this but I am entirely unsure, I just hope I have not done this and it is my mind playing tricks on me. But this could be entirely possible on all but 2 exams out of 6.

Edit: Also when do unis get our results, do they get them on Monday to process or something?

I am now so scared about the results it has only just dawned on me how close they are due to the very long agonising wait. Previously I had either forgotten or lost interest due to the amount of time we have to wait and therefore have not thought about it in much detail let alone things like clearing as my parents don't even think that anyone should be allowed to do this even if you end up somewhere decent.

Could have anything from BCC/BBC to AAA and I need ABB. I think I have either got ABB/BBB which should be OK but so many factors could have gone wrong. Why does your life have to be determined by these grades?

I am also worried about the way in which my papers will be marked as I used a laptop for the first time and feel that they may be a little harsher or something. I'm am also really worried that I put the wrong question number for questions where you get to choose which one you do. Doing something stupid like answering questions 7, 8, 9 and putting down the wrong ones e.g. 10, 11, 12. I am hoping they will just autocorrect this but I am entirely unsure, I just hope I have not done this and it is my mind playing tricks on me. But this could be entirely possible on all but 2 exams out of 6.

Edit: Also when do unis get our results, do they get them on Monday to process or something?

Already making a list of the courses/ unis I'm aiming for in clearing, it's actually quite exciting! Just hope a fair few from my list actually do end up in clearing I still really want to study medicine, but starting to come to terms with the alternatives, and it's less of a disaster than I used to think - I hope some of you are finding the same does anyone know the likelihood of Russel Group neuroscience degrees ending up in clearing at ABB grade? (most are originally AAA-AAB)

Where can you find the grades that Uni's want for clearing? Cos I can't seem to find them.

Also, does anyone know how often it happens that if you go to an insurance or clearing choice they don't have enough accommodation in halls?

From what I've read, UCAS get your results this Thursday and the spend until roughly Sunday matching them up with your application. Then from Monday onwards, they are sent to the unis, who manually compare everyone's results and offers and begin to allocate places.


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This will sound awfully cliche' but you shouldn't let your grades define you. They cant mark you harsher for having a laptop that would be discrimination so please don't worry about that
They get your results from the sunday onwards. Hang on in there for the last 7 days, there ll always be people on tsr to help regardless of whatever happens on results day.

Thank you. I don't think they are supposed to but they occasionally do, or at least I know a couple of people who had to get their AS results remarked some even going up from E's to B's/A's so I am really unsure.

I now wish I had never asked that cannot believe the unis might know whether they are rejecting me or accepting me even within about 5 days.

I seriously think I have done worse than I need even though I was predicted AAA, I knew I wasn't going to get that and so went for an ABB uni but even then I think it was a large stretch.

You know how a firm offer may lower their offer for example they ask for ABB and you get BBB on results and they let you in can and insurance offer do the same or are you automatically rejected if you miss their offer?

Aha I apologise for answering then. I too feel I have missed the grades. My firm was AAB but I could have anything from A*BB (very unlikely) to ABC. I suppose all we can do now is wait and see. You never know, even if you end up in clearing, you might go somewhere better than your original choice.

Good luck


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I am also in the same place as i have the same offer . What uni and what course

Lancaster and English Lit. You?


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Where can you find the grades that Uni's want for clearing? Cos I can't seem to find them.

Also, does anyone know how often it happens that if you go to an insurance or clearing choice they don't have enough accommodation in halls?

Does anybody know if there's a chance that a decent university (KCL) would take me with grades A*BB instead of my AAB offer because they even out or is this usually not the case?