Oxford PPE GCSEs

Are my GCSEs good enough for Oxford?
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3A* predicted
Score of 85 on TSA section 1
Strong personal statement

Will my GCSEs significantly reduce my chance of an offer. And to what extend do they contextualise the grades. I went to a bottom hundred school where results were terrible - would this help. Thanks

Are my GCSEs good enough for Oxford?
998888888777
3A* predicted
Score of 85 on TSA section 1
Strong personal statement

Will my GCSEs significantly reduce my chance of an offer. And to what extend do they contextualise the grades. I went to a bottom hundred school where results were terrible - would this help. Thanks

Which degree?
How do you know the school is in the bottom hundred? No league tables were published.

To put it simply, you are fine.

8’s and 9’s are viewed as equivalent, so you should be fine there. They probably will contextualise your results anyway in light of how your school performed and that will count in your favour.

Just keep up the excellent work and if you get in, great. It’s because the admissions team thinks you will cope well with the learning style. If not, it wasn’t meant to be and you’ll excel elsewhere.

Are my GCSEs good enough for Oxford?
998888888777
3A* predicted
Score of 85 on TSA section 1
Strong personal statement

Will my GCSEs significantly reduce my chance of an offer. And to what extend do they contextualise the grades. I went to a bottom hundred school where results were terrible - would this help. Thanks

Are my GCSEs good enough for Oxford?
998888888777
3A* predicted
Score of 85 on TSA section 1
Strong personal statement

Will my GCSEs significantly reduce my chance of an offer. And to what extend do they contextualise the grades. I went to a bottom hundred school where results were terrible - would this help. Thanks

PPE, and a site called Snobe

These extremely good GCSEs…what are you on about?

That's not the DfE performance site which is what unis use so it's worthless.

Ah ok fair enough. Still, it’s been rated inadequate so it’s definitely bad

They might then be suspicious of your predictions ... how many students got A* in those subjects last year?

I do Maths, Economics and History.

Maths there’s a high number of people with an A* prediction (it’s a school focused on STEM so it typically does very well)

For History, out of 40 people, there’s probably 10 with an A*

Economics I think there’s only about 5 out of 40

Is this what you mean? I attend a different sixth form so hopefully they attribute my progress to that

You did not say that - so your A levels will be judged differently. I meant 2022 resultts - not predictions but that's not relevant if you've moved schools.

Ah right okay thanks

I think it's certainly worth a shot

Keep practising the TSA