Realistic to ask to raise my BBC prediction to AAA?

There's no point in them giving you that prediction. It's rare for people to raise every grade by at least one grade - for them to predict you one up and one which is two up is quite silly and honestly, it'll be worse for you. Even if you manage to get offers based on that, if you don't meet them then you won't get in anyway. It'd be better for you to apply for places within your reach, maybe ABB-BBB places, which are more realistic.

Your teachers won't give you grades they feel are unrealistic so it's not a matter of convincing them, more whether they think you will get that grade or not. It looks bad on them to predict you a grade you then do not proceed to achieve.

Finally - even if you are predicted those grades, medical schools do not take those as the be all and end all. A teacher saying you are predicted AAA means squat when the grades you have actually got are BBC. That conveys more about your real ability than what your teacher has predicted you and unis are aware that some places do give their students 2 grades up on their predicted grades. It doesn't mean you will get those grades. If you're dead set on medicine either have a gap year after you have got AAA if you do, and in the meantime apply to places for biochem/biomedical science degrees and consider postgraduate medicine.

They should at least give me the chance and I know I will probably be rejected by all 4 med uni's I apply to with predictions max 2 grades above my actual grades
I know even if I get offers that I might not get in I am aware of all this

so I dont see the harm in being predicted AAA

They should at least give me the chance and I know I will probably be rejected by all 4 med uni's I apply to with predictions max 2 grades above my actual grades
I know even if I get offers that I might not get in I am aware of all this

so I dont see the harm in being predicted AAA

I'd suggest you still work on getting those A's and apply to the lowest medical schools and a backup of biochem/biomedical science at a good uni. You can transfer into medicine after that if you stand out.

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So I got BCC in the 3 A levels I was planning to carry on through A2 (I do have a 4th AS btw (B or C grade I have forgotten) just not talking about it)

B in Biol, C in Chem, C in Psychol - AS results (C'S WERE HIGH C's!!)
B C B - predictions for A2

The predictions for A2 were done before AS results came out so IDK f it will change it

But I really want to do medicine and I know with hard work I can get AAA but the only thing bothering me is there are no Jan exams So maybe I can apply for something thats around ABB-AAB because no Jan exams makes things twice as hard

would it be too unrealistic? I mean I am incredibly motivated to get AAA - I have already started reading ahead in my subjects and making sure I can answer the qu's while I am reading ahead (hopefully this will make it easier for me to understand in lessons)
I am very determined to get AAA IDK how I mucked up with all the revision I did, but this stuff happens, I gotta move on and get AAA
If I do get AAA I can always take a gap year I know but I would like to have the chance from now

IDK how to convince my teachers though!!!! In the end it's me who will be effected by this, not them, so............ THEY CANT TAKE MY DREAM AWAY FROM ME! I NEED THIS CHANCE!

They don't need to give you the chance at all if it's unrealistic. If you had even got AAC that would maybe have helped but you haven't had any As, let alone 3. If you know you're not going to get offers then why do you want to do that to yourself? You're just setting yourself up for upset. Have a gap year or apply for biomed/biochem courses.

A teacher will not predict you an A when you got a C because you would need very high marks to bring that up to an A overall. When you achieved a C at AS, which is easier than A2, there is nothing to even suggest that you will get an A. That makes them look unprofessional and incompetent if you then do not get the grade they have predicted you. At my school they wouldn't predict us any grades up unless we were within 5 UMS marks of the boundary...

Sorry to say but 'lowest medical schools' don't exist.

If you are going to work 'so hard' then it doesn't matter what the predictions are as you will get AAA and re-apply next october. There isn't really a huge issue at hand but you have to ask yourself - How did you get a B in biology and a C in chemistry if you did a lot of revision?

Also, A2 chemistry is a massive step up from AS so it would be totally unrealistic to predict an A overall from a C at AS.

Well my teachers kinda DO since my parents money is going in their pockets because of my private education

I dont want to do biomed/biochem
I got very close to a B in my C's btw
And there are such things as resits

That's there problem, not mine, I already have enough

That's your school

I'm sure there is a pecking order in terms of medical schools, or do they ALL have identical standards?


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Yeah they do
apart from UKCAT and GCSE's they differ

Well my teachers kinda DO since my parents money is going in their pockets because of my private education

I dont want to do biomed/biochem
I got very close to a B in my C's btw
And there are such things as resits

That's there problem, not mine, I already have enough

That's your school

A friend of mine recently achieved DDDE for his AS, and he really did strive to do Medicine at University.
So he bloody did well work hard from day to day for the remaining year at school (where he did his A2s, along with his AS work from the year before), and turned it into something like AAAB at A2.
Folks here are just saying it's unrealistic because the university won't actually know what you're capable of, as they haven't been your teacher before. However if you mention it that you're going to retake some exams or something like that, because you didn't think you performed to your absolute best the first time, and you persuade your teachers that you're absolutely going to stomp on your exams come next year (providing you do resits), then go ahead and get them to predict you what you're realistically capable of.

As you said, you're applying to Medicine this year, go ahead and definitely apply. It doesn't matter if you get 5 rejections, you can always apply again the year after with your achieved grades, and thus you'll know where you're capable of getting a place of and such. This'd probably be the better idea, and the more viable route to go down!

I also got ABBC this year, wanting to do Medicine, and this is basically all the information i've had from everyone I've spoken to.

Edit: Didn't see the part where you said about exceeding your grades with your results next year. If this is the case and you feel that this will happen, it'll be better to apply next cycle when you actually know your grades. Nothing wrong with a gap year!

Your parents' money can't buy you 3 As though. Your C might well have been close to a B but it wasn't a B and it's nowhere near an A. I don't know why you're moaning at everyone telling you how it is! Even if you get those daft predictions the medical schools will see that you didn't get any As and will reject you anyway. And FYI my school was a top 25 grammar school so I really don't think your private school will be run much differently with regards to predicted grades. They have a reputation to uphold if they want people to pay, giving out wildly unrealistic predicted grades isn't going to help them.