unconditional offer from uni but ended up with DDD at A level

i didnt why

Because if you had had extenuating circumstances, future firms would usually have taken it into account. As you didn't, you're likely to have an uphill struggle to persuade firms to consider you for a training contract (because other candidates will look better on paper than you) unless it turns out to be a complete blip in your academic results.

@J-SP is the person whose view you really want.

If one had recieved a unconditional offer from a RG uni
for law but then ****ed up at A level and got DDD would you resit the year or just go into the first year of uni and forget about those A level they had got

I think as i got a unconditional offer and i knew of this offer very early on my form sort of droped of towards the summer and as i knew whatever mark i got i would be going to uni I got AAA at AS level which i was very pleased at and hoped to replicate or do better at A level but that unconditional offer from the uni i wanted to go made me very complacent more than anything looking back at my A level i would do stuff very differently
At A level i did history maths science biology
It has really made me think as to if i am really ready for my course and i know for law some firms look a A levels a lot

Based solely on that, I'd say go to uni but learn from the mistakes you made in your second year of sixth form/college. Obviously you have the potential if you were able to get AAA the year before but learn not to lose motivation (which could be easy to do at uni). The majority of your A-levels are not similar to law either so content wise, you would probably have a completely different experience.

In terms of the course, does the uni you plan to go to provide a of variety in terms of the elective (optional) modules you can pick?This way you can try to tailor the course to your interests.

Also most companies do not care about what course you studied as long as you did well so if you do graduate in law and realise you don't want a career in that field then there are plenty of other options.

A-levels do still get looked at quite heavily. Majority of firms will have a BBB to AAB minimum requirement.

I don't think resitting A-levels necessarily solves the problem though. Many of these firms who have these requirements are looking at your first attempt at sitting them, although some will consider the resits and appreciate the persistence. But that's going to be a minority.

The fact there are no mitigating circumstances and all three grades are Ds is going to be pretty concerning to firms though.

Areas outside of law are far more open minded about A-levels grades - nearly three quarters of graduate employers do not have a minimum A-level requirement, it's just unfortunate law still relies heavily on them.

Usually I would say don't bother resitting and just focus on getting a good degree result, but that's typically to people who have just missed the ABB mark. Where your grades are so low, and if you are definitely focused on a legal career it might be a good idea to resit. However, if ultimately you are a doing a law degree and want to get into anything like the public sector/other professional services, then the resits won't be necessary.

It could make up for it, but it won't be as black and white as that. Plus you've got the get the grades and experience, which isn't necessarily as easy as it seems. Plus the rest of your application form would have to be near perfect so that there were not any other concerns.

Even then some law firms will not consider you at all where you don't meet their minimum criteria.

ohhhh i see thankyou for your help
at the time i was so pleased about my unconditional offer but now looking back it was probably paramount to my downfall at A levels

You're screwed for grad jobs/Interships.

For banking, many use to ask for AAB for grad jobs, they don't now, but it's kind of an. unwritten preference.

I'd go in to uni and resit simultaneously; if you get 2:1 at the end, it's all good.

I think were I in your position and I really thought I might want a career in law, then I would defer university for a year, and go back to school to retake all of my A'levels. Then absolutely blitz them, and hope that I could persuade law firms in the future that I made a very silly mistake (... but look, I showed what I could do when I got three A*s the following year).

If I didn't want a career in law then I'd probably go to university and forget about the A'levels.

But I find it difficult to think that anyone could retake A'levels and do a degree course at the same time, whilst performing to the best of their abilities in both.

I'd agree with this - although I suspect they are already committed to the course and would need to see if the university/student finance would allow them to defer at no or little cost.

This is what I'd do. You'll be learning an extension of your one of your A-level courses through the degree anyway, so you wouldn't really have to worry about 1/3 of the workload. The other two would simply require you to keep tabs on the material and revise a tad during exam period. Given first year can be quite forgiving you could manage it if you skipped a few nights out.

Personally, TAKE IT AND RUN.

You can always resit your A-Levels if you want but with a degree, you can do a Sandwich course meaning work experience plus a degree. That trumps A levels any day...

If one had recieved a unconditional offer from a RG uni
for law but then ****ed up at A level and got DDD would you resit the year or just go into the first year of uni and forget about those A level they had got

Since there were no extenuating circumstances, how did you balls up so badly?

Are you aware of how hard it will be to get a training contract?

Since there were no extenuating circumstances, how did you balls up so badly?