Oxford Law Students and Applicants

When you said the exams went badly what do you mean? Oxford place more emphasis on GCSEs than A-levels so you may be able to get away with it.

And I got B E E U in january because I didn't know the magnitude of Jan exams

Um, no they don't. Where did you get this from?

Oxford place more emphasis on GCSEs than Cambridge do, and probably more emphasis than many other Russell Group universities, but obviously AS/A-levels are far more important.

If you got 10 A*s at GCSE and then AABBB at AS-level, you probably wouldn't even be interviewed.

Don't worry about those results, most people I know did badly in AS january exams because they don't realise how hard the exams are/aren't used to the AS exams. I didn't do too well in January either, got a B and a D.

Sit your May/June exams and see how they go. If the results are somewhat near good then think about applying, if however they don't go greatly and you end up with bad results then really don't apply as you are very likely to get rejected. I was going to apply to Oxford but after getting ABBDE in June AS exams I was told that I'd get rejected before interview and therefore didn't apply

But look on the bright side, you have the May/June exams to make everything up and to get those good grades! be optimistic, put the effort in and get the grades so you can achieve your goal

Thanks for the words of encouragement I really appreciate it, what subjects do you do and if you do the same as me could you help me out?

It's common fact that Oxford look at GCSE and not AS levels (unless you flop in them), they look for at least 73% to more likely 85% A* at GCSEs.

x

Hey no problem, I feel that my own failures let me down in applying to Oxbridge and therefore like to point out the mistakes I made and the journey I had through the process to others.

I do A2 Economics, Politics and Ancient History, and I did AS's in Maths and Chemistry (yeah I sucked at chemistry, and thought I knew everything in maths and ended up not revising as much as I should have etc. leading to the less than satisfactory grades).

Oh right any tips for AS maths? I am struggling like hell with it.

Um, no they don't. Where did you get this from?

Oxford place more emphasis on GCSEs than Cambridge do, and probably more emphasis than many other Russell Group universities, but obviously AS/A-levels are far more important.

If you got 10 A*s at GCSE and then AABBB at AS-level, you probably wouldn't even be interviewed.

Which parts of Maths? the subject in general or a certain topic?

Solving equations involving indices

Um, no they don't. Where did you get this from?

Oxford place more emphasis on GCSEs than Cambridge do, and probably more emphasis than many other Russell Group universities, but obviously AS/A-levels are far more important.

This really isn't true . I would be wary about scaremongering like this, I'm sure you're not doing it on purpose. I know plenty of offer holders who got AAAB-AABB (a couple with worse). None of whom has 10A*s. a couple on here actually. One law offer holder with 7A*s 1A and 2Bs and AABB at AS.

I think the above poster is closer to the truth than you. For lots of subjects, when deciding who to interview they look at GCSEs an test score, free that interview does become the prevailing factor, so, yeah, I think it's fair to say GCSEs are more important.

Those people are probably going to get rejected because everyone who applies is probably going to be rejected but I don't think AS are a HUGE factor

Sorry, that was incomplete, it should have been in reference to Cambridge.

I agree that GCSEs are important at Oxford, but at the same time when someone has already done their GCSEs, I think it's best to advise that they work to achieve the best AS-levels they can get, as regardless of what Oxford's general rule of thumb is, stronger AS-levels can and will compensate for slightly weaker GCSEs.