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confused about what i will need to do come results

I am 23. i left school years ago. i have subsequently decided i want to be a scientist, and have just taken OCR biology and chemistry a A levels. both my firm and my back up offers are conditional on how i do in these A levels.

Here is my confusion: since I am an older student, I have been taking the A levels independently, with private tutors. I took the exams and did the practicals at a local tutorial college. I am now deeply confused as to whether or not I have to do anything on results day. I vaguely remember from school the head of careers having to "cash in" the provisional results, but things might have changed since then, or i could just be confused.

Do my results automatically get sent to UCAS or do I have to organise this? This is made extra difficult because I will be out of the country on results day and for the week or two following.

Any help is really appreciated.

Reply 1

mr tim

Your A-level results will be sent to the Unis automatically.

Oh and I do not recommend you going on a holiday because you may need to go through clearing [unless if you don't want to do that].

Reply 2

tmcd

ok excellent. If i dont get the grades for my second choice then ill have completely messed up and wont bother with clearing, so thats not an issue. thank you!