French baccalaureate french grades , do they matter ?

Hi to you all,

First let me thank all of you for building such a great forum which is so much help !

I wanted to ask to the french people or whoever knows what I'm talking about what the oxbridge colleges and the general universities in the UK think about the french examinations on the french baccalaureate.
I just received my grades and they are as followed : 12/20 for the written part(good cause I suck at this usually) and 4/20(big accident , didn't have a good text , wasn't lucky on this one...)

Can anyone tell me if these grades really matter , cause I am going to apply to uni in september and these will be the only grades that they will see on my file, I don't want them to ruin my chances .I chose:

Cambridge
UCL
LSE
Warwick
Imperial College business school
King's college(not sure about this one)

If it helps here are my extra curricular activities:

-President of the debate club of my school
-won an excellence award at harvard model congress europe
-amnesty international member
-community work with the elderly

I'm thinking of applying for SPS or economics and law for King's college.

Thanks !

I am in section S and am doing the international option of the french bac so I am really not made for french cause I study some courses in english and i am a scientific...

SOrry mate , it ain't possible for me to sit the oral again.I don't care if i need a mention , I know i can get one easily cause the international option if coefficient 16 and I 've got an average of about 15...Imagine I get that grade + good grades in science and I've got at least mention bien.

Well then if I were you, I wouldn't bother putting your french bac scores on the UCAS form. Just list what you got in the brevet

But , isn't like illegal not to put them on the UCAS form ?I mean they must be used to receiving french grades for the bac, it's not goona look good if I don't put them in...

I know people who didn't bother, and got away with it.
It's up to you really ...
Certainly, the french bac is not a free standing exam in its own right, is it?
People in the UK system need not list their AS levels results if they are continuing the subject in upper sixth.
The same system would apply with the french bac I would assume - ie you wouldn't need to list your results until you had sat all your Terminal exams as well.
Why don't you email UCAS, they are undoubtedly better informed than I.

I know people who didn't bother, and got away with it.
It's up to you really ...
Certainly, the french bac is not a free standing exam in its own right, is it?
People in the UK system need not list their AS levels results if they are continuing the subject in upper sixth.
The same system would apply with the french bac I would assume - ie you wouldn't need to list your results until you had sat all your Terminal exams as well.
Why don't you email UCAS, they are undoubtedly better informed than I.

You have to tell Cambridge your A/S grades actually.

4/20 sounds pretty shit tbh.

You have to tell Cambridge your A/S grades actually.

Well you don't have to state them on your UCAS form, as many schools, including mine do not declare the results after the first year in 6th form as this allows you to resit a single module rather than the entire AS in your 2nd year.

Generally however, most (not all) colleges will send you a form once they have received your application asking you to state your AS Grades and mention whether you are resitting them etc.

Thank you for managing to rewrite my neat 9 word sentence in 2 long paragraphs. It was very useful - why use nine words to explain something, when you can use 78?

Because your nine words weren't very clear, Tek dear, whereas Hoofbeat explained the situation properly Watch that blood pressure, eh...

You have to tell Cambridge your A/S grades actually.

Yes, you're right, if you couldn't understand what my nine words implied then perhaps you did need a lengthy explanation. Perhaps, too, you also have to be read bedtime stories every night, and perhaps too you have not yet learned to count money, or spell your name.