Do oxbridge look at GCSE results much?

How important are GCSE results to Oxbridge?

Yeah, fairly important. It depends on the rest of your application though...some people step up the pace a lot after GCSEs, so they aren't crucial...but going in with a string of C's is asking for trouble.

Well if you had average GCSE results, and straight A's for A levels, wouldnt it show how much improvement you've made? Surely it would show how much commitment uve made to get better...... mayb or mayb not?

if the other candidate made the interviewer laugh during the interview, that might swing it in their favour.

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What are you winking at me for?

Making the interviewer laugh?! What planet are you on!!!

Well i got

Maths A
Eng Lit B
Eng Lang B
Geography A
IT B (Even tho i did the double-AVCE and am predicted AA)
DT systems and Control B
PE B
Biology C
Physics C
Chemistry C
French C
German D

What i was thinking is to resit all of my science papers, i was originally predicted A's and i got 100% for all thre courseworks, so i have the ability to get A's, plus my maths- that should be piss easy as im doing A Level maths at the same time. French i really dont give a shit about, so if i redid those, and got A* (maths), A,A,A then A (geo) all B's, part from fre and ger that wouldnt be so bad.

If you are applying for oxbridge....then retaking would probably be a good idea..unless there's a good reason why you didn't do so well first time round??

Also...you've gotta think about your GCSE's in relation to the degree course you wanna do..if you're applying for NatSci....then C's in science will mean you would almost definitely not get an offer.

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Economics and Management

I dont know anything about Oxbridge, but I hear they interview everyone who applies? And that apparantly the interview is the most important part as to whether youll be given an offer or not? Just apply with those grades, if youve got straight A's at a level then they arent gonna care aslong as you destroy the interview..