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German Abitur in UCAS

Hi!

I am a 19 year old guy from Germany wanting to study in England. I don´t want to ask you about my chances to get in and what to study, so relax!

I know that students apply through ucas, a pretty bad site by the way, which regularly does not accept my ucas-number.
Anyhow, I do have a German Abitur and no A-Levels. It is already hard enough to write that personal statement, because I am not a native speaker. But putting in my grades is even harder.

Is there somebody who could explain en detail what to put in and what not. I have found some threads but none of them was really informative. For example I attended almost 7 schools owed to my father´s job and do I really have to put in Grades from lets say Grade 3 when I was 9 years old?

Furthermore, It gets really complicated when it comes to the last years. What about grades during grade 12-13, what about my "Fachhochschulreife" .. It is a hassle!

Last question: Do the grades - besides the Abitur which is the equivalent to the A-levels - really matter?

thank you very much.. appreciate your help!

Reply 1

Turdburger

16

UCAS is a terrible site. Generally put down qualifications from when you are about 16 onwards, but there are plenty of german people on here who will direct you properly :smile:

Reply 2

r6mile

2

Just put in the schools you've attended after grade 6 or 7, and the grades you got in high school.

Reply 3

valeryblack

10

Only the grades in high-school? I had my equivalents to GCSEs the summer before starting high-school (aged 14), should i not put those grades? (they're pretty important imo)

Reply 4

r6mile

2

if you got important qualifications before that, then put the school you took them in, and the results of course as well.

Reply 5

hanshelm

OP

Hi,

sorry those answers weren't very helpful. Isn't there somebody from Germany or somebody else who really can tell me what exactely to put in?

An answer like "just put in important grades and all the ones from highschool" is not what I wanted because we do have different grades and completely different a-levels.

thanks

Reply 6

Luxun3

6

You just have to put in your grades from the end of year 12 and of course the qualitfications that you are about to achieve at the end of year 13(for those of course you do not have to put in any grades or whatever)

I am also applying this year and taking the Abitur but that is just what I will do and how UCAS and the British Council("just make it understandable for the universtities and put in your last grades" was what the guy at the British Council said)told me to do

Reply 7

valeryblack

10

Ghassan

You just have to put in your grades from the end of year 12 and of course the qualitfications that you are about to achieve at the end of year 13(for those of course you do not have to put in any grades or whatever)

I am also applying this year and taking the Abitur but that is just what I will do and how UCAS and the British Council("just make it understandable for the universtities and put in your last grades" was what the guy at the British Council said)told me to do

what do you mean put in the grades from year 12? ALL the grades?

Reply 8

Luxun3

6

^^Yes all the grades that you achieved at the end of year 12.2 + the courses you are about to finish at the end of year 13.... i for example have 18 modules

Reply 9

valeryblack

10

my british council told me just to put my predicted grades for the Diloma de Bacalaureat and no other grades whatsoever. They said our equivalents to GCSEs aren't considered important. They didn't mention anything about putting in grades from school years. Now I'm really confused

Reply 10

Luxun3

6

Well in my opinion the German British Council does not have much of a clue ... I emailed all the unis i was interested in and they all told me to also put in my grades from year 12

Reply 11

generalebriety

16

hanshelm

Hi,

sorry those answers weren't very helpful. Isn't there somebody from Germany or somebody else who really can tell me what exactely to put in?

An answer like "just put in important grades and all the ones from highschool" is not what I wanted because we do have different grades and completely different a-levels.

thanks

I know we're not really being of much help here, but you do need to put down all your important grades. All your Abitur grades (Leistungskurse and Grundkurse) and basically anything that could count as some kind of Schulabschluss. We put down our GCSE grades, AS-level grades and (where applicable) A-level grades, because they all count as "important", external exams (i.e. exams not set by the school, but by an external exam board), and you could leave school after any of them.

Basically, put down everything that's relevant; I don't think they'll care if you put too much, only if you put too little.

Reply 12

hanshelm

OP

Hi

ok, even the guys at oxford can't help me. They just said "we don't really know, just put in important grades"..

I still hope there might appear a German who has done all that stuff ..

greetz

Reply 13

hobnob

14

Why don't you just check out the Oxford forum, then?

Reply 14

Frankfurt

Hi,

I am from Germany and I do not know what to do with the UCAS Education section.
Do I write each single subject as an own module together with either GK or LK? Since I am in 13.1 now, do I create two modules for German; GK German 12.1 grade xx and GK German 12.2 grade xx or do I only need one module per subject? And then which date do I give those modules? Janaury 2007 for 12.1?
Do I also need to include the subjects I will be studying this following year?

Another question: Do you know where I can write down that I plan to do an IELTS test?

Many thanks. Vielen Dank im Voraus

Ferdinand Dreher

Reply 15

jtchekourda

Only thing I did was to put in all my subjects( as modules) that will count for my abitur without grades since I think they want to know the final grades so as date I put the month where we get our Abiturzeugnis. Thats at least what an english teacher told me when I was in england.

German Abitur in UCAS

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