got good grades but didnt get into uni do i do foundation year or retake year

You're wasting your time taking a foundation year. Take a gap year and reapply.

Or, time would be better spent to travel and see the world .

I half agree with you however do take into consideration that if OP takes foundation year and passes it, they're guaranteed a place at that institution. Whereas if they were to retake A Levels, there is no guarantee of a place at all 5 universities of their choice after what I've been hearing for the past week or so. But then that is my personal my opinion though.

I think your main concern is your maths GCSE. Many employers won't give you a job if you don't tick that box, however good your degree from whichever university.

Whichever option you decide I would advise you to make sure you pass it as your top priority

Are they letting you do the Foundation without the maths GCSE? If that is the case, and you are hoping to carry on to the full degree at the same uni, will they let you do that without the maths, or will you still have to pass it anyway to be allowed to continue?

What is baffling me is how on earth OP has managed to get to the results of his A'levels without his school pointing this out and making him retake? Unless he has retaken his GCSE maths and he is awaiting his result this week (which, if so, he has failed to mention).

What is baffling me is how on earth OP has managed to get to the results of his A'levels without his school pointing this out and making him retake? Unless he has retaken his GCSE maths and he is awaiting his result this week (which, if so, he has failed to mention).

yeah i was told that if i was to pass rhe foundation year id be guranteed a place on the course and so would make sense to do that as if took a year out id have to go through ucas and apply to 5 unis again and i may get rejections of some of them or not get into the uni i want to get into thats why i wasnt to aure if i should or shouldnt take a year out initially

yeah i have been strongly advised that i need to pass my maths gcse as soon as possible and i would agree as initally i thought the uni would let me in without my maths gcse but they rang and told me differently

Your Maths will definitely needs brushing up in that case as not a lot of universities do accept applicants in without a GCSE in Maths. I can say this from personal experience as I didn't do great in Maths at GCSE and to be stressfully honest, I actually did find my UCAS applications very difficult to cope with!

Your Maths will definitely needs brushing up in that case as not a lot of universities do accept applicants in without a GCSE in Maths. I can say this from personal experience as I didn't do great in Maths at GCSE and to be stressfully honest, I actually did find my UCAS applications very difficult to cope with!

yeah i was expect to get higher grades but do you think i should just take the foundation year as id be guranteed a place if i passed it and yeah i really to pass my maths ill resit it while im at uni as it is really needed at this point and beyond this point

Exact same position with the same grades too. I took the foundation year because I don't want to go through the whole process of UKCAT and interviews again plus I'm guaranteed onto the course next year

oh so you doing a foundation year for a course guarantees that you go onto the course you want to ? (granted that you do well in the found ation year?)

cause I'm an international student and I'm thinking about doing a foundation year for civil engineering at either plymouth or west England bristol (I'm open to more suggestions though)