Queen Mary International Relations

HI! I just received a conditional offer for this programme and one of the conditions is for me to take a general 7.0 in YELTS, but on their website it says that they accept IGCSE as an English qualification, the requirement being to have an A. I have taken an A in IGCSE and the school even asked for my certificate and I cannot understand why they want me to take YELTS. Any ideas? Anybody going through something similar?

HI! I just received a conditional offer for this programme and one of the conditions is for me to take a general 7.0 in YELTS, but on their website it says that they accept IGCSE as an English qualification, the requirement being to have an A. I have taken an A in IGCSE and the school even asked for my certificate and I cannot understand why they want me to take YELTS. Any ideas? Anybody going through something similar?

The same thing happened to me I was accepted for Business management degree and their condition was I take the IELTS however I messaged them on the portal that I got a 7/A in IGCSE English and they accepted that as an equivalent.
I think messaging them is worth a try.

If you go to the page that lists the English requirements for foreign students: https://www.qmul.ac.uk/international-students/englishlanguagerequirements/undergraduate/ and you scroll down to the School of Politics and International Relations, you see that, indeed, they want you to have 7.0 at IELTS. I didn't see any reference to GCSE English being accepted as proof of English level, but I wasn't looking too hard for it. If you have read that GCSE English is acceptable somewhere, then it's definitely worth sending a message to Queen Mary admissions via mysis and query this!