Do I withdraw from my exams? Time sensitive

Hello, I'm a resit student who picked up a new A-Level. I achieved BBC last year and decided to resit two and pick up a new A-level to do in a year. My offers say I just need one A to get in and previous grades can be used, so I wanted to drop my resits and fully focused on my single new A-Level as I find it easier.

There are 12 days to my resit exam and I was questioning withdrawal, it is highly likely I wont achieve a better a grade, is it worth the risk of having a worse grade in my resit, can I just not tell people on my CV/Personal statement in the future and just use my old grade? If I have nothing to lose I might as well sit the exam and purely on last year's memory and see if I get lucky. I need to email them ASAP if I want to withdraw I'm just indecisive since I paid £500.

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Original post by sanwwio

Hello, I'm a resit student who picked up a new A-Level. I achieved BBC last year and decided to resit two and pick up a new A-level to do in a year. My offers say I just need one A to get in and previous grades can be used, so I wanted to drop my resits and fully focused on my single new A-Level as I find it easier.

There are 12 days to my resit exam and I was questioning withdrawal, it is highly likely I wont achieve a better a grade, is it worth the risk of having a worse grade in my resit, can I just not tell people on my CV/Personal statement in the future and just use my old grade? If I have nothing to lose I might as well sit the exam and purely on last year's memory and see if I get lucky. I need to email them ASAP if I want to withdraw I'm just indecisive since I paid £500.

It's a judgement call... but if you do worse in your A levels this year, you will need to report those grades anyways if you're applying to university again. Unsure how it works with CVs and applying for jobs though.

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Original post by sanwwio

Hello, I'm a resit student who picked up a new A-Level. I achieved BBC last year and decided to resit two and pick up a new A-level to do in a year. My offers say I just need one A to get in and previous grades can be used, so I wanted to drop my resits and fully focused on my single new A-Level as I find it easier.
There are 12 days to my resit exam and I was questioning withdrawal, it is highly likely I wont achieve a better a grade, is it worth the risk of having a worse grade in my resit, can I just not tell people on my CV/Personal statement in the future and just use my old grade? If I have nothing to lose I might as well sit the exam and purely on last year's memory and see if I get lucky. I need to email them ASAP if I want to withdraw I'm just indecisive since I paid £500.

You cannot just withdraw. You have made a commitment to taking it and universities have made offers on that basis. You will therefore by breaking the contract and a university is entitled to cancel offer made. If you want to withdraw get the universities agreement to it in writing.

All you have to do to avoid problems is to turn up for the exam. You dont have to do any work but at this late stage you need to sit the exam whatever grade you get. That doesnt mean you have to work for it. You can concentrate on your other exam.

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