Is it possible to do a levels whilst doing a foundation year

Hello so i did extremely bad on my a levels, i got CCC from late february onwards some personal things happened that really messed up my mental health (i have since recovered :smile:

.) so i only done revision in between exams and was on little sleep. Now luckily i was offered a foundation year at a semi target university which i have accepted im just wondering if it is realistic to resit my a levels whilst doing year0. The reason why i want to resit is because it is going to be extremely hard for me to land any internships with poor a levels as they will get filtered out. For reference i got 999999977 at gcses and for mocks (that happened in december) i got A*BB so i believe if i resit i could get at least A*AA. I checked my uni website and it said foundation years are around 12 hours per week. I have around £5k saved up so i wont have to work, the reason i dont want to take a gap year and reapply is because this university is the best i could get into with resat grades for my course. Thank you for taking your time to read this and i would appreciate if any people doing foundation years could give their opinion on this.

Reply 1

McGinger

20

Totally and utterly pointless - you risk messing up both.

Do resits - or a Foundation.

Reply 2

ellawheeler

8

Original post by hutfv2

Hello so i did extremely bad on my a levels, i got CCC from late february onwards some personal things happened that really messed up my mental health (i have since recovered :smile:

.) so i only done revision in between exams and was on little sleep. Now luckily i was offered a foundation year at a semi target university which i have accepted im just wondering if it is realistic to resit my a levels whilst doing year0. The reason why i want to resit is because it is going to be extremely hard for me to land any internships with poor a levels as they will get filtered out. For reference i got 999999977 at gcses and for mocks (that happened in december) i got A*BB so i believe if i resit i could get at least A*AA. I checked my uni website and it said foundation years are around 12 hours per week. I have around £5k saved up so i wont have to work, the reason i dont want to take a gap year and reapply is because this university is the best i could get into with resat grades for my course. Thank you for taking your time to read this and i would appreciate if any people doing foundation years could give their opinion on this.

Hi,
I would suggest just taking the foundation year or just resitting A-Levels.
If you want to resit and take a gap year, universities may be lenient if you explain your situation when reapplying. If you take the foundation year you can then move on to a bachelor's degree and if you do well in that, I'm sure you will be able to find something.
Hope this helps.

Reply 3

Samk12

3

Honestly, it depends on what course you're planning to take and where to, I recommend looking through clearing as many good unis have spaces available at CCC for a lot of courses.

Reply 4

hutfv2

OP

2

i think i have until january to register for exams, i think i might try to create a schedule to revise a levels whilst leaving time for independent study and if i feel too overwhelmed/ dont stick to the schedule i will just not enter. Ive heard from people that 1st year is easy so surely that means a foundation year is easier? Plus since i will not be working i will have lots of free time

Reply 5

jonathanemptage

21

You got in to uni the foundation year should cancel out the poor grades don’t resit the a-levels along side the foundation as far as I’m concerned it’s pointless and you risk loosing everything.

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