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If anyone has any advice on what to do if you get low As-level scores. I got lower than i expected and i really want to do well and go to a good uni. The only thing i can think of is study really hard and apply the next year with my actual results or go through clearing after i got my a level results. Does anyone have any sort of advice from when they had been in a similar situation? or to anyone in general what do you think is the best thing to do?
Original post by jjgbkml
If anyone has any advice on what to do if you get low As-level scores. I got lower than i expected and i really want to do well and go to a good uni. The only thing i can think of is study really hard and apply the next year with my actual results or go through clearing after i got my a level results. Does anyone have any sort of advice from when they had been in a similar situation? or to anyone in general what do you think is the best thing to do?

If anyone has any advice on what to do if you get low As-level scores
Generally, revise smarter and study better. If you actually study hard and spend long hours e.g. 40 hours or more per week, then you're studying hard enough as it is. It's usually bad revision or study technique.

The only thing i can think of is study really hard and apply the next year with my actual results or go through clearing after i got my a level results.
The only time I would recommend going through clearing is if you absolutely need to go to uni in the following academic year for some strange reason. If you did get better results than expected and you are capable of applying for your preferred unis, it's almost always smarter to reapply during a gap year than to just accept what's left over.
In more cases than not (I don't know of any situation under not), universities tend to prefer actual achieved grades over predicted ones. The grades you are predicted right now are not set in stone; yes they set a bad impression, but so long you do well in the actual thing you always have that second chance. The actual grades are what counts, not the predicted ones (even if you did get good predicted grades, unis can still reject you if your actual grades are less than what they require).

Make this one of your comeback stories; good luck.

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