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Trying to get a degree apprenticeship with low grades

Ні,
So l've finished 6th form but took a gap year as I wasn't ready to move onto a new chapter such as uni so quickly as I was already struggling with 6th form. I don't really like the idea of being in debt by going to uni so doing a degree apprenticeship always made more sense to me. Unfortunately my grades for 6th form were all low passes so i don't know how I'm going to be able to get into a lvl 6 apprenticeships when most require atleast a C. Does anyone know what I could do within this year to better my cv or has anvone gone through the same and knows places that are lenient with grades. I would love to be up and running again in September. Pls help!
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Original post by Fxtoumx
Ні,
So l've finished 6th form but took a gap year as I wasn't ready to move onto a new chapter such as uni so quickly as I was already struggling with 6th form. I don't really like the idea of being in debt by going to uni so doing a degree apprenticeship always made more sense to me. Unfortunately my grades for 6th form were all low passes so i don't know how I'm going to be able to get into a lvl 6 apprenticeships when most require atleast a C. Does anyone know what I could do within this year to better my cv or has anvone gone through the same and knows places that are lenient with grades. I would love to be up and running again in September. Pls help!

You can do a lower level apprenticeship like level 5 or 4 and then work your way up. People have made their way to level 6 with just GCSEs. You can try doing level 3 too since you do gain A levels.
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Original post by Gob123
You can do a lower level apprenticeship like level 5 or 4 and then work your way up. People have made their way to level 6 with just GCSEs. You can try doing level 3 too since you do gain A levels.

If I was to do a lvl 4 or 5 apprenticeship when moving up to a 6 would I have to do the full 3-4yrs of a level 6 apprenticeship?
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Original post by Fxtoumx
If I was to do a lvl 4 or 5 apprenticeship when moving up to a 6 would I have to do the full 3-4yrs of a level 6 apprenticeship?

You would yes. It would be long process but if your living home it’s worth it if you really want to do a degree apprenticeship and you’ll be payed for all levels. And lower levels apprenticeship usually just a year or year and a half. Maybe if you could do it in the same company they could change things up for you
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Original post by Fxtoumx
If I was to do a lvl 4 or 5 apprenticeship when moving up to a 6 would I have to do the full 3-4yrs of a level 6 apprenticeship?

It’s basically like changing jobs.
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Original post by Gob123
It’s basically like changing jobs.

Thank you so much for your help!

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