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Hi I am a year 13 student who studies English Literature (AQA) Psychology (AQA) Applied Science (Edexcel) and an EPQ.
I have applied for politics and international relations for university and i have received many offers. But my main problem is I don’t want to go to any of them… i feel very privileged saying that because some ppl have no offers but yh😭
The uni I actually want to go to has the grade requirements of AAA. and right now I am at a BB MERIT and C in EPQ. (i still haven’t finished my epq btw). I wanted to get better grades or meet the grade requirements and apply through clearing if it’s available. I might be dreaming big as it is KCL that i want to go to.

I was wondering if I could get some help as to how to get to AAA within the next couple months.
Please help guys thank youuu 🩷

Reply 1

The EPQ is irrelevant, and if you are struggling with your main subjects, then that is obviously what needs to go so that you can focus totally on getting 3 top grades. Talk to your school about dropping it asap.

And btw, there is probably zero hope of KCL being in clearing for a high grade, competitive subject like Pol/IR.
Where do you currently have offers - and why are you hesitant about them?

Reply 2

Original post by McGinger
The EPQ is irrelevant, and if you are struggling with your main subjects, then that is obviously what needs to go so that you can focus totally on getting 3 top grades. Talk to your school about dropping it asap.
And btw, there is probably zero hope of KCL being in clearing for a high grade, competitive subject like Pol/IR.
Where do you currently have offers - and why are you hesitant about them?


i’m almost finished w the EPQ i’m turning it in next week so it’s far too late to drop it my school just took forever with it. KCL was in clearing in 2024 for IR so i have hope 😭. my current offers are brighton uni, uni of westminster, LSBU, city and queen mary. i really wanted to go to KCL because of the war studies department being the best and that’s the part i’m most interested in for IR

Reply 3

Original post by rawmohahmed
i’m almost finished w the EPQ i’m turning it in next week so it’s far too late to drop it my school just took forever with it. KCL was in clearing in 2024 for IR so i have hope 😭. my current offers are brighton uni, uni of westminster, LSBU, city and queen mary. i really wanted to go to KCL because of the war studies department being the best and that’s the part i’m most interested in for IR

Why didnt you apply to higher grade Unis to begin with ?

Reply 4

Original post by McGinger
Why didnt you apply to higher grade Unis to begin with ?


my teachers wouldn’t change my predicted grades to As so i couldn’t apply to the best uni that I wanted to. even Queen Mary accepting me was a miracle cuz they wanted AAB and i didn’t have that

Reply 5

Original post by rawmohahmed
my teachers wouldn’t change my predicted grades to As so i couldn’t apply to the best uni that I wanted to. even Queen Mary accepting me was a miracle cuz they wanted AAB and i didn’t have that

So you think that your experienced teachers were wrong and you can get AAA in August ?

Reply 6

Original post by McGinger
So you think that your experienced teachers were wrong and you can get AAA in August ?


well the point of the post was help to be able to get there but yes i think i have the ability to get AAA

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