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Does EPQ result help

My mock grades were lower then my predicted. Does a good row help to still get a place on A level day or if my results don’t match predicted will my offer be withdrawn . My degrees is law at York or Leeds

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by Very?
My mock grades were lower then my predicted. Does a good row help to still get a place on A level day or if my results don’t match predicted will my offer be withdrawn . My degrees is law at York or Leeds

Your results don't need to match your predicted grades, they only need to meet your offer conditions. You have plenty of time to improve between your mocks and your A levels; most people do improve!

Worst case scenario: you don't meet the offer for your firm choice. They may still take you if you missed it by a tiny margin. If not, that's where your insurance choice comes in. Hopefully your insurance choice's entry requirements are lower than your firm's.
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by Very?
My mock grades were lower then my predicted. Does a good row help to still get a place on A level day or if my results don’t match predicted will my offer be withdrawn . My degrees is law at York or Leeds

What do you mean by "Does a good row help"? What's a "row" in this context? Is that you trying to type EPQ but being out by one key for each letter? York say here that, "We recognise the value of this qualification although it will not be included as a condition of entry. It may be taken into consideration when you receive your results." Leeds say nothing similar.

York's typical offer for LLB (Hons) Law is AAA, whilst Leeds' typical offer is A*AA. Are those your offer requirements too? According to the data published by UCAS (here for York and here for Leeds), the most common grades held by accepted students accepted to both universities in recent years have been AAA. So clearly Leeds have, in the recent past, accepted enough students who haven't met their typical offer*, that AAA has become the most common grade profile (in fact Leeds have accepted 76% of firm offer holders who achieved AAA - but note that some of these may have been contextual candidates and so had lower offer requirements anyway).

* Just to caveat the above a little, for 2021 entry Leeds were asking for AAA. It's only from 2022 entry onwards that Leeds have started to request A*AA. So some of the data UCAS have published (which covers 2019-2023) will be from when AAA was the typical requirement anyway.

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by DataVenia
What do you mean by "Does a good row help"? What's a "row" in this context? Is that you trying to type EPQ but being out by one key for each letter? York say here that, "We recognise the value of this qualification although it will not be included as a condition of entry. It may be taken into consideration when you receive your results." Leeds say nothing similar.
York's typical offer for LLB (Hons) Law is AAA, whilst Leeds' typical offer is A*AA. Are those your offer requirements too? According to the data published by UCAS (here for York and here for Leeds), the most common grades held by accepted students accepted to both universities in recent years have been AAA. So clearly Leeds have, in the recent past, accepted enough students who haven't met their typical offer*, that AAA has become the most common grade profile (in fact Leeds have accepted 76% of firm offer holders who achieved AAA - but note that some of these may have been contextual candidates and so had lower offer requirements anyway).
* Just to caveat the above a little, for 2021 entry Leeds were asking for AAA. It's only from 2022 entry onwards that Leeds have started to request A*AA. So some of the data UCAS have published (which covers 2019-2023) will be from when AAA was the typical requirement anyway.


Thanks yes it was epq. What about york
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by Very?
Thanks yes it was epq. What about york

As I said above, with regards to the EPQ, York say that they "recognise the value of this qualification although it will not be included as a condition of entry. It may be taken into consideration when you receive your results." Also as I said above, "the most common grades held by accepted students accepted to both universities in recent years have been AAA".

What is the additional information about York you're looking for? If you meet your offer conditions (regardless of predicted grades) then you have a place. If not, whether or not they're able to confirm your place depends on how other candidates have done, and so how many places they have available.

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by DataVenia
As I said above, with regards to the EPQ, York say that they "recognise the value of this qualification although it will not be included as a condition of entry. It may be taken into consideration when you receive your results." Also as I said above, "the most common grades held by accepted students accepted to both universities in recent years have been AAA".
What is the additional information about York you're looking for? If you meet your offer conditions (regardless of predicted grades) then you have a place. If not, whether or not they're able to confirm your place depends on how other candidates have done, and so how many places they have available.


I think York may need to update their website as 2 of my friends had offers from York this year that were AAB or ABB with a B in EPQ.
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by LittleFire10
I think York may need to update their website as 2 of my friends had offers from York this year that were AAB or ABB with a B in EPQ.

Were those offers for Law? (I was quoting from the entry requirements for Law. Other courses may have a different attitude to the EPQ.)

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by DataVenia
Were those offers for Law? (I was quoting from the entry requirements for Law. Other courses may have a different attitude to the EPQ.)


No they weren’t, sorry I didn’t think it would be different!

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