huge chance I won't meet my offer of A*AA for Cambridge and I'm really devastated

I'm coming around to the very possible reality that I won't meet my offer for Cambridge and it has really stressed me out - has anyone else experienced this and came out of it still feeling okay? It just seems like a huge opportunity I could miss as my first exam that I was really counting on for the majority of my grade went really wrong as I had an anxiety attack, and I possibly will not get special consideration to compensate for marks I could've gotten under normal conditions :frown:

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teratoma

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i've been feeling this a lot because of the a* i need requiring me dropping so few marks, so after i felt like i put in a horrible performance on my speaking exam, which i'm the least confident on, i am just using it as motivation to get as much of my later exams right so that, provided the exam was really as bad as i thought, i'd be able to email cambridge on the results day the nuances of the situation, because remember the uni only sees your grade and not your individual marks, and thankfully cambridge is one of the most holistic universities of the elites about this - at least my college says even if you miss your grades then you can email them about it. on my open day I met a guy who'd got in for my course having got a*ab. really, id just try and use it as fuel to get the most out of your next exams. if anything, you will want to have tried as hard as you could 🙂

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by teratoma

i've been feeling this a lot because of the a* i need requiring me dropping so few marks, so after i felt like i put in a horrible performance on my speaking exam, which i'm the least confident on, i am just using it as motivation to get as much of my later exams right so that, provided the exam was really as bad as i thought, i'd be able to email cambridge on the results day the nuances of the situation, because remember the uni only sees your grade and not your individual marks, and thankfully cambridge is one of the most holistic universities of the elites about this - at least my college says even if you miss your grades then you can email them about it. on my open day I met a guy who'd got in for my course having got a*ab. really, id just try and use it as fuel to get the most out of your next exams. if anything, you will want to have tried as hard as you could 🙂

Yes definitely I want there to be no regrets in terms of effort and time put into this, it's just really hard to hold onto the little hope I have even with the 'near miss' sort of policy that they have - also not sure how they decide the summer pool and all of that so I guess the uncertainty of it all is what is really terrifying!!! also i don't know if popularity of courses plays a role? really just not too sure how their system works.

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by Anonymous

I'm coming around to the very possible reality that I won't meet my offer for Cambridge and it has really stressed me out - has anyone else experienced this and came out of it still feeling okay? It just seems like a huge opportunity I could miss as my first exam that I was really counting on for the majority of my grade went really wrong as I had an anxiety attack, and I possibly will not get special consideration to compensate for marks I could've gotten under normal conditions :frown:

I truly understand how you feel, I am also scared I won't meet mine either. It takes more than a miracle rn

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by Anonymous

I'm coming around to the very possible reality that I won't meet my offer for Cambridge and it has really stressed me out - has anyone else experienced this and came out of it still feeling okay? It just seems like a huge opportunity I could miss as my first exam that I was really counting on for the majority of my grade went really wrong as I had an anxiety attack, and I possibly will not get special consideration to compensate for marks I could've gotten under normal conditions :frown:

Completely understand how you feel. I feel like I've already missed my offer (A*A*AA) for Cambridge and like there's no point in trying with the rest of the papers, but we got to keep pushing through and try our best. I've been telling myself that a) we frankly don't know if we've missed our offer until results day and b) going to our insurance choice uni will also be fine.

Good luck for the rest of your papers x

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Anonymous #4

hi, EXACT same boat as you. fully convinced ive missed it. ive just had no motivation. but there's not too long left and whatever's meant to be will be, and if this helps my best friend is at cam rn and she was cramming for her exams and going through so much at the time and thought she'd missed her offer, and ended up achieveing A*AA. it is possible so dont lose hope ❤️ it's not over til it's over!

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bethr_20

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I'm feeling like I'm in quite a similar situation; I've sat 8/9 of my exams and honestly whilst I think some of them went well, I also think some of them went really badly. I know it's hard to stay positive but I know that whatever happens on results day, you'll regret spending your summer holidays stressing over the grades that have ultimately already been decided for you the second that you closed the paper. I'm at peace now with my exam performances, partially after speaking with others and getting the validation that my answers seem right (although I do three essay subjects so it can be hard to know what that correlates to mark-wise), and also because I know that my subjective opinion of 'doing badly' isn't always the same objectively. I'm sure you can think back to a time where you thought a test went badly and you ended up coming away with an A or A* - the same can (and likely will) happen for the real exams because naturally your exam anxiety is heightened due to the stakes that these exams hold. At the end of the day you have a Cambridge offer which means that they know that you have the academic ability to study there, and whilst it might feel like it means nothing if you don't meet the offer, that's more than most people can say. This does also mean though that when it comes to results day, if you haven't got the grades you need, your college/another college are more inclined to accept you than many other unis would be because in essence they've already judged you at interview and have decided that they want you in their cohort. I'm hoping to study geography and from the UCAS acceptance grade tool, 55% of offer holders were accepted with A*A*C, and even more with A*AB/A*A*B, so hope really isn't lost yet!

Hopefully the rest of your exams are able to go better, and see you in October fingers crossed x

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