Will Univeristies care about amount of marks you achieved in an exam?
By the time I will be applying for university I will have sat A levels in Maths and biology (and then further maths and chemistry the year after I have done maths and biology but that’s not relevant) in maths and biology I am aiming to get as close to 100% as possible and I was just wondering if any universities would be at all interested in if I scored really highly (97%+) and whether it would aid my application at all. (I am considering applying for medicine at Cambridge + a few other universities that I haven’t decided on yet)
Reply 1
You are going to need to check that universities accept A levels done in different years. I seem to remember from a previous answer on here that some universities need you to have done 3 A levels in the same year so two in one year and another two in another year won't be accepted.
Reply 2
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by Flamingo10You are going to need to check that universities accept A levels done in different years. I seem to remember from a previous answer on here that some universities need you to have done 3 A levels in the same year so two in one year and another two in another year won't be accepted.
Yeah I’ll have a look, although if I explain to them the context behind why I am doing this way they should understand as my sixth form couldn’t run chemistry in my first year and I need it for the degree that I want (further maths was also just an extra so I wasn’t only doing one thing in my final year)
Reply 3
Going back to your question, unis only receive your letter grades so your marks won’t make any difference from an admissions POV.
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by username7213874By the time I will be applying for university I will have sat A levels in Maths and biology (and then further maths and chemistry the year after I have done maths and biology but that’s not relevant) in maths and biology I am aiming to get as close to 100% as possible and I was just wondering if any universities would be at all interested in if I scored really highly (97%+) and whether it would aid my application at all. (I am considering applying for medicine at Cambridge + a few other universities that I haven’t decided on yet)
No the marks aren't relevant but sitting A levels two at a time might be - especially Cambridge.
You could have moved school and why didn't you take up a third subject in Year 12?
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by username7213874I was just wondering if any universities would be at all interested in if I scored really highly (97%+) and whether it would aid my application at all. (I am considering applying for medicine at Cambridge + a few other universities that I haven’t decided on yet)
Literally no-one will care.
Just when I thought I'd seen everything on TSR, this question popped up.
Reply 7
It's peak TSR, don't you think?
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by Reality CheckIt's peak TSR, don't you think?
We’ve reached the summit, and it’s somehow still going uphill...
Reply 9
I'm still waiting for the child who says 'I'm doing 7 A levels for my Cambridge/Oxford/Imperial application'.
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by Reality CheckI'm still waiting for the child who says 'I'm doing 7 A levels for my Cambridge/Oxford/Imperial application'.
Only 7 - slackers - try the 28 that girl was supposedly doing.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-berkshire-68282659
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by Muttley79Only 7 - slackers - try the 28 that girl was supposedly doing.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-berkshire-68282659
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-berkshire-68282659
That was the very link I had in mind.
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by Muttley79Only 7 - slackers - try the 28 that girl was supposedly doing.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-berkshire-68282659
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-berkshire-68282659
maybe we should be setting a minimum number of A levels for TSR 'admission'. Plus gold DofE, a few essay competitions and some other fluff desperately thrown at an application in the hope that some of it sticks.(edited 7 months ago)
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by Reality Check maybe we should be setting a minimum number of A levels for TSR 'admission'. Plus gold DofE, a few essay competitions and some other fluff desperately thrown at an application in the hope that some of it sticks.That's a very good idea ...
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by username7213874By the time I will be applying for university I will have sat A levels in Maths and biology (and then further maths and chemistry the year after I have done maths and biology but that’s not relevant) in maths and biology I am aiming to get as close to 100% as possible and I was just wondering if any universities would be at all interested in if I scored really highly (97%+) and whether it would aid my application at all. (I am considering applying for medicine at Cambridge + a few other universities that I haven’t decided on yet)
If you were considering applying to Cambridge then hopefully you might have looked at their admissions page? If so, you will have seen that you have to take an additional entrance exam called UCAT and like many such entrance exams, it's quite tough.
As such, you would be much better off putting your effort and energy into preparing for that rather than trying to get an extra 3% on your A level.
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