Resit student here! I am so stressed!!!

Hello everyone, For context, I'm a resit student, I achieved DDB initially in my a-levels. I am resitting this year and I'm only resitting the subjects I got a D in. So this is the part I am super stressed about. My school had told me that they will just put in my achieved grades in UCAS so I had found a tuition centre that does UCAS predicted grades, the thing is I have to do an As-level exam for them to give me a grade and that they will predict me up and that in total is around £450. I'm alright with doing the exam and paying that amount BUT I had heard that most universities, specifically russell group universities more so fixate over your achieved grades over your predicted ones. It's really stressing me out since the course I want to do requires AAB and I know I can get predicted to those As since 1 am averaging much higher in my papers but the problem is I am going to be paying so much money for my predicteds and on top of that also for my exam fees that I don't want it to go to waste. I don't know what to do, I'm really stressed out and I know I have clearing as a choice but I don't want to heavily depend on clearing. Ughhh I hate this so much.

Hey! Are you resitting these exams with the school you originally took the exams in are are you going private candidate?

I'm going as a private candidate at my old school!

Hello everyone, For context, I'm a resit student, I achieved DDB initially in my a-levels. I am resitting this year and I'm only resitting the subjects I got a D in. So this is the part I am super stressed about. My school had told me that they will just put in my achieved grades in UCAS so I had found a tuition centre that does UCAS predicted grades, the thing is I have to do an As-level exam for them to give me a grade and that they will predict me up and that in total is around £450. I'm alright with doing the exam and paying that amount BUT I had heard that most universities, specifically russell group universities more so fixate over your achieved grades over your predicted ones. It's really stressing me out since the course I want to do requires AAB and I know I can get predicted to those As since 1 am averaging much higher in my papers but the problem is I am going to be paying so much money for my predicteds and on top of that also for my exam fees that I don't want it to go to waste. I don't know what to do, I'm really stressed out and I know I have clearing as a choice but I don't want to heavily depend on clearing. Ughhh I hate this so much.

Hello everyone, For context, I'm a resit student, I achieved DDB initially in my a-levels. I am resitting this year and I'm only resitting the subjects I got a D in. So this is the part I am super stressed about. My school had told me that they will just put in my achieved grades in UCAS so I had found a tuition centre that does UCAS predicted grades, the thing is I have to do an As-level exam for them to give me a grade and that they will predict me up and that in total is around £450. I'm alright with doing the exam and paying that amount BUT I had heard that most universities, specifically russell group universities more so fixate over your achieved grades over your predicted ones. It's really stressing me out since the course I want to do requires AAB and I know I can get predicted to those As since 1 am averaging much higher in my papers but the problem is I am going to be paying so much money for my predicteds and on top of that also for my exam fees that I don't want it to go to waste. I don't know what to do, I'm really stressed out and I know I have clearing as a choice but I don't want to heavily depend on clearing. Ughhh I hate this so much.

fellow resit student here - who litch got the same as you 💀but i’m resitting all three. I plan on applying to top unis this year and every one which i have emailed doesn’t have a problem with me resitting and said they’ll consider my application as the same as the others. for predicted grades you can defo find cheaper like tutors and futures do £200 for one subject which is better than that

Hi there, I'm resitting too, i got almost the exact same grades as you and am also only resitting the Ds. I can't help much with what to do as I am luckily getting predicted grades from a tutor and school separately. What course and universities are you applying to? have you thought about emailing each one to find out if they take re sits and how much focus they put on predicted grades?

yep i emailed UCL and they had told me they take resits for the course i wanna do (i wanna do business & health with them) they had told me thay the predicteds would matter more in this case