UoM Contextual Conditions
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I hope this message finds anyone well. I’m on a gap year and a resit applicant for 2026 A levels. I applied to University of Manchester for Pharmacy with a preparatory year (2026), I meet the A level grades needed for the ‘first sitting condition’ (BBC) and I presumed I would meet the contextual conditions too. I applied last year (my actual cohort) for the regular Mpharm (2025) and met the contextual conditions for an offer which is why I hadn’t double-checked this year. I’ve received a rejection from the University today as I don’t meet contextual conditions. The performance of my Secondary school is not below average in this year’s cycle. Is it fair to be assessed against this years GCSE performance when I sat my GCSEs in 2023 and therefore the performance then is more relevant to how I was educated? It’s a little unjust that they believe my schools performance now is able to explain my experience when I wasn’t even there. Guess I can’t really complain when I should’ve just done well in the first sitting. It could’ve been possible that maybe the preparatory year just doesn’t allow resits but the reason on UCAS says contextual conditions. I’m not entirely upset, I just want to know if any other gap year/resit applicants have experienced this.
Anyway, thank you for listening to my ever so stupid rant lol
I hope this message finds anyone well. I’m on a gap year and a resit applicant for 2026 A levels. I applied to University of Manchester for Pharmacy with a preparatory year (2026), I meet the A level grades needed for the ‘first sitting condition’ (BBC) and I presumed I would meet the contextual conditions too. I applied last year (my actual cohort) for the regular Mpharm (2025) and met the contextual conditions for an offer which is why I hadn’t double-checked this year. I’ve received a rejection from the University today as I don’t meet contextual conditions. The performance of my Secondary school is not below average in this year’s cycle. Is it fair to be assessed against this years GCSE performance when I sat my GCSEs in 2023 and therefore the performance then is more relevant to how I was educated? It’s a little unjust that they believe my schools performance now is able to explain my experience when I wasn’t even there. Guess I can’t really complain when I should’ve just done well in the first sitting. It could’ve been possible that maybe the preparatory year just doesn’t allow resits but the reason on UCAS says contextual conditions. I’m not entirely upset, I just want to know if any other gap year/resit applicants have experienced this.
Anyway, thank you for listening to my ever so stupid rant lol
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Phone Manchester and discuss this with them. If they have a rule that its 'year of application' data that they use, then that's that, but it may be worth the call to ask about this.
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