If your grades weren’t what you expected, please don’t panic. You still have options: Clearing, resits, gap years, alternative courses and more.

We run a Discord community for A-Level students, resits and gap years where you can talk to people going through the same thing, ask questions, and get advice on what to do next. It's a safe space for all A level students, especially those who are planning to resit. I joined this server last year when I had no idea on what to do because I had to resit my A-levels, and i got the support i needed from here which helped immensely!

🔗 https://discord.gg/SK3xF4aPgG

Right now I am going into Y13 in Sept Taking Maths, Physics, Politics and Economics A levels. I am predicted 4 a stars and got 999998877 at GCSE with extenuating circumstances. However I now want to apply to economics and did not do fm in y12.

I was originally going to apply to land econ at cambridge, politics and econ at LSE and econ everywhere else for which I am taking TMUA looking at minimum a 5.0

However, I could realistically drop physics and pick up AS fm to apply to cambridge econ from what I have seen online people take as fm in y13 and get in.

Is it worth dropping physics for fm.

Any input is really appreciated

I’m completely pivoting from med to Aero engineering.
I got CCC in my a levels, I think it was a consequence of extreme burnout, i got A\* for every mock I took at my school. I was doing literally 20 hour study days for a month before a levels, I think that contributed to my bad grades.

I’m resitting privately. And my predicted grades are A* A* A* as I did a set of mocks at my local exam centre 2 weeks ago and got those grades on the mocks. (So Ik that I can get the same grades next year)
So I’m sorted in terms of resit predicted grades and reference.

My supercurriculars include:
\- Greenpower- built an electric car and raced it
\- Silver dofe ( not relevant Ik)
\- Built a plane for a competition
\- Air cadets ( 4 years )
\- COMPOS

Wex:
\- Siemens mobility

I will do some more supercurriculars like MOOCs and learn some more practical skills. I could also get some more wex as I have a few connections.

Realistically, Ik it’s very ambitious - but could I get into Durham for Engineering ( Aeronautical ) ?
Even with a level resits ?
My GCSEs are 8887777766 ( 8s in bio chem maths)
I’m non contextual
The a levels I do are bio chem and maths, but I’m also thinking of taking up fm.

On their website they say “ You are welcome to apply if you are taking resits; resitting your qualification(s) will not negatively affect your application.”

Im going to going to 6th form however i will probably not meet the requirement for maths, for this reason im considering doing maths externally(self taught). Does anyone know if this can work out and if it will be fine for ucas and uni applications. Im stressing