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Education
Advice about completing the education section
We need to know where you have studied and which qualifications you are taking/have taken. You fill in details of your schools or colleges, then list your qualifications, one by one. You must include all schools, colleges and universities that you have attended since the age of 11, even if you withdrew from your course. There is space to enter up to 10 centres.
For each school and college, you provide details of:
- all qualifications for which you have accepted certification from an awarding organisation, even if you are retaking all or part of the qualification
- all qualifications for which you are currently studying or for which you are awaiting results.
All qualifications must be entered, even if you received an unsuccessful grade, if you are still waiting to take the final exams or if you are waiting for the results.
All qualifications have to be entered manually - it is not possible to copy and paste in transcripts.
Do not send any examination certificates or other papers to us, or to your chosen universities or colleges, unless requested to do so.
If you have taken any qualifications with the AQA exam board and do not have your certificate, AQA can supply you with a Statement of Results, which will be accepted in the same way as a certificate. Further details are available in the Past Results Service pdf on the AQA website (this will open in a new window).
Mature students
Enter details for all your qualifications. If you do not have any qualifications, you should still enter details for your schools. You will be asked whether you obtained any qualifications at each school or college and can then select 'no'. If this is correct, ignore the warning message and click on 'section completed' and 'save' to complete the education section.
If you are hoping to enter higher education through the Accreditation of Prior Learning (APL) or the Accreditation of Prior Experiential Learning (APEL), you still apply through us, but you should contact your chosen universities and colleges first to discuss whether APL or APEL is acceptable and what evidence they will need.
International students
Check the suitability of your qualifications with the admissions offices at each of your chosen universities and colleges before applying. Each one will decide whether or not your qualifications meet or could meet their entry requirements for the course(s) you are interested in. When you apply, you should give full details of all your qualifications, including exams you took when you left school, exams you took to get into higher education, vocational exams and any other qualifications or awards. Please do not try to give a UK equivalent.
If your first language is not English, you should:
- say whether or not your qualifications were completely or partly assessed in English
- enter details for any English language tests you have taken or plan to take.