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Get set for Clearing – Part Two

Tue 13 August 2019 - 17:49

By UCAS in Applicant

Julie Tickner, University of Huddersfield

We know you may be anxious waiting for your exam results, and have lots of questions, but try and stay calm – there is plenty you can do to prepare!

You may achieve better results than expected, but if things haven’t gone as you hoped, universities will be able to help you through Clearing.

Our top tips are:
  • Get ready – even if you’re feeling confident, do some contingency planning by making a list of possible alternative courses and universities. This will be easy to check against the Clearing listings when they are published.
  • Don’t go on holiday! If you do need to go through Clearing, being near a phone and computer is...

Stressed out about what’s next? Call the Exam Results Helpline

Tue 6 November 2018 - 15:23

By UCAS in Applicant

Next week the Exam Results Helpline opens provide free, specialised information, help and guidance to students and their families.

If you get your results and want more information on your options or careers advice, give them a call. They’re there to help!

Here are the opening hours and numbers you’ll need:

After 30 August, support will remain available through the National Careers Service helpline, which is open from...

Dispelling the myths about A level results day and Clearing

Thu 1 August 2019 - 14:34

By UCAS in Applicant

Isn’t it funny how every year the same myths about A level results day and Clearing appear? We do our best to stamp them out but somehow they still do the rounds. I mean, who exactly is circulating them? And why?

We’ll probably never know, but you can get the truth behind the rumours right here in our dedicated myth-busting blog post. And after reading it, please help your fellow soon-to-be-students by tweeting, sharing, blogging about and – if necessary – shouting these results day and clearing facts to anyone who’ll listen!

  1. Track does not update at midnight or at any time the night before A level results day. Neither...

Received your BTEC results? Check what happens with them...

Mon 29 July 2019 - 09:08

By UCAS in Applicant

It's that time of year again when results for the different BTEC qualifications start rolling in from Pearson. The results go through a slightly different process to others, and in this blog post we’ll explain how it works.

Once a week, until mid-September, we receive a batch of results from Pearson, the awarding body for BTEC qualifications. When we receive your results we match them to your application and send them to your uni choices.

Next, it’s up to the uni to update your application with their decision. Your Track status will change when this has happened – if you're unsure what your status means you can find out on our 'What your results mean' page.

Providing you've got the grades the uni set in the conditions of your offer, your place will be confirmed once they've received your results. Remember, there might be additional requirements you need to...

How I’m making the most of my summer

Tue 6 November 2018 - 15:35

By Romana in Applicant

Now that the academic year has ended for many of us, we have a long summer ahead. I for one have been looking forward to this particularly long summer break between Sixth Form and uni for a LONG  time. The last thing I want to do is waste it, knowing that if I do, I’ll no doubt regret missing an opportunity for all the things I was dying to do earlier in the year when I was drowning in revision! I’m already a few weeks in, and beginning to feel myself slip into a habit of doing next to nothing with my time, so here’s how I’m planning the rest of my break:

It sounds...

Five things I wish I knew before starting uni

Wed 25 September 2019 - 15:02

By UCAS in Applicant

1. What a great help older students can be
Make friends with older students! When it comes to university, you are left in the dark with a lot of things and aren’t given an awful lot of direction as you’re left to discover a lot of things for yourself. 
 
The greatest help to get through first year is definitely second year students. Just think, they’ve been through everything that you’re about to: they’ve had to figure out how to adjust, what to learn, they’ve already sat and passed that exam you’ll have to do at the end of the year. 
 
2. Understanding a little is better than learning everything
One of the things that took me a while to adjust to is how different the learning is from A-Levels. You don’t have a specification, so you have to decide what you think is important to know, and what not so much. 
 
You have to quickly get used to...

Choose to live with passion and intent…

Thu 21 March 2019 - 15:46

By Andrew in Applicant

My last blog was about the things a mature student needs to consider… I’ll start my latest blog with a brief update on where things are at with me, as there were a few things I left open…

My health; I had my back surgery early last month; the surgeon is happy it went well. I had a badly slipped disc, so they cut away the part of the disc that was sat on the nerve.  I’m still having issues with the nerve, as it was damaged, but the hope is that it will settle before too long.  The great news is that last week I was given the all clear to start my rehab, so after four months of living a painfully sedentary existence, I’m now able to swim, do yoga & Pilates and play a little golf.

My long overdue return to work; I previously touched on my nervous breakdown on the...

Things a mature student needs to consider…

Tue 6 November 2018 - 15:37

By Andrew in Applicant

My initial blog explained my rationale for embarking on university at the age of 37; the considerations I’d weighed and measured, my drive to create the future I want, and the joy of receiving an unconditional offer for my first choice uni. Since then, however, the reality has kicked in… how on earth do you put yourself through a full-time university course when you get limited financial support and you have children and sizeable financial commitments?
 
I’ve received inspiring counsel from some mature students that have...

Taking a Gap Year (or two!)

Thu 21 March 2019 - 16:19

By Sophia in Applicant


So, I started University when I was 18 and was loving it until I unfortunately met the wrath of chronic tonsillitis and left. Gutted.
 
I was enjoying the course, the friends I’d already met there, the University but now I look back at my time there, I wasn’t ready to leave home then.
 
Fast forward to May 2018 and I am now tonsil free and have an unconditional offer to go to University of Reading to study Primary Education with English! I truly think having two years out has given me the confidence to go back and tackle University (in a place further away than before!), some good ole life experience and some money to help me struggle through the poverty of...

Benefits of going to an open day (or two, or three…)

Tue 6 November 2018 - 15:46

By Enia in Applicant

Summer. We associate it with good weather, barbeques and beach holidays, but for those of you wanting to apply for university next academic year, summer will soon be synonymous with open days.
 
When I was starting to think about applying to universities, open days were invaluable. Being able to get a sense of where you may be living and studying is really important, as you can therefore know if you would enjoy being in that place.
 
A really great benefit of open days is the talks, for both your subject and social life at...

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