Will you be sailing off to university come September, or will that place you’d banked on have gone up in smoke because you’ve got lower grades than predicted?
If that happens, don’t despair as Careers Advisor Brent Stevens suggests that apparent ‘failure’ is not necessarily all doom and gloom.
“It doesn’t have to be the end of life as we know it,” says Brent. “In fact, it can actually turn out to have a positive effect.”
The impact of not getting the grades depends on where you were to start with.
If you are just a grade or two below what you were predicted, you might be accepted by your chosen university, but if you were predicted say, hopeful ‘B’s’ and ended up with D’s or E’s then, well, a rethink is probably needed.
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“This may mean a change in direction. These students could consider re-takes. One boy I taught took the view that his poor exam results meant university was not for him and applied for jobs with a good level of success - he eventually went to university as a mature student,” says Brent.
Most students who miss their offers do so by one or two grades. Here are the options open to you if this happens:
Call the university admissions tutor to see if they will accept your grades. If they won’t, you’ll be passed on to your insurance offer. If you are below this, call the admissions tutor again. It is not unusual for students who miss out by a grade to be accepted. But be warned, if they ask for say BBB they can still reject you with ABC even though they are worth the same number of points.
