So now that A-Levels will be judged on teacher-assessed grades (or centre assessed grades) where does that leave us? At the last count, about 55,000 students were given undergraduate places at either their second choice (insurance) or clearing. So that’s 55,000 students whose place at university might be changed now that teacher-assessed grades are being used. There were a further 80,000 students ‘holding offers’ – in other words, where the university or the student has yet to confirm the place, perhaps because they were waiting for the appeals process. When universities make an offer that is ‘conditional’ on their grade achievement, they are contractually obliged to accept those students who meet the conditions.
But by now, some universities will have used the clearing system to fill vacant places with students who missed their grades the first time and might still have missed them under today’s revisions.
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