If you had a relatively low score on an extremely tough exam, the UMS counterbalances it so you end up with a score that's relative to how hard your exam was.
This ensures that results are comparable between exam series and subjects.
Your Provisional Statement of Results shows both the "raw" and the "uniform" marks.
For example, one year a candidate may only need 62 raw marks to get an A grade (80%), but another year 62 marks may only be equivalent to a B grade (70%).
UCAS points, or Tariff value, translates your qualifications into a numerical value that can then be compared to other courses and totalled up alongside your other A-levels and qualifications.
The UCAS points system is often used by universities for their entry requirements.
Most UK qualifications have a UCAS Tariff value, which will vary dependent on the qualification size and your grade.
The higher the grade, the greater the number of UCAS points earned.
The points apply to loads of different types of qualifications and how many points you get per grade.
If you've opened your results and you haven't received the pass marks you were hoping for - don't panic.
There are several options if you fail a test or don't do as well as you had hoped.
And remember that if you were very close to achieving the required grades, you might still have been accepted by at least one of your university choices.
The first thing to do is check with your choices to see if you have a place anyway, or have been offered a different course based on your grades.
Free appeals can also be made by students who feel they were unfairly marked or there has been an error in their grade calculation.
This can be done via their school, which will then contact the relevant exam board.
Those applying to higher education who did not attain the offer they accepted as their first choice must appeal by a particular date - so make sure you check any deadlines with exam boards.
You might decide that you’d rather hold off on university and take another crack at getting the results you wanted - and you can do this in a couple of different ways.
If you want to retake the course in the exact same way as you previously did - you can enrol to resit at your school, sixth form or college.
However, if that option doesn't suit you, you can also enrol on an online course - which will give you a lot more flexibility as you’re not confined to a classroom and set timetable.
When it comes time to sit your exam, you'll still sit it at a school or college on the same date as all other students - however, you'll need to book your place yourself.
It's important to keep in mind any additional costs that may be involved as a result of re-sitting your A-levels - as you will be entered as a private candidate.
An E or D is still a pass at A-Level - but it will result in lower UCAS points. A pass is indicated by one of six grades, A*, A, B, C, D or E, - where A and A* is the highest grade and E is the lowest. In order to meet the pass criteria, you must get an E grade or above on results day.
What is a passing grade? Many college grading systems consider a D, or 65 percent, to be the lowest passing grade. Note that different schools, programs, or classes may have different cutoff points for what they consider a passing grade.
On a report card, “E” can stand for exceeding, expanding or failing. Schools use the letter differently depending on their grading system. “E” generally means “exceeding” or “expanding;” however, some systems no longer use the grade “F” and instead give an “E” for a failing grade in the “A+, B, C” system.
A letter grade of a D is technically considered passing because it not a failure. A D is any percentage between 60-69%, whereas a failure occurs below 60%. Even though a D is a passing grade, it's barely passing. As such, it is not looked at favorably.
What Happens if You Fail a Class in College? At most colleges, a final grade below 60% qualifies as a failing grade. Depending on your college's GPA scale, that can mean anything below a 1.0 or 0.7 GPA counts as a failed class.
Officially, the Government states that to pass a GCSE exam, a grade 4 or above is required and to pass at A-Level, students must gain an E grade or above. However, a solid or 'high' pass is closer to a 5 or D/E borderline.
The UK grading system used in higher education institutions is based on a scale that ranges from A* to E for undergraduate Degrees and A to D for postgraduate degrees. The A* to E scale is further divided into subgrades such as A*, A, B, C, D and E, where A* is the highest grade, and E is the lowest passing grade.
Below that, they added in the dreaded F.” In the 1930s, as the letter-based grading system grew more and more popular, many schools began omitting E in fear that students and parents may misinterpret it as standing for “excellent.” Thus resulting in the A, B, C, D, and F grading system.
Pass (P) grades require a level of performance at least equal to a letter grade of C- and will earn units, but no grade points. No pass (NP) grades represent a level of performance at a D+ or lower. No units or grade points will be earned. Neither P nor NP grades will affect your GPA.
For your high school, a D is passing. You can graduate with Ds, but you cannot go to college with Ds. Colleges will give you ZERO credit for the class, just like you got an F. This is true no matter what the class is, even if it is not a required class.
Yes you can still graduate from college with one failure. If it is a mandatory course for your degree, you will need to repeat the course until you pass.
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