RESULTS DAY & BEYOND

Results will be issued around the middle of August.

It is advisable to ensure that you are in the UK on that day – avoid booking a holiday at this point and come into school on that day if you can. Coming into school will mean that you can directly access the advice and support from staff. If you are a boarder or if you are going to be away during results, make sure you have a way of contacting the school to help you with your final decision-making. However, you must remember that the day is very busy and it may take some time to speak to a member of staff on the telephone. Please be aware that we cannot give out examination results over the telephone.

You must also ensure that you have submitted your contact details before you leave at the end of term. N.B. If you are a boarder and submitted New Hall as your main postal address during the application cycle, you must change this in July before you leave the school.

Before results day you need to have thought of the following

• Will I definitely accept my offer? • Am I, even at this late stage, thinking of a Gap Year? • Do I have a ‘Plan B’ in case I don’t achieve the required grades? • Do I understand ‘Clearing’? • Will I do better than expected? • Have I accumulated all the relevant information for my chosen university?

Having one parent and a mobile phone on the day is very handy! UCAS Track is updated at 8.00am on Results Day and it is highly advisable to check whether your place has been confirmed as soon as possible. Later in the day the UCAS system will get extremely busy which can cause stressful delays.

If your examinations go well and you meet your offers

• You need to confirm your place. • Before the end of August, UCAS will send you an official notification of the result of your application. If your place is confirmed, you will be asked to reply to the institution within seven days. • You need to deal with your university registration, accommodation and induction procedures, details of which should be sought directly from the institution you have accepted. • You need to sort out your finances and loans, if this has not already happened. Students will have been advised about Student Finance earlier in Year 13 and encouraged to apply for the various loans available. • Each year there may be a few students who may have achieved grades significantly higher than expected and higher than those required in their offer, who may wish to explore whether they can change their plans and look for an alternative course with such higher grades. There is a helpful guide at the following link: http://www.ucas.com/how-it-allworks/undergraduate/results/better-than-expected.

Some universities will still offer you a place even if you have missed the conditional offer. The chance of this happening, however, varies greatly from course to course. You should contact your university straight away to check if the offer still stands. The universities have the results well in advance of you, so will have already made the final decision.

If your grades are disappointing and fall short of your offers

1. You will need to take advice from staff. Each department will have a representative in school on the morning of the Results Day; typically this representative will be the Curriculum

Leader. Other senior staff are available too. 2. It is important that you make yourself available on both the Thursday and Friday of that week. We advise students to come in early to school (typically from around 7.30am) on the

Thursday so that advice can be given and an action plan discussed before phone lines open in universities. 3. You will need to find out about vacancies through the clearing system. 4. Being prepared to go to the university in person or emailing across your UCAS personal statement may be an advantage.

Vacancies will be published in various newspapers including the Independent and on the UCAS website. Official help-lines are also available. You must have your UCAS number to hand.