Retake maths GCSE

t0rt0ise

saintjammyswine wrote: »

Also, if you only sit the exam rather than have the training, a lot of colleges will not allow you to sit the exam there as it will impact on their success rates with a higher likelyhood of a lower grade if you dont have the training associated with the exam. It is a higher risk for them.

That's not true. External candidates do not count in their results. An external candidate is one who just pays for their invigilation service and for them to get the paper and send it back to the exam board.

saintjammyswine

t0rt0ise wrote: »

That's not true. External candidates do not count in their results. An external candidate is one who just pays for their invigilation service and for them to get the paper and send it back to the exam board.

Yes they do. When the ILR (Individual Learner Record) is returned monthly to the SFA (Skills Funding Agency) it includes results regardless of whether the candidate did their training at the college. The fact the candidate only pays for the exam is of no concern to the SFA & Ofsted.

Aryndeneth

GA7 wrote: »

I'm 22 and have a Grade C in my Maths GCSE. To get onto a course at University that interests me they require Grade A.

This is a bit of an aside to your orignal query but, have you also checked that the Uni course you want to take will accept a re-sit result? If you're not already sure they will, it's worth double-checking before you invest your time and money in the re-sit. Some HE institutions will sometimes require the results be from a first-sitting, especially for particularly popular/oversubscribed courses. This happens more often with A-level re-sits but I'd still advise you check.

GA7_2

ntaali27 wrote: »

This is a bit of an aside to your orignal query but, have you also checked that the Uni course you want to take will accept a re-sit result? If you're not already sure they will, it's worth double-checking before you invest your time and money in the re-sit. Some HE institutions will sometimes require the results be from a first-sitting, especially for particularly popular/oversubscribed courses. This happens more often with A-level re-sits but I'd still advise you check.

I already checked with them and it's fine (so they say anyways).

stamina9008

Just go to your local adult community college, im 28 and doing my Maths GCSE...lol
But yeah, its a really relaxed environment, much better than those big, god awful universities...

Just joking....kind of..

GA7_2

Do you pay for it ?

smunchkinp

I got a C and my local colleges wouldnt take me on either, mind you, best they had was an intermediate course which would of only given me a B at best.

Try the open university for a math course, Course MU123 is a good starter, and should help with your uni application aswell as its university standard. (although the lowest level)

Dunroamin

As long as you're paying, I can't see why any FE college would refuse you a place on a part time GCSE course - it's not uncommon for people to need to improve an existing grade.

nikki702

Try City & Islington, I wouldn't tell them about my Grade C

nimbo

Dunroamin wrote: »

As long as you're paying, I can't see why any FE college would refuse you a place on a part time GCSE course - it's not uncommon for people to need to improve an existing grade.

when it comes to courses like GCSE's a lot of the time the college will only be allowed to take on x number of students who may pay an arbitrary amount towards them however the government will fund the rest of the course which is why they have to so very strict about who they can have on the course, or the government will withdraw funding....

Universities get penalised of they over subscribe a course, not just for the over subscribed students but they can have promised funding withdrawn for having been greedy about the proportion of funding the student pays.