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Though this must remain cautionary as many universities will still have other entry requirements or expectations that they have for a student that may not be met with additional UCAS Points. Common ways for UCAS points to be calculated are through the UCAS Tariff Calculator, [3] official tariff tables, or through third-party software and websites.
Under the new UCAS system starting in 2017, an A* grade at A-level is worth 56 points, while an A is worth 48, a B is worth 40, a C is worth 32, a D is 24, and a E is worth 16; [28] so a university may instead demand that an applicant achieve 112 points, instead of the equivalent offer of B-B-C. This allows greater flexibility to students, as ...
For applications to universities in the UK, entry requirements for individual courses can either be based on grades of qualifications (e.g. AAA at GCE A-Level, a score of 43/45 in the IB International Baccalaureate Diploma, or a music diploma) or in UCAS points (e.g. 300 UCAS points from 3 A-Levels or an IB score equal to 676 UCAS points).
The A-level permits students to have potential access to a chosen university they applied to with UCAS points. They could be accepted into it should they meet the requirements of the university. [2] [3] A number of Commonwealth countries have developed qualifications with the same name as and a similar format to the British A-levels.
The Cambridge Pre-U grading scale is divided into three bands: Distinction, Merit and Pass, each sub-divided into three grades (Distinction 1, Distinction 2, Distinction 3 and so on). The top grades, Distinction 1 and Distinction 2, were awarded 56 UCAS points, the same as an A* at A-level. Distinction 3 is aligned to a grade A at A-level.
The golden triangle universities are highly selective, with entrance typically requiring strong performances in standardised exams as represented by the average scores of new entrants when converted to UCAS points. Five of the golden triangle universities were in the top ten by entry standards for 2021–22, with King's coming in 19th. [50]
Graded A*–E and worth up to 28 UCAS tariff points, [1] it is part of level three of the national qualifications framework. [ 2 ] The extended project was devised by Sir Mike Tomlinson in 2006, during his review of 16 to 19-year-olds' education, [ 3 ] and entered a pilot phase during the academic year 2007–8. [ 4 ]
Four CATS points are equivalent to one US credit hour. [9] Rather than award fractional credits, US universities will sometimes consider a typical British 10 credit module to be worth 3 (rather than 2.5) US credit hours, similarly rounding 15 UK credit modules to 4 US credit hours and 20 UK credit modules to 5 US credit hours. [10] [11]