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A flexible system for Year 13 students to adjust their timetables based on free periods, with mandatory registration, sign-in/out, and daily attendance. Highlights include high pass rates and achievements, with resources to support AS level results and UCAS applications.
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Success In Year 13 2016/17
Attendance • More flexible system • If free period 1 or 5 • Form submitted to adjust timetable • Must register if on site • Must sign in and out • Must register at least once per day • Must attend all tutorials and assemblies
Year 13 Programme • A2 Courses- second year reformed courses • EPQ- to be finished by Christmas • General Studies AS • AS course with Year 12 • Careers/Core lectures • PE etc on Wednesday afternoon • Possible extras/enrichment
Targets • University • Employment • F E College • Gap Year • Challenge Grades
A Level Results 2016 • Pass Rate: 99% • A* A & B %: 55% • Got in!! • A-E pass rate was near perfect 99% • Proportion of A*A grades rose • Grade A*- B pass rate increased to 55%
ALevel Headlines • Some of the achievements were particularly noteworthy: 2 students getting into Oxbridge one of those obtaining 3 A * grades and an A* in the EPQ.
Worried About AS Results? • Individual advice • Intervention • Re-marks and returned papers • Re-sits • UCAS Application • Low AS grades: ask tutor to add explanation in the reference
Now is the time to • Finalise your choice of Universities and degree courses • Register with UCAS and start filling in the application form . • Have the 1st draft of your personal statement ready to develop • Visit Universities or check out a virtual tour online
Key dates 2016/2017 • 1 September – Applications open • 15 October - closing date for Oxbridge, medicine, veterinary science – School deadline FRIDAY 23rd Sep (less than 2 weeks) • 18th November School deadline for all other applications (less than 10 weeks away) to ensure your application is sent before Christmas • 15 January - MAIN UCAS CLOSING DATE • 26 February - UCAS Extra begins (for late applicants, those that have changed their mind or those who have no offers) • 31 March - majority of decisions made by institutions
Making an application • Over 50,000 courses to choose from • Only have five choices available on your form – Blind process • Only 4 for Medicine, Veterinary Science & Dentistry • Oxford OR Cambridge • UCAS processes over 2 million undergraduate applications a year • 2013 - 673,000 applicants for 487,000 places • Lots of competition – it is important to have a strong application form
Making informed choices • Research the 4 C’s (course, career, campus and city) • Be realistic about your choices, for example: • 2 ambitious entry requirements to aim for • 1 match to your predicted grades • 2 lower entry requirements to fall back on. • Use UCAS Course search to find all the available subjects and courses, shortlist your preferred courses and compare these using www.unistats.co.uk.
The Personal Statement • 47 lines • 4000 characters including spaces
The 5 Section Structure • 1. Why: Why have you chosen this course? • 2. What: What have you done to demonstrate your passionate interest in the course subject? • 3. Academic: How do your academic academic subjects relate to your chosen course?
Structure: continued • 4. Interests – activities and sport: what have you learned from your activities that is relevant to your chosen course and university life? • 5. Conclusion: what personal experience or ambitions can you link to your chosen course to give the statement a sense of completion?
Why? • Be enthusiastic • Be specific • Why do you enjoy the subject? • Which particular aspects do you enjoy? • What specific interests would you like to explore in greater depth? • What theories in particular would you enjoy putting into practice? • Which skills do you possess? • How did work experience help?
Personal Statement Help • All students attended session in June/July • External expert session 22 September • PS Bath – workshops in Bath held by Bath & Bath Spa University Admissions experts • UCAS, STUDENTIAL, WHICH?
UCAS Points- old system • UCAS Tariff • A*= 140 • A = 120 • B = 100 • C = 80 • D = 60 • E = 40 • U = 0 • AS = half of the A Level Points • New System- page 141 student planner