Education

Advice about completing the education section

We need to know where you have studied and which qualifications you are taking/have taken. You need to fill in details of your schools or colleges, then list your qualifications, one by one. You must include all schools, colleges and universities that you have attended since the age of 11, even if you withdrew from your course. There is space to enter up to 10 centres.

For each school and college, you must provide details of the following qualifications to help universities and colleges consider your application.

  • All qualifications for which you have accepted certification from an awarding body, even if you are retaking all or part of the qualification.
  • All qualifications for which you are currently studying or for which you are awaiting results.

You should not send any examination certificates or other papers to us, or to your chosen universities or colleges, unless requested to do so.

If you have taken any qualifications with the AQA exam board and do not have your certificate, AQA can supply you with a Statement of Results, which will be accepted in the same way as a certificate. Further details are available in the Past Results Service pdf on the AQA website (this will open in a new window).

Mature students

You are advised to enter details for all your qualifications. If you do not have any qualifications, you should still enter details for your schools. You will be asked whether you obtained any qualifications at each school or college and can then select 'no'. You should ignore the warning message and click on 'section completed' and 'save' to complete the education section.

If you are hoping to enter higher education through the Accreditation of Prior Learning (APL) or the Accreditation of Prior Experiential Learning (APEL), you still apply through us, but you should contact your chosen universities and colleges first to discuss whether APL or APEL is acceptable and what evidence they will need.

International students

You should check the suitability of your qualifications with the admissions offices at each of your chosen universities and colleges before applying. Each one will decide whether or not your qualifications meet or could meet their entry requirements for the course(s) you are interested in. When you apply, you should give full details of all your qualifications, including exams you took when you left school, exams you took to get into higher education, vocational exams and any other qualifications or awards. Please do not try to give a UK equivalent. If your first language is not English, you should:

  • say whether or not your qualifications were completely or partly assessed in English
  • enter details for any English language tests you have taken or plan to take.

Find out more...

Guidance on entering specific qualifications

Examination results

Exam boards and awarding bodies