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Earlier this year a survey by the University and College Union found one in 10 admissions staff said their university was making unconditional offers based on predicted grades alone.
Picking courses and universities based on predicted grades, best and worst case scenarios, and a bit of pot luck.
Some have already taken the unusual (some might say risky) step of making unconditional offers based on predicted grades, while others are reportedly dropping their entry requirements substantially to ensure they recover student numbers.
Instead of the current system, based on predicted grades, he says there should be a so-called "post-qualifications application" system (PQA), where students apply after A-levels.
The last major government study of fair access, carried out by Steven Schwartz, concluded that an application system based on predicted grades provided an unfair advantage to better-off pupils.
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Relying on predicted grades creates anxiety for students and uncertainty for universities, he says.
Parks said Cambridge would take part only if the system was based on pupils exceeding their predicted grades, as opposed to their university offers.
External students must have at least five predicted A GCSEs and will be given conditional offers based on how high their predicted grades are.
Black students were particularly badly off in the admissions results, with the data for 2015 showing that 108 out of 132 universities offered a lower proportion of places than expected, using a Ucas forecast based on their predicted A-level grades and the courses to which the students applied.
Its reasoning is sound: without AS grades students will be selected for university places based on less-recent GCSEs, or the notoriously unreliable predicted grades.
It's absurd that students still apply to university and receive initial offers based on their predicted A-level grades, rather than their actual results.
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