A-Level Resits, Taught Properly and Priced Openly

No. There is no autumn A-Level series. The autumn 2020 and 2021 series were a one-off pandemic arrangement and the government guidance enabling them was withdrawn on 7 April 2022. The next opportunity is the Summer 2027 series in May and June 2027.

GCSE is different, there is a November series for GCSE English Language and Mathematics. See GCSE resits.

There is no regulatory limit on the number of attempts. Each attempt is a fresh entry in a fresh series, and the certificate records the grade achieved in that series.

Yes. No awarding body rule sets an upper age limit on entry to an A-Level. What is age-limited is public funding, not eligibility, see how A-Level resits are funded.

Most do, but policies vary by university and by course, and the strictest policies are concentrated in Medicine, Dentistry and Veterinary Medicine. Some courses ask for all A-Levels to be achieved in one sitting; some accept resits but raise the offer; most treat a resit grade the same as any other.

This is a question to answer per course rather than in general. Our guide to whether universities accept resits sets out how to check, and the medicine guide covers the tighter case.

Nothing in the awarding bodies' rules prevents you from being entered for an A-Level while enrolled elsewhere. What matters is the wording of any offer you are holding, a deferred place may or may not be conditional on the grades you already hold. Read the offer, and ask the admissions office in writing.

No. A-Levels have been linear since the 2015 to 2017 reforms, so a resit means re-entering for the whole subject and sitting every paper again in one series. The exception is non-exam assessment, which can usually be carried forward rather than repeated.

In most cases, yes. A practical endorsement Pass carries forward for the lifetime of the specification with no time restriction, and across awarding bodies. Coursework and NEA marks carry forward on a similar basis. Both require your entry to use the same Unique Candidate Identifier and a carry-forward request made by the entry deadline.

This is set out in full, board by board, on the carry-forward guide.

No. We enter private candidates who have studied elsewhere or independently, see private candidates. Taught students are entered as internal candidates as part of their programme.

Late entries are accepted by the awarding bodies for a period after the deadline, at an increased fee that rises again closer to the exams. We pass those charges on at cost with no mark-up. After entries close entirely, the next opportunity is the following summer. The dates and the fee tiers are on the deadlines page.

Yes, subject to space in the teaching block and to the entry deadline. Fees are charged pro rata from the month you join, and the multi-subject rate applies from that point.

Yes. Our hardship rate lets you pay the discounted pay-in-full price in monthly instalments rather than up front, £269 a month for one subject rather than £299. It is available on request and we do not ask for documentation.

You have a statutory right to cancel within 14 days of entering the contract, set out in the Consumer Contracts Regulations 2013. If you have asked us to begin teaching within that period, you may be charged for what has been delivered. The full position is on the cancellation and refunds page.