Students can log onto UCAS Track to find out if they have won their university place.
Track, run by the University and Colleges Admissions Service, reopens on A Level results day so prospective students can check on their application status from home, before going into school or college to pick up their results.
And students whose results do not match their university offer can check Track to see if they have been accepted anyway.
What is Track?
UCAS Track is included in the portal which students log on to check the status of their university applications.
Throughout the academic year, A Level students can check Track to find out if they have been offered a place at the institution they applied to.
But it freezes in the summer break, before reopening at 8am on A Level results day, so students can check if they have won their place.
Does that mean students don’t have to pick up their grades anymore?
Track will only tell students whether or not they have been accepted into their university - it does not go into detail about specific A Level results.
So students still have to pick up their results envelopes to find out what grades they have.
Can students get their results early through Track?
Not that early, it only opens at 8am on results day - not midnight as some think.
What happens if a student does not get the A Levels they were expecting?
If an A Level student picks up their results and finds the grades are not what they needed to match their offer, they can check Track to see if the university has accepted them anyway.
If UCAS Track says “accepted” it’s good news, they’re in.
If the status says “conditional” then they should contact the university straight away to see if they have been accepted. That’s also a chance for the student to talk themselves up.
But if the offer says unsuccessful, then the student should go into the Clearing process. Clearing is a UCAS service which lets student find vacant spaces on university courses.
