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Predicted resit grades of AAA (ABB under the Widening Access to Medicine Scheme) are accepted within three academic years of applying, if you got at least AAB (BBB) at the first sitting. If you already hold resit grades of AAA, the first-sitting minimum does not apply.

Applicants who have resat or are resitting GCSEs or A levels, with or without repeating a year, are considered. The final qualifications must normally be achieved within three academic years, allowing one resit year. Extenuating circumstances are not used in scoring.

BSMS ordinarily only considers resit applicants who dropped one grade in one subject, such as A*A*B, A*AB or AAB (ABB or AAC with an adjusted offer). If you apply before resitting, you must be predicted at least the required grade in the resit subject. Otherwise you can apply once you have AAA (AAB adjusted).

The department will consider applicants who resit their qualifications.

Exeter Medical School will consider applicants who have re-taken part or all of a qualification.

Year 12 can be repeated or restarted once with no restrictions. Applicants repeating Year 13 must have got at least BBB at the first sitting, with no grade below B. A levels must be achieved within three years. GCSE resits to meet the entry requirement are accepted.

King's can consider applicants who have retaken their qualifications, but they are reviewed alongside applicants who got the grades within the normal timeframe, who may be viewed more favourably. A second resit is only considered with significant mitigating circumstances and a Mitigating Circumstances form. Taking the same subject again at the same level, even in a different qualification, counts as a resit.

Lancaster considers resit applicants who reach the grades within three years of study. ABB or above at the first attempt makes you eligible; BBB to CCC needs evidence of exceptional circumstances. The typical resit offer is A*AA. If you already have A*AA within three years, you are eligible whatever your first grades.

From 2026 entry, Leeds accepts one resit attempt per A level without mitigating circumstances. A third attempt is only considered with evidence of mitigating circumstances that prevented you getting the grades on the second attempt.

Liverpool normally only considers a resit application with at least ABB at the first sitting. Resitting applicants complete an online form, available from September, and offers to them are usually higher than AAA, for example A*AA.

Manchester welcomes applicants re-sitting A levels, but only one of Year 12 or Year 13 can be re-sat. Where A levels were attempted in Year 13, at least ABB is expected at the first sitting. Every re-sitting applicant must achieve A*A*A in the required subjects.

Newcastle would ideally like the grades at the first attempt, but allows a subject to be repeated once. When a subject is taken a second time, the grade required in it rises by a grade, for example from A to A*.

Nottingham considers resits of up to two A levels if you completed them in the last 12 months, already have at least ABB with an A in Biology or Chemistry, and your resit grades reach AAA including Biology and Chemistry.

With predicted grades you need at least ABB at the first sitting; otherwise resit and apply once you have the grades. A levels must be completed within three years of study, and the grades reached at the first resit attempt.

Sheffield considers applicants who have resat to meet its requirements. You only need to resit the subjects below the required grade, and all A level resits must be in the same sitting. Resitting a qualification more than once is only considered with extenuating circumstances or disrupted studies, decided by its Disrupted Studies Board.

Southampton accepts resits and does not raise its grade requirements for them.

Sunderland accepts A level resits in certain circumstances: with AAB, you only resit the subject you got a B in, one attempt only, in the same subject.

UEA only considers resits if you got ABB or AAC at the first sitting. Resit applicants must get at least one A* in the subject or subjects resat, and anyone studying A levels over more than two years falls under this policy. Resitting more than once is not considered.

Aberdeen does not normally consider applicants resitting to upgrade their results, unless they experienced very serious personal difficulties at the first sitting that were declared to the exam board at the time. These are considered case by case.

A level resits are only considered with extenuating circumstances, and with at least BBB achieved at the first attempt.

Resit grades for GCSEs, A levels or equivalent qualifications are not considered, except as detailed in Birmingham's extenuating circumstances policy.

Cardiff does not accept A level resits (applicants in Wales can resit AS levels), with one exception: people already holding a Cardiff Medicine offer, in exceptional extenuating circumstances the exam board has not already considered. Circumstances have to go to the exam board at the time; Cardiff cannot consider them afterwards.

A levels must be completed in one sitting across a maximum of two years. A third year of study may be permitted after a successful extenuating circumstances application.

All grades must be obtained at the first attempt of each subject. Applicants with resit qualifications are not entered into selection except in very exceptional circumstances, with verified evidence provided before the UCAS application.

Applicants in a third year of A level study are not considered unless they have had extenuating circumstances accepted, or they already have the grades and are taking one more subject to meet the subject requirements. Taking more than three years to complete three A levels is not considered.

Resits are only considered if you held a conditional firm offer for Medicine at Leicester and substantial mitigation was agreed by its Mitigating Circumstances Panel beforehand. You need at least ABB at the first sit to apply with predicted resits, and the resit requirement is A*AA. Taking three years to complete A levels is not normally considered.

Oxford wants three A levels taken in the same academic year. It might consider an applicant resitting A levels after extreme circumstances beyond their control, such as disruption from a change of school, severe discontinuity of teachers, bereavement or a one-off debilitating illness.

Applicants who retake A levels to meet the requirements are not normally considered. With extenuating circumstances, those whose grades were borderline, typically one grade below the requirement, may be. Anything further below is not considered.

Cambridge publishes no resit policy for Medicine on its own website. The Medical Schools Council quotes it as saying: “We would typically expect candidates to achieve the minimum offer level in a single sitting. However, where candidates have been adversely affected by circumstances outside of their control, we will consider on a case-by-case basis.”

Dundee's page does not mention resits. It does say A levels must be achieved in the same sitting, in the same year, two years after GCSEs. A resit year is three years after GCSEs, so ask Dundee directly before you use a choice on it.

Queen's University Belfast's Medicine entry requirements do not mention resits.

Re-sits or additional time to sit qualifications are not permitted. The required grades and subjects must be obtained at one sitting and at the first attempt.

Imperial does not accept resit qualifications. If mitigating circumstances affected your results, it recommends contacting your school or exam board.

The course does not accept resits: a second or later attempt at a qualification you already hold an award in.