UCAS form, Canadian grades

**Kam14** · 04-09-2009, 08:10 PM

I tried looking around for info on this but I couldn't find anything useful. I'm wondering how Canadians are supposed to enter their qualifications for high school and degree.

I can enter in my OSSD diploma for high school and then it asks for percentage, does anyone know if this is for your top 6 grade 12 (only thing UK meds look at) or your entire average in high school? Also under the "module" section do I enter my grade 12 courses or ALL courses?

Thanks

**McGiller** · 05-09-2009, 06:35 AM

Gosh, I am having the same problem with UCAS. You might try calling them and hear what they have to say.

**Kam14** · 05-09-2009, 08:57 AM

I did... they were essentially useless... pawned me off to schools I'm applying to

**Selenaa** · 30-09-2009, 12:07 AM

my school, who has had students in the past get into UK med schools, said to enter ALL courses since grade 9

**Kam14** · 30-09-2009, 12:24 AM

hmmm.... seems kind of excessive... I can see how it might be relevant to a high school applicant but for me grade 9 was almost 8 years ago (they still had OAC in those days lol)

I recently checked with some schools requirements and I was told they usually consider 6 grade 12U courses (with bio, chem, calc etc). In any case I'm getting the feeling that what we enter to UCAS is all subject to verification by the schools anyway, so I'm thinking if I only enter my grade 12U courses and when I send my transcripts to verify they'll see my earlier grades along with it anyway.

**Laura_K** · 01-10-2009, 05:27 AM

I'm from BC, and when I entered a BCSSD, it didn't ask me for a full mark, just one for each course I took. I entered Gr 10-Gr 12 courses because those are the ones that appear on our transcript.

**flarestar** · 09-10-2009, 10:44 PM

Hi Im currently living in Canada but I'm british. Anyways from my experince of when I applied for uni in england before I moved here, UCAS had all you're A-level grades from the central exam boards which you still had to write in correctly or they'd reject the form. However they did not have you're GCSE grades(atleast not mine) which you're uni's ask for so you could pretty much write anything(which I know some people did).

My advice to you is to send the transcripts the uni's want and post those grades on UCAS. Any extra is required to put on UCAS but they won't ask verification for it I don't think so write whatever you want. But if the uni's do ask for verification it's safer to put the truth.

Our A-levels and GCSE's are worth 4 years of grades so they probably expect the same off you so yeah from grade 9 onwards is right. And yes they want every score even if it's negligible.

An example is that I have an a-level in general studies which no uni's look at but my form got sent back because I didn't put it on.