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Preparing Students for UCAS

Price: £25.00
Age Range: KS4+

A step-by-step guide to applying for Higher Education, this pack will help staff and students to understand the increasingly complicated selection and application procedures of UCAS. The pack is designed to provide an informed view of the process and the format is specifically tailored for the post-16 student. Tips are also given on how students could present themselves throughout the application process and at interview.

Topics include: Employment or Higher Education?; A year out; The points system; Clearing; Writing a personal statement; Study in Europe.

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Size: 63 Pages
ISBN: 978 1 86025 146 7
Author(s): Linda Hopley
Code: PSFU
Popularity rank: 379

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Contents List

LESSONS

Thinking of Higher Education?

  • 7 SELF-ANALYSIS
  • 9 WHY HIGHER EDUCATION?
  • 11 WHERE TO STUDY
  • 13 ENTRY REQUIREMENTS
  • 15 UCAS APPLICATIONS
  • 17 A YEAR OUT?

Resources for choice

  • 19 VIDEO PROSPECTUSES
  • 21 PAPER PROSPECTUSES
  • 23 USING IT
  • 25 PEOPLE
  • 27 USING THE DIRECTORY
  • 29 OTHER RESOURCES

Making an application

  • 31 MAKING A RECORD
  • 33 CURRICULUM VITAE
  • 35 PERSONAL STATEMENT
  • 37 ORGANISING YOUR INFORMATION
  • 39 COMPLETING THE FORM

The interview

  • 41 COMMUNICATION SKILLS
  • 43 INTERVIEW TECHNIQUES
  • 45 ANY QUESTIONS?

Going to college

  • 47 CLEARING
  • 49 MONEY MATTERS 1
  • 51 MONEY MATTERS 2
  • 53 LEAVING HOME
  • 55 JOINING IN
  • 57 BALANCE THE BOOKS
  • 59 WATCH THE CLOCK

Other options

  • 61 PART OF EUROPE

Appendix

  • 62 UCAS TARIFF for use with ENTRY REQUIREMENTS (p.13)