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Yes it's not for residency, more for the UCAS uni application form where they ask for exam results and these are used for uni applications...I will see what the school suggests! Did you go back then or were you just assessing the situation? It would have been so much easier if not for COVID and then we would have started GCSE as planned...how did they suggest learning the UK maths and english courses and doing GCSE in just. few months? I am unsure if these are on the day only exams or if there is any coursework involved, which makes it a little harder to sit the exams...

I've contacted the school to see if they have any advice. They hadn't mentioned anything about UCAS but I just happened to find it somewhere. He is starting year 11 next month and his cohort in the UK is a term into year 11. For him to do GCSE, he would have to drop back a full year so will be with younger kids, which he will not like, plus I am unsure if this is even possible. He will already have to do an extra year of school with A levels- he's not keen to move in the first place, so this will totally put him off! I'll see what the school says....

And trying to do A levels and GCSEs at the same time might be a bit too hard…I was really seeing if anyone knew how the uni’s manage kids who come from overseas to do A levels that are British citizens returning to the U.K.

It’s about residency in the U.K. for 3 years pre uni to be classed as a home student, so doing exams here won’t make a difference. Now is Year 2 of GCSE so exams are in June 2022. We have missed the entire 2 year course. The thing is that to apply for uni, UCAS requests GCSE results which we won’t have …

This is really helpful. We are UK citizens and have been in Australia for 10 years- we came back in 2019, when my son started year 9 and then got went back to Sydney to get organised to start GCSEs in October 2020. We have missed the boat due to lockdowns and so are now planning to get back to start A levels this year ( as cant go 18 months into GCSE year) but UCAS needs GCSE results in order to apply for uni....any idea how to get around this if you have been schooled in Australia? Does this mean that you can't apply/have to apply as overseas etc? The move back is permanent as we were over in Sydney for work but we are worried that it might cause some issues with our son going to uni- 1. as only back 2 years for A levels( for home status) 2. no GCSE for UCAS applications....would love it if anyone has been in this situation and can help!