NCS Entry Requirements 2020/21
The NCS curriculum is academically rigorous and challenging, as such places will be offered to applicants who are assessed to meet our minimum entry criteria. All conditional offers are based on a student’s predicted grades and/or actual GCSE grades submitted on their application form and if administered, entrance tests.
General Criteria
In order to study A Levels, students need a minimum of 56 points from their best 8 GCSEs to include EBacc subjects (vocational courses e.g. BTEC and community languages will not be included in the best 8). Students must also have at least a GCSE grade 6 in English Language and Mathematics to study A levels. If students choose a subject at A level they have not studied at GCSE, their other grades will be taken into consideration (see individual entry requirements for more details).
Individual Entry Requirement Criteria 2020/21
| A Level Subject | GCSE Grades |
| Maths | 8-9 in Maths |
| Further Maths | 8-9 in Maths |
| Biology | Please see science entry criteria below |
| Chemistry | |
| Physics | |
| Economics | 7-9 in Maths + 7-9 in English Language |
| Government & Politics | 7-9 in English Language |
| Psychology | 6-9 in Biology + 7-9 in English Language |
| English Literature | 7-9 in English Language and Literature |
| History | 7-9 in History + 6-9 in English Language |
| Geography | 7-9 in Geography + 6-9 in English Language |
| Religious Studies | 7-9 in Religious Studies + 6-9 in English Language |
Entry requirements for Sciences
| If the student wants to study: | Minimum entry requirement in GCSEs | ||||
| Double science GCSE | Separate Science Biology
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Separate Science Chemistry
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Separate Science
Physics
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Maths | |
| Single Biology | 77 | 7-9 | 6-9 | 6-9 | 7-9 |
| Single Chemistry | 77 | 6-9 | 7-9 | 6-9 | 7-9 |
| Single Physics | 77 | 6-9 | 6-9 | 7-9 | 7-9 |
| Biology + Chemistry | 88 | 8-9 | 8-9 | 7-9 | 7-9 |
| Chemistry + Physics | 88 | 7-9 | 8-9 | 8-9 | 7-9 |
| Biology + Physics | 88 | 8-9 | 7-9 | 8-9 | 7-9 |
| All three sciences | 88 | 8-9 | 8-9 | 8-9 | 8-9 |