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Information Compliance James Clerk Maxwell Building
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Joseph Bennett
By email only
to: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx.xxx
1st November 2017
Dear Mr Bennett,
Request for information under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 (“the Act”)
Further to your recent request for information held by King’s College London, I am writing
to confirm that the requested information is held by the university.
Your request
We received your information request on 18 October 2017 and have treated it as a request
for information made under section 1(1) of the Act.
You requested the following information:
1) How many students, in total, applied for the A102 course?
2) Wha was the average UKCAT score of all applicants for A102?
3) How many students, in total, were admitted for the A102 course?
4) For all applicants for A102, could you please provide a list of: all applicants, their UKCAT score, SJT
band, degree classification (predicted and/or achieved, including postgraduate qualifications
predicted/achieved), whether or not they were interviewed, including those that were successful? Or, as
much of this data that can be allowed for.
5) How many applicants applied to A100 with a graduate degree? (predicted or achieved)
6) How many graduate applicants for A100 received an interview and offer, and what UKCAT score
(including SJT bands) did they achieve?
Our response
1. 1221
2. 483
3. 25
4. Please see attached document. UKCAT figures rounded to nearest 10. Please note
that the university employs a rounding methodology when disclosing statistical
information linked to student or staff numbers. This is to reduce the risk of an
individual being identified from this, or any other dataset released by the university
or another organisation. This is in line with ICO recommendations for anonymising
datasets under section 40(2) of the Act. Full details of the HESA methodology
can be found
on their
website:
https://www.hesa.ac.uk/about/regulation/data-protection/rounding-and-
suppression-anonymise-statistics
5. 540 applicants either held or were completing an undergraduate or postgraduate
qualification.
6. Of the 540 graduate applicants, 136 received interviews.
The average UKCAT score for degree-holding applicants was 475. The average for
those that received invitations to interview was 525.
For the SJ Test:
68 had Band 1
53 had Band 2
12 had Band 3
3 were not recorded in the data set analysed.
This completes the university’s response to your information request.
Your right to complain
If you are unhappy with the service you have received in relation to your information request
or feel that it has not been properly handled you have the right to complain or request a
review of our decision by contacting the Assistant Director of Business Assurance
(Information Compliance) within 60 days of the date of this letter.
Further information about our internal complaints procedure is available at the link below:
http://www.kcl.ac.uk/college/policyzone/assets/files/governance_and_legal/Freedom_of
_Information_Policy_updated_Oct_%202011.pdf In the event that you are not content with the outcome of your complaint you may apply to
the Information Commissioner for a decision. Generally the Information Commissioner
cannot make a decision unless you have exhausted the internal complaints procedure
provided by King’s College London.
The Information Commissioner can be contacted at the following address:
The Information Commissioner’s Office
Wycliffe House
Water Lane
Wilmslow
Cheshire
SK9 5AF
Yours sincerely
Jade Roche
Information Compliance Officer
