Miss Zoe Allwood
FOI Manager
Naina Jaiswal
By email
Reference: FOI-2023-851
20 October 2023
Dear Naina Jaiswal,
Your request was received on 30 September 2023 and I am dealing with it under the terms of the
Freedom of Information Act 2000 (‘the Act’).
You asked:
GCSE grades of medicine applicants
1. Are grade 8s and 9s considered equivalent at A*s despite a 9 being an A**.
2. If a person got 5 8s and 59s compared to someone who got all 9s who would be preferred?
3. Could I request data for the last year's data on the successful applicants in terms of the
number of 8s and 9s they achieved?
1. 8s and 9s are considered as 8s and 9s and are not translated into letter grades.
2. Each application is evaluated on its own merits as a whole; see
https://www.undergraduate.study.cam.ac.uk/apply/before/improve-application and
https://www.undergraduate.study.cam.ac.uk/apply/before/accepted-qualifications
3. This data is attached. Please note that the attached document should not be copied, reproduced or
used except in accordance with the law of copyright.
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Yours sincerely,
Zoe Allwood
