Exam results and offers

The results are provided on the understanding that we and you have agreed they are seen and used only by those members of your staff who require them for admissions purposes, and they are divulged neither to applicants nor to any third party.

The ABL agreement applies to both home and international applicants. The awarding bodies are sensitive to their responsibilities and any failure of confidentiality could prejudice the continuing existence of the agreement. If the agreement is breached in any way, you must immediately contact your relationship manager and the Awarding Body Linkage Team at UCAS to provide full details of the actions taken.

Even after publication, you should not disclose results to applicants or parents. If an applicant hasn't received results through the normal channels, they should contact the centre at which the examinations were taken. Private candidates who have not had their results should be asked to go to the awarding body’s office – awarding bodies won't give results over the telephone.

• Our records and operating procedures will be open for inspection at any time by an authorised representative of the awarding body.
• We won't proceed with this operation if at any time we have doubts about our ability to maintain accuracy of reproduction.
• If it has such doubts, the awarding body may veto the publication of results through us at any time before issue.
• We distribute details of the amendments issued by the awarding bodies to all conservatoires receiving those results through us.
• UCAS Conservatoires correspondents at all conservatoires are made aware that the awarding bodies can't accept responsibility for the outcome of any decision based on incorrect information supplied by us.
• Conservatoires are made aware that the information is issued for the purpose of confirming places only, and the awarding bodies retain the copyright. Permission must be obtained from the originating awarding body if any additional use is to be made of the data, for example, research, articles, or letters in the press.

You should ensure all staff involved in the ABL procedure are aware of the conditions, and that the results received through us are provisional. The definitive results are those issued to applicants directly by the awarding bodies or via schools.

• Firstly, the files of candidates supplied by the awarding bodies are electronically matched with applicants through us.
• Secondly, as the results of the examinations become available from the awarding bodies in August, they are added to the records of matched applicants and are available through web-link, odbc-link, and xml-link.

The full text of the results embargo agreement is on the Awarding Body Linkage page at – but can be summarised briefly as follows:

UCAS will undertake not to make Confirmation decisions available to any applicants before the SQA or JCQ results days, on condition that the awarding bodies will agree to allow us to dispatch results covered by the agreement to conservatoires as soon as they are available on electronic file, but only to those conservatoires which undertake:

• to give guarantees as to confidentiality in a form acceptable to the awarding bodies
• not to communicate with applicants before the SQA or JCQ results days in any way which might tell them, directly or indirectly, whether they have been placed at Confirmation as a result of summer examinations

You mustn't send letters or emails which will arrive during the results embargo period, and we would urge extreme caution on posting your own material before the results embargo period. Nor must you contact applicants before results day to discuss their position.

If applicants are contacted in error, or are mistakenly given information relating to Confirmation decisions before results day, you must contact UCAS immediately following the instructions in the results embargo agreement.

If an applicant telephones on results day and obviously knows their results, you may discuss the situation.

The awarding bodies have agreed that applicants can have access to the outcome of their applications from early on results day morning. The exact timings will be made available nearer the time.

UCAS and SQA have signed a Memorandum of Understanding governing the supply of results from SQA to us. This includes the record formats to be used, and the testing regime pursued by both parties. The results are available before publication to the conservatoires, as with the GCE results.

These results are available through ABL by arrangement with the Irish Central Admissions Office. They are usually available later than A level and AS exam results, and are sent separately online.

National Award, Certificate and Diploma, Higher National Certificate and Diploma, National Certificate and Diploma in Early Years, and Diploma in Foundation Studies (Art and Design)

UCAS Conservatoires expects to receive and transmit BTEC results electronically and not using transcripts.

We provide International Baccalaureate results for applicants who have agreed to this. The results include all individual subject scores and the overall points score. The results are available as *R records (Board code B).

We also provide results for the Advanced International Certificate of Education (AICE) examinations. Further details will be circulated in early summer.

Results for the Welsh Baccalaureate are provided as part of the ABL weekend.

Check the admissions calendar for when Delayed Confirmation (DCF) decisions will be available to use, when they will become unavailable and when the final reject by default (RBD) deadline applies for DCF applicants"

DCF can only be used for applicants who are GC1. Conservatoires can confirm (GU1) or reject (REJ) a DCF application using the link products.

A management list in web-link shows all applicants for whom the conservatoire has made a DCF decision.

All outstanding DCF decisions will be subject to the final reject by default (RBD) date.

UCAS will include applications with a DCF decision when it calculates the conservatoire’s capitation fee.

In the event of a reject decision being made, UCAS will reimburse the conservatoire in the following admissions cycle.

Conservatoires must contact applicants to advise them their place can't be confirmed as there are outstanding conditions, and it will be held for the applicant until the date that all outstanding Delayed Confirmation (DCF) decisions from the cycle will be rejected by default – or an earlier date if stipulated by the conservatoire.

The applicant’s online application will show Delayed Confirmation.