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Sending photocopies of your A-Level results

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  • 14-07-2010 1:34pm
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    Fionn MacCool
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,275 ✭✭✭


    I remember when I applied I had to send CAO my GCSE and A-Level results, but they wanted photocopies not the originals, which I thought was weird because it rendered all the security features on the documents (watermarks, thermal marks etc) useless. What would stop someone changing say, a C to a B grade or something?


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    Larianne
    Registered Users Posts: 35,954 ✭✭✭✭Larianne


    Nothing stopping anyone. But when you do register and start a course they ask for your information again and I think this is when checks are done.


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    Fionn MacCool
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,275 ✭✭✭Fionn MacCool


    Larianne wrote: »
    Nothing stopping anyone. But when you do register and start a course they ask for your information again and I think this is when checks are done.
    No they don't.


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    Larianne
    Registered Users Posts: 35,954 ✭✭✭✭Larianne


    Well, when I started last year I had to fill out a form with all information including my leaving cert results etc. I also had to get a police check done.

    Fair enough if you say it isn't done but it was in the uni I go to.


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    Fionn MacCool
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,275 ✭✭✭Fionn MacCool


    Larianne wrote: »
    Well, when I started last year I had to fill out a form with all information including my leaving cert results etc. I also had to get a police check done.

    Fair enough if you say it isn't done but it was in the uni I go to.
    Oh right. I went to NUIG and they never mentioned anything about it.

    The photocopies sitll have your candidate nubmer etc on so maybe CAO contact the relevent exam bodies and verify your grades - but that begs the question, why do they bother asking you to send off photocopies then?

    I'm sure it's pretty tempting to forge something like this, as it can be the difference between getting onto a course you really want or not. Although you might end up kicked off CAO altogether if they find out =/


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