What happens on results day
We’ve put together some helpful information to help you prepare for your next steps on your journey to university.
If you have any queries about your place, you may find the answer within our frequently asked questions.
If you’ve already had your results and confirmed your place, find out your next steps. You can also check our Welcome Guide for practical information and advice.
Preparing for Results Day
Wednesday 16 July, 4-5pm (BST). Join our online event to discover what happens on results day. You’ll also be able to join our Q&A Live Chat to have your questions answered by our panellists.
How to check if you have a place
Most UK exam results are sent directly to UCAS from the awarding bodies, so you should first log in to UCAS to check if you’ve been accepted by your firm or insurance choice. You’ll need your UCAS personal ID to do this, so make sure you have it handy.
You may need to wait a few days for your status to update if you’ve studied the International Baccalaureate, as it doesn’t happen automatically. If you’re studying an international qualification, you’ll need to email your results to us as soon as you receive them.
If UCAS hasn’t been updated as expected and you’re not sure if you have a place, email the admissions team for your course – you can find their contact details in your offer letter or on Course Search.
Remember that universities are not allowed to tell you your results – you need to receive them from your school or college before you contact us.
When you have your results
When UCAS has updated there are a couple of scenarios you may see.
You’ve been accepted on to your firm or insurance course
This will happen if:
- you achieved the required grades for your firm course
- you didn't achieve the grades needed for your firm course, but you met the requirements for your insurance course
- you narrowly missed the grades needed for your firm and/or insurance course, but the university still wanted to offer you a place.
If UCAS shows that you’ve been accepted at Leeds, your place has been confirmed and there’s no need to contact us.
You haven’t been accepted on to your firm or insurance course
Don’t worry, you still have options.
Alternative course offer
If you narrowly missed the offer conditions for your original course, we may offer you an alternative course — you’ll see this when you log into UCAS. If you don’t want to accept this course, you can decline the offer.
If you decline the offer and we were your firm choice, you’ll have a place on your insurance course, providing you met the conditions of the offer. If we were your insurance choice and you decline the alternative course, you’ll enter Clearing.
If your exam results are better than expected
Congratulations! If you’ve met and exceeded the offer conditions of your firm choice, you could reconsider where and what to study, and apply to a new course through Clearing.
Speak to us about options we have available. You can call our Clearing phone line on +44 (0)370 126 0606 from 8am on Thursday 14 August.
Before contacting us, we encourage you to view our clearing vacancies online.
If you want to make changes
Your next steps will depend on the changes you want to make.
If you want to defer to next year, or you applied for deferred entry but want to come this year
This may be possible, but it will depend on the course you are planning to study. To check if a change of year is possible, email the relevant admissions team using the contact details on Course Search.
If you want to change to a different course
This will only be possible if the course you want to move to has availability. To check, you should first speak to the admissions team for the course you want to move to using the contact details on Course Search.
If you want to change to a different university
It’s important that you speak to the university you want to move to first, to ensure they can accept you on to a course. Once you have confirmation of a place, you can release yourself into Clearing using the ‘decline your place’ button on UCAS.
Remember, you can’t choose to decline your firm choice on results day to join your insurance choice instead. If you decline your firm choice then you’ll enter Clearing, so you should only do this if you’re sure you don’t want to take up your firm place.
Not all courses are available in Clearing, so make sure you check beforehand and don’t release yourself into Clearing before you have a confirmed offer so you’re not left without a place.
If you decide you no longer want to go to university at all
If you want to withdraw your application altogether, you should get in touch with the admissions team for your course using the contact details on Course Search.
Appealing your exam results
If you’re unhappy with one or more of your grades and intend to appeal your result, you should speak to your school or college and email the admissions team for your course using the contact details on Course Search. If your grades change following your appeal, and you now meet the conditions of your offer, we’ll typically hold your place until 3 September 2025, excluding clinical courses within the schools of Medicine, Dentistry and Healthcare, for which the deadline is 31 August 2025. However, we can’t guarantee that we’ll be able to accept you for 2025 entry if the course you’ve applied for is full.
Contacting us
You can find the email address for your course’s admissions team on Course Search and in your offer letter.
Please also make sure you keep your contact details up to date in your UCAS profile. We recommend using a personal email address rather than a school or college email address so that you don’t miss any emails from us.
We also recommend adding study@leeds.ac.uk to your Safe Senders list to prevent emails going into your junk email folder.