Exam results: What next?

We carefully check all results. If you think there’s been a mistake, contact the Admissions team through our Admissions Enquiry form as soon as possible.  

You must meet the exact conditions of your offer, including grades, subjects and deadlines. Equivalent tariff points are not accepted. 

Your place is confirmed – congratulations.

If you need a student visa, we will contact you with next steps, including your CAS.

We’ll also contact you about enrolment and accommodation. 

We don’t usually consider mitigating circumstances after results are released.

If something happened that affected your exam performance, and you have contacted your exam board, that information will have already been taken into consideration. If you have not contacted your exam board, please do so as soon as possible.  

If you want to change course within the same department, contact the department Admissions team.

In many cases, it is often easier to transfer after you start, during your first year.  

Changing to a different department is usually not possible, as courses are often full. 

If UCAS hasn’t sent us your results, send them to the relevant Admissions team if you have a copy.

If not, contact your school or UCAS to check what’s happened.  

Check your offer in UCAS Hub for your results deadline.

If we’re missing your results, we’ll contact you.  

To request a deferral, contact the  Admissions Team through our Admissions Enquiry form.

Please remember:

• Deferrals are not guaranteed
• If your deferral is approved, it is very unlikely that we can reverse this decision later. So please be sure you want to defer before making your request. 

If your request is not approved, will can:

• Start your course this year, as planned; or
• Withdraw and apply again next year. 

If your offer is still conditional, we might still be waiting for your results.

If we’ve asked for specific results, you must send them to us before we can confirm your place.

Contact the Admissions team if anything is missing.  

If you need a student visa, upload your passport details in My Imperial as soon as possible. 

Once we’ve received your passport, we’ll issue your CAS number so you can apply for your visa. 

 For more information, visit our International Student Support – CAS page and our Tuition fees – CAS and Visas page. 

You can apply if:  

• You were identified as eligible for the reconsideration pool in your decision
• You have your results and you meet the minimum entry requirements for the course you originally applied for  

Check your eligibility on the Contextual Admissions page, then complete the reconsideration pool form. 

The reconsideration pool form is open 9.00 - 13.00 (UK time) on Results Day (Thursday 13 August 2026).

You must submit your application during this time window. 

No - we will not contact you on Results Day.  

If you want to be reconsidered, you must submit the form yourself within the deadline.  

If your grades have changed following a formal appeal and you now meet or exceed your exact offer, your school or exam board must send official confirmation the Admissions team.

We accept updated grades until 31 August 2026.

If you still don’t meet your offer conditions after the formal appeal, the outcome displayed on your UCAS Hub will still stand.

Important: We are aware of reports of marking discrepancies affecting some CBSE examination results. Applicants who wish to request a review should follow CBSE's verification and re-evaluation process.

Any revised results must be received directly from CBSE by 31 August 2026. We are unable to guarantee that results received after this date will be considered for 2026 entry. 

Please note that we are unable to accept remarked results submitted directly by applicants. All revised results must be verified either through your examination board, or via Qualification Check where this is included in your offer conditions. 

If you have narrowly missed your offer, we will review your results carefully.

In some cases, we may still be able to confirm your place.  

You don’t need to contact us – we’ll update your decision in UCAS Hub.

If we are unable to confirm your place, your application will be considered by your insurance choice.

If you are unsuccessful by your Firm Choice and have narrowly missed our offer, we will review your case.

In some cases, your place may still be confirmed.

Check UCAS Hub for updates - you do not need to contact us.

If you are unsuccessful with both choices, you will be entered into Clearing. 

Decisions made after results are final and cannot be appealed at this stage. 

Due to high competition, we can only confirm places for applicants who meet all offer conditions, or in limited cases, those who narrowly miss them. 

If your UCAS Hub status shows “unsuccessful”, this is the final outcome after review. 

We cannot provide your exam results.  

If you don’t have them, contact your school or college immediately .

We do not operate any waiting lists. If you haven't applied to Imperial in this admissions cycle, you would need to apply to the Imperial in the next admissions cycle. 

To update your contact details, please do this via UCAS Hub and your details will be updated on both UCAS and our systems. It may take a couple of days for these changes to be reflected on all our systems.

If you think we have assessed your fee status incorrectly, please complete a Fee Status Questionnaire and send it to the relevant Admissions team.

Find out more about fee status and the Fee Status Questionnaire

If you have accepted an unconditional place at your firm choice, you cannot change to Imperial at this stage. 

If you your place at Imperial is confirmed, changing to your insurance choice is not guaranteed.  

First, contact your insurance choice to check if they would be willing to accept you through Clearing.

If they agree, you can release yourself into Clearing via UCAS Hub .  

If you miss this deadline, you will need to contact the Admissions team to request release into Clearing.

You can decline your place in UCAS Hub.

This cannot be reversed, and you will given up your place at Imperial. 

Once you decline, you can enter UCAS Clearing and apply elsewhere.

If you miss the deadline, you will need to contact the Admissions team to request that they release you into Clearing.