This page provides information about results day and your next steps.

UCAS has some excellent guidance on steps you can take to prepare for the release of your exam results. You can see which exam results come to us directly from UCAS, as well as knowing what to expect when you log on to UCAS Hub. If you have any questions about your offer conditions make sure that you contact the Admissions Office through King's Apply.

Results embargo

The results embargo is a period of time set by UCAS in the run up to the SQA and A-Level Results Days. It is in place to ensure confirmations or results aren’t miscommunicated to students or advisors. It means that we are not able to discuss applications made via UCAS so fewer communications are made during this time.

Getting your exam results in July and early August?

This page details which results are sent directly to King's. Note that some students who do not quite meet the conditions of their offer may sometimes need to wait until mid-August for a final decision from King's. If you have any questions please contact us through King's Apply.

On Thursday 13 August 2026 many of you will receive your exam results. Here's what you should do on A-level results day:

• If you applied originally through UCAS, check UCAS Hub on Thursday morning to see if your place at King’s has been confirmed.
• You can also check with our application portal King's Apply, which will be available from mid-morning.
• If your place is confirmed at King's, congratulations! You do not need to call or contact King's to secure your place. Simply enjoy your celebrations and wait for us to send you further information about enrolment and starting with us in September. In the meantime, you can see our Welcome to King's webpages.

If you have any questions regarding the status of your offer please get in touch with the admissions team via King's Apply.

For many applicants, exam results will be sent by exam boards directly to UCAS, who will send them directly to King's. This means that you don't need to notify us of your results, unless specifically asked.

However others may need to ensure that they send evidence of their final results to King's directly. Please note that certified translations may also be required if your results are not in English, though we will accept your official results without translations wherever possible. Evidence should be submitted by attaching a scanned copy of your document to a King’s Apply message and submitting this to the Admissions Office for review. If you’re in any doubt as to how we’re receiving your exam results, we advise that you speak with your school/college as soon as possible and submit scans of any paper copies of your results in the meantime.

King's won't be able to tell you your grades. Your exam results should be sent to your school or college, or you should follow any other instructions you have been given by your exam boards.

If UCAS is not sending us your results, you must send them to King's by the deadline stated in your offer letter. If you believe there may be a delay in providing your results you should inform us via King's Apply as soon as possible. If we do not have your results by this time and you meet your conditions after this date then we cannot guarantee that we will be able to offer you a place on your course this September. It is very important that you ensure that you have provided evidence that you have met all the conditions of your offer. Evidence should be submitted by attaching a scanned copy of your document to a King’s Apply message and submitting this to the Admissions Office. We will only be able to confirm your offer once you have done so.

If you haven't met your offer conditions, you can still send your results in. We are able, for some courses, to still confirm applicants who have not met the conditions of their offer, and we are unable to make a final decision until we can see evidence of the results you received. Please send us a scan of your official results through King's Apply.

We are only able to accept cashed in A-level results. Please contact your school or college to discuss cashing in your grades and receiving the final results.

King's will receive some results directly from UCAS, but not all results. Below is a list of qualifications and whether we receive the results.

A-levels and AS-levels

Yes.

Access to HE Diplomas

No, only partial results. You will need to scan and send us an official copy of your confirmed results through King's Apply, including: Confirmation of the award (naming your Access Diploma subject) and a breakdown by Unit & Level of your Credits and Grading (Pass/Merit/Distinction).

BTEC Level 3 Diplomas

Yes (though module results will need to be sent to us separately through King’s Apply where this is an offer condition).

Cambridge Pre-U, Irish Leaving Certificate, SQA Highers & Advanced Highers and Welsh Baccalaureate

Yes.

Degree

If you have completed your degree this year and do not yet have an official degree certificate, please send your completed electronic transcript to the King's Apply portal or admissions-query@kcl.ac.uk through a secure verification service such as Gradintel via the awarding institution. Please note - if you have sent this to the admissions-query inbox, send a message on King's Apply notifying the Admissions team of this. 

Foundation Year (not at King's)

No, please scan and send us your official results through King's Apply.

Foundation Year (at King's)

King's will have these results.

Hong Kong Diploma of Secondary Education (HKDSE)

No, please scan and send us your official results through King's Apply.

International Baccalaureate

Yes, though we may also have access to your results from IBO – please contact us if you’re at all unsure.

All other qualifications including English language tests

If not included on this list, you will need to scan your certificates and/or transcripts and send them directly through King's Apply. If you are unsure what you are required to send, please send us a message as soon as possible.

If you have not met the conditions of your offer, your place on your chosen course is not guaranteed. In some circumstances, however, we may still be able to offer a place to applicants who were very close to meeting their offer. Please read the following carefully:

How will I find out if I'm successful?

You should check UCAS Hub to check your offer status on Thursday 13 August 2026, and go to your school/college to collect your exam results. King's will have sent a decision to UCAS ready for you on Thursday wherever possible. Remember, if you see that your place has been confirmed on UCAS Hub, you do not need to call/contact King’s to confirm your offer. UCAS Hub will say something like: 'Congratulations! Your place at King’s College London to study [course name] has been confirmed. 'We'll send you further information about enrolment and starting with us in September. Thanks for helping to keep our telephone lines free for others.

What happens if I do not meet all the conditions of my offer?

You must meet the exact terms of your offer in order to take up your place on the programme (e.g. if your offer was AAB, you are not considered to have met your offer if your grades are A*AC).

If you were very close to meeting the conditions of your offer, your application may have been given further consideration - please note though that our decision will take into account the results of other applicants and the number of spaces available on the course. King’s will notify UCAS of our final decision and you will be able to see this on UCAS Hub on Thursday 13 August 2026.

If you had an offer to study at King’s and did not meet your offer conditions but you are planning to appeal your results, as you would still like to come to King’s, you can get in touch with the admissions team via the King's Apply portal. 

I've met part of the English language test condition of my offer, but have not met the conditions in one skill area. Will you accept this result? 

You must meet the exact conditions of your offer - in one test sitting - in order to take up your place on the course. Please be aware that changes to government legislation mean that we have to be very strict on applicants meeting our English language requirements.

No English language test results that are below the College minimum will be considered.

What should I do if I have requested a re-mark? 

If you are having any part of your exams remarked, please inform the Admissions Office through the King's Apply system immediately. You will need to ensure that all change of results forms are submitted to the Admissions Office through King's Apply by 31 August 2026 for consideration.

I've received an offer for a different programme - why? 

Unfortunately we are not always able to offer even academically strong applicants the course they initially applied for. In some of these cases we are able to identify another course at King’s that we believe they would be more suited to – perhaps based on interests raised in their personal statement, or the subjects they are currently studying. In this case, you would receive what we call an alternative offer, where we offer you a place on a course different from the one you originally applied to.

You can find out more information about the offered course by searching for it on our website, and we would recommend reading this information before responding to your offer. It is important to note that you will not be able to switch back to your original course after accepting an alternative offer, so you should only accept this offer if you are interested in the offered course.

There is a limited timeframe for you to accept the alternative offer, the deadline is indicated when you log in to UCAS Hub and you can contact UCAS if you are unsure.

I have a question about the status of my offer, how can I get in touch?

Offer holders are advised to contact admissions directly via King's Apply to review the status of their offer and to view any messages from the admissions team if a decision has not yet been made. 

When you speak to our Clearing Advisors, we will consider your application carefully and if we are able to offer you a place to study with us, we will let you know on the phone.

We will email you within 48 hours confirming a provisional verbal offer for the programme selected.

We will ask you to refer your application to King’s College London on UCAS for the programme selected by a given deadline and in all cases, as soon as possible.

Please note, you can only refer your application to King’s College London after a verbal offer has been agreed by phone and for the specific programme selected. If you refer your UCAS application to a different programme or without a verbal offer, your application will be made unsuccessful.

Further guidance on applying through Clearing can be found  on the UCAS Clearing and results day webpage.

Once you have referred your application to us on UCAS, you will receive your login details to the King's Apply application portal. Please ensure that you check your messages on the portal regularly as we may request further information from you. 

Before we are able to formalise your offer, we may need to verify your qualifications for the programme selected and we will contact you via the King’s Apply portal to advise you of how to do this.

If you received an offer through Clearing and have any questions you can get in touch through our phone line on Friday 14 August from 08:30 (BST) by calling +44 (0)20 3858 1050.

I received a verbal offer through Clearing, and now want to come to King's instead of my insurance choice, what can I do?

If you received a verbal offer to study at King's through Clearing, you will need to release your application into Clearing before you can refer your application and accept your offer. You can do this in UCAS Hub by selecting 'Decline my place'. Please note that declining a UF offer is often irreversible, so we urge you to read the UCAS Hub guidance on this before you make your decision.

The next key steps will be getting your email address, completing online enrolment and attending campus registration. King's will send you details about these next steps by email in the weeks before you start your course so please make sure your contact details in UCAS and King's Apply are updated.

In the meantime you can see our Welcome to King's webpages which will be the key place to look for all the information you need to have a great start at King's.

If you have any queries, please contact the admissions directly via King's Apply. 

When will I get my CAS number? 

You need to hold an unconditional offer in order to be issued a CAS number for a student visa. Please make sure that you have entered your passport information and indicated that you will require a visa on your UCAS application.

If you have completed these steps and now hold an unconditional offer and have paid your deposit, the Admissions Office will produce your CAS number. This will be visible through the King's Apply system when complete in a new tab called "Your Visa".

Please be aware that the CAS number is only valid for six months from the date of issue and therefore we are only able to issue these six months before the start of your course.

View more guidance on making your student visa application.

When will I start my course? 

Full details of campus registration sessions and specific induction sessions for your course/department/faculty will be made available as soon as they are confirmed.

Please note: dates may vary between courses. Check your enrolment schedule on the Welcome to King's webpages carefully for campus registration times, and check your course handbook once you have arrived to confirm details of your term dates, reading weeks, and any key exam dates.

When do I get my class schedule and reading list? 

Your department or course will provide full details at your induction session.

Will support for disabled students be in place for the start of term? 

See the Disability Support & Inclusion webpages for contact details and guidance.

When and how do I pay my tuition fees? 

You do not need to pay your tuition fees before - or at - campus registration. If you are paying tuition fees yourself, King's will invoice you for your tuition fees after you have registered on your course. Your invoice will detail deadlines and payment methods.

Do I still have time to apply for student finance?

If you are looking to join King's in September 2026, you should look into your options for funding your studies as soon as possible, because some deadlines may have passed. If you need advice, visit our fees and funding webpages or email the funding team at funding@kcl.ac.uk.

I came through Clearing, can I still get a place in accommodation?

If you come to King's through Clearing, you may be able to book accommodation with us. Providing you have firmly accepted your academic offer, you can register for our accommodation portal and check availability there.

If you have come through Clearing you will be able to access the accommodation portal from Monday 17 August. Access will be available 48 hours after you have firmed your academic offer.

Please bear in mind that this date may be subject to change and that the portal will reopen at any time during normal UK working hours, 09:00 to 17:00 (BST).

Once you have access, you’ll be able to log in to the portal and view the accommodation options available to you. We recommend waiting until the portal opens for your group and keeping an eye on the King’s Residences webpages for the latest updates.

Please be reassured that King’s Residences has a range of rooms available across different locations, room types and budgets. Availability will be shown in the portal once it opens, so we recommend waiting until you have access before making any decisions or worrying about specific options.

Find out more about your options and how to book a room on our King's undergraduate accommodation webpages.

If you come to King's through Clearing, you may be able to book accommodation with us. Providing you have firmly accepted your academic offer, you can register for our accommodation portal and check availability there.

The accommodation portal will open to different student groups in stages. The current reopening schedule is:

Friday 14 August:

• Under-18 students

Monday 17 August:

• Undergraduate students on the guaranteed waitlist
• Students who have accepted an Insurance offer or come through Clearing. Access will be available 48 hours after you have firmed your academic offer.

Tuesday 18 August:

• Undergraduate students on the non-guaranteed waitlist

Wednesday 19 August:

• All postgraduate students
• All undergraduate students

Please bear in mind that these dates may be subject to change and that the portal will reopen at any time during normal UK working hours, 09:00 to 17:00, on the relevant date, but not before.

Once you have access, you’ll be able to log in to the portal and view the accommodation options available to you. We recommend waiting until the portal opens for your group and keeping an eye on the King’s Residences webpages for the latest updates.

Please be reassured that King’s Residences has a range of rooms available across different locations, room types and budgets. Availability will be shown in the portal once it opens, so we recommend waiting until you have access before making any decisions or worrying about specific options.

Find out further information about accommodation on our King's Residences webpages.