- guardian.co.uk, Tuesday 2 May 2006 23.53 BST
The tables on the site are divided up into tariff bands, with each band divided in the following manner:
Band 6: 400+ tariff points
Band 5: 320-400 tariff points
Band 4: 240-319 tariff points
Band 3: 160-239 tariff points
Band 2: 80-159 tariff points
Band 1: Below 80 tariff points
It's important to remember that these tariffs are the TOTAL tariff points for students, not just A-levels and highers, so you can gather any and all qualifications from the list below when you're totting up how many tariff points you've got and what band you should be looking in for your university.
For further details and for exams not mentioned here, check here.
240 points: vocational A-level double award at grade A (advanced GNVQ)
200 points: vocational A-level double award at grade B
160 points: vocational A-level double award at grade C
120 points: vocational A-level double award at grade D; A-level at grade A; Scottish Advanced Higher, grade A
100 points: A-level at grade B; Advanced Higher at grade B
80 points: A-level at grade C; vocational A-level double award at grade E; Advanced Higher at grade C
72 points: Higher, grade A
60 points: AS-level at grade A; A-level at grade D; Higher at grade B
50 points: AS level at grade B
48 points: Higher at grade C
42 points: Scottish Intermediate at grade A
40 points: AS-level at grade C; A-level at grade E
38 points: Scottish Standard Grade at band 1
35 points: Intermediate at grade B
30 points: AS-level at grade D, Key skills at level 4
28 points: Intermediate at grade C; Standard Grade Credit at band 2
20 points: AS-level at grade E; Key skills level 3 at grade A; Free-standing single unit, grade A (an optional module for students studying advanced mathematics and vocational A-levels).
