A student from the University of Oxford who coached prospective Oxbridge applicants has been suspended following accusations of fraud regarding his own A-Level examination results.

Parmbir Gill, a former student of Lady Margaret Hall, used fictitious qualifications in order to justify charging prospective Oxbridge students up to £950 for “exclusive” coaching sessions.

Despite his claims of achieving 10 grade As at A-Level and 14 A*s at GCSE, as well as many other awards and bursaries, Mr Gill had actually gained the standard 3 grade As in his A-Level examinations. Nevertheless, he promised aspiring applicants “mentorship, contacts, and insight” as a “main tutor” for the online company, Sucedo.com.

The business, which has now removed any affiliations with Mr Gill from its website, claims to teach “committed Oxbridge applicants skills that maximise their chances of a place at Oxford or Cambridge”. Applicants who use their services are required to pay £320 for an induction course about Oxbridge applications, £200 for two 45-minute mock interviews and £950 for a service to accompany applicants to interviews.

Suspicions regarding the validity of Mr Gill’s qualifications emerged when tutors and fellow students noticed that he had begun to struggle during the first term of his economics and management course. One first-year student at Lady Margaret Hall observed, “Out of eight tutorials he probably only came to about four”.

Officials from the University of Oxford had their doubts confirmed after contacting Mr Gill’s former sixth form, Langley Grammar School in Slough, Berkshire. They were told that he had initially achieved 3 Bs in economics, maths and religious studies A-levels, before retaking in order to gain 3 As. It is understood, however, that Mr Gill included an additional 7 A-Levels on his UCAS application.

Janet Jamieson, deputy head at the school, maintains that, as an independent candidate, Mr Gill’s application, including forged references, was submitted without the school’s knowledge. “The university asked if he did attain these grades at school, and the answer was no, he didn’t,” she said.

Mr Gill has been asked not to return to Lady Margaret Hall for the start of the new term.

A spokeswoman from the University of Oxford said that, although fraud could not be eradicated, the University’s system of interviews and aptitude tests “minimises the risk of fraudulent behaviour going undetected".