I am not entirely sure, I am not doing the course myself at the moment although hope to be, I know 3 people who are on it. All tried to shorten the courses for themselves by mainly by trying to get out of doing the ground school exams as they had already done the 14 UK JAA ATPL exams which are supposed to be far harder and the conclusion that came out of it was that they would need at least 1500 hours in order to receive dispensation from the exams.
But I am not entirely sure, the educational qualifications I can say on as I certainly don't have the best academic record but with the fact I have flying qualifications has gotten me through the door it would seem.
I am speculating a bit here though I'm afraid as said I'm not on the course myself..