J'Dona Posted August 18, 2004 Share Posted August 18, 2004 For those 17 to 18-year-olds in the UK, they're going to be getting their A-Level results tomorrow morning! Here's a buffer for those who want to spill the beans and cry with joy/despair over the fate of their UCAS applications, and thus future lives. As far as I know, results will be available from 10:30 AM to 2:30 PM at your school or college across the UK (or at least at mine it is). Some people won't stop to say how things went here, of course, as they're probably going out to get drunk immediately afterward, whether the day's result was good or bad. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Severian Posted August 18, 2004 Share Posted August 18, 2004 Don't worry - no-one will laugh.... well, not to your face at least... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thales Posted August 18, 2004 Share Posted August 18, 2004 And try to remember just because the man say it ain't so, doesn't mean it ain't so. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fuhrerkeebs Posted August 18, 2004 Share Posted August 18, 2004 What are A-Level results? Is it like your report card? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J'Dona Posted August 18, 2004 Author Share Posted August 18, 2004 They're the qualification before university in the UK. Your acceptance into university (if you're going there) is based on the results, and hence your future careers. So tomorrow is quite a major day for a few people! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
5614 Posted August 18, 2004 Share Posted August 18, 2004 and good luck to all of those people. if you wish, share your results with the rest of the world! we'd love to hear them, and if you only post one of them, we shant ask about the rest! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blike Posted August 18, 2004 Share Posted August 18, 2004 good luck to you all, i know how stressful it can be waiting on exam scores that will make or break you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J'Dona Posted August 19, 2004 Author Share Posted August 19, 2004 Half an hour left, good luck everyone. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bloodhound Posted August 19, 2004 Share Posted August 19, 2004 good luck. just remember that bad results is NOT the end of the world. Unexpected results bring into view the alternative career paths you have never thought about. (like selling your body, drug dealing, or smuggling people). so GOOD LUCK Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J'Dona Posted August 19, 2004 Author Share Posted August 19, 2004 Unexpected results bring into view the alternative career paths you have never thought about. (like selling your body' date=' drug dealing, or smuggling people).[/quote']Or perhaps selling people whose bodies contain drugs! Well, nobody's posted theirs so now it looks like I made this thread just to talk about my own results. Anyway... I got an A in chemistry (barely) and a C in further maths, which is all right because, mixed with my past A-Levels, it gives me AAACC, which meets the AAA minimum at top uni's in the UK. I wonder whether those extra two C's are better or worse though, because even if it is a broader range of subjects I might be asked why I didn't get A's in them. Oh, and my best friend got 600/600 marks in Further Maths and is now definitely going to Cambridge. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bloodhound Posted August 19, 2004 Share Posted August 19, 2004 has ur fren done the Step exams? I havent posted mine cos i did me a levels last year. Congrats by the way. those grades are very good. what are u planning to do ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J'Dona Posted August 19, 2004 Author Share Posted August 19, 2004 She did the step papers and got S and 1 (where her offer required 1 and 2). The strange thing is, she was rejected from Trinity college for maths, and was immediately snatched up in the pool for Newnham college, which she didn't want to go to because it was a grils-only college. I'll bet Trinity would regret it now. I'm hoping to do Natural Sciences (physical) at Cambridge, or Physics if at another university (maybe with astronomy), though I'm not yet decided on all of my alternative universities. More A-Level students, post your results! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bloodhound Posted August 20, 2004 Share Posted August 20, 2004 i applied to cambridge. and flopped the Steps exams. i had to do Step 2 and step 3, which were quite interesting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daisy Posted August 21, 2004 Share Posted August 21, 2004 A-levels are the exams that students sit in England, just to inform people. Here in Scotland kids sit Highers/Advanced Highers and entrance requirements to Universities are based on both Higher/A-level results. In Scotland students tend to take 5 highers and because of this our system is more broadly based, i.e. youngsters have a wider range of subjects. In addition, highers are taken over one year not 2 like A-levels. Our equivalent of the A-level would be the advanced higher which students take in their final year. Just wanted to point out that the UK operates on more than one level than England's A-levels. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phi for All Posted August 21, 2004 Share Posted August 21, 2004 You ROCK, Jesse! A in Chem, now we know what your middle initial stands for! Enjoy yourself responsibly. Barring that, don't call us from jail, or gaol, or whatever it is the bobbies put you Chemisty-acing Brits into when you celebrate over the line. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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