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Official AS & A2 Results Day 2016

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Original post by Natalierm2707
Whats done is done now and nothing can be changed, you tried your hardest and whatever happens you know deep down you did everything you can.

I will say this... I was in your position last year, I held a firm offer from Cardiff for medicine but absolutely messed up f324 chemistry, I 100% thought I wasnt going to make my offer, I had clearing numbers in my phone and knew what other courses I would apply for etc. But on results day I got my grades and got my firm offer, one exam doesnt dictate everything and providing you worked hard you can pull it through. Stay strong nothing is final until you hear from the uni!


well done on getting onto that course: ) : ) : ) ) :smile: I sat that F324 paper as well haha, and then had the Physics equivalent the next day. Did really good in the chem but really bad in the phys
Original post by duncanjgraham
well done on getting onto that course: ) : ) : ) ) :smile: I sat that F324 paper as well haha, and then had the Physics equivalent the next day. Did really good in the chem but really bad in the phys


I did so terribly in that paper and only came out with a high C, but thankfully my very high UMS in f325 and my A at AS brought me back into the A boundary and I made it through. I know many who werent so lucky with that exam though...

But hey ho I made it now and Alevels are in the past! Keep going guys only 18 more days x
Original post by Altun63
My firm is Liverpool (ABB)and insurance is Lincoln (BBB) for LLB Law at both.

Though my requirements are quite low I would be so gutted to miss out on Liverpool, even if all my exams went well.

No idea why I even chose Lincoln, visited it and found it quite nice. Should have chosen Warwick but had a bad experience when I visited it and couldn't see my self studying in such a dull environment.



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Good luck on getting the required grades!! And I think you shouldn't regret choosing Lincoln, at the end you want to go to a university where you'll feel comfortable, at the end university also includes social life :h:

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I have a feeling a huge wave of panic will hit me tomorrow as it's officially August :redface:
Original post by Natalierm2707
Whats done is done now and nothing can be changed, you tried your hardest and whatever happens you know deep down you did everything you can.

I will say this... I was in your position last year, I held a firm offer from Cardiff for medicine but absolutely messed up f324 chemistry, I 100% thought I wasnt going to make my offer, I had clearing numbers in my phone and knew what other courses I would apply for etc. But on results day I got my grades and got my firm offer, one exam doesnt dictate everything and providing you worked hard you can pull it through. Stay strong nothing is final until you hear from the uni!


Thanks a lot, I appreciate the kind words. How are you finding medicine? Is it everything you imagined it to be? I'm worried about fitting in managing a job, socialising, the gym and studying. (But I imagine everyone is in that position :smile:)
Ready for sleepless nights thinking about this now:redface:
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Am so nervous what if examiners can't read my work sInce the exams I havent really thought about how I did now theirs only 18 days 😥
Original post by Sacred Ground
Thanks a lot, I appreciate the kind words. How are you finding medicine? Is it everything you imagined it to be? I'm worried about fitting in managing a job, socialising, the gym and studying. (But I imagine everyone is in that position :smile:)


Medicine is everything I imagined it to be and more, but experiences really do vary from med school to med school so you may have completely different experiences to me!

I love the vibe of med school, for me its a place where I feel if I study hard with the support im given I can achieve beyond what i ever thought I would. It really is hard work, you probably get this off everyone but the workload is intense, but providing you hit the ground running and study hard you will be fine. I personally could never fit in more than an 8 hour per week job around studying medicine, and even with that I would struggle to do all the extra curriculars I wanted, have a social life and still get the grades I wanted. You will find the balance for you but there has to be some give and take 100%.

You will love it, if you need any advice or help about med school in the coming months feel free to PM me x
Original post by Soooscared
Am so nervous what if examiners can't read my work sInce the exams I havent really thought about how I did now theirs only 18 days 😥


Same!!!! Because I wrote most of my answers in the blank space after the lines so yeah scared :frown:

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Original post by PlayerBB
Same!!!! Because I wrote most of my answers in the blank space after the lines so yeah scared :frown:

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Examiners see the entire page, don't worry!

If it helps you feel better, here's an image of a marked script a friend ordered back from Edexcel:

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Original post by Ayman!
Examiners see the entire page, don't worry!

If it helps you feel better, here's an image of a marked script a friend ordered back from Edexcel:

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Yeah it helps me feel much better, thank you Ayman!!! I thought it depends on the examiner :redface:

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Kicking myself for choosing an AAA insurance when my firm is A*AA. I should have chosen a much better fallback...
How is July over in 2 hours?? Now I'm about (yet again) whether that one question in C4 is stopping me from reaching my offer :cry:
Original post by Natalierm2707
Medicine is everything I imagined it to be and more, but experiences really do vary from med school to med school so you may have completely different experiences to me!

I love the vibe of med school, for me its a place where I feel if I study hard with the support im given I can achieve beyond what i ever thought I would. It really is hard work, you probably get this off everyone but the workload is intense, but providing you hit the ground running and study hard you will be fine. I personally could never fit in more than an 8 hour per week job around studying medicine, and even with that I would struggle to do all the extra curriculars I wanted, have a social life and still get the grades I wanted. You will find the balance for you but there has to be some give and take 100%.

You will love it, if you need any advice or help about med school in the coming months feel free to PM me x


Thank you! I'm definitely looking forward to it even if it's a tad daunting. I suppose you have to work out whats best for yourself in terms of work/social life balance. I appreciate you leaving your PM open for any questions!


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Results day is looming closer, don't really know how I feel about it :o:o:redface:


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Original post by humerak786
Ready for sleepless nights thinking about this now:redface:


Having sleepless nights since the start of summer holidays tbh lol
Original post by Soooscared
Am so nervous what if examiners can't read my work sInce the exams I havent really thought about how I did now theirs only 18 days 😥


My French paper was so messy. I crossed out tons of stuff out, wrote in circles to avoid the crossed out part, wrote really small underneath the dotted lines and put *s to add bits in which I wrote right at the bottom of the page in the blank space. And to add to that my rs look like ns and my ts look like rs. Hopefully it'll turn out okay. I really do. I don't know how they mark work like mine hopefully they don't just ignore it because they deem it illegible. It's been marked now so worrying won't change it I guess. I feel sorry for the examined marking mine XD
What are the chances that answers written on extra paper get lost and so do not get marked? I wrote on a lot of extra paper
Hi Im going up to year 13 this september, and my school had AS exams even tho we did reformed ones
I've been getting predicted As or A*s all year in my report but I actually believe I got at most ABB in my AS exams.(or even lower)

Prob A in maths, which isnt reformed yet i.e counts toward my uni definitely, and I am aiming for Oxford maths.

But I think I just lost my mind in one of the two exams for Economics and Chemistry.

I need an A*A*A for Oxford maths, and if I actually get ABB for AS does this mean I literally have no chance of getting in? (Nonetheless how good my A2 grades may be, personal statement, and MAT, teacher reference)

Also, does anyone know what happens to the schools who only took non-reformed subjects for AS?
I think surely, schools would have given a better predicted grade to their students than those who actually took ASs this year, so I quite feel this is unfair(?) or maybe not, Im not really sure how the system goes

Please give me some sincere and honest advice.
I am so frustrated at myself😭😭😭
Original post by 17lina
Hi Im going up to year 13 this september, and my school had AS exams even tho we did reformed ones
I've been getting predicted As or A*s all year in my report but I actually believe I got at most ABB in my AS exams.(or even lower)

Prob A in maths, which isnt reformed yet i.e counts toward my uni definitely, and I am aiming for Oxford maths.

But I think I just lost my mind in one of the two exams for Economics and Chemistry.

I need an A*A*A for Oxford maths, and if I actually get ABB for AS does this mean I literally have no chance of getting in? (Nonetheless how good my A2 grades may be, personal statement, and MAT, teacher reference)

Also, does anyone know what happens to the schools who only took non-reformed subjects for AS?
I think surely, schools would have given a better predicted grade to their students than those who actually took ASs this year, so I quite feel this is unfair(?) or maybe not, Im not really sure how the system goes

Please give me some sincere and honest advice.
I am so frustrated at myself😭😭😭


Well, for Maths at Oxford the most important factors by a long way are the MAT and interviews, so as long as you are predicted A*A*A then you should be OK as far as A-levels are concerned. The biggest problem for you will probably not having done Further Maths. Very few of the applicants who are not taking this subject do well enough on the MAT to be called for interview (14 out of 73 in 2015), and even fewer get offered a place in the end (3 out of 73 in 2015).

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