You've probably not failed.

Sorry but the figures/facts don't add up. If you took four attempts at a levels, and needed to go to college to pass them, a you wouldn't be 21 but 25, and b i doubt Cambridge would offer you a place, i'm sorry.

1. you can't do maths 5+16 = 21
2. the OP posted proof

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Sorry but the figures/facts don't add up. If you took four attempts at a levels, and needed to go to college to pass them, a you wouldn't be 21 but 25, and b i doubt Cambridge would offer you a place, i'm sorry.

not that i saw.

Lemme tell y'all a story. A story of the little nerd who could. For most of my educational carrier I was a total potato, and not even a high quality potato, I'm talking a potato than even a starving Irishman would think twice about. My GCSE's were terrible, mostly U's, E's, (I got a C in maths, though, woooo!) and my first attempt at A-level was pretty much the same. I think maths was the only one I passed at AS-level, with an E. I quickly became what teachers might refer to as a 'tumble dryer student' I kept going around and around, without getting anywhere, always thinking "Meh, I'll do better next time." After my 3rd attempt at AS, at my 6th form, (And 3rd fail, woo. Go me.) I started getting really depressed. Like "Mate, pass me that fat shot of bleach and I'll have a Windex chaser" kind of depressed. Eventually I managed to punch myself right in the reality (boy, did that hurt) and realise that I actually had to turn myself around.
So, then I went to college, my 4th attempt at A-levels. And here's the thing: I'm not naturally smart and just lazy, I'm pretty average and (was) lazy, so, I worked my ass off (And trust me, after a year of ice-cream fuelled depression, that's a big ass to work off.) I knew this was my last chance to make something of myself.

Here I am now, at 21, with a lot of work and some good guidance from my college staff, I'm going off to study Natural Sciences at Cambridge (I don't even have any decent work experience. Whoever said you needed excellent GCES's, no resits and tones of experience to get in was lying through their teeth.) I'm not here to gloat, I'm here to try to convince you guys, particularly you guys who perhaps haven't got the results you may have wanted, who might feel a bit down, who don't know what to do now - It's not the end of the line. To quote George Eliot: "It's never too late to be what you might have been." You can pick yourself up, you can make something of yourself. You, too, can be the little nerd who could.

Someone's been bitten by the green-eyed monster

He is just starting uni not finishing it. You start your alevels at 16. After 4 years of doing alevels you would be 20/21.
Im wondering how you did alevels with only one c?

He didn't say four years of a levels, but four restarts. Which can mean up to eight years i'm afraid to say. You tsr users are too gullible on the most part.

I actually know the op, if it is who i think it is. And he doesn't even have a c at gcse maths, let alone a place at cambridge. He does however have the gift of the gab, and the ability to wind a compelling yarn, i can assure you now!

He didn't say four years of a levels, but four restarts. Which can mean up to eight years i'm afraid to say. You tsr users are too gullible on the most part.

I actually know the op, if it is who i think it is. And he doesn't even have a c at gcse maths, let alone a place at cambridge. He does however have the gift of the gab, and the ability to wind a compelling yarn, i can assure you now!

first of all well done, this brought a smile on my face . Did you apply with your overall a levels results or with your As results?

He is just starting uni not finishing it. You start your alevels at 16. After 4 years of doing alevels you would be 20/21.
Im wondering how you did alevels with only one c?

I kind of agree with you-it doesn't add up how would he get to Cambridge with his poor gcse's even if he did improve his A-levels?

Tell you what, come October 1st you can have a picture of me holding my awful GCSE'S at Hughes Hall - then maybe the reason I made this thread can stop drowning in a sea of bad mojo. You wiggidy?

Maths, Further Maths, Physics - A*
Chemistry - A (5 UMS OFF OF AN A* *angry fist shake*)
Biology - C

A pretty big step up from my original UUUE when I first did AS.

This isn't a proper sentence i'm afraid.

I thought you said that you had recently completed your a levels. So why are you talking about a GCSE photo being released on october the first ??

Not even his A level grades match up. Entry requirements are A*A*A. You guys think Cambridge let him in with A*AC?