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Got my certificate at last, now just have to send the scans to uni and hopefully it'll be completely confirmed I'm going

[RinniieX]

(Original post by _N_)
Got my certificate at last, now just have to send the scans to uni and hopefully it'll be completely confirmed I'm going

fabbulous! go you! i still have to wait aNOTHER week! depressing to say the least!

[KatsToes]

I'm so jealous of all you people who have your Access certs! OCN have messed ours up totally and we haven't been told for sure we will receive them by aug 16th as I'm going into clearing I'm going to be pretty screwed if this does not happen.

45 Distinctions and 15 Merits as long as OCN agree and don't mess anything else up... I just need to get a place now because I switched courses hence clearing!

[beanie26]

(Original post by KatsToes)
I'm so jealous of all you people who have your Access certs! OCN have messed ours up totally and we haven't been told for sure we will receive them by aug 16th as I'm going into clearing I'm going to be pretty screwed if this does not happen.

45 Distinctions and 15 Merits as long as OCN agree and don't mess anything else up... I just need to get a place now because I switched courses hence clearing!

my goodness, with those marks... why did you change still you've probably got more chance of getting in than some others that are in Clearing!

[SmartiePantz]

My certificates here today. I've been waiting and checking the post everyday. Finally here woop. 😄
Got the grades to go my first choice. Anyone know how long it talks for track to be updated and receive AS12 from UCAS?


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[_N_]

(Original post by SmartiePantz)
My certificates here today. I've been waiting and checking the post everyday. Finally here woop. 😄
Got the grades to go my first choice. Anyone know how long it talks for track to be updated and receive AS12 from UCAS?


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I think at the moment Track is not going to be updated again until the A Level results are out? http://www.ucas.ac.uk/students/track/availability "8 August 18:00 until 15 August- Track is available, but no records are updated during this period. The details shown will be as at close of business on 8 August". Ahh, so annoying. Exeter emailed back 2 days ago to confirm they got my email and to watch out for Track, gahh.

[ashtoreth]

it's a strange thing but i finally picked up my cert today. strange because up until that point and altho i knew i'd done ok, and seen the transcript, AND gone 'confirmed' on track. it didn't feel 'real'

that is until today when i finally dragged my carcass into college an collected my certs. and seeing it all official like, i must admit, i had a moment of 'omg, i finally and actually did this and omg i didn't let myself down and omg how amazing, i have a brain!'

mad

am getting itchy to start some real work tho...so roll on 10th sept.

[jami74]

(Original post by ashtoreth)
it's a strange thing but i finally picked up my cert today. strange because up until that point and altho i knew i'd done ok, and seen the transcript, AND gone 'confirmed' on track. it didn't feel 'real'

that is until today when i finally dragged my carcass into college an collected my certs. and seeing it all official like, i must admit, i had a moment of 'omg, i finally and actually did this and omg i didn't let myself down and omg how amazing, i have a brain!'

mad

am getting itchy to start some real work tho...so roll on 10th sept.

I keep getting my certificates out and having another look. I can't quite believe it either, it is the highest qualification that I have acheived so I am especially proud. And to think I didn't expect to last until Christmas

My Ucas Track says 'Unconditional' although the letter from Ucas said that my place has been confirmed. I'm not sure what else I need to do or if it is just a technicality which will sort itself out.

[ashtoreth]

(Original post by jami74)
I keep getting my certificates out and having another look. I can't quite believe it either, it is the highest qualification that I have acheived so I am especially proud. And to think I didn't expect to last until Christmas

My Ucas Track says 'Unconditional' although the letter from Ucas said that my place has been confirmed. I'm not sure what else I need to do or if it is just a technicality which will sort itself out.

hey there jami, glad to see that u know what i mean. i've left it in its envelope and not looked at it since this morning but u know? been doing some thinking today (never good)
and this thought has been going round n round n round in my head all day today. WHY did i not do this when i was younger? why did it bloody take me this long? school reports always said i was bright but also said, i was easily distracted. totally true.
so distracted, that it took me 20yrs to get my act together!

i did 4 A levels back then. failed 2 and got 2. god knows how cos i didn't do a lick of work!
today, i have been sat here thinking. studying doesn't tax me that much, so why did i not do this sooner so that i coulda enjoyed the sense of achievement i had today, way back then?

tbh, am really really angry with myself today. yes i'm finally here but, i'd be lyin if i don't feel like i been wastin time and my abilities, by not doin this sooner.

EDIT: forgot to say. mine is the same i think? confirmed on track with a letter that came thru snail mail sayin same thing. don't think we do anything now, jami. we just wait. get enrolled. an present our certs in person at the enrollment.
so far as i know, that is.

[jami74]

(Original post by ashtoreth)
hey there jami, glad to see that u know what i mean. i've left it in its envelope and not looked at it since this morning but u know? been doing some thinking today (never good)
and this thought has been going round n round n round in my head all day today. WHY did i not do this when i was younger? why did it bloody take me this long? school reports always said i was bright but also said, i was easily distracted. totally true.
so distracted, that it took me 20yrs to get my act together!

i did 4 A levels back then. failed 2 and got 2. god knows how cos i didn't do a lick of work!
today, i have been sat here thinking. studying doesn't tax me that much, so why did i not do this sooner so that i coulda enjoyed the sense of achievement i had today, way back then?

tbh, am really really angry with myself today. yes i'm finally here but, i'd be lyin if i don't feel like i been wastin time and my abilities, by not doin this sooner.

EDIT: forgot to say. mine is the same i think? confirmed on track with a letter that came thru snail mail sayin same thing. don't think we do anything now, jami. we just wait. get enrolled. an present our certs in person at the enrollment.
so far as i know, that is.

I've thought about it alot too. I actually had a very exciting (non-academic) career which I wouldn't have swopped for anything so I'm not angry that I didn't go to university as a teenager. I'm a bit annoyed though that I'm not ten years younger . I have felt angry towards my secondary school teachers though. Why didn't they tell me that I was clever? I have honestly spent the last twenty years thinking that I could never amount to anything because I can't do maths, because I'm not clever enough. I wish I could go and slap their faces with my certificates to show them that I wasn't as stupid as they let me believe.

[wizardtop]

(Original post by ashtoreth)
welllllll...if u could help me sort my life out, i'd be really grateful, however, sayin that's quite a tall order i'll settle for help with mowing the lawn, if u got time pls?

a new course! that sounds interestin, wizard. wot u gonna be doin then, babe?

I be doing another computering course ashtoreth early next year mainly for leisure purposes really.Best of luck to u ashtoreth m8 ^_^ when u start in september.I always have time for my friends

[wizardtop]

(Original post by jami74)
I keep getting my certificates out and having another look. I can't quite believe it either, it is the highest qualification that I have acheived so I am especially proud. And to think I didn't expect to last until Christmas

My Ucas Track says 'Unconditional' although the letter from Ucas said that my place has been confirmed. I'm not sure what else I need to do or if it is just a technicality which will sort itself out.

glad to hear u have now received ur certificates jami74 well done again.

[ashtoreth]

(Original post by jami74)
I've thought about it alot too. I actually had a very exciting (non-academic) career which I wouldn't have swopped for anything so I'm not angry that I didn't go to university as a teenager. I'm a bit annoyed though that I'm not ten years younger . I have felt angry towards my secondary school teachers though. Why didn't they tell me that I was clever? I have honestly spent the last twenty years thinking that I could never amount to anything because I can't do maths, because I'm not clever enough. I wish I could go and slap their faces with my certificates to show them that I wasn't as stupid as they let me believe.

pls'd u had the career at least - i can't even say that much. i coasted and did the bare minimum. too bloody busy partying. worst, i've been to uni twice and dropped out each time! again, too busy havin a good time.
they're so young on here and yet so clued up. makes it worse when i think back to how clueless i was.

and OMG i wish i was 10yrs younger at least, too! just to know that my common sense finally decided to land sooner, rather than as late in the day as it has.
sigh. i never could do maths however, i've spent the last few years bored out my mind and it's my own damned fault. my strong suit was languages and humanities and unlike your situ, my teachers despaired at the way i disregarded all the help and advice i was given. it's unfortunate that u didn't have the encouragement that u should have had. it would have made such a difference to your self-image.

speaking only for myself, what i have achieved in the intervening years since leaving school is maturity. i wish i could say i've had something meaningful happen in the last few years, but i can't. little wonder i am cross with myself today.
ah well, what's done is done. let's just hope i can fulfill the potential my tutors at college said i have.

ps. u should u know. u should go back to your old school an show em. tho not necessarily smack em round the chops. temptin as that might me

[ashtoreth]

(Original post by wizardtop)
I be doing another computering course ashtoreth early next year mainly for leisure purposes really.Best of luck to u ashtoreth m8 ^_^ when u start in september.I always have time for my friends

wizard, s'good to see you're gonna be keeping your hand in, so to spk.

i'm also considering doing a lang. got an email from GCU sayin they're offering em for free. may just take em up on it!

[KatsToes]

(Original post by beanie26)
my goodness, with those marks... why did you change still you've probably got more chance of getting in than some others that are in Clearing!

I decided I don't want to go into nursing! Better to know now than a year later lol. I hope I can get a place, Speech and Lang therapy is really hard to get into and there won't be many places in clearing... thank you I hope I can squeeze in somewhere!

[jami74]

(Original post by wizardtop)
glad to hear u have now received ur certificates jami74 well done again.

Thanks Wizard, glad to hear you will be keeping busy, lol.

ashtoreth we can't change the past but we can change the future and that is exactly what we are doing. I like to think that everything that has happened to me and everything I did (or didn't do) lead me to where I am today so there can't be much regret.

[Dave0j]

Might sound daft but whenever I look at the UCAS points chart I can never see any reference to Access, what does the point scoring system work out as?!

[ashtoreth]

(Original post by Dave0j)
Might sound daft but whenever I look at the UCAS points chart I can never see any reference to Access, what does the point scoring system work out as?!

to the best of my knowledge (and as we were told on our course) - D= an A grade. M = B. P = C.

therefore if u are being asked for majority D's - the uni wants an overall A grade. difficult to translate that into points tho but i've always assumed that if they want D's (as an example) then they want the equivalent of an A (grade) which would equal x number of points (ucas points) as per A level breakdown.

then again, i may have that totally wrong!

[jami74]

(Original post by Dave0j)
Might sound daft but whenever I look at the UCAS points chart I can never see any reference to Access, what does the point scoring system work out as?!

Access courses do not have Ucas points. Offers are usually made on credits and grades, eg: Pass Access course with 36 credits at Distinction and the rest at Merit.

[ashtoreth]

(Original post by jami74)
Thanks Wizard, glad to hear you will be keeping busy, lol.

ashtoreth we can't change the past but we can change the future and that is exactly what we are doing. I like to think that everything that has happened to me and everything I did (or didn't do) lead me to where I am today so there can't be much regret.

meh. have had my 'moment' and today is another day

i sound like scarlet