The official A level results day thread 18/8/2011

Will we be able to see our grades on UCAS? Or just whether we've gotten into university?
Butterflies thinking about it

I wish I could fast forward this part of my life! I hate all this anticipation!!!!

Don't give up hope you may have got the A! Well yeah I need an A* but I already got it back in Jan lol.

Yeah you can be the 'special' law student not many do maths either i've found out in my personal experience.

Ah, congrats on that!

To be fair, I worked out I have around 75% raw marks in Maths (had a sneaky check at the answers on TSR), so it depends how the UMS grade boundaries work out this year.

Does anyone else have moments of "Yeah, I've done fine" and then other moments of "DEAR GOD HOW AM I SUCH AN IDIOT I HAVE FAILED EVERYTHING"? It's getting kind of frustrating, because I have really no idea what to prepare myself for come results day. :|

Thanks!

Well good luck, hope you'll get the A!

Also hispanic law looks interesting and different.

I figured it would be an interesting twist on straight law. I'll get my basic law degree, which will allow me the same ability to practice law in the UK as your average law student, but it'll be a law degree "with knobs on" as my Maths teacher would say. Hoping it'll boost my employment prospects!

What are your plans post-uni?

Looks like it's good going in terms of employment oppurtunities!

Dunno I haven't given it much though. A few months ago I was thinking of becoming a researcher but then I feel it would be overkill.

Yup

What have you done this time around ?

Does anyone else have moments of "Yeah, I've done fine" and then other moments of "DEAR GOD HOW AM I SUCH AN IDIOT I HAVE FAILED EVERYTHING"? It's getting kind of frustrating, because I have really no idea what to prepare myself for come results day. :|

the most daunting thing is knowing that in the next week or so our grades will be finalised

the most daunting thing is knowing that in the next week or so our grades will be finalised

Does anyone else have moments of "Yeah, I've done fine" and then other moments of "DEAR GOD HOW AM I SUCH AN IDIOT I HAVE FAILED EVERYTHING"? It's getting kind of frustrating, because I have really no idea what to prepare myself for come results day. :|

the most daunting thing is knowing that in the next week or so our grades will be finalised

Really???

the most daunting thing is knowing that in the next week or so our grades will be finalised

I'm not sure if the grades be 'finalised' but they'll have been marked for sure. Then they check the marks and look for inconsistencies, some will get remarked, some will get sampled (maybe? :P). Then there's the logistics of getting all the marks together and making grade boundaries - so marking needs to be done relatively quickly! It's 5 weeks and 2 (almost 1!) days until results which is actually quite close.