What would you do if you failed your A-levels?

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  1. EmmaJane_'s Avatar
    1 25-05-2012  18:41
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    What would you do if you failed your A-levels?
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    2 25-05-2012  18:43
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    Re: What would you do if you failed your A-levels?
    Join the army.
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    3 25-05-2012  18:45
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    Re: What would you do if you failed your A-levels?
    Comfort eat until I was the size of a hot air balloon, probably.
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    4 25-05-2012  18:45
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    Re: What would you do if you failed your A-levels?
    redo them and try harder this time
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    5 25-05-2012  18:45
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    Re: What would you do if you failed your A-levels?
    If Resit wasn't an option i'd probably go straight down the RAF route, rather than going after uni to fast-track.
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    6 25-05-2012  18:47
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    Re: What would you do if you failed your A-levels?
    I never did A-Levels. :yeah:
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    7 25-05-2012  18:48
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    Re: What would you do if you failed your A-levels?
    Farm
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    8 25-05-2012  18:48
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    Re: What would you do if you failed your A-levels?
    Resit my subjects. But if not, perhaps find an apprenticeship or something that goes down a similar route.
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    9 25-05-2012  18:48
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    Re: What would you do if you failed your A-levels?
    If you failed so bad that you believed redoing them wouldnt be of a huge advantage but still want to aspirations of going to university. You could always go college and do a Btec course and then go to uni. Its longer and it wont guarrentee you oxbridge material but its a decent avenue
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    10 25-05-2012  18:49
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    Re: What would you do if you failed your A-levels?
    If I have not an GSCE, I would try to get an one. Otherwise I do nothing for school.
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    11 25-05-2012  18:51
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    Re: What would you do if you failed your A-levels?
    I don't know, cry?
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    12 25-05-2012  18:53
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    Re: What would you do if you failed your A-levels?
    carry on living
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    13 25-05-2012  18:55
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    Re: What would you do if you failed your A-levels?
    Cry, feel suicidal for a while, move on and then resit them the following year.

    It would be so disappointing for anyone who put the effort in to do well.
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    14 25-05-2012  18:58
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    Re: What would you do if you failed your A-levels?
    (Original post by Sparkle24)
    I don't know, cry?
    How about suicide? It is an exaggerated emotion in my opinion, but there were people who commit suicide concerning bad marks, why not?
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    15 25-05-2012  19:00
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    Re: What would you do if you failed your A-levels?
    I always joke I'd become a stripper :P
    Seriously, I think I'd go to college or into work .
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    16 25-05-2012  19:02
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    Probably this






















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    17 25-05-2012  19:04
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    Re: What would you do if you failed your A-levels?
    (Original post by Sormi)
    carry on living
    That is the right attitude! What is a paper full of (subjective) marks compared to the life?
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    18 25-05-2012  19:05
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    Forget school, grow vegetables and open a bakery.


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    19 25-05-2012  19:06
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    Re: What would you do if you failed your A-levels?
    It's not something I think about too much as unfortunately a reasonable academic record is all I have going for me in this world; noob at guitar and no real business brain that I know of.
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    20 25-05-2012  19:10
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    Re: What would you do if you failed your A-levels?
    Teach English as a second language in France for six months, return in March to resit my French AS & A2 speaking, then redo both papers in June.

    EDIT: You can **** right off with your negs!
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