If you won £100 million, would you still sit your A-levels?
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If you won £100 million, would you still sit your A-levels?I've asked this question to a lot of people at school and most have said that they would not sit their A-level exams, even if they were the next day, if they'd won an x amount of money.
Would you still sit your exams? How about in these situations:
- won the money a month before A2 exams
- won the money the night before your last A2 exam
- won the money in your AS year
- would you go on to go to university?
Personally, if I've made all this effort up until now (end of A2s) I'd like to finish my exams and still try to do well in them. Maybe if I'd won it in my AS year though I'd have a think about whether I wanted to continue or not. And I'm not sure if I would still go to university or not.
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Re: If you won £100 million, would you still sit your A-levels?IMO it would be waste to throw away all the hard work, energy and time spent on them to just not turn up to the exam! For personal gain I'd like the satisfaction of receiving a decent grade to reflect all the effort I put in across the years. Besides, anything can happen to that money and you may need to have a good set of A-levels as back up!
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Re: If you won £100 million, would you still sit your A-levels?id do them - id need something to fill my say 60-70 more years of life, i couldnt just potter about...
id still go to uni etc...
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Re: If you won £100 million, would you still sit your A-levels?Well I have already done my A levels and am at university currently, but the same would apply with university exams - of course I would still sit them. Regardless of the money I enjoy university and want to finish my degree. I want a working life (for the job I want I need a degree) and not one where I just potter around all day as I technically wouldn't need to if I had won that money - I would be so bored! I love dashing about and being busy
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Re: If you won £100 million, would you still sit your A-levels?Some kids on TSR already won life's lottery and they carry on doing their studies, so presumably the answer for most would be yes - life would be a bit shallow with no education and no University experience. Look at Emma Watson - she's got tens of millions - and is still doing her degree.
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Re: If you won £100 million, would you still sit your A-levels?I was reading something about her this very morning(Original post by Fires)
Some kids on TSR already won life's lottery and they carry on doing their studies, so presumably the answer for most would be yes - life would be a bit shallow with no education and no University experience. Look at Emma Watson - she's got tens of millions - and is still doing her degree.
she got AAA at A-level on top of everything else she does!
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Re: If you won £100 million, would you still sit your A-levels?But where's the satisfaction in that?(Original post by UsualStudent)
For a hunderd mill you could buy your own academy and award self 10 A*s.
Plus ten A*s at GCSE, if I remember correctly.(Original post by britchick)
I was reading something about her this very morning she got AAA at A-level on top of everything else she does!
For the record, I'd definitely take them, and I'd go to university, and I'd do a Masters. I want to do that anyway, so being able to do all of that - plus possibly a doctorate - without financial pressure would be ideal. -
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Re: If you won £100 million, would you still sit your A-levels?Even if I'd won 100 million in my GCSE years it wouldn't have stopped me taking my A levels. I'd still want to go on to university. I'd invest my money in property until I left university. I'd then travel the world and work as a freelance writer, write a few books and maybe after a few years experience use my money to fund a film that I've written. No matter how much money I had though, I'd still want an education purely out of love for my subjects!(Original post by britchick)
I've asked this question to a lot of people at school and most have said that they would not sit their A-level exams, even if they were the next day, if they'd won an x amount of money.
Would you still sit your exams? How about in these situations:
- won the money a month before A2 exams
- won the money the night before your last A2 exam
- won the money in your AS year
- would you go on to go to university?
Personally, if I've made all this effort up until now (end of A2s) I'd like to finish my exams and still try to do well in them. Maybe if I'd won it in my AS year though I'd have a think about whether I wanted to continue or not. And I'm not sure if I would still go to university or not.
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Re: If you won £100 million, would you still sit your A-levels?I would still have taken my A levels and gone to university. It would be nice not having to worry about money but I would still go. I might then do postgrad study and become a doctor (not a medical doctor an academic one). Then I would probably buy my own land and manage it with the skills that I have learnt from my degree. Doing this degree means that I get to learn about why I would conserve things and some techniques to do so as well as surveying techniques. I would not want to do nothing when I am older so having my own land would mean that I would not have to worry about finding a job, of which there are not too many in the career I want to go into, but I would still be doing what I want to do and still be making a difference.
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Re: If you won £100 million, would you still sit your A-levels?yeah money is a fluid thing that £100 million could leave you the next year if ur not careful. so id still sit my exams, go to uni, graduate as a pharmacist, open my own pharmacy or maybe even a small industry with that money and help those in need of good medicines
Short Answer Hell No!!
