15 August 2013 A-Level results: Discussion thread - results day is here!

I'm gonnaaa faillllll

I was fine up until the 7 day countdown, now I just have negative thoughts plaguing my mind. All I can think of is the mistakes I made, mistakes I could've made and mistakes I don't even know about. It's such a horrible feeling knowing that in a weeks time we have a 50:50 chance of getting in or not getting in to uni

I was fine up until the 7 day countdown, now I just have negative thoughts plaguing my mind.

I think what makes me panic now has nothing to do with the amount of effort put in,it's about how little mistakes I think i made on the day could cost me big time.

Did anyone else do the stupid thing and put a uni that wants higher grades as an insurance choice?

Slightly regretting that now!

Wow. I'd be a surgeon over your typical doctor any day. But I heard they have to make many sacrifices in terms of social life etc.

Did anyone else do the stupid thing and put a uni that wants higher grades as an insurance choice?

Slightly regretting that now!

I had a dream last night that I got the grades I needed but in tgw wrong subjects.. I got a c in biology when I need a b. I have never been so relieved to wake up. Ugh.

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Hey guys is it true that the Uni's get our A-level results tomorrow ( one week before they are released to students)?

When do uni's get our results and update their decision on ucas?

I can't go in on results day until 10, can you start clearing without your results?


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There is a lot of people I know saying their offers changed from conditional to unconditional. How comes? When do universities receive the A2 a-level results?

So if their offer won't change until the 15th, does that mean, it may change after receiving the results?

Universities have had our results for sometime now, there was an article on the telegraph showing that universities said they had a lot of spaces on clearing this year. Then again that maybe because not enough people applied for certain courses this year?

Did anyone else do the stupid thing and put a uni that wants higher grades as an insurance choice?

Slightly regretting that now!

Did anyone else do the stupid thing and put a uni that wants higher grades as an insurance choice?

Slightly regretting that now!

OK to clear things up again

Unis do NOT have A level results yet (it would be a lot easier if we did!).

UCAS are getting your grades from the exam boards mainly today and tomorrow.

UCAS match those grades with your application and send them on to unis on Saturday/Sunday.

From tomorrow the link between track and the live database at UCAS will be broken.

Unis will spend sunday, monday, tuesday and wednesday manually checking EVERY application (it can't be automated) to see if they've met their offer.

For people who've met their offer or people who've missed their offer that the unis still want to take the unis will send accept/unconditional decisions through to UCAS (who will hold it on their database behind the scenes).

For people who've missed their offer who the universities know they wouldn't accept under any circumstances unis will send reject/unsuccessful decisions through to UCAS (who will hold it on their database behind the scenes).

On results morning Track will go be reconnected to the live UCAS database some time before 8am (but not before 6am) and so will show all the decisions that unis have sent through to UCAS - it then gets disconnected to stop it falling over while everyone and their dog logs on and hits refresh a million times.

At 10 past 8 UCAS will start emailing the people who've got a definite "yes" or a definite "no you're in clearing".

Anyone who doesn't get one of those emails or who has their offer(s) still showing conditional on track will NEED to phone their unis to find out if a decision has been made (some unis are slow sending decisions to UCAS) and if not WHEN a decision will be made.

Once track has been updated around 8am it will NOT update again until about midday (when everyone stops hammering the system a bit).

At 5pm track will be switched back on in full - at this point you can start to add clearing choices and accept/reject and changed course offers.


It's not stupid - lots of students are accepted with lower grades than the offer levels and it all depends on whether the university concerned has got the space/capacity to take those students.

It's better to have a uni you would be happy to go to as your insurance with a high offer than a uni you know you'd be less than happy at with a low offer.

Yes I did :-)

I'll be cracking open a bottle of champagne or a bottle of vodka