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

Strangely he's gone quiet. Amazing how many people are happy to bleat about Gove being some sort of evil Gradgrind, but can't back up their claims

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Just had a dream where I got A*A*A instead of A*A*A* and got rejected from oxford, so I spent the next three years in a crappy non oxbridge school like everybody else Neg me normies

Yes I was! I'm very intrigued to see the mark scheme for the exam, due to all the controversy there was when we all tried to make an unofficial mark scheme! xD

Yes I feel the same. I will be devastated if I score below that as I worked incredibly hard for all of them. Higher scores would be nicer, though!

I'm bricking it for chemistry, it was the exam that went the worst for me and is the subject I want to study at university! If I do badly in it I can't apply to the top ones

Do you know what you want to do at university?
Have you started the dreaded personal statement yet?

Out of all of the trolls, you have the worst name ever.

It's fair for you to have that prediction, but the entirety of the Russell Group, including Oxbridge, disagree with you. I believe that making it even more dependent on exams will have a great effect on social mobility. You can have a different opinion, but that doesn't invalidate mine when bodies from both sides of the debate have a very negative opinion on Gove and his reforms, including most teachers.

Just because he came from an 'ordinary' background, it doesn't mean he's not an elitist person. Thatcher came from a very working class background, that didn't stop her from smashing the poor and making the UK perhaps the most unequal society in the West. She still acted upon helping the privileged. What Gove is doing to affect education, in my opinion, justifies calling him elitist and indifferent. I'm not sure I have any empathy for him just because he happens to have worked his way up from a still fairly well off starting point.

It's fair for you to have that prediction, but the entirety of the Russell Group, including Oxbridge, disagree with you. I believe that making it even more dependent on exams will have a great effect on social mobility. You can have a different opinion, but that doesn't invalidate mine when bodies from both sides of the debate have a very negative opinion on Gove and his reforms, including most teachers.

I wouldn't say it's coincidental that wealth and intelligence are correlated, it's because the parents who earn a lot usually have good degrees and pass on their academic genes to their children.

I don't see why so many people see this as a problem

Ah...

I have finished my 'dreaded' PS and I'm relieved...
I started mine mid-May on small, small instalments...






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OMG, you're so lucky. Some of us have to PAY for our meals.

Given the quality of school food I'd say I paid dearly for it.

(Could be worse though - hospital food...)

I think you'll find that richer people tend to get into better universities because they are more intelligent. I don't think it's fair that rich kids are more intelligent, but it is an undeniable fact. Wealth is strongly correlated with intelligence, but that correlation is mostly coincidental - you don't need money to raise a smart child.

It's fair for you to have that prediction, but the entirety of the Russell Group, including Oxbridge, disagree with you.

Given the quality of school food I'd say I paid dearly for it.

(Could be worse though - hospital food...)

They're not more intelligent than anyone else. What rubbish. That is the height of snobbery. You're mistaking intelligence with better-educated. The difference in educational output between kids who go to state schools and kids who go to private schools is a big one, that's why they seem more intelligent - they glisten with the sheen of an expensive, superlative education which most people can't access! Wealth has no correlation with intelligence. A good education is the result of dedication, not the speed of which someone can work out the square root of 1 million.

Gove is making his reforms in order to give everyone an excellent education, regardless of where they are from. Whether or not he is achieving this is irrelevant, you accused him of being elitist, when his policies are made with the public intention of improving education in general. Now, you may say that in private he actually wants to make education elitist, but when he mentions his intentions, they are always pro-social-mobility.

Rubbish. Wealth is highly correlated with intelligence, from the earliest ages. Before children start education, richer children are already about a year above their poorer peers.

Yeah, my insurance is De Montfort, but that was largely because this time last year, I really wanted it as my firm mostly because I didn't think I could get into Winchester, but then they offered me less points and I took it as an insurance, then I looked at the course modules and I don't really like them, plus I haven't been to see the university, so i'm like that get in to my firm. I know London is great for Media, but most of my friends are going to places like Hertfordshire for that. its not that far from London, but its far enough that they could live there but still come home often xD Do you have an ideal uni already?