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

I am sick of reading this education debate! I read enough and studied enough at AS level Sociology in the education module to know that there is inequality in the education system to a certain extent, it's a proven fact... I don't care if 'richer' people do better than me however, good for them. I'm happy to try my best and that's all any of us can do these days Good luck everyone

DOn't worry, think of it like I do- it's too late to do anything about the grades. Worrying was for the exams, not results day.

I'm sorry, I'm sure you've been asked this before but I was just interested in where your username comes from? Its etymology?

Yeah my teachers said for Drama it might change but a lot of the time Drama never works in our favour cos a lot of people don't get the grade they want first time round, but that's in the written, so hopefully if boundaries change by 2 marks for the performance side then it's all good cos it's not gonna change for the written exam I'm guessing? Cos we did the written in Jan. Or can the boundaries change in August from the Jan one?

Chill. You must be no ARE the exception that proves the rule.

Yeh, EMA sounds poor. Shame, I was just starting to like you, but I make a habit of not befriending poor people. Wouldn't want someone seeing me with them; you can see how that would be embarrassing. I'd be the laughing stock of the country club.

I wasn't trying to be nitpicky. But it's a correlation - as wealth increases, so does intelligence and academic success. It doesn't really matter how you define rich and poor - if one group is richer than the other, it will be more intelligent (so long as you have a large enough and representative sample).

What does that mean?

Must be no are?

Hey! I know grade boundaries are released on wednesday but does anyone know what time they are released? Like at midnight or something?

Then why did prince William get grades ABC at a level and Prince harry get BD only, dropping a subject?

Yet he could go to one of the best unis.

If I got ABC I would find myself in clearing and everyone thinks that is pretty average.

Firstly, it was a few years ago, so expectations weren't as high. Secondly, I hardly think a Prince is a good example of this. I mean,any individual example would be irrelevant and anecdotal, but he's going to be King. Surely the university would take him just to say we taught the future King.

But rich people are more intelligent on average. Like I said, it's an undeniable fact. Care to tell me how wealth is the most important factor in academic success?

no I totally disproved your point, they both went to Eton, are incredibly wealthy and from a lineage of wealth and they are not that intelligent. Seeing as A levels are harder now even an ABC now is better than that result.

hmm yeah I guess. It's just scary to think there's nothing I can do to change it now! But what's done is done. It's annoying though that if we need to do retakes we can't do them in January, we have to do them in June :/

A Levels are not harder now, grades have been increasing.

You've shown that rich people can go to Eton and not succeed academically. OK, this also disproves the point that wealth can buy education and make people succeed, the point I was arguing against. But mostly it proves jack ****. This is one example of one family. I said that wealth was correlated with intelligence. Do you not understand what correlation means? It means that on average rich people are smarter, but that not all rich people are smart and not all poor people are stupid. Your example proves nothing except that you have a fundamental misunderstanding of statistics.