What are you expecting? AAAAB (Not sure about general studies)
How will you open them? At school on results day from an envelope
How will you celebrate / react? I probably won't cry unless I get full UMS on everything (lol) or do especially badly (in terms of cambridge applications) such as less than 90% UMS average. If I don't get As in everything but general studies I'll probably isolate myself for a week.
If nothing too drastic then I think I'll celebrate with my friends
AS Hoping for: AAAAA Expecting AAAAB Opening them: At college, in the refectory. Hopefully no cameras. How will I celebrate/react: High five-ing, either someone else or my face.
AS Hoping for: AAAA (not including GS) Expecting: AABB Opening them: In the sixth form centre, as far away from everyone else as I can manage. How I will celebrate/ react: Ice-cream. Either as a consolation or a reward.
This is untrue, UCL has over 46% of students coming from a private school. Durham is about the same, and Bristol is in the 40s, as is St Andrews. Nottingham has over 30%of students from private school, despite its vastly larger student intake. Leeds is a little behind Nottingham on that front.
Sure, ignore the Leeds thing, I don't know where I saw that, but note that Bristol is always above UCL like I said, so no, UCL does take in a lot of state students compared to its comparatives. And sure, the ranking is never exactly the same but the numbers are similar and show you a rough estimate over the years.
Sure, ignore the Leeds thing, I don't know where I saw that, but note that Bristol is always above UCL like I said, so no, UCL does take in a lot of state students compared to its comparatives. And sure, the ranking is never exactly the same but the numbers are similar and show you a rough estimate over the years.
The Russell Group has long sought to widen access across the board to all areas of society, and to not make it a private school's association. The state school figures have improved drastically over the years, even at Oxbridge. Oxford at one point only had 33% of students from state schools, and developed special relations with one private school, and even having a quota of students sent there for interview (heaven knows how they managed to get away with this for a while).
The one thing to bear in mind is quite a few students in the past have come from grammar schools and leading state schools. What matters is how many working class kids from the poorest schools in the UK go to the best universities, and that number will always be low unless special arrangements are made to lower grades.
The rise of Exeter has always been puzzling, it seems very popular with private school kids, but it isn't exactly a Russell Group heavyweight like Nottingham is it? When I list the most desirable universities to attend to, I usually list Durham, UCL, Nottingham, Edinburgh, St Andrews as the obvious ones. Oxbridge is not for me, I've never liked the snobbery and silly notion that these are light years ahead of the others.
The Russell Group has long sought to widen access across the board to all areas of society, and to not make it a private school's association. The state school figures have improved drastically over the years, even at Oxbridge. Oxford at one point only had 33% of students from state schools, and developed special relations with one private school, and even having a quota of students sent there for interview (heaven knows how they managed to get away with this for a while).
The one thing to bear in mind is quite a few students in the past have come from grammar schools and leading state schools. What matters is how many working class kids from the poorest schools in the UK go to the best universities, and that number will always be low unless special arrangements are made to lower grades.
The rise of Exeter has always been puzzling, it seems very popular with private school kids, but it isn't exactly a Russell Group heavyweight like Nottingham is it? When I list the most desirable universities to attend to, I usually list Durham, UCL, Nottingham, Edinburgh, St Andrews as the obvious ones. Oxbridge is not for me, I've never liked the snobbery and silly notion that these are light years ahead of the others.
I agree with what you say, especially about Oxbridge being far better than other unis when they clearly aren't, especially for particular courses such as Engineering. It will always be like that anyway since at poorer schools, they have less resources, not the best teachers and so only very very bright students tend to go to the top 20ish. I guess that's why some unis have special measures such as Bristol's contextual offer etc.
Lol about exeter, it is strange though. One minute I'd never heard of it, the next everyone was on about it. I think it must have gotten really good results or something that year it appeared on the radar.
Do teachers know your results before you do? I think like the deputy heads do, I'm not sure... But its so nerve racking when I walk in to get my results and think 'omg they're probably laughing in their heads because I failed...' lol
Do teachers know your results before you do? I think like the deputy heads do, I'm not sure... But its so nerve racking when I walk in to get my results and think 'omg they're probably laughing in their heads because I failed...' lol
What are you expecting? AAAAB (Not sure about general studies)
How will you open them? At school on results day from an envelope
How will you celebrate / react? I probably won't cry unless I get full UMS on everything (lol) or do especially badly (in terms of cambridge applications) such as less than 90% UMS average. If I don't get As in everything but general studies I'll probably isolate myself for a week.
If nothing too drastic then I think I'll celebrate with my friends
What subjects do you do, and what course are you looking to do?
So funny how people who have put their AS results and no one cares, cause us A2 students, secretly know, this thread was devoted to A2 Results as they weight more importance over AS lool!
I need BBC, hoping ABB.
I shall open my letter probably with friends. However, I shall be checking online UCAS from 7am-9am as this is when my school opens. However, I need I wanna go with friends, so I need to take someone with me. NOT my mother because she is not supportive in the least. So I have just set a reminder to ask a few on Monday 11 August just in case they plan to do the same with someone else!
I shall celebrate with lots, and lots of alcohol regardless. I never celebrated AS results so basically I shall spend Thursday (student night in Birmingham so CHEAP-ASS DRINKS ALL ROUND) and Friday up hitting the clubs...