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Results day. Should I be happy?

Well - should I be happy to have come out with the grades that I did and still see half my friends fail to get into uni or get grades they deserved?

One of my friends was only allowed to do 3 AS levels, not 4. He got DDU (despite having ten free periods, most of which when he would normally have a fourth A-level subject, which he worked through on English coursework and trying to get to grips with German, and despite asking me at least once a day to explain something about German to him), and is having to quit the school. Another one of my friends has worked his arse off for a while and didn't meet either of his uni offers today. I find it very difficult to be happy at all while this is going on. I cannot sit back and pretend everyone's as pleased with their results as me, and yet I obviously can't do a thing about it, and I can't say a thing to distract them and take their minds off it. I can't talk about how happy I am and I can't comfort those who aren't happy. :confused: What the hell am I meant to do? Loads of people that didn't deserve it got AAAA. Loads of people that deserved better failed. I'd go out (or even stay in) and celebrate but, to be honest, this has made me a bit depressed. No one else I like is ****ing celebrating.

God, I hate results day.

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Reply 1
It's ****e isn't it. Some of my best mates missed their offers from the cream of UK universities, LSE, Cambridge, Warwick, etc. This is why me and my mates all went to the pub last night so that if one of us did miss our grades for our university we'd have still had one good night out.
Not a bad idea. I'll do that next year before my A-level results. :smile:
Reply 3
You get out of life what you put in. No one deserved any better or worse than what they got.
Juwel
You get out of life what you put in. No one deserved any better or worse than what they got.

That, my dear Juwel, is a stupid thing to say. The guy I mentioned didn't deserve to be forced to leave school, for reasons I gave.
Juwel
You get out of life what you put in. No one deserved any better or worse than what they got.


Easy enough said for some people. However, others have to go through alot of bad stuff whilst sticking in alot of effort in to their studies and because of all this other crap they may **** up.

EG i got EUuu at college - was told i'm finnished.
Next year i got AAAB :smile:

The effort was about the same.
Indeed. Sadly, the optimum age for getting qualifications seems to clash with, you know, adolescence, responsibility and some mad parent disorder that no one's ever been able to track down fully.

^ Well done. :smile:
Reply 7
Some people aren't cut out for Uni and a-levels. They shouldn't have been encouraged to do them in the first place if they come out with those sorts of grades having worked hard. The only reason it's **** is because society tells 16 year olds that A-levels and uni are the only thing that it's worthwhile doing which is just so untrue.
Reply 8
...and then the media bitch about how worthless all the grades we got are because they're so bloody easy nowadays. :rolleyes:
Reply 9
DaintyDuck!
OMG! Thank god somebody else isn't totally in Results Heaven.
I got AAB, and got what I needed for Warwick, my friend got BBB and my best friend got AAA. So we were all happy. But then, a very close friend of mine didn't do great and wants to get a job now. Another friend worked so hard to get in for Optometry and totally did not get the right grades :frown:
So I was a bit unhappy, despite being overwhelmed with my Mod marks.

Then it got worse, I got home and my best friend who is doing same course as me and same uni (we didn't do this on purpose!), checked track and hers said unconditional. Mine still said conditional. I found out that Warwick were missing my Maths AS. I was on the phone all day, and was not happy at all. - I am a very nervous person, and trust nobody to do their job properly. So whilst my friends were out celebrating, I was in home totally p***ed off. I have been in the local paper twice, saying how I am in Warwick yet still am not officially. I am one of those people who likes to see it in black and white and stamped for me to know I can celebrate. So I've worked so hard and then somebody makes a mistake and I have to pay for it.

Exams day is sh**. Totally whack. You can't act happy because other people aren't. So you end up in mind numbing limbo!!



This place gets funnier everyday. you got in. who cares, they made a mistake, mistakes happen. You got the grades, you should've gone out.
Reply 10
Jelkin
...and then the media bitch about how worthless all the grades we got are because they're so bloody easy nowadays. :rolleyes:


Argh that annoys me so, so much! They're not the ones having to do them - they've done their exams! So stop going on at us! Baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah

I think that probably what they mean is that A-levels are probably more reader-friendly than they were - they're written in slightly more simple language, etc...but they're not easier, no way.
Who the hell decides someone who gets AAAA doesnt deserve it?
Yeah...its always gonna happen. Theres always people who say that exams are easier.
generalebriety
Loads of people that didn't deserve it got AAAA.
That's NOT true. The amount of work that has to be put in to get AAAA is ridiculous. Maybe people who got 4A's lead you to believe that they didn't put the work in, but it takes a LOT of hard work to achieve. I didn't go out with my friends really or even see my boyfriend for more than a few hours a week the month leading up to exams.
oxygenbubbles
That's NOT true. The amount of work that has to be put in to get AAAA is ridiculous. Maybe people who got 4A's lead you to believe that they didn't put the work in, but it takes a LOT of hard work to achieve. I didn't go out with my friends really or even see my boyfriend for more than a few hours a week the month leading up to exams.


That's not necessarily true, either. I managed four As (just), and I can assure you that I absolutely did not put enough effort in to deserve those grades. The vast majority of my study leave was spent watching DVDs and discussing Big Brother online. My grades came from a mixture of brilliant luck with essay questions and an ability to work well in exam situations, not hard work and conscientiousness.
In my personal oppinon you don't need uni as much as people think. I failed all of my A levels, yeh i was bothered at first, but now i am in a good job and all of my friends who have just finished uni are struggling to get work. Yes i started on low pay and at the bottom, but that just makes me better at what i do now. IMO the grades reflect how much effort you put in. I was more interested in having a laugh at school and seeing my mates, but i don't regret any of it because i wouldn't have done any better had i gone to uni.
oxygenbubbles
The amount of work that has to be put in to get AAAA is ridiculous


Thats not true.
I'm going anonymous to avoid being accused of 'boasting' or being 'arrogant', and also I'm not going to exaggerate any of this at all.

Throughout the whole AS/A2 course I did less than 1 hour of work outside of lessons per week, with the exception of coursework, in which case EVERY time I did 90% of it the night before the deadline.

Coming up to the summer A2 exams, I did about 20 hours revision total outside the lessons at school in which we had some time for revision after finished the course.

Thats 5 hours each subject in my own free time.

The subjects I was doing are double maths, physics and chemistry.

This amount of work is immensly small, yet was enough to get straight A's.

I could tell how much work I needed to put in, and I did as much as I needed, however admittedly I'm very lucky to be able to get away with this.

Does this mean I don't deserve to get AAAA, generalebriety? Of course I deserve it. Getting the grades through 'natural' ability is just as praise-worthy as working your ass off for the same result.
Juwel
You get out of life what you put in. No one deserved any better or worse than what they got.


I have to disagree with that totally, yesterday my brother and his girlfriend were getting results and my brother got into his firm uni, but his girlfriend didnt and boy was a upset for her,

she is as bright as anything and worked so incredible hard but on the eve of exams starting her parents told her they were divorcing and being close to both her parents she fell to pieces but still went through with her exams and her results reflected how much this didnt help..

and she didnt get into her firm and she deserved to so much, it wasnt her fault at all she missed her grades.
Reply 18
I'm in the same boat to a certain degree. I have one friend, who although is a bit of a slacker, deserved to get the grades to get into in first choice uni place. He's one of the smartest people i know but he doesn't put enough effort into performing well at college. He's going to do an alternative course now through clearing at a very good university, and he doesn't seem too fussed, so that's fine.

I also have another friend, who was one of the top performers at GCSE level at my old school. He clearly had high ambitions and he was holding an offer for a competitive subject at a great uni but he didn't meet the offer. Now I know this person tried very hard to do well, yet now he's stuck in the position of either doing a lesser subject at university, essenetially nullifying all the extra work he'd done, or resitting.
Reply 19
Anonymous
Does this mean I don't deserve to get AAAA, generalebriety? Of course I deserve it. Getting the grades through 'natural' ability is just as praise-worthy as working your ass off for the same result.
You took the words right out of my keyboard.

Although I got AAA I should note that in the subjects in which I put more effort I got higher marks (English: 568 / Law: 574 (300/300 for A2)) and in the subject that I put in a bit less effort I got lower marks (History: 519). While I'm sure I could have scraped over the A boundary by not putting in any effort, I get far more satisfaction from knowing that I went quite far over the boundary and that the extra effort did count for something, although in the overall scheme of things, it doesn't as my grades would be the same.