Razzz Rises Up: A Year 13 GYG

Well done Razz, it's worked out well in the end and you are right to be happy with yourself!

French emoji =

Please tag me in your blogs going forward

Congratulations on the uni place!

Good to hear your insurance gave you the place you deserved!

Good luck and enjoy

Congrats on the grades and getting in uni!!!
Please keep me tagged on the new blog if you’re making one

massive congratulations, i'm sorry results day didn't go exactly to plan but it seems like you already have an excellent perspective on things and got some great stuff planned!! you should be proud regardless looking forward to reading your next gyg

Thank youuu Auntie TLG

YEAH I've been looking for that one for ages!!!

I will do, you too! xx

OFFICIAL POST #6 - Out with the old, in with the new...


Hi everyone! I hope you're all okay and doing well . Thought I'd pop in to let you know the story of results day and all that jazz!



Sooo...what happened on results day?
Everything!

I woke up around 7:30 because it turned out that my biological clock decided to give me an extra hour of anxiety, but I just had some juice and decided to go with the flow. I wanted to check Track first, just so I could see the situation with unis before I made any other steps. I log into Track at 8:30 aaaaand...nada. Nothing. The site was down for about 15 minutes for me and I figured it was because everyone was logging on at the same time.

I was fine until I opened my results, which were *insert drum roll*:


Okay. Well. That’s new. Considering I was predicted AAB and I didn’t think I entirely flopped the May mini exams, I seriously thought that worst case scenario would be BBB. Boy, was I wrong!

For those of you that don’t know, my firm university (first choice) was SOAS, who’s requirement were relaxed to AAB because of the disruptions COVID-19 made. City was my insurance university (second choice) and they had given me a conditional offer of BBB. The C in History had me freaking out thinking I’d got into neither and since Track wasn’t updating (we’d reached about 9:30am at this point), I assumed it was just a glitch whilst I was being moved into Clearing.

Then started the frantic Clearing phone calls . I started with London South Bank University, the unconditional offer I declined in place of City, who generously gave me a place since I exceeded their clearing requirements. London Metropolitan, Westminster and Greenwich soon followed, and I PMed @04MR17 in the midst of my nervous breakdown (shoutout to MR by the way, what an absolute legend for PMing me back quickly and keeping me calm!).



I was juggling calls whilst trying to contact City through clearing, since their Clearing requirements were CCC. I exceeded these and gave it a shot through their online system, but it wasn’t working…

@04MR17 told me that this glitch usually occurred when the firm university wanted to change their offer and he was right! I was on the line with UCAS when my Track changed - SOAS was offering me another course! It turns out they wanted to offer me Business, Management, Economics & Law with Foundation Year. This was kind of them, but I had my heart set on the LLB for a while now and I wasn’t too keen on taking up the Business/Econ side of things, especially if I had offers for LLB elsewhere. Sadly, I declined SOAS. UCAS then let me know my account was being extra glitchy, but I had a place at City who turned my offer unconditional!

So…your girl is off to do Law (LLB) at City, University of London!



Side note: To future years reading my story, please do not stress like I did! Results Day is usually a lot less stress than mine was. Also, the people on the Clearing helplines are AMAZING at knowing what to say to keep you calm should your results not go as expected. It’s #YourPathYourFuture!

How do I feel about my grades?
Don’t get me wrong, I’m grateful for the grades I achieved. It’s not what I expected but I’m happy I was able to go somewhere I had on my preferred list, despite it not being my first choice. I’m a tad disappointed in some of the grades though and I certainly wasn’t expecting History to go how it did. I decided not to resit or appeal as it would apparently risk my university place, but I’ve been told that if I do well in university, it should trump the grades I received now. If anything, I want this blog and my results day story to be a reminder that there is no “end of the road” - there are ALWAYS opportunities ahead of you. Don’t give up!

What’s next?
- I’m off to university and a new academic journey, so that calls for a new GYG! I’ll be making one in the next few weeks, so please let me know if you want to be tagged in the new blog.
- I’m going to continue taking piano lessons and exams during uni, or at least for first year!
- I also am planning on taking French lessons at City, so I’ll keep you posted on how that goes *French emoji*
- Since I live in London and City’s campus is, well, in the City, I’m getting a new job in my local area as a tutor in a tuition centre, teaching primary/secondary school students English Literature and Language! Looking forward to teach my second love hehe

These bullet points are the ones I’m certain on, but knowing my life there’s no doubt there’ll be surprises on the way, so make sure you stay tuned to the new blog or my personal thoughts blog for the bREaKinG neWs .



That’s a wrap for this year folks! Thank you so so so so so much for your support throughout this whole process and congratulations to all of you who have had achievements of their own this year! I’m so proud of seeing out TSR community go out into the big wide world and conquer their own challenges, it’s truly amazing to see. If you have your own blog for next year, tag me in it please!

Love you all lots! :group hugs:

Razzz xx


Final taggles:
@5hyl33n
@chibibotto
@mez_merising
@Chronoscope
@Becca216
@neko no basu
@cryinqclouds
@Shafxx
@clouddbubbles
@StudentMania
@LovingLucy
@jemima0103
@OnAndOff
@DrawTheLine
@absolutelysprout
@flaurie
@6ambz
@The_Lonely_Goatherd
@Sinnoh
@Muttley79
@nightingalegend
@jadarose
@barror1
@I AM GROOT 1

@CheeseIsVeg

Your GCSE blog really doesn't feel that long ago, and now you're off to uni woooooow

Congrats on getting in!

hey congrats on getting into uni! you should be proud of what you have achieved x
please tag me in your next gyg

You're welcome! Also I totes forgot to say: all the best people miss their offer grades! Unbiased opinion, obviously So don't worry about it at all, or let it drag you down. Hold your head high: you are our Razzz and we think you're AWESOME

Well done!!!
Please tag me in further blogs as I LOVE reading yours

Very well done Razz and some fab advice for others too wishing you all the best for the start of uni! Hope you're excited, it's gonna be awesome hope you celebrated lots!!

Ah I'm so late to the party but congrats!!! I can guarantee that no-one is going to care about your A-level grades when you finish your LLB. Heck, I'm not even putting mine on my masters application 😂

I'm so happy that you got one of your preferred choices, enjoy City!