2021 A/AS Results Day Countdown: today is the day - well done everyone!

Ok let's break it down Firm is X, insurance is Y
X -CF, Y-CI - neither has decided ring firm
X-CF, Y-UI - insurance has accepted but firm not decided. Ring firm
X-CF, Y-R - insurance has rejected, firm not decided. Ring firm.
X-UF, Y-CI, firm accepted, insurance not decided. Celebrate.
X-UF, Y-UI, both accepted. You're going to your firm. Celebrate.
X-UF, Y-R, firm accepted, insurance rejected. You're going to your firm. Celebrate.
X-R, Y-CF firm rejected, insurance not deciding. Ring insurance.
X-R, Y-UF firm rejected, insurance accepted. Celebrate
X-R, Y-R both rejected. You're in clearing.
This ignores changed course offers which either university can make. Both universities do their own thing. They don't have time to look what the other is doing.

Anyone already worried/thinking about it?

Yep - I've been having horrible nightmares about it. I really want to meet my offer conditions and will be devastated if I don't. I'm honestly terrified I won't meet my conditions of A*AA cause of the exams. Some ppl in my year had access to the questions beforehand for subjects like Chem and Bio so I'm worried that the grade boundaries will be unfair. I guess I can't be worried about that now since it's in the past and look ahead to the future but it is unnerving. My insurance choice gave me a contextual offer of AAB which is great honestly but I really want to go to my Firm. Oooof I'm so stressed!

I'm terribly sorry for blurting this all out and causing more people stressed! At least we can all put our worries here in a safe space and relate to one another?

Good luck everyone <3

I've also been having nightmares like I had a nightmare where I got a D in one of my mini assessments and an E overall in sociology. I feel like at least one of my assessments for each subject went really badly and I feel like it could reduce my grades
I wish I could be less worried- I overthink everything and I can be quite negative so I'm constantly thinking what results will I get? then if I imagine a positive result I straight away tell myself stop thinking like that or you'll set yourself up for disappointment

Yep - I've been having horrible nightmares about it. I really want to meet my offer conditions and will be devastated if I don't. I'm honestly terrified I won't meet my conditions of A*AA cause of the exams. Some ppl in my year had access to the questions beforehand for subjects like Chem and Bio so I'm worried that the grade boundaries will be unfair. I guess I can't be worried about that now since it's in the past and look ahead to the future but it is unnerving. My insurance choice gave me a contextual offer of AAB which is great honestly but I really want to go to my Firm. Oooof I'm so stressed!

I'm terribly sorry for blurting this all out and causing more people stressed! At least we can all put our worries here in a safe space and relate to one another?

Good luck everyone <3

Yes I am worried too and have been having nightmares too I cannot lie. It’s not a nice feeling. I have an A*AA offer too and am worried I may not make it. I also am a bit worried about what my school will do and whether it will be fair or not.

I've also been having nightmares like I had a nightmare where I got a D in one of my mini assessments and an E overall in sociology. I feel like at least one of my assessments for each subject went really badly and I feel like it could reduce my grades
I wish I could be less worried- I overthink everything and I can be quite negative so I'm constantly thinking what results will I get? then if I imagine a positive result I straight away tell myself stop thinking like that or you'll set yourself up for disappointment

The last bit about imagining a positive result and immediately dismissing it is what I do too but it's so toxic and detrimental to our well being and self-confidence. It's so hard for me to tell it to myself and accept it but I hope it's easier for you to accept it - you did amazing in your exams and I'm 1000000% sure that no matter what happens you'll be fine I promise x if anything I doubt you'll get a D and overall E grade... the fact that you care so much about your exams and want to do incredibly well in them shows that you worked hard and it hopefully paid off.

Dw guys no matter how pessimistic I will be about everything I'll keep us all in my prayers and pray that we get the grades we want and get into the unis/apprenticeships/whatever we want to do after exams x

May I ask what course and uni you firmed and insured? and what were their offer conditions?


Also the same questions for you if I may? sorry, i'm a curious cat

I honestly hope we're all overthinking it - I don't know how the year 13s last year dealt with this... so many flaws in this system ughhhhhhhh worrying about this more is no good

let's change the topic for a moment to ease the nerves... what music artisits do you all like? random question lol

I’ve taken a whole year to get into my dream uni and need just one A to do so, already have an A* and an A. Will be so so depressed if I miss it like honestly devastating. But having experienced teachers snaking my grades last year (sat autumn exams to get the grades I currently have), Ive become a very doubtful person. Hopefully everything works out for everyone!!

I’ve taken a whole year to get into my dream uni and need just one A to do so, already have an A* and an A. Will be so so depressed if I miss it like honestly devastating. But having experienced teachers snaking my grades last year (sat autumn exams to get the grades I currently have), Ive become a very doubtful person. Hopefully everything works out for everyone!!

Thanks that means a lot
I definitely do have low self confidence, which is partly because I'm naturally a shy/introverted/not confident person but I think it got worse at GCSE when I was in a very academic friendship group where people constantly made comparisons and had very high expectations so that environment made me set high expectations for my GCSEs that I didn't meet so through the whole of A levels I've tried not to think about the sorts of grades I'd be happy with or what grades I have the potential and whenever I got a high mark, grade or predicted grade I just thought that the teacher was either marking too leniently, was deluded or it was just luck, even if I knew deep down it was due to my hard work

it's honestly spooky how we're so similar

I get you - it's so exhausting trying to meet everyone's expectations...it's come to the point where i've set unrealistically high expectations :/

you have worked incredibly hard and your teachers know you have too - this might be imposter syndrome kicking in. just know that whatever grades you receive (i hope they're amazing and make you happy btw) are YOUR grades and can't be compared to anyone else. also, grades don't define you btw

It's completely and perfectly fine and okay to not be the smartest person in the room, but it's not okay to not be the most hardworking. If you're hardworking and try to improve your goals then no one can take that away from you. hard work is what matters and just by reading your posts i can tell that you've got this in the bag

We haven’t had it easy this year. Not at all. It’s not been nice at all. It’s been too unpredictable.

I've been making a conscious effort not to think about it lol. My friends and I had a discussion about whether we should look on UCAS first to see if we got into our firms or if we should open our results first and see what grades we got and honestly it made me really freaked out cuz it dawned on me that results day decides what we're gonna do in September ahhh