Results day ...

Daughter opted for postal results too….

(england) A-levels next Thursday with a definite mark needed (ABB) to get to first choice Uni, which after messing up the entrance procedure is now a highly desired outcome - she realised as a result how badly she wants to go to Warwick. So a bit nervous on those and the marking returning to pre-pandemic levels / Unis being strict on requirements because they have been overfull as a result of reduced gradings in the last couple.

And then my son's GCSE's next Thursday 25th. He's had a really hard pandemic / year after of catching up, so just to have this chapter finished will be good. Hopefully results will be OK, definitely need the Maths and English to meet that 5 threshold as so important later on; and also the ones relevant to his future BTec choices, but the rest will be what they will be.

Like flying ant day or cicada season, 'results day' is an amazing natural phenomena where guided by the moon and the movement of the stars teenage girls all over the country instinctively gather in groups of four and simultaneously do a little jump in front of a local president photographer.

^ so true.....
...and the following day the press go mad over 0.00000236% fall in results and deem the Educationm Minister incompetent, all while getting vox-pops off the aforementioned 4 girls and a couple of random parents who feel the education system failed to get Humphrey into Oxbridge...

I think the results drop is going to be more than 0.00000236% .....

The teachers arent liberally dishing out A* to everyone anymore are they?

Results are in here...
3xA's, a B and a D.
😃

…and the following day the press go mad over 0.00000236% fall in results and deem the Educationm Minister incompetent

or

…and the following day the press go mad over 0.00000236% rise in results and deem that standards are dropping and exams are getting easier!

Hopefully MOA_Jnr is pleased with that outcome and it gives him what he needs to do whatever is next.

'opted for postal results'

That's what Junior 1 said 2 years ago when he'd forgot / couldn't be arsed to sign up for the text service 🙂

esults are in here…
3xA’s, a B and a D.
😃

Well done mini OAB!

2 x sets of results in casa OTS today.

Junior 1 has what he needs in his Advanced Highers (2 A's + a B in the Higher subject he took as well) to do what he wants at Glasgow.
Junior 2 has beaten the house record for Nat 5 results (7 A's)

5As here at Higher. She's very happy - and back to practising for her UCAT.

My youngest got straight A’s for her nat5s so happy days here.

Next week for daughter's results, but she already know's her Art result is Distinction (BTEC - 3 A level equiv)- just her Biology A level.

Uni place secure, but it all 'pivots' on the boyfriend whether he get's in. Fortunately she's picked a local Uni, and not one elsewhere in the UK (with boyfriend) as 1. His results aren't predicted to be good enough and 2. He keeps changing his mind about which course). Our worry was he doesn't get in, and she's stuck at the other side of the country. At least if local, she's not 'stuck' if he doesn't get in.

Drives us potty as she followed him to 2 colleges too.

Nice one all.

@poly - a year working and travelling around Canada, Japan, Aus and NZ await mini_oab, so enough time to think about life and actually find what he is properly interested in.

He is already talking about dropping Music Advanced Higher to retake the D in Maths...but already has a Music Diploma so has no need to take the Advanced Higher. I think more frustrating he has to re-take...

He too is also facing the 'go where you want to, not where your mate is going' conundrum.

He too is also facing the ‘go where you want to, not where your mate is going’ conundrum.

Junior 1's mates all seem to be going to a Glasgow-based institution or Aberdeen. I pity those sharing the megabus between the two cities on Fridays and Sundays.

2x A* 1x A 2x B Highers here... very happy!

I hope everyone gets what they need 🤞🏻🤞🏻

My oldest is applying for unis this year and final year IB next.

Same as Peajay here (- except that our youngest is also our oldest).

The teachers arent liberally dishing out A* to everyone anymore are they?

Awfy broad brush that.

Having gone through the tension of the English A level results last year, good luck and congratulations to all those getting results in the couple of weeks.

Well done/good luck to all stw forumite jnrs.

I'll be in pieces in a decade when it's my turn.

Well done to all! Even if they didn't get all they hoped for well done for what they did achieve. It'll work out

Well done, I hope this is on target and all the best for next year and beyond. I remember the horror of the envelope opening

- (I suspect I may have taught mini MOaA at one time).

All highers for our youngest
An A in PE.
Bs in English, computing and biology
Lastly a C in maths.

She might resit maths in 6th year.

But totally out of the blue she said that those results are good enough to do PE teaching!

😃

If anyone is off to Med School i have a lot of recent text books here in Chez Brenin.

I also have some books about writing a personal statement and passing CAT test.

@breninbeener I have a pupil going into S6 hoping to do med but from a household that will struggle with textbook purchases. I'm sure she'd be grateful for any way to reduce costs.

I've got an eye test soon..
Better get revising...

DrP

Tyred Jr was too disorganised to sign up for the text alert, and left for his bike shop summer job about 10 minutes before the postman arrived yesterday with his Higher results so Mrs Tyred spent much of the day trying to stop herself steaming the envelope open.

6 As - now comes the difficult bit as he's not got much of an idea what he might do with them, but for now he's pretty happy. Maybe more relieved than anything!

Ace news 2tyred...

Nice dilemma to have 2tyred! My one has the results needed to take up an offered apprenticeship with a huge engineering company up here, but is now talking S6. I am biting my tongue as it isn’t my life! Results in my subjects are down a fair bit this year, the N5 exam was pretty brutal.

I’ve got an eye test soon..
Better get revising…

It's OK, they show you the answers anyway

A for higher Psychology and a C for Adv Higher physics. Also got a job in morrisons so boy is happy. He couldn't care less about his results. School has put him off learning

..... and the day arrives (well, the first of two, or second of three depending on your perspective)

results available at 8am online on her school account, and then UCAS live at 0815 confirming or denying places, insurance offers, and the great clearing rush.

The papers have been in the main rotten this year, I know it's all selling stories and clicks but doom mongering headlines of tens of thousands not getting their places at Uni and sharp drops in pass rates has not made it an easy week for a cohort that's already dealt with so much. We have had tears and sleepless nights and as scientist Dad i don't do the 'there there' very well, all I can do is point out that even if there is a 'sharp drop' then still 30-odd % of students WILL get A*/A grades, and hundreds of thousands of students WILL get their first choice. I just hope we're one of them.

Hopefully to lighten it a bit. I was the first of my extended family to go to University and we had not a clue about results day or clearing, we were so blase. And we were on a family holiday in Portugal in August 1987 when results came out. We latterly realised this may be an issue if I hadn't got my grades so we tried to make arrangements and a family friend had collected my results from school (it was definitely a slip of paper in an envelope then). We then arranged to phone her up and get the results, and had given her a priority list of other Unis to try if it went shit shaped. God knows what they'd have made of the 'can we speak to him - no - are you his Mum? - no - well wtf are you then?' conversations.

And of course it was well before mobile phones, the villa we were staying in didn't have a phone, so we had to traipse down to the 5* Penina hotel to use their public phone. Which was still the process of give the number to call to the receptionist who made the call and then directed you to a booth where she transferred it. Because it was a 5* hotel my mum insisted we dressed appropriately, even for 9 in the morning or so, and passing guests must have wondered what 4 overdressed oiks were trying to all get in one phone booth. Connection was made but we could hardly hear the line was so bad and all clustered around one receiver, so in the end the receptionist collated the info and I got my results handed to me, as the third person to find out!

I got the grades and the rest is history,

@theotherjonv Excellent!

Nice one Poah. 👍

A* media, A* eng lit, Distinction+ for BTec Performing Arts - so 3x A* equivs

Warwick confirmed. Very happy/relieved.

Thanks again to all who advised over the application debacle too!

Nice one fella! Great results!

Binnerette number one has a B for for English, B for Politics and a C for Psychology and she's happy enough with those, though she thought she might have pushed for an A for her English

She has zero interest in going to Uni, and I don't blame her, so its taking the rest of the summer off having a think about what she does, then job-hunting

The system now is now insane and the pressure placed on 18 year olds is absurd. I feel sorry for them

My mates daughter has just got A*, A & B, and the B means that she now won't be accepted at any of her first choice Uni's so is into clearing. It sounds like everyone is asking for 3 A's

excellent, well done Binnerette. To be able to look in the mirror and be happy with what you did and got is worth more than any grades themselves.

I agree on the other point. Have been following thestudentroom results thread, mainly for advice and protocols if we hadn't got the grades and the offers being made nowadays are mad.

My mates daughter has just got A*, A & B, and the B means that she now won’t be accepted at any of her first choice Uni’s so is into clearing

It can be worrying but also the making of the young person as they have to be self-reliant and they make new friends. Sandwich Jr ended up in Bristol after clearing and never looked back, he's currently doing a Speech and Language Masters at Birmingham. It was his first choice after A Levels but had to go via Learning Disability Nursing to get there 10 years later. He's Bank Nursing to cover living expenses and keep the borrowing down.

A*, A & B isn't shonky though, well done her.

I'm working the on the clearing system at our uni today. Had two calls so far, a complicated rejection where they had points, but not the right A-level subjects to get on so we ultimately had to reject them. The other was a lad who had exceeded his predicted grades and could now come to us.
This is stressful because you want to do right by the applicants

I'm such a woose, I just welled up.

My daughter's best friend had a dream to study medicine. If we were honest, it was probably beyond her, she's an amazing person and would make a fantastic doctor but the grade requirements are so high nowadays it was a stretch too far really and she should have applied for one of the other medical type degrees. But, it was her dream and she went for it. She absolutely filled out the personal statement parts of her application including working evenings and weekends at a geriatric nursing home, where she has cared for the elderly and even sat with them as they passed away when they had no relatives to sit with them.

She got rejected by all but one of her choices, most of them even without interview, based on her predicted grades.

But she never gave up and with one offer in her basket, she worked her arse off and went and got the grades and is now going to Keele to do Medicine*.

Izzy, I'm so proud of you, and your Mum and Dad for backing you 'against the odds'

*and hopefully to be friends with Nello too.

spawn...

might you know - although daughter has aced the A levels grades, her offer says something about 'subject to confirmation of GCSE maths' - do the Uni's have access to that data or does she need to provide it?

@otherjonv When I was involved in admissions, a lifetime ago, the various bits were not well joined up and there was always some horrible tangle where everyone waited for everyone else to do something. What harm would it do for your daughter just to contact the admissions team and send in confirmation of Maths GCSE?

@theotherjonv

I'm not sure tbh. I work in sustainability management; I'm just manning the helpdesk to help out.
Doesn't hurt to have results slip or certificate to hand, but i think records are electronic now.

There are folks who work in student recruitment for Uni's on STW, but i imagine they're busy this morning!!

Daughter got 3x B's. Wanted A's in Politics and History to get into Durham, so quite upset and doesn't want to go anywhere else.

She is currently assessing options of either resitting in November, or seeing if she can get onto a different course at Durham (Liberal Arts)

we'll make a call a bit later, thanks both. After we nearly missed out due to admin cockups, better safe than sorry!!

 It sounds like everyone is asking for 3 A’s

Welcome to grade inflation. Missus is at Manchester, teaches English, from her perspective even some of the kids getting A*'s (have to now otherwise overwhelmed by numbers) are so coached that in reality, they can't manage. Whole system needs a re-think for these kids.

Pleasantly suprised with my results, looks like I am going to Sheffield in the end. Loved the town and the MTBing 🙂

Daughter 3x Distinction* in Art BTEC and B in Biology. Boyfriend 2x Distinction* and 1x Distinction. Both accepted to Manchester Met - School of Digital Art.

Thank god, especially boyfriend getting good results otherwise we'd be in a pickle (Daughter may not have gone).

Unfortunately, entry tarrifs are going up to keep numbers controllable, otherwise you get too many on a course

My Niece is off to Cardiff after taking an extra year to step back, enjoy a third year at college and get two A levels to go with the two and a half she had previously achieved. A in Photography too 😀

Congrats Belgianwaffle! Good effort. You'll love it. 🙂

My lad did not even remember it was results day. His e-mail address has been disabled (I guess as he has now 'finished') and he can't go to the school today as he is already at work where he will have his phone switched off for the day (due to finish at about 2am).

Not the day I was expecting and I have no idea how we will find out his results :-/

I assume as he hasn't been on tenterhooks for weeks then he's not got a Uni place resting on it (and he's already in a job) - so of little consequence really.

Phone the school on his behalf and ask when he can collect them.

You are talking A levels I assume, not GCSE's next Thursday?

did not even remember it was results day.

simply does not not compute compared to this end where every third news article seems to have been around the exam grade meltdown!!

We were getting in the car this morning to pick up results when nervous Daughter1 got a text from Swansea Uni saying 'Congratulations on getting your 1st choice' or something similar. So, the only thing worth knowing then was what grades she's achieved - 2 x A* and an A. She then had a call from the head of department welcoming her, and a message that she's got a bursary. I'm proud.

If anyone is taking their offspring to Swansea Uni and wants to bring a bike, I can show some excellent trails about 5 minutes ride from the uni gates. 😀

Donkeys years ago on my results day I was by far the last one through the door to collect them. I've always been terrible at exams and had almost no expectations for good grades.
In later life I've realised that having a non-linear brain (thoughts are like ping-pongs bouncing around in a box to me) that i'm not suited to the education system's fascination with exams.
I ended up with 2x C's and a D, but that got me into Uni. As i've progressed and moved further away from that formal linear structure in High schools, I've found education easier. I found my recent masters degree much easier than GCSE's!!! I'll probably start a doctorate in the next couple of years

My point is that if you or your offspring hasn't got the grades they wanted or found normal education routes hard, there are options out there and it's not the end of the world!

The Uni's had the results last week, so had all the offers/confirmations ready to roll this morning.

My lad did not even remember it was results day.

classic 😆

shoutout to dozy teenage boys everywhere (I was certainly one)

@theotherjonv He is glad full time education is over. He was found to be dyslexic far too late to be of any use and got rinsed by covid predicted gcse grades based on his results prior to being diagnosed. That meant missing out on the main a-level he wanted to do.

He needs 72 UCAS points from a maximum of three subjects to be able to continue on his newly chosen path, but is taking a year out to earn some money working part time in a pub. Not sure what he/we will do if he does not get the 72 points.

It’s difficult seeing so many multiple A*/A/B results knowing that the education system let him down (along with Covid messing things up for him).

Email address updated by the school, but still waiting for the results over 24 hours later. Son now in Greece waiting to get on a catamaran for a 8 day cruise where there will be little comms.
-sighs-

Well done again folks.

@bentandbroken, not sure what he's got planned but in the end, there's a ton of ways to get on, it's just that you only really hear about "do well at school > go to uni". But there's standalone exams, college, in the end they're just longer routes to the same thing and once you get there nobody cares that it took longer. At my uni, college students made for excecllent degree students frinstance because frankly many kids that go straight from school know **** all about anything except success

Missed this yesterday, but congratulations to all those who got what they needed, and speaking from my own ancient experience*, it isn't the end of the world if you didn't, though it feels like it at the time. Other worlds will open up for you though.

Went through A level results and uni last year - seem to recall MCJnr got an email from the uni confirming his place before he got his grades, so it was a bit of an anti-climax in the end.

GCSE's to look forward to with LittleMissMC next year. Hope she's inherited her mum's/brother's attitude and not mine!

*Looks like I was the same school year as theotherjonv