What did you get for your A Levels (if you did them)? (Trigger warning - a levels 💐🫂)

E- Spanish
E- French
U- Maths

I also took 2 O'levels in 6th form
B- General Paper
C- Computer Studies

I didn't go to uni but my employer gave new employees with A levels an enhanced salary.

BCCD, because for some reason I took up a 4th A Level in year 13 and squeezed two years of work into one.

Was good enough to get into my first choice university thankfully, but then I dropped out of uni before my final year so was a bit of a waste (tbf I didn't want to drop out but the university wouldn't agree to me doing the final year by distance learning because I didn't want to move back to the UK)

A1, A1, B. 1984.

@GertrudePerkinsPaperyThing I also dropped a grade but was taken by first choice uni.

feels like a real sliding doors moment. My second choice tends to produce grads who stay local. If I’d gone there my life would have been so different. Maybe I would have met someone, maybe I’d have had children!

I like my current life but I find the possibilities interesting.

BBBC in the late 90’s, all science subjects. Luckily I came from a state school in a deprived area so university offer was lower than the standard AAA.

I got AAAA (before A*s). I was at a state school, and became the first in my family to head to Uni after that - went to Oxford. Results day was a happy day!

BCD in history, maths and chemistry. My university offer was BCC but they still took me (Durham 30 years ago). I was really upset about the D but now can't remember if it was chemistry or maths! Chem I think.

A English LIt
A General Studies
B History
B Geog

S level English Grade 1

I took my A levels in the 70s and honestly, younger people - hardly anyone got straight As in those days. My friend who got into Oxford got ABCD.

I feel for all the youngsters today - I think it's worse now when everyone expects to do so well.

My eyes did water. The little boy and I had become quite attached to one another. I can still hear his little voice saying 'Est-ce que ça veut dire que tu peut rester?, and his big blue eyes and curly blond hair.

My offer from London university was 2 x Es! So I felt that I had achieved my good grades, as they were at the time, for myself, not for 'the system'. The college had its own entry tests and didn't participate in clearing so we all felt handpicked.

I am sorry you have mild PTSD on results day. Our memories from being late teens are so vivid - on the threshold of adulthood and all that 😊

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I got AAB

I was supposed to get AAA for my first choice but they let me in anyway

My reserve offer was for AAB but I often wonder what would have happened in my life if I’d gone to that Uni instead!

Yes I did. Thank you - it was kind of amazing as when I told my teachers that was my ambition in my teens they all laughed. Hardly anyone from my school went to University and kids from my background - never mind girls - most certainly weren't supposed to aspire to study medicine. But they were wrong.

Cross posted with Catscamel!

I didn't do A-levels. I went stright to work at a firm of accountants and did the qualifications on the job. No uni debts, saved a deposit and bought 1st house at 27. I also chose a field that it's easy to do employment and self employment in, i can always find a supplemental job or work from home to my own hours if i need to.

I recommend doing technical qualifications or apprenticeships if your chosen field has that option. There are other ways to success than just A-levels and university.

I was also back in the pre-A-star days!

5 x A, 1 x B, 1 x C, and two 1s in Special papers. Admittedly, one of those As was in "General Studies" which required no preparation.

AAB (a-level), AA (Highers). Mid 90s so no Astar

got to medical school of choice but the B still rankles!!

It gave me a good giggle.

The title mentions A levels and then 'Trigger warning - A levels' 😁😁

Love this! I have a friend whose brother's A levels spelled NUN and I always thought N was shitty! Like, you nearly scraped an E grade...

I dropped out of my A levels in the lower sixth having decided school wasn't for me - but later went as a mature student and did a degree. I was far better suited to education at a later age!

3 x A. But then caved under last finals pressure and got 2.2 which still bothers me. You win some you lose some hey.

2 Ns and a U.....ooops....there went my chances of studying Russian at Essex or Russian and Drama at Wolverhampton. Might have helped if I'd actually gone to lessons/ done some work.
Its not all bad though.... did BTEC a few years later, then a degree, got into a career I love that is totally unrelated and have done several Postgrad courses, Professional Development courses and an MA.

I got ABBC in 1982. I was delighted, as it meant I met my offer of BBC and could go to university, but I remember being slightly disappointed with the C which is a bit daft looking back. I was the first in both sides of the family to go to university, so it was really exciting. Incidentally, the same course now asks for AAB thanks to grade inflation.

I still remember my best mades grades were DUDE in that order, he put his certificate in a frame when it arrived.