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

For 3 As (pre A*) I worked incredibly hard. Going back and forward over syllabus keeping it all fresh. Had coursework too. Slogged from at least start of year 13. Hours each night. Not sure how many, but I ‘locked in’ as they would say now.

If you got good grades, how much revision and studying did you do?

Highers in Scotland - 3 As and a B

Art, English, Modern studies (like politics) all As
B in Biology as i was thinking of doing Psychology at uni and that wasn't offered at my school

That was in my fifth year. In sixth year I did Sixth Year Studies English (on a par with A level) and got a B and Drama, a B. I dossed about a lot and had a lot of nights out in sixth year, as I already had my offers in...i got accepted to my choices and ended up having an easy year. Scotland's system is better that way I think.

Applied for politics/English and ended up doing Eng Lit at Glasgow. Best uni ever 🩷 did a masters postgraduate and PGCE too.

CEE. Classical civilisation, English literature and History of Art. In 1988. I retook English literature and History of Art, got the E up to D for English. 😑

I was great at talking about the subjects in class, rubbish at writing about them.

Opening of O Level and A Level results was always traumatising for me 🫥

I now have a QTS, A Bsc, a BA (Hons) and have about 20 letters after my name. Not that I use them.

I got A - Drama
A - Film Studies
A - English Combined
B - History
I was allowed to do all 4 up to A2 level as I was clearly very competent. I then did the German A1&A2 combined in one day and got a B. Basically I was a very nerdy kid who needed lots of input from teachers and no downtime.

CCC, French, German, Russian. And somehow I also managed a distinction in the S level Russian paper. Evidently down to good guesswork….
It was good enough for the uni I wanted, though slightly below what they’d asked. (This was aeons ago.)
TBH I hadn’t worked nearly as hard as I should have.

A Douglas is a third. Douglas Hurd.

A1 E E
I’ve now got a BA, a BSc and a BMBS, and am a GP.

B,C,D for me in the late 90s, I still got into the course I wanted though and I ended up with a first, a distinction at masters and a PhD - I was just a late academic bloomer!

This happened to me too! Late 90s so no A star. I smashed the two subjects I got A’s in - got A grades in every paper. Wasn’t too bothered about the B though - a friend got exactly the same results in the same subjects and we decided it was proof we’d had a good time in 6th form and not spent the whole two years studying! My teacher was disappointed, she said she’d seen the breakdown and I’d almost got a C despite being one of her top students. No idea what happened there.

After all As and Bs at GCSE, I got NNN in biology, chemistry and physics at A-Level.

I then did a Y0 (university access) course at college in the sciences and maths, which I passed, immediately followed by a BSc Hons in Biological Chemistry with Pharmaceutical Science. Then a PGCE and later on a Masters in SEND.

After failing my A-levels, I hold an undergraduate degree and two postgrad degrees.

I have also acquired a late diagnosis of ADHD.

First year of A*

AAAAA (Maths, Further Maths, English Literature, Biology, History)

The one A is slightly annoying but I feel like with essay subjects there's always going to be a bit more variation, whereas with Maths the aim wasn't to get an A* but 100/100 (I think I managed it in 10 of 12 papers)

I’m in Scotland so it was highers not A levels, I got AAAAA and went straight to uni after s5 to do law. My son also got AAAAA but he went back to school for s6.

Psychology and Sociology both A, before A* came along. I did two a levels in one year.

BBC, Maths French and English. Thought I'd got every answer correct in Maths so was gutted with a B.
My grandmother (who left school at about 15) said "oh well at least you passed them all", somewhat waspishly.
Forty years on and I'm still proud of my 2.1 honours degree in Modern Languages from a decent uni.

@ErrolTheDragon and almost 10 years later, at my school not much had changed!! I too was the only girl in physics and applied maths, and there were only three of us in biology, and two in chemistry.
Im glad things have finally changed.

Aw cool 😄I hoped you showed them!
One girl in my sixth form went on to be a GP, so I guess she proved them wrong too

1979….I was the only girl doing physics, the only one in my chemistry class and 2 of us doing double maths. But between us we always came top.🤷‍♀️ I got As (pre stars) in chemistry, physics and applied maths and B in pure.

C and D and an O level in the third subject. Resat and got the same grades again. The D was in my second language where I was “guaranteed” an A… my cousin got the same.

AAAC - the C in my chosen degree subject. Awful teaching to blame, the whole class flopped. Still got in to my chosen RG uni where I met my husband and lived happily ever after.

Also 1987-

Biology-A
Chemistry-A
Maths-A
Physics-A

But I still remember the stress as if it was yesterday!

Massively fucked mine up after good gcse results - got a B, D and E.

Went to uni in my 30s and got a First with straight As ☺️. I just wanted to enjoy myself at 17!

1987 -

Maths - C
English Lit - A
French - B

I was very pleased 😃

A*AC.

I also had to resit my English GCSE during my A Levels due to being one mark off passing. I achieved a C during my resit. Phew. 🙂