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

CCCD. English Lit, Computer Science, Psychology, General Studies. I was definitely the failure of my very prestigious Grammar. I had zero interest in learning and only got a C in Computer Science because my IT Consultant Dad did the coursework for me!

Didn't meet the requirements for Uni and wasn't bothered as I didn't particularly want to go - but got in anyway. Somehow scraped a 2:2 after having an absolutely terrible time, possibly the worst three years of my life.

I've fudged my results on several CVs now (including for a graduate job) and never once been questioned about them.

A-level maths and physics, I can't even imagine! You'd have to have a real aptitude to get good grades in them. I do know someone who took them and some other impossibly hard course but I already knew she was a genius and would get As in everything. I'm with you I love the arts and history etc. I'm not a science or maths person at all.

EEN, late 90s, got a Uni place but dropped out after a year. Completed a HNC part time few years later. Had lots of jobs, then completed a degree last year and love my job.

Exactly - I struggle daily with ptsd for genuine miserable reasons. Which is why I dont think anyone should mention Trigger warning in the way you did. Because it diminishes the experience of genuine PSTD survivors.

Its not a reason to have a laugh.
Personally my A level results were dreadful. Which was a disaster because I badly needed them to be better so I could leave home as quickly as possible.

In my day there were no A* at A level.

I worked my socks off and got
A in law
A in Sociology
B in Government and Politics

the nerves waiting for the results were incredible!

In year 11, when we had to pick our A-level subjects, we were told "that girls do rubbish at the sciences, especially chemistry and physics", and the teachers tried to put us off.

Oh yikes physics. I was a mostly A grade GCSE student, tried biology A level and crashed out by Christmas. So. hard. No way would I have managed physics!

Such bad advice and I’m sorry. I worked as an art historian after graduation and then as an archaeologist and buildings archaeologist ever since. It is more than possible for arts subjects to be vocational in this way. I’m sorry you weren’t encouraged in what you wanted and were good at, it’s such a shame when talent goes underused - we all lose out as a society.

That is true. My parents picked my A-levels for me. I got a C at GCSE Maths, but they thought A-level Maths and Physics would be fine. They were not!
I am more practical and arty. I was told arts would not get me a a job...

@PurpleYarnivore and @MildlyMoist yeah I think you really have to be passionate about A-level subjects to do well. English bored me to tears and Psychology wasn't what I was expecting. I could see myself being passionate about history, really wish I'd taken it now. Maybe I'd have gone on to take it at uni and everything would've turned out different. Glad it all worked out for you guys!

So heartened to read this as I also refused the places I had for English and ended up reading Archaeology and History of Art which were my passions!

I got 3 x C in English Lit , History and Classical Civilisation , was predicted AAB so everyone was pretty shocked but I knew I’d mucked up as spent more time with my boyfriend than revising .
Retook the English and History and did Archaeology at evening classes in a year and got 3 x Bs and was able to do Archaeology and Prehistory at university which was my passion rather than the English degree I had applied for originally as my teachers had told me I should . So it all worked out in the end as I told my daughter when she had to retake some GCSEs .

Nor should they be a stick to beat people with. Not the place or time.

Are A-levels still graded as letters now? Or have they gone they gone the way of GCSEs with the numbers?

I got D-English, D-psychology and Film-B (AS level only then I dropped it)

Was pretty gutted about the English considering I got A* and B for English Lit+Lang GCSE which is why I took it but I found it SO boring. I should've done History and Sociology instead.

I always got top SATS despite being predicted average grades, then slightly worse at GCSE then fell off a cliff for A-level. I had depression and I don't think I cared by that point.

I have never said it should be. And fuck all to do with this thread.
And that is nothing to do with you saying I post mostly rubbish (you mean stuff you don't agree with), not an intellectual (I am not, so what?), or even capable of logical thinking (I am, bit not in your way I guess).

AAA. English, history and biology. I can’t remember what I needed for my place at Exeter to read English. But I don’t remember being remotely worried that I’d not get all As. There was no A* back then. The arrogance of youth!

Benefits are necessary to help people find an even keel to start again. I'm happy to pay my taxes to assist in that. I just don't see it as an open-ended ticket.

Then probably best to be gracious and bow out.

No snobbery. And I have already apologised sincerely for being unkind. An apology which was refused.

Then your snobbery is deplorable. Please don’t try to talk your way out of your meanness. A sincere apology and desire to do better would be more appropriate.

My family is a generation and night school away from working class. My GF and DF were both extremely clever, but my GF started his working life with a broom at 14.

I am on benefits. MN (and that poster) hate that.

Yes, very working class background. My parents looked down on office work as they said it was not "real work". Generations of leaving school and going down the mines sort of mindset.

I did ok at GCSEs (a few B, and Cs). I did Math as an adult and got an A. It was different to school though (which was 90s for me). GCSEs were 2 years with coursework and exams. The maths I did as an adult was 1 year, and 3 exams.
I don't know how things are with A-levels compared to the 90s and now.