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

I was laughing at this. Especially when it says "A-levels" in the title.

It’s a funny one isn’t it?

People would say the Uni I went to was better but I think I would have done just as well career wise from the other Uni

It’s partly that I had a massive heartbreak at the Uni I went to, didn’t necessarily get along with all the people, got a bit too keen on drinking and going out etc

Maybe I’d have made more of things at the other Uni 🤷‍♀️

Or it all could have been much worse of course and I don’t know how lucky I am!

Apology accepted 🥰
hyperbole aside,
so many people actually refer to ‘their PTSD’ in the literal sense and it undermines those who have the awful disorder that it is,
saying my leg is a little bit broken when it hurts,
would be readily seen as nonsense - when it’s mental illness, apparently anyone can self identify with anything !
anyway, sorry to interrupt your thread xx

I can imagine 😂

To be fair attempting to do an A-level exam paper on Jane Eyre without actually finishing reading the book - I kind of deserved that N.
Jane Eyre is sooooooooo boring.
😂

AAB
I misunderstood a big question in my ‘B’ exam, so I’m simultaneously grateful for having got a B at all for it, while also being annoyed because if I hadn’t misunderstood I’d have probably got 3xA.

AAC geography, maths, physics and a B in general studies (what was the point of that??) before the days of Astar

@DundeeNewcastle I peaked at GCSE’s so you’re better than me!!

My sister got an N
What a kick in the teeth !
I got a D and two Us 😫

Absolutely brilliant!

What did you do on results day to celebrate? I know you can't really plan things until you know it's gone well.

ABC in days before A*. Was gutted with the C and missed my first choice uni. But I know I would have struggled with course there and had fab time at my second choice, so all good.

3 As at A Level (History, English Literature, Economics) and an A and B at AS Level (History of Art and Philosophy.) 2004. I still remember the excitement of Results Day and being around all my sixth form friends as we huddled together and opened our envelopes after a countdown, was truly a lovely moment.

I then began a History degree and it all went a bit sideways: I attended poorly, a combination of my innate laziness and feeling “meh” about it all, and at 39 I still have no idea whether I have a degree or not or, if I do, what my grade is, because I never picked up the results or went to graduation.

I’ve done very well for myself. It didn’t turn out to be that important in the wider World of Work for me. My first job just knew I’d “been to university” and then from there on I’ve relied on professional experience.

AAA in classics, history and general studies (not sure that really counts)
B in maths
A in politics A/S level

no A* available in my day. I was very pleased with my results, better than predicted.

ABB. I didn’t even check my results till the evening. I woke up hungover, saw the email from UCAS saying I got my firm, and went back to bed.

Complete contrast to GCSE results day where my friends and I walking into school for the envelope felt like the German soldiers marching towards Moscow to imminent death.

If only I knew then the only thing employers care about was passing Maths and English.

Exactly 👍
what bollocks

A B D .... A was art ...it was the only exam board that unis widely accepted as an A level for other subjects back then became we had to write a dissertation as well as practical. Was gutted about my B in English. It was 100% exam. We didn't do past papers or much exam prep and I just couldn't write what I wanted in the limited exam time. I had As and top of the class throughout the two years until the exams.

I've just spent the day ringing my new students so it's been lovely congratulating them all and hearing their excitement.

AAA (pre A star days). I peaked too early and since uni have been v average 😅

Mid 90s. B English Lit, B Latin, D Biology, and then an A for a weird A/S Level in Ancient Greek. I always say I have 3.5 A-levels!

It got me into a Russell group uni to study Classics, but it was too much of a culture shock, everybody else seemed to have come from private education, I was very unhappy and dropped out in my first year.

Did a degree in my 40s and really enjoyed it, and have done plenty of interesting jobs.

You don’t have ‘mild PTSD’ from your A levels
unless you had a terrifying life threatening experience that you dissociated from and remain numb / hypervigalant with disturbed sleep due to nightmares and daytime terrors - flashbacks

just like people aren’t a ‘little bit adhd’
and
tnere is no ‘bit of OCD’.because you like your kitchen clean and tidy

B (Eng Lit); C (French): D (German). I am old though when a B was a good grade. Got into uni; ended up staying to do a PhD. Lecturer at 24 yrs old. Wrote 3 academic books. Now nearing retirement. Tried a different job for a few years but missed teaching and researching so back I came.

I do look back and sometimes wish I had gone on a completely different path because my 20s was pretty boring and I hated my job but I'm mostly happy with where I am in life now 🙂

I did psychology AS, B
Sociology B
Media studies B
Politics I dropped out of.

Mum always at work and I don't think Dad gave me a second thought then! But it was enough. I got unconditionally accepted at 3 universities, one further away, two quite close to home. I'd already moved out of home so didn't see it as a big 'right of passage' as many kids do.

I went to the furthest one away to get away from a horrid abusive boyfriend. He followed me there, got a transfer with his work to my university town, and climbed up the drainpipe in my halls and came in through my window.

I wish I was joking.