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What did you do the day of your A level results??

95 replies

justasking111 · 15/08/2019 14:23

DS and friends have got the results they needed so I expected they would be out partying. Nope they have no plans to do anything. Is this how it is with young people now?

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Panicmode1 · 15/08/2019 15:23

I was living abroad and my cousin was staying. I had been predicted AAA but got ACC so missed my uni place. He got top marks in his country for 3 of his 5 A level equivalents.... I had to pretend it was all fine, drink champagne with my parents, sibling and cousin and toast his success over a 'celebration dinner' which I felt should have been mine.

After the dust settled and I realised my life wouldn't end if I didn't go to Oxford, I redirected to a RG uni to do a subject I loved (rather than felt I should do), met my husband, and had a successful, if short career, before becoming a SAHM to 4 gorgeous children. I wish I coukd have told myself, on that Thursday morning of heartbreak, not to beat myself up so mercilessly for months afterwards. It all worked out in the end!

Fizzpopwhizzbang · 15/08/2019 15:24

I went to work. Was really keen to save up some money before uni started.

jackparlabane · 15/08/2019 15:27

Phoned my school, got made to call back a couple hours later, got given some results we didn't understand, and they couldn't read a smudged letter so they called Cambridge while I was on hold.
In short I'd got much better results than predicted and had to adjust my brain to looking forward to Cambridge instead of Manchester.
An hour later I was back working at a kids'activity club, the sort that ensures children are fed over the summer, this one for children 'known to the police'. The staff were all 'you gotta go Cambridge, it's Cambridge, innit?' and the kids were mostly 'what's a university?' - early 90s, some bright teenagers, being hugely failed.

The lady I lived with for the summer gave me an extra G&T that night and we watched EastEnders.

JellyBabiesSaveLives · 15/08/2019 15:37

The post didn’t arrive in time before I had to leave for work, so I spent my whole lunch hour dashing home to get my results and then back to work. Went out with my mates in the evening.

chomalungma · 15/08/2019 16:30

Moved house.
Didn't get results until a few days later.

ComeOnGordon · 15/08/2019 16:34

Not in the UK but when dc got their final exam results a few months ago, she started drinking in the sunshine just before midday with all her year and had to be picked up at 9.30pm just after she puked 😂😂
Was an appropriate teenage celebration of all the hard work

Frith2013 · 15/08/2019 16:41

Got my results (posted on the glass doors at sixth form college).

Told my mum what I’d got, she drove home

Phoned my grandma (from a phone box - it was the old days).

Went to the pub with my friends.

At some point phoned University to confirm (?) my place.

crustycrab · 15/08/2019 16:45

Got smashed. What is wrong with kids these days?!

Passthecherrycoke · 15/08/2019 16:47

I think I was working but got drunk later. Got drunk after GCSE results too 🤣

purplereindeer · 15/08/2019 16:49

It was 2000. We drank. All day long, popped home for celebratory tea with my Mum and sister, then went out drinking some more!

Lwmommy · 15/08/2019 16:51

Got drunk, but I was mournful rather than celebratory. Turns out skiving to go to weatherspoons and going out 5 nights a week doesn't help you get good A-level results Grin

TremblingFanjo · 15/08/2019 16:52

Went to school, got results - I can't remember what we did in the day but by 7pm we were all in the pub. My friend arrived having written "3As" on one hand and "Exeter" on the other - which answered all the what did you get and where are you going questions.

CMOTDibbler · 15/08/2019 16:53

I was on a 13 hour shift as a psychiatric nursing assistant. I was allowed to phone home on my morning break to get my results, we all had a chocolate biscuit and work went on! I got home at 9pm and had some reheated dinner. Presumably I celebrated at some point, but was working as much as I could to save for uni

RebeccaWrongDaily · 15/08/2019 16:54

It was 1990, we went to the Hacienda and then we all went back to the meadows to watch the sun rise/ smoke some dope/ straighten up.

Witchend · 15/08/2019 16:58

I was away with my family who managed to arrange holidays over every results day in the family. Confused
The results were posted to my grandparents and I phoned them from a call box to get them on the Friday.

Dd is going out clubbing tonight. She's not a clubbing type and nor is her friend, but they've decided they really ought to see if they really don't enjoy it or if they just think they won't. Grin

Atlasta · 15/08/2019 16:59

Was so sure I would have failed I didn't go and get my results ( posted on wall at sixth form but had no close friends there to tell me anyway). Instead I waited few days for the post and opened it at some point during the day.
Luckily I had applied and been accepted at uni if I got my predicted results as I did pass and get the points I needed to go!

4forkssake · 15/08/2019 16:59

It was also my 18th birthday on results day so went out & got pissed Grin

raffle · 15/08/2019 17:04

Friend had a party at her parents house, drank loads and we all slept over. I remember driving over there in beautiful sunshine, radio up loud and feeling like my life as an adult had begun!

ScreamingValenta · 15/08/2019 17:07

Early 90s - I just picked them up, compared them with my friends' results, and went home again. They weren't make or break for me as I had an unconditional university offer, but I got the results I'd hoped for so I was pleased.

yearinyearout · 15/08/2019 17:07

Can't remember as it was that long ago, but for DS a couple of years ago we spent the sunny afternoon in the pub beer garden with several friends and their Dc who had all got their results that day. The DC left us later on and all went for food...some were celebrating and others were drowning their sorrows!

VioletCharlotte · 15/08/2019 17:09
  1. We all went to the pub and got pissed. My Dad picked us up and my friend threw cider and black all over his car. He still reminds me about it to this day!
BlueSkiesLies · 15/08/2019 17:15

You know what, I don’t remember.

I got them via email, and must have done something. Maybe dinner with my parents?

Alarae · 15/08/2019 17:21

I was on holiday in the Dominican Republic. Got woken up at 1am local time to be told my results by my oldest sister who picked them up for me Grin

Violetroselily · 15/08/2019 17:23

Cried all day because I only got a B in Politics, when I should have got an A. I was so bloody disappointed, despite getting the right grades for my first choice uni.

We all went to the pub to celebrate in the evening and I left early because I was still so upset Blush

pastaparadise · 15/08/2019 17:42

I strangely cant remember either. I would have thought some celebrations as i got good grades and first choice of uni, but really not sure...

gcse's i remember going to school then walking home excited to tell my parents, but not what i did later. Much the same for uni results. Quite sad i cant remember what were quite important moments Confused

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