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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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MosquitoInAJamJar · 15/08/2019 17:49

Called my first choice university to confirm they'd still take me, then went to the Wetherspoons (well, what became the 'Spoons) with the rest of my year for a 12 hr session. Enjoyed 99p The Source drinks and another brand I can't remember now, twas very fruity. It was 1999. Good times Grin

TeacupDrama · 15/08/2019 17:50

I walked to school to collect them and then walked home again, I think my Mum made my favourite dinner I got BCC and officially needed BBC so was disappointed but got a letter 2-3 days later offering me the place anyway this was the mid eighties when hardly anyone got "A" AAB or even ABB would get you to oxbridge provided yo got A in your main subject and the standard offer for medicine was BBB

yummumto3girls · 15/08/2019 17:52

My DD got hers today. We went out for a family breakfast, I paid to have her nails done and she is off out to enjoy the numerous results day events in the pubs and clubs!

marthamatilda · 15/08/2019 17:52

I had my driving test on my results day and crashed! But I did get good results so wasn't all bad, although I wasn't allowed to drink that night

Newmumma83 · 15/08/2019 17:55

Went out with my friends and consumed a lot of larger ... it was back in 2001... drinking no longer has the same appeal for the younger generations

GorkyMcPorky · 15/08/2019 18:06

Went to the pub with our teachers who got the drinks on, then stayed out until late getting pissed.

georgialondon · 15/08/2019 18:13

Went out for lunch with friends then went to the pub!

Mummyshark2018 · 15/08/2019 18:32

Went clubbing with what felt like the whole school and got pretty merry!

Bezalelle · 15/08/2019 18:50

I went out to the town nightclub for the first time ever (major geek) and played a weird game where we wore sumo costumes and flung ourselves around the dance floor. So weird.

Wellhellojonsnow · 15/08/2019 18:53

Accidentally set the bottom of the garden on fire and the fire brigade had to come out 🙈

FloraMerry · 15/08/2019 18:54

My DD got hers in 2015. She and all her friends went clubbing

Jsmith99 · 15/08/2019 18:56

I was a bit overwhelmed, because I knew my life would change when I became the first person in my family to go to university. I grew up on a shithole council estate in a grotty ex-mining town and I was desperate to get out.

Iwantacookie · 15/08/2019 19:00

I cried when I failed. I worked so hard and I got E D U my dm would of made my life hell so I lied and said I got C C E. Then spent the next few days trying to avoid anyone until I figured out what to do.

costacoffeecup · 15/08/2019 19:06

21 years ago! I didn't do as well as everyone expected (not me) but still got my place at St. Andrews by skin of teeth. Went to pub with my boyfriend at the tile and my mega crush from school - that was the last time I saw my crush and still think of him
Occasionally. Boyfriend long gone.

Redcrayons · 15/08/2019 19:13

Went and got drunk with my friends. It was the olden days so my parents didn't know what I'd got till I got up the next day. Think I had to wait a day or so before I could start on clearing as places were printed in the paper.

WednesdaySpinner · 15/08/2019 19:19

Went out drinking with friends of course! Drunkenly cried because my best friend was crying about how much she would miss our other friends and not me...conveniently forgetting that we were going to the same uni!

HopHoppityHop · 15/08/2019 19:35

I was working. My mum made me call the teachers to double check I'd been given the correct grades Hmm I was still living at home so no celebrations as I wasn't allowed to go out by myself.

FenellaMaxwell · 15/08/2019 19:40

Met up with a big group of friends, and we all went to an Italian restaurant near our boarding school and ate lots of lasagne and drank lots of cheap red wine. My parents picked me up and we got in the car and did a 7 hour drive back to our home country (I was at boarding school). I read Harry Potter and ate minstrels the whole way and remember feeling quite pleased I didn’t have to be grown up straight away. Grin

KenDoddsDadsDog · 15/08/2019 19:43

Picked results up at school , I was one of the few from my close friendship group who got my grades. They all went off to ring clearing (1991) , rest of us met up in our local pub with the lads from the boys school.
That night some of the lads played a gig and we all went there. Good times !

8Track · 15/08/2019 19:44

Cried and hugged my mum - then sent her home!

Convinced a friend who'd missed their grades to ring their first choice uni to try to convince them - they found out they'd been accepted unconditionally anyway so we're delighted!!

Thanked my grumpy, but inspiring history teachers.

Headed down the hill to wetherspoons and waited for it to open (!!) spending the day drinking cocktails from the jug with a big straw. Went to the park with some cans of cider and a big crowd of us played on the swings and zip wire - classy.

woman19 · 15/08/2019 19:48

Just cried, a little as Channel 4 news showed some clever and splendid East End BAME London teens gaining fine A level grades and becoming the first in their families to go to university.

Beautiful.

Proper London. Proper Britain. Smile

lakeswimmer · 15/08/2019 19:48

1988 - I was part of a gang of friends and we went to three different schools between us. We drove round to each school as a group to collect the results. All of us had done badly and had failed at least two subjects so we were a bit dejected but also found it quite funny. I don't remember being too bothered about not getting into uni and one of our group who was doing an apprenticeship was really pleased all his mates weren't going to desert him by leaving home Grin

One of the gang had an empty house because his parents were away and so we had an all night party. We all re-sat the following year and gradually drifted off to uni/HE college/work/live abroad.

In the end I started uni aged 20 - it did me no harm to wait and I was grateful to be a bit older and wiser than the 18 year olds who started when I did Grin

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justasking111 · 15/08/2019 19:50

@HopHoppityHop An acquaintance was like that with her daughter, very strict, I was baffled because a few weeks later her parents would not know what the heck she was up to Grin

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BigSandyBalls2015 · 15/08/2019 19:52

I didn’t do A levels. DD is off clubbing tonight, currently having pre drinks here with friends. Two of these friends, who I don’t know very well, have asked to stay at ours tonight as their parents will be cross if they go home smelling of booze!!

I can’t get my head around that ... they’re 18 years old and are off to uni living away from home in a few weeks

StCharlotte · 15/08/2019 20:28
  1. Postman was late so I opened them in the street (at my mum's insistence) as I was on my way to meet a friend in London for the day. Then went out to our local nightclub (as we did most Thursdays - it was like an extension of the pub) and celebrated our "freedom" with a few mates from 6th Form.

Didn't go to Uni. Probably only half of us did back then.