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

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BBB - eng lit, sociology and history

Was so sad, I wanted aab

💐💐 for those of us who get mild ptsd whenever results day rolls around

I was also back in the pre-A-star days!

5 x A, 1 x B, 1 x C, and two 1s in Special papers. Admittedly, one of those As was in "General Studies" which required no preparation.

They're not for everyone! I hope youve had a good and happy life without them? X

I didn't do A-levels. I went stright to work at a firm of accountants and did the qualifications on the job. No uni debts, saved a deposit and bought 1st house at 27. I also chose a field that it's easy to do employment and self employment in, i can always find a supplemental job or work from home to my own hours if i need to.

I recommend doing technical qualifications or apprenticeships if your chosen field has that option. There are other ways to success than just A-levels and university.

Cross posted with Catscamel!

Yes I did. Thank you - it was kind of amazing as when I told my teachers that was my ambition in my teens they all laughed. Hardly anyone from my school went to University and kids from my background - never mind girls - most certainly weren't supposed to aspire to study medicine. But they were wrong.

I got AAB

I was supposed to get AAA for my first choice but they let me in anyway

My reserve offer was for AAB but I often wonder what would have happened in my life if I’d gone to that Uni instead!

My eyes did water. The little boy and I had become quite attached to one another. I can still hear his little voice saying 'Est-ce que ça veut dire que tu peut rester?, and his big blue eyes and curly blond hair.

My offer from London university was 2 x Es! So I felt that I had achieved my good grades, as they were at the time, for myself, not for 'the system'. The college had its own entry tests and didn't participate in clearing so we all felt handpicked.

I am sorry you have mild PTSD on results day. Our memories from being late teens are so vivid - on the threshold of adulthood and all that 😊

Typo

A English LIt
A General Studies
B History
B Geog

S level English Grade 1

I took my A levels in the 70s and honestly, younger people - hardly anyone got straight As in those days. My friend who got into Oxford got ABCD.

I feel for all the youngsters today - I think it's worse now when everyone expects to do so well.

BCD in history, maths and chemistry. My university offer was BCC but they still took me (Durham 30 years ago). I was really upset about the D but now can't remember if it was chemistry or maths! Chem I think.

BBBC in the late 90’s, all science subjects. Luckily I came from a state school in a deprived area so university offer was lower than the standard AAA.

I got AAAA (before A*s). I was at a state school, and became the first in my family to head to Uni after that - went to Oxford. Results day was a happy day!

@GertrudePerkinsPaperyThing I also dropped a grade but was taken by first choice uni.

feels like a real sliding doors moment. My second choice tends to produce grads who stay local. If I’d gone there my life would have been so different. Maybe I would have met someone, maybe I’d have had children!

I like my current life but I find the possibilities interesting.

A1, A1, B. 1984.

BCCD, because for some reason I took up a 4th A Level in year 13 and squeezed two years of work into one.

Was good enough to get into my first choice university thankfully, but then I dropped out of uni before my final year so was a bit of a waste (tbf I didn't want to drop out but the university wouldn't agree to me doing the final year by distance learning because I didn't want to move back to the UK)

E- Spanish
E- French
U- Maths

I also took 2 O'levels in 6th form
B- General Paper
C- Computer Studies

I didn't go to uni but my employer gave new employees with A levels an enhanced salary.

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.

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 🙂

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.