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

[hotmumshit]

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

ABB. I was chuffed to bits, nobody saw it coming because I was quite lazy.

Yes, we know. It's like saying "i nearly died" when you get a shock, it's not meant to minimise all the people who actually nearly died irl.

Same - still hurts

😄😄😄 well done

C,D and E. Did hardly any work. I easily could have got a higher grade in eeach.I wish I had! No one at my college got As!

Did better at uni when I finally decided to apply myself!

My kids are far more driven and always striving for top grades.

See theres so much pressure around a levels and uni

I had such a bad time at uni, that i am lucky i even got a desmond!

I was going to say AAA (English, French, History) but then I remembered I did General Studies, so AAAA. Who knows what I would have got in this brave new era of A*s.

E, E, C..blame it on glandular fever but I was probably headed that way anyway. Why the flip did I even take maths ?

Sorry about the glandular fever, that illness really is the pits 😩

I got a D in English Literature, an E in French and an N in Dress (clothes design, needlework, textiles). I had a rubbish education, which really didn’t equip me for A levels and the 3rd A level was a complete waste, not me at all. It was just the one thing I was praised for being good at.

Still managed to do a joint honours degree including 50% French through clearing and am very fluent etc. Missed a 2:1 by a hair width. My lecturer tried to tell me to appeal my grades, but wasn’t allowed to in those days. The percentages were published 2 weeks after the grades. And only after the appeals deadline had passed. I presumed he was talking about my friend. When I saw I had 2 x 59% and only needed one of those to go to 60, I was gutted.

I now also have a qualification in German, which is the equivalent to A level. I can’t remember the grade I got. But I think it would be an A or B in A level. I didn’t study hard for that, but was in my early 30s. I had a lot of trauma and some mental illness in my younger years, which stopped me from reaching my potential. This grade is the true me.

You definitely showed them! And who knows which girls you helped by showing it could be done x

DD and U ungraded. Skipped uni, made mo difference to me. I always felt the years I would have been in uni spent getting real life experience set me in better stead. Now a 6 figure earner. I wouldn’t advise university to anyone unless it’s a clear path to a career and would always recommend apprenticeships and learning in job over uni.

I’m giggling at all the responses clarifying that “there was no A* in my day!” Alright babes we can tell that you’re all clever clogs from your AAA, no need to justify yourselves 😂

I was predicted ABB but my parents decided to divorce when I was in sixth form and we then had financial difficulties so I stopped caring about my studies and basically worked every hour that I could. Ended up with BBC which looking back really isn’t bad but it was the year before annual tuition fees rose from £3k to £9k so intake was huge that year and my second choice uni wouldn’t take me even though my C was one mark off my B (I needed BBB). I was inconsolable and had to go through clearing, ended up in a below average uni but I absolutely thrived being away from home, came away with a first class degree and best friends for life, and now have a career that I love. Sometimes things happen for a reason eh?

It’s so much pressure on very young people. And few young people have adults around them who aren’t their parents or immediate family, who they’re less wont to listen to; or who are celebrities posting online saying “I didn’t get great grades but look at me now” and don’t necessarily offer much reassurance. The World of Work is so much wider than many 18-year-olds know, there are so many avenues. I do still keenly remember the trepidation of thinking my entire future rested on whether I got an ‘A’ or a ‘B’ at 18, which does such a disservice to so many smart young people.

❤️

Same re trauma, I do think i was worth 3 As

But youve still done really well - j'adore la langue française

@hotmumshit What's a "desmond" ?

BBC in Economics, History and Irish. I was capable of getting at least one A but I lost motivation for school in my AS year and spent most of my A2 year doing resits.
Still got enough to get into my first choice university though.

2.2

Desmond Tutu x

Trigger - A levels? Get a grip

I got AAC and needed three Bs to go to LSE. They wouldn't let me in (even though my C was in a totally unrelated subject to the degree I wanted to do). The bastards. I still feel resentful although I enjoyed my second choice uni and the course I ended up doing led to a postgrad that set me up for life.

I'm the kind of person who would still hold a grudge against lse 😄 - how awful given that you did well anyway!

Came here to say the same. I'm not a 6 figure earner (could be if i pushed myself), but got my 1st house and paid my mortgage off far sooner than my degree peers. I didn't even do a-levels, but i have a professional career.

My son is an engineering apprentice, he did do a-levels and advanced maths at college, but he got an advanced btec whilst earning. He can now be put forwards for the engineering degree whilst working (and hopefully buying his own home).

AAA before the A* grade became a thing. I was the last to show up to collect my results on results day, the school was empty 😅

Mine were in the days before a*s and we did AS levels and then A2s.

I got A: Sociology, A: Government and Politics, A: History. A: Biology

I got an A in my AS level of English lit, but that was the one I dropped.

Then I was merrily off to university. 21 years this September since my freshers week! 🤯

DD sociology and Gen studies but I sat them in a year at 20 so I was not too bothered, gained a 2:1 from uni at 25 and a PG Dip at 26 and got my first job at 26 (first professional job) - still with the same LA 30 years later but the job has changed beyond recognition!