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

Are A-levels still graded as letters now? Or have they gone they gone the way of GCSEs with the numbers?

Nor should they be a stick to beat people with. Not the place or time.

Good question xeno, have no idea as I genuinely avoid the news on results day

I get unhealthily jealous of those amazing kids going to Oxford 😄🙈

I got 3 x C in English Lit , History and Classical Civilisation , was predicted AAB so everyone was pretty shocked but I knew I’d mucked up as spent more time with my boyfriend than revising .
Retook the English and History and did Archaeology at evening classes in a year and got 3 x Bs and was able to do Archaeology and Prehistory at university which was my passion rather than the English degree I had applied for originally as my teachers had told me I should . So it all worked out in the end as I told my daughter when she had to retake some GCSEs .

So heartened to read this as I also refused the places I had for English and ended up reading Archaeology and History of Art which were my passions!

@PurpleYarnivore and @MildlyMoist yeah I think you really have to be passionate about A-level subjects to do well. English bored me to tears and Psychology wasn't what I was expecting. I could see myself being passionate about history, really wish I'd taken it now. Maybe I'd have gone on to take it at uni and everything would've turned out different. Glad it all worked out for you guys!

That is true. My parents picked my A-levels for me. I got a C at GCSE Maths, but they thought A-level Maths and Physics would be fine. They were not!
I am more practical and arty. I was told arts would not get me a a job...

Such bad advice and I’m sorry. I worked as an art historian after graduation and then as an archaeologist and buildings archaeologist ever since. It is more than possible for arts subjects to be vocational in this way. I’m sorry you weren’t encouraged in what you wanted and were good at, it’s such a shame when talent goes underused - we all lose out as a society.

Oh yikes physics. I was a mostly A grade GCSE student, tried biology A level and crashed out by Christmas. So. hard. No way would I have managed physics!

In year 11, when we had to pick our A-level subjects, we were told "that girls do rubbish at the sciences, especially chemistry and physics", and the teachers tried to put us off.

In my day there were no A* at A level.

I worked my socks off and got
A in law
A in Sociology
B in Government and Politics

the nerves waiting for the results were incredible!

Exactly - I struggle daily with ptsd for genuine miserable reasons. Which is why I dont think anyone should mention Trigger warning in the way you did. Because it diminishes the experience of genuine PSTD survivors.

Its not a reason to have a laugh.
Personally my A level results were dreadful. Which was a disaster because I badly needed them to be better so I could leave home as quickly as possible.

EEN, late 90s, got a Uni place but dropped out after a year. Completed a HNC part time few years later. Had lots of jobs, then completed a degree last year and love my job.

A-level maths and physics, I can't even imagine! You'd have to have a real aptitude to get good grades in them. I do know someone who took them and some other impossibly hard course but I already knew she was a genius and would get As in everything. I'm with you I love the arts and history etc. I'm not a science or maths person at all.

CCCD. English Lit, Computer Science, Psychology, General Studies. I was definitely the failure of my very prestigious Grammar. I had zero interest in learning and only got a C in Computer Science because my IT Consultant Dad did the coursework for me!

Didn't meet the requirements for Uni and wasn't bothered as I didn't particularly want to go - but got in anyway. Somehow scraped a 2:2 after having an absolutely terrible time, possibly the worst three years of my life.

I've fudged my results on several CVs now (including for a graduate job) and never once been questioned about them.

A*AC.

I also had to resit my English GCSE during my A Levels due to being one mark off passing. I achieved a C during my resit. Phew. 🙂

1987 -

Maths - C
English Lit - A
French - B

I was very pleased 😃

Massively fucked mine up after good gcse results - got a B, D and E.

Went to uni in my 30s and got a First with straight As ☺️. I just wanted to enjoy myself at 17!

Also 1987-

Biology-A
Chemistry-A
Maths-A
Physics-A

But I still remember the stress as if it was yesterday!

AAAC - the C in my chosen degree subject. Awful teaching to blame, the whole class flopped. Still got in to my chosen RG uni where I met my husband and lived happily ever after.

C and D and an O level in the third subject. Resat and got the same grades again. The D was in my second language where I was “guaranteed” an A… my cousin got the same.

1979….I was the only girl doing physics, the only one in my chemistry class and 2 of us doing double maths. But between us we always came top.🤷‍♀️ I got As (pre stars) in chemistry, physics and applied maths and B in pure.

Aw cool 😄I hoped you showed them!
One girl in my sixth form went on to be a GP, so I guess she proved them wrong too

@ErrolTheDragon and almost 10 years later, at my school not much had changed!! I too was the only girl in physics and applied maths, and there were only three of us in biology, and two in chemistry.
Im glad things have finally changed.

BBC, Maths French and English. Thought I'd got every answer correct in Maths so was gutted with a B.
My grandmother (who left school at about 15) said "oh well at least you passed them all", somewhat waspishly.
Forty years on and I'm still proud of my 2.1 honours degree in Modern Languages from a decent uni.