Muel Posted August 19, 2009 Report Share Posted August 19, 2009 When I went to pick up my results after my GCSES, a guy I did engineering with came up to me and said, "How many did you get then?", "11, how about you", says I, "5, and they spell FUDGE!".This was before turning up to the exam would get you a G, he got Us in the rest of his exams. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pashley26 Posted August 19, 2009 Report Share Posted August 19, 2009 Thats pretty low for the top 10%, but I guess I'm just used to living a BALLER AS FUCK lifestyle. But its nice to know your mum earns £54k. What doe she do?Probably, I'd like to live a Baller lifestyle but I'm still in footpad status. I'm not 100% sure what my mum does now, she's just signed a contract yesterday for something and I haven't had time to ask her. I know it involves shoes because we've had a load of leather samples and POS pieces turn up at home this morning.She used to be a "mystery shopper", for the largest customer service agency in the UK. Which was a really cool job because she basically got to go out and buy things, and got given the money and paid a pretty high hourly rate for assessing customer service. And then got to keep the items afterwards ! A few times I've been out for some quite nice meals in restaurants with her and been able to order whatever I like and it's been part of her job, and she had a great one once where she had to buy a laptop and had to shop around for the best deal under £600 and got paid hourly for the job and got to keep the laptop haha ! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark W Posted August 19, 2009 Report Share Posted August 19, 2009 If you had said you did f**k all work and got AAAA then I would of had my hats off to you. I don't know about you but some people are just naturally good at some subjects, so they don't really need to do much more work than they already do in class.The whole point though is that once you've got your A-levels, you're generally heading off to uni or college having used your results as proof you're able to do the course. Like you do SATS, then once you've done GCSEs they don't matter. Once you've done A-levels, your GCSEs don't matter. Once you've done a degree, your A-levels don't matter so much. 360 UCAS points is enough to get on the majority of courses from what I can tell, so it's a reasonably good result, especially for the amount of work I put in (Bearing in mind my A was in D&T, where I didn't even submit a completed final project 'cos I ran out of time after leaving it too late...). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
weirdoku Posted August 19, 2009 Report Share Posted August 19, 2009 The whole point though is that once you've got your A-levels, you're generally heading off to uni or college having used your results as proof you're able to do the course. Like you do SATS, then once you've done GCSEs they don't matter. Once you've done A-levels, your GCSEs don't matter. Once you've done a degree, your A-levels don't matter so much. 360 UCAS points is enough to get on the majority of courses from what I can tell, so it's a reasonably good result, especially for the amount of work I put in (Bearing in mind my A was in D&T, where I didn't even submit a completed final project 'cos I ran out of time after leaving it too late...).But generally without GCSEs you can't get onto A-levels and without A-levels you can't get into uni for a degree. Well maybe what ever you had in your project was good enough for an A. What about your D then, put much work into that? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark W Posted August 19, 2009 Report Share Posted August 19, 2009 Our teacher quit after the second week of the course and we were left to fend for ourselves. So not really, but largely 'cos I didn't have much to work on, if you see what I mean. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
monkeyseemonkeydo Posted August 20, 2009 Report Share Posted August 20, 2009 A record-breaking number of A-level entries for England, Wales and Northern Ireland have been awarded A grades.More than one in four entries - 26.7% - got the top grade, up from 25.9% last year and the overall pass rate rose to 97.5%, up 0.3 percentage points. The improvement in grades - for the 27th year in a row - will add to the pressure on university places.Damn you guys are good! I did not see that coming... So how many people are shitting themselves waiting for the postie?! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Danny Metcalfe Posted August 20, 2009 Report Share Posted August 20, 2009 Just got mine,Failed all bar general studies.Got to work a 7 hour shift now,fun times.Still stand by the "how much you put in ethic's"I'm a lazy lil turd. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Simpson Posted August 20, 2009 Author Report Share Posted August 20, 2009 CCC, bummer oh well, watch out pompey. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Muel Posted August 20, 2009 Report Share Posted August 20, 2009 Can you still get into Uni Mike?Or your first choice anyway? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Max Quinn Posted August 20, 2009 Report Share Posted August 20, 2009 Just got back. AAAC Well stoked on that, but probably should have actually put in some work in maths an bumped that shit up haha.To the lashboat! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Simpson Posted August 20, 2009 Author Report Share Posted August 20, 2009 Can you still get into Uni Mike?Or your first choice anyway?Yea I needed CCC to do maths at pompey, but was more like expecting BBC of least.... oh well, got like 12 marks in my last sike exam.... bugger. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adrian Posted August 20, 2009 Report Share Posted August 20, 2009 (edited) True, why are the government trying to get youngsters to study useless subjects at third-rate universities, instead of trying harder to get more people into the trades etc.The target of getting 50% of school-leavers to "university" is ridiculous.pretty simple, because keeps the unemployed % downEDIT: and how do i find out my results? Edited August 20, 2009 by Adrian Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rich J Posted August 20, 2009 Report Share Posted August 20, 2009 BCD. Im slightly confused as to how I get my certificates but ah well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ash-Kennard Posted August 20, 2009 Report Share Posted August 20, 2009 BCD. Im slightly confused as to how I get my certificates but ah well.yeh i dont know how to get mine either... got BEU haha. still got onto my course though wreyyyy comeon coventryyyyyyy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
monkeyseemonkeydo Posted August 20, 2009 Report Share Posted August 20, 2009 pretty simple, because keeps the unemployed % downWhile also further devaluing degrees and ensuring that around 50% of the population will have a nice £20k+ debt before they even get a job. Genius. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark W Posted August 20, 2009 Report Share Posted August 20, 2009 £30k for me to the SLC Although they haven't sent me an annual statement for 2 years so I've got no idea. Here's hoping they've forgotten Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
monkeyseemonkeydo Posted August 20, 2009 Report Share Posted August 20, 2009 £30k for me to the SLC Although they haven't sent me an annual statement for 2 years so I've got no idea. Here's hoping they've forgotten Yeah I was hoping that until I got my last one saying I owe them around £14k. Deep joy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
haydon_peter Posted August 20, 2009 Report Share Posted August 20, 2009 pretty simple, because keeps the unemployed % downSorry to go off topic but the unemployment level is all a load of bullshit.Listening to Radio 2 while in my Dads car last week they were taking phone calls about peoples experience claiming Job Seekers Allowance. Loads of people were calling in saying that they hadn't bothered to sign on and claim JSA because it wasn't worth it etc... There were newly qualified uni students that were living off 'the bank of mum and dad' rather than signing on, people that had been made redundant but were not allowed to claim JSA for one reason or another. So there are a huge amount of people that are unemployed that I bet are not included in the statistics given out because they are not signed on as unemployed! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
forteh Posted August 20, 2009 Report Share Posted August 20, 2009 Yeah I was hoping that until I got my last one saying I owe them around £14k. Deep joy.I paid off my student loans last year Fortunately I got to uni the year before they finished grants, because I got them the 1st year they carried on giving them to me for the rest of uni Only owed 7k on student loans. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark W Posted August 20, 2009 Report Share Posted August 20, 2009 Sorry to go off topic but the unemployment level is all a load of bullshit.Listening to Radio 2 while in my Dads car last week they were taking phone calls about peoples experience claiming Job Seekers Allowance. Loads of people were calling in saying that they hadn't bothered to sign on and claim JSA because it wasn't worth it etc... There were newly qualified uni students that were living off 'the bank of mum and dad' rather than signing on, people that had been made redundant but were not allowed to claim JSA for one reason or another. So there are a huge amount of people that are unemployed that I bet are not included in the statistics given out because they are not signed on as unemployed!I'm living off my savings. Because I was technically still in uni 'cos of re-sits, they said I wasn't eligible for JSA. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Duck Posted August 20, 2009 Report Share Posted August 20, 2009 (edited) Didn't even get any results because I'm not doing A-Levels Edited July 14, 2020 by The Duck Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Davetrials Posted August 20, 2009 Report Share Posted August 20, 2009 Not really..You dont know what life will bring you. I certainly didnt see myself where i am 6/7 years ago when i left school with 8 b-c gcse's.Dont fret if you do shit. More to life than school grades.I didnt get any GCSE's cos i was a dick in school, but im starting uni in sep to do somthing i love. i dont regret anything in my life so far as its all boiled up to this moment! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ManxTrialSpaz Posted August 21, 2009 Report Share Posted August 21, 2009 (edited) Do AS grades count? AAAC (B)Very pleased, exactly as I wanted. Even if I did scrape Physics and Chemistry by 1/2 marks. Just need to put some effort in next year and should nail me some straight As Edited August 21, 2009 by ManxTrialSpaz Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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