A Level results on Thursday

Hxc said:
Exactly, I'm now strongly considering moving to economics or the like. I will still likely need to push my Maths up to an A grade though, but I'm confident I can do that. I just hope that decent unis won't look down on me because I had to take another year :(

Feel like such a fool.

Tempted to do priority remarks of two papers, but £100 for a hope of 5ums. Who knows if it'll make it?
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Not sure exactly what you needed but jesus you got great grades, stop been such a misery! Not sure what A levels actually count for nowadays.
 
I am not going to uni, that's why I'm a misery! I need to retake exams and stuff and then hope that unis can tolerate the fact that I've taken another year!
 
Lightnix said:
Well okay, my AS results currently stand at BCC. I somehow have to turn that into AAB by the end of next year. Anybody managed to achieve such a feat yet? :p
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My AS results were all a grade lower than I ended up with, bar one which caused me to miss my first choice course and take my second. Ended with B/B/C. Was a blow at the time but I wouldn't change that duff exam for anything.
Ended up graduating with a great degree, from a great university having had the best time, completing a Masters and then being offered a PhD spot...

Funny how things work out really. Don't put too much importance on those letters chaps.
 
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Hxc said:
Because virtually all courses I'd consider require an A in maths. I was offered physical geography at leicester but I'm really not interested.
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Ah fair enough, can you not go through clearing? Maybe they'll take in to account how good your grades are as a whole.
 
Hxc said:
Exactly, I'm now strongly considering moving to economics or the like. I will still likely need to push my Maths up to an A grade though, but I'm confident I can do that. I just hope that decent unis won't look down on me because I had to take another year :(

Feel like such a fool.

Tempted to do priority remarks of two papers, but £100 for a hope of 5ums. Who knows if it'll make it?
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With those grades you can easily get into most unis on an engineering course, or something else if that's not related.
 
Hxc said:
I am not going to uni, that's why I'm a misery! I need to retake exams and stuff and then hope that unis can tolerate the fact that I've taken another year!
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Don't worry man. After graduating from uni and trying to find graduate related jobs is much much worse than missing out on a year. I retook my GCSEs and got grade A in A level maths. I have an engineering degree from 4 years back and no related job.
 
neverender said:
My AS results were all a grade lower than I ended up with, bar one which caused me to miss my first choice course and take my second. Ended with B/B/C. Was a blow at the time but I wouldn't change that duff exam for anything.
Ended up graduating with a great degree, from a great university having had the best time, completing a Masters and then being offered a PhD spot...

Funny how things work out really.
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Yeah it's cool, I've been planning this for months. I know more or less which universities I should apply to, given I already have a safety net of an MMM BTEC (worth CCC). To be honest I'm more worried about just getting CCC and having these A-levels be a monumental waste of time for me. :p
 
WingZero30 said:
Don't worry man. After graduating from uni and trying to find graduate related jobs is much much worse than missing out on a year. I retook my GCSEs and got grade A in A level maths. I have an engineering degree from 4 years back and no related job.
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Agreed thats where the pain starts, actually finding a job. Surely they wont care about taking another year! I was messing about for years before I finally went to Uni. I dare to say your worring a bit too much.
 
flibbage0 said:
I got 3 D's and 1 E:mad:

What do I do now, can I retake all of them???
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What did you want to do at Uni? I got poor A Levels and did an HND in the end, after which I did well enough to go into the final year for the degree so still did the degree in 3 years like everyone else. It also gave me the option to leave Uni after 2 years with some sort of qualification...an option you'd not have on the degree. Keep you're chin up and look at what you can do, not what you can't.

Also don't worry about having a year out, many people do it and it has no relevence to finding a job at the end (do something useful in you're year out and it could very well help) I had a year out as well, have now been working in a related job to my Uni course.
 
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Ukadder said:
What did you want to do at Uni? I got poor A Levels and did an HND in the end, after which I did well enough to go into the final year for the degree so still did the degree in 3 years like everyone else. It also gave me the option to leave Uni after 2 years with some sort of qualification...an option you'd not have on the degree. Keep you're chin up and look at what you can do, not what you can't.
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Luckily I'm only doing AS so I have time to retake but I was thinking of Biomedical science or Biochemistry or maybe Pharmacy.
 
Hxc said:
Exactly, I'm now strongly considering moving to economics or the like. I will still likely need to push my Maths up to an A grade though, but I'm confident I can do that. I just hope that decent unis won't look down on me because I had to take another year :(

Feel like such a fool.
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You shouldn't feel like a fool - these things happen. My younger brother messed up his STEP papers in his A-Level year. He took a year out, did an extra A-Level then applied and got into Warwick to do maths the next year. I'm sure lots of people do exactly the same. I had a year out before University and even though I spent it working, I still had a great time!

At the age of 18, one year means nothing! Work hard, get your retakes out of the way, earn some cash, travel a bit. Look at it as an opportunity to do some things you wouldn't have had chance to do had you gone straight off to University. You also get chance to read around a little and decide what really interests you, so you can choose the right course at the right University.

:)
 
Hxc said:
Exactly, I'm now strongly considering moving to economics or the like. I will still likely need to push my Maths up to an A grade though, but I'm confident I can do that. I just hope that decent unis won't look down on me because I had to take another year :(

Feel like such a fool.

Tempted to do priority remarks of two papers, but £100 for a hope of 5ums. Who knows if it'll make it?
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Well if you say you are planning to retake, you still have a while to decide. Does sound like solid advice on reconsidering your choice of a maths degree though.
I can fully recommend an Economics degree though, especially as you have a good grounding in maths. Have you done Economics at As/A2?

Lightnix said:
Well okay, my AS results currently stand at BCC. I somehow have to turn that into AAB by the end of next year. Anybody managed to achieve such a feat yet? :p
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I went from ACCD (dropped the subject which got a D), and ended up with AAC. So you'd have the harder job, but with some decent resit marks, and a lot of hard work on A2 modules, it could be done.
 
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Many thanks all, it's good to know that I've still got a chance of something working out, even if it doesn't feel that way at the mo, aha.
 
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