A Level Results Day - Eeek

[TW]Fox;14711646 said:
Absolute rubbish. If you want a graduate job or a placement with many of the big name employers your UCAS points score matters more than your degree classification. Seriously.
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If your degree is in a subject required by industry and is sought after then A Levels count very little.

I got my placement and sponsorship with getting a high grade in 1st year, yet my Alevels were B C D.

Your A levels only matter as a graduate if you did a silly subject degree.
 
Hxc said:
Hoping for AAAA, but expecting AAAB.

Maths AS, Computing A2, Geography AS, Physics AS.
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I remember seeing you in the GCSE result threads, and i dont like you!! :(

Your smarter than me :( :p

Hoping for anything above a U really, ive taken college life far to easy and really regretting it! :(
 
Antelopethy said:
Yup, getting my AS level results tomorrow, and I feel somewhat guilty having done no work at all this summer, despite the fact i'm sposed to have been doing 4.5 hours a week on my extended project :/
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Same! I have so much work to do over the next two weeks its ridiculous.

Good luck to everyone else anyway :) I shall be having many many drinks tomorrow night to 'celebrate' (not that I need a reason anyway :p)
 
All I would say to anyone waiting on results

In the real world.. hard work, initiative and intelligence matter far more than pieces of paper..
 
jaxon said:
you mean they did it for you? :p

i got one AS result to come tomorrow (mature student.. lol) hoping for an A*
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Lol. I went to a grammar school and they work you like madd! So when i changed to a college instead of staying at my sixth form (thankfully!) it's just so much easier and laid back for me. Plus i had no coursework this year (save a page for physics) :D

You can't get A*'s at AS :confused:

Hoping for five A's :) though i think i got four A's and a B. (physics :/)
 
I am waiting on Economics, Business Studies and Maths. I need BBB for my first choice university however I really do not think that I got a B in maths, more likely a C thus meaning one of the first two need to be an A. Sigh I really hope I get it.
 
Best of luck Dante, im sure you will be fine.


P.s what university you applied to? I am expecting similar grades but struggled to find somewhere "decent".
 
Thanks. Surrey to do Business Economics with Finance. My backup is Brunel for Economics and business finance at BBC. Brunel seems a lot more likely at the moment.
 
Gustov said:
But he's slating for example an A-level in higher maths or Physics whilst he's in 5 hours a week doing some BTEC course...
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The BTEC in Computing that I'm currently doing is a full-time course for 15 hours a week. Not every BTEC is some sort of apprenticeship for the people who failed their GCSEs or whatever (not that you were necessarily implying that, but a BTEC can be just as academic as AS/A-Levels are).

I took my AS-Levels last year, but due to failing two of my subjects, it was "recommended" that I leave, despite getting a B in Physics. The sixth-form I went to didn't teach Computing as such, but more general IT, which isn't what I wanted to do, so just took couple of other random subjects -- I had no motivation for these, hence why I failed.

I'm glad I moved on, anyway, because I can't stand exams and find the whole approach to teaching where I currently am far less school-like -- it feels like a much more adult environment where I am now.


Anyway, this isn't a rant: I'm just saying that a BTEC is no less of a qualifcation than A-Levels are (I mean, it's the UCAS points that count in the end, providing you have the qualifcations in a relevant subject area).
 
BTEC in Computing.... I did that, I wouldnt bother.

I definitely should have done Alevels

Alevel Maths/Physics and more Maths... then you are worth something :) otherwise do an apprenticeship
 
Yay it's tomorrow, good luck one and all! I'm bricking it TBH, know I failed Maths C3 as it was NOTHING like any of the past papers I did. :(

Applied for Computer Science (Firm) and Mechanical Engineering with Composites (Insurance) - both deferred as I've got a job for the year sorted with a Software House :D So I could reapply if (read as when) my results come out as ****.

AS's were:
Physics - B
Maths - B
ICT - C - :rolleyes: @ school marking every unit wrongly, and then the exam board remarking them lower when we resubmitted them having made changes suggested by the school, twice.
Chemistry - E - 2/3 of the class failed.

Doing Physics, Maths, ICT at A2.

School opens at 8:30 for us to collect them (staff are getting their earlier to prepare who they'll need to help etc), and I'll probably check Track around 8:20 before driving up there.

@ those saying A-Levels are easy: :rolleyes:. An A-Level in Media Studies is easy. An A-Level in Maths whilst doing an A-Level in Physics and another A-Level whilst keeping out-of-school commitments and having a social life, is however not so easy.

Also I'm now starting to regret chosing my offers based on where she wanted to go, so we could be together. (She's in France so can't read this.)
 
mglover070588 said:
Your A levels only matter as a graduate if you did a silly subject degree.
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Well off you go and try and get a job on Pricewaterhousecoopers grad scheme without good A levels then. You won't even be allowed to fill the form out.

Fact: Most multinational employers have a UCAS point requirement for grad schemes.
 
[TW]Fox;14712843 said:
Fact: Most multinational employers have a UCAS point requirement for grad schemes.
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Yup, in fact pretty much all the Times top 100 grad recruiters have minimum A-Level requirements. It is possible to get to interview if you have below the grades, but only in exceptional circumstances, I know loads of people who got rejected outright due to "poor" A-Levels.
 
Oh that reply on the earlier pages of A levels being easy really got under my skin!

Try taking Maths, Further Maths, Physics, Latin and Ancient Greek, and then come back and say it was easy!!
So I'm fairly nervous now; wasn't earlier on, it's the idea that they're impending now!

AS results were all As, but I mucked up a Latin Literature paper I think, and FP2 so not too sure now!
 
Im starting to feel slightly sick, need BBB for my uni choice
and should be ok to get 2 of those due to previous modules
but in physics I have all my results for this year to come and
the papers didnt seem to go great.. dunno if I'll sleep tonight :P

good luck everyone :D
 
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