A Level results on Thursday

w11tho said:
Well of course you would! I'm fairly sure most who got Bs in their A-Levels would like to pretend they're worth an A* by today's standards.
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Joking aside, I reckon my A's are worth A* and my B's are worth A's today on the basis the exams have got easier by about 1% each year.

Reason been, I aced all my math's exams and left each one after about an hour. Maths was always soooo easy.
 
That might be a little more realistic. Although it would depend if you had scraped As and Bs, or if they were comfortable. But anyway, it's all hypothetical.
 
I've decided to whack both my maths modules in for priority remark. It may not even come back in time for the deadline but **** it. It's worth a go.

Thanks for the support and calls of them being good grades; they are! Just I'm meant to be a straight A student, something went horribly wrong :p
 
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If you don't get the grades, try clearing. Sometimes the Uni's only care that they fill the course slots.
 
Originally Posted by Lightnix
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?
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I went from an E to a B in History. All thanks to an exam re-take. The funny thing is, there were 3 questions on the exam and I didn't understand what the first question was asking because I couldn't remember what a "Martyr" was. C'est la vie
 
elrasho said:
If your going to Uni to do Computer Science, please reconsider. You'll only get a decent career based job if yo come out with a 1st, anything less and youl be a tech support monkey for years.... yes I am a bitter old man
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What makes you say this? I know plenty of CS students with 2:1's that have Jobs. Where did you study?
 
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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 got a U last year in maths but I was allowed to carry on at A2 and scraped an A overall doing all maths exams in June.
 
Mil17B said:
I got a U last year in maths but I was allowed to carry on at A2 and scraped an A overall doing all maths exams in June.
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Wow. Well done. I think you win that part of the thread. :D

But yeah I think I'm going to have to at least retake M1 in January... I mean I could potentially squeeze half an A-level grade from it (yeah I did pretty badly, E :().
 
I hate stories like this.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-11023939

Universities don't decide to give offers after the results. It's based on predicted grades amongst other things.

What references did he get? What grades was he predicted and how good was his personal statement?

He probably fluffed the oxford interview.

However, he'll get an offer next year from oxford with his grades.
 
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Moses99p said:
I was talking to my housemate about that guy after he was on the news. He's probably a completely socially inept, tbh. Who'd you rather have on your course (which has AAA entrance requirements), a complete **** with eight A* grade A levels, or an interesting, rounded, engaging person with three A grades?
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Primarily, Oxbridge colleges would prefer the person who would do better in the exams.
 
w11tho said:
Primarily, Oxbridge colleges would prefer the person who would do better in the exams.
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That isn't true in the slightest, actually.

Oxbridge don't need to prefer people who do better in exams - they all do. They pick the most 'rounded' students, the ones who have done the most and who want to experience the most, out of all the students who can walk exams.
 
brainiac ghost said:
A* in A level bio (taken in 1 year, instead of 2)
A in AS politics, A in AS electronics

Off to uni to study paramedic science at hertfordshire :)
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So you got A*AA and you're going to Hertfordshire? :confused: That's the uni people go to if all else fails as a back up. It's about 80th in the league tables. You have grades for a top 15 uni easily.
 
Hatter The Mad said:
That isn't true in the slightest, actually.

Oxbridge don't need to prefer people who do better in exams - they all do. They pick the most 'rounded' students, the ones who have done the most and who want to experience the most, out of all the students who can walk exams.
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Really? I must remind myself and my colleagues of this fact when we interview for fresh undergraduates later this year.
 
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