A Level Results

Congratulations. My daughter had this last year and it's a tough day. My son will be next year.

I assume with those result your oldest got the university of their choice?
 
Sheffield was the backup. She needed higher for Leeds but the maths was a killer. She's relieved to have got a B as she was expecting a lot worse. We were researching clearing a lot last night, but happy to have not needed it !
 
firstborn said:
Congrats to your daughter. I'll be dealing with lots of disappointment today.
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Son did very well in his A levels 2 years ago and is also studying Law.

Daughter on the other hand takes hers next year and unfortunately has discovered boys and part time working. So she is enjoying life and has a bit of money in her pocket. Unfortunately as we all know, the more work you put into your education, the better options you will have in later life (hopefully!)

So for her, she doesn't understand mortgages, cars, general day to day living as what she is earning is 'pocket money'. Therefore studying has become 2nd place to her social life - hopefully she can turn it around, but i think we'll be dealing with disappointment next year too.

Shame, as she has the smarts, they both passed the 11+ and went to a good Grammar School - i think she will regret her decisions now in a few years time.

Congrats to your daughter - excellent results!
 
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Best of luck to those recieving results today. I remember finding out I'd been accepted into university before I saw my results, at which point I didn't really care what I'd gotten!
 
Thanks for the heads up that the local yoofs round here will be out and about celebrating/commiserating this evening !:p
 
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Bassmansam said:
I didn't even qualify to do a levels :D . I got 3 c's and 3 d's in my GCSE's.
The D's were in the three core subjects aswell, doh!

Congrats to your daughter @peterwalkley
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Same, messed up my GCSE's. Ended up re-doing GCSE's later in life and a degree too.

However, obvs that cost £££'s and i kick myself that i behaved the way i did when i was younger, but it worked out ok - ah, that feeling of youth where you think you are invulnerable and living for the now!
 
I'm a stressed 35 year old waiting for my AAT results to come through :(

Waiting on the final module to complete level 4, don't think I've passed but anxious refreshing every 5 mins to see :D
 
I see the Education secretary is making friends again...
Speaking to Sky News, Gillian Keegan had said:

Somebody asked me: ‘What will people ask you in 10 years’ time?’ They won’t ask you anything about your A-level grades in 10 years’ time.


They will ask you about other things you have done since then: what you have done in the workplace, what you did at university. And then, after a period of time, they don’t even ask you what you did at university.


It is really all about what you do and what you can demonstrate and the skills that you learn in the workplace.
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Although in this case, I don't think she's particularly wrong. I was interviewing recently for various jobs and one of the people interviewing me spent 5 minutes asking me about my GCSE and A Level results... from 10+ years ago which I thought was incredibly insulting and completely irrelevant when you're hiring a chartered accountant. Suffice to say I withdrew my application even though they wanted me to proceed to the next stage.

I could understand if it had been for a graduate scheme fresh out of university, but not for a professional role and someone who's spent the last 4 years working evening and weekends to become chartered WHILST working in finance and demonstrating all of the skills for the role they're hiring for.
 
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Congrats to everyone including those who didn't quite make the grades or get their 1st choice of university. Some students who study at degree level will then go on to work in an irrelevant field anyway. For me at university, my best life lesson was about leaving home and learning how to live by myself. Get out to gigs and clubs, explore and expand your music tastes and make some friends along the way :)

I started university in September 1998 (25 years ago!) and there were no politics back then. I know politics have now taken a bit of a stronghold, especially left-right politics, but I hope for the sake of the readers' undergraduate children in this thread can cast politics to the wayside, on a shelf somewhere, and actually enjoy being a student for 3 or 4 years!
 
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MichaelAwkward said:
I see the Education secretary is making friends again...


Although in this case, I don't think she's particularly wrong. I was interviewing recently for various jobs and one of the people interviewing me spent 5 minutes asking me about my GCSE and A Level results... from 10+ years ago which I thought was incredibly insulting and completely irrelevant when you're hiring a chartered accountant. Suffice to say I withdrew my application even though they wanted me to proceed to the next stage.

I could understand if it had been for a graduate scheme fresh out of university, but not for a professional role and someone who's spent the last 4 years working evening and weekends to become chartered WHILST working in finance and demonstrating all of the skills for the role they're hiring for.
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I agree actually, shes not wrong. In almost 4 decades of working life , I have not once been asked by an employer about my grades. Not even once. I've put them in CV's, written them on application forms, but never in all those decades has any employer asked me about the grades or to provide evidence of the grades I've written. Frankly I could have written whatever I wanted as the acquired grades. Every employer that I have interviewed with has always been far more interested in who I was as a person, what my answers to "the usual" interview type questions were and/or my working experience than what my education was.
 
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Of course they are they don't want to miss out on the ££££
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whats the average debt hanging over you when you leave? 45k or something? And when you leave everyone's got a degree cos its in everyones interests that you get it, little to do with intellect or ability more to do with willing to pay for it.

we've started to have 3rd interviews and aptitude tests for anyone joining on our graduate scheme here to find out if they have any basic skills, despite having a degree on their resume. Older people cant get their head around having a degree and being essentially thick I reckon.
 
MichaelAwkward said:
Although in this case, I don't think she's particularly wrong. I was interviewing recently for various jobs and one of the people interviewing me spent 5 minutes asking me about my GCSE and A Level results... from 10+ years ago which I thought was incredibly insulting and completely irrelevant when you're hiring a chartered accountant. Suffice to say I withdrew my application even though they wanted me to proceed to the next stage.

I could understand if it had been for a graduate scheme fresh out of university, but not for a professional role and someone who's spent the last 4 years working evening and weekends to become chartered WHILST working in finance and demonstrating all of the skills for the role they're hiring for.
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Did you go down the "certified" route with ACCA or whatever (I get they're both technically chartered) instead of the traditional chartered route? Degree from a non-Russell Group uni/former poly or a non-grad with ATT or whatever? Experience in the finance dept of some random company working among not qualified admin types rather than within a firm of Chartered Accountants?

It does seem a bit off if you've got some experience though I guess if newly qualified and perhaps going for your first proper accountancy role then maybe they're still a bit funny/cautious especially if you've not entered the profession via a "traditional" route?

I do agree with you in general, they ought to be irrelevant once you've got some experience, sometimes will be looked at for new grads though especially if there is some uncertainty.
 
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