Results Day Options

[bassmadmatt]

Oh dear, results day! :( My predicted grades are all below 'C'! <_< Luckily me and my friends have a crazy sense of humour, and will be able to laugh off our results whatever we get! :P It'll be truly hilarious if we pass French! :D

Matt the lighthearted GCSE-failer! ;) B)

[nicki_flute]

Well, in my head I have high expectations, so knowine me, I'll be disappointed even if they are really good!

[noodle]

Anyone from Scotland here get their results today?

[SuzyMac]

The universities do know in advance, and your teachers do as well - at least one day before. At least it makes it easy when you have to phone up to see if your results are good enough, they already know you and what the decision is.

I wouldn't worry about the UCAS letter - my friends and I all got one and our offers ranged from AAB to Unconditional!!

*Good luck everyone*

[nicki_flute]

Yes, but with your teachers knowing, if you see them before you get your results, then it could influence how you think you've done.

[saxlover]

Yes, but with your teachers knowing, if you see them before you get your results, then it could influence how you think you've done.

I'll just go in looking at the floor, get what I need and go home and stay there and not go to uni

[Trebor]

16 days...

[nicki_flute]

Well from Saturday I am going to be away for a week with a friend, so that should make me not think about them, but when I get back it'll be 5 days!

[saxlover]

When I get back from Helen's it will be 1 day! No 2 days, no 1/..who cares!!! It'll stil lbe real soon!

[SuzyMac]

Yes, but with your teachers knowing, if you see them before you get your results, then it could influence how you think you've done.

I got my results from the head of 6th form - who'd conveniently forgotted that I needed AAB and gave me the results saying well done, brilliant - thinking ABB(A) was just that - it took a little while to realise the results *were* good - just not good enough. It didn't matter in the end, I still got in, but it's a heart-stopping moment when you think it's all gone wrong.

I was in hospital after a car crash until about 6 hours before my results! It does stop you worrying about the results, but it's not a great idea :rolleyes:

[saxlover]

MY head of 6th form will probably conveniently forget what I need and say something stupid. Or tell me I've not got in if I have or something mean!

[elmo]

I hate it when you get given the piece of paper, look at the results, think you've read it wrong, heart bellyflops about a foot into your stomach and then realise that actually it's ok...

OR

as what happened to me at AS results day: when you look at the piece of paper, look at the results, realised you haven't read it wrong, got a D in German, know you could've done better and think "oh @#*? I'm going to have to do it all again because a) you need to, and b ) even if I didn't, you wouldn't be satisified!

[crazy_purple_piano_freak]

I hate it when you get given the piece of paper, look at the results, think you've read it wrong, heart bellyflops about a foot into your stomach and then realise that actually it's ok...

OR

as what happened to me at AS results day: when you look at the piece of paper, look at the results, realised you haven't read it wrong, got a D in German, know you could've done better and think "oh @#*? I'm going to have to do it all again because a) you need to, and b ) even if I didn't, you wouldn't be satisified!

:lol: Reminds me of a time when we got end of year physics marks back and our teachers writing is really hard to read. My friend looked through her paper and saw that she got loads wrong but was still pleased that she got an 'A'....until i pointed out that it wasnt (as she had truthfully thought, a slightly lopsided 'A' but a 'D'..... :D

[saxlover]

I got a B once in my Chemistry module at GCSE, all my other ones had been D's and my teacher gave me my result with the most shocked look ever, I was thinking eeek,I've totally failed but she was just so shocked!

[sarah-flute]

We get a letter the day before results day saying whether our place is "unconditional" or "unsuccessful". I'm in 2 minds as to whether I should open it!

eeeek!

well, at least whichever way it means the tension is over a little sooner - i would not have been able to resist opening it just so I knew one way or the other...

That sounds really cruel...do the universities know your grades before you do?

Yup, it's for admin basically I think (so that they know how many they have coming, whether they will have spaces available for clearing, if students have narrowly missed but they decide that they did well enough at interview to be considered etc) but it still seems a bit mean really, and horrible of places to send you letters about clearing when you think they might know your results and "does this mean I failed them all??!"

I hate it when you get given the piece of paper, look at the results, think you've read it wrong, heart bellyflops about a foot into your stomach and then realise that actually it's ok...

Because of my very discouraging music teachers and knowing that I had written masses of rubbish in my music history paper (which was the one they said I would do OK in) I had a major panic when i got my results... I needed BBB (well it was a points offer but the system has changed so anyway it worked out as BBB basically or ABC) I got A in Eng. Lit. thought "good, that's what I was hoping for", got B in French, thought "yep, that's what I was expecting!!, now all I need is a C in art" (thinking I would most likely get a really low grade in music from what my teachers had said) then got to my art result and I'd only got a D! PANIC! "I KNEW I hadn't done enough coursework, I should not have listened to my teacher!" - then I got to my music mark thinking "Oh please let me have scraped a C!" - and I got a B! And almost fell over in shock. And so when everyone was asking what marks I had got I totally ignored the others and was going "I got a B in music....! I got a B in music!!!!!!!!!!"