A-Level results

[ben andrews' girlfriend]

Got AAA

Going to Southampton

Wow, congratulations!

I take it that's the proper uni?

Well done to all of you getting your results today

 

[El Presidente]

Got AAA

Going to Southampton

Fantastic, well done.

Make the most of it!

 

[Lady Whistledown]

And, just to prove the earlier point, here's the token photo from the BBC website's usual "Record Results" story today

 

[SNOOBS]

Got AAA

Going to Southampton

NERD.

No really, well done H. Hero.

BB CC. After some poor summer exam results, which I blame the World Cup for, not too bad. Gets me what I needed.

 

[vlbtc_seagull]

Got C in Sociology and C in Law at A-level. Awaiting my B-TEC plus I got D in politics at As, so I got what I need pending my B-TEC to get into Coventry

HOWEVER

Wanting to have a year to do another A-level and boost my two Cs to Bs plus work 30 hours a week so I can get into either Brighton or Sussex university

 

[Deportivo Seagull]

I remember the Chief Inspector of Schools someone called Woodhouse I think suggesting a year or so ago that the current A level was not fulfilling the function that it should be. He stated he considered both the GCSE and A level were getting easier.

That is not fact and neither is this but I seem to remember that he got very twitchy when ask to substantiate his comments ...

 

[clapham_gull]

A Levels are a lot easier now than they were in the mid 80's.

EDIT. In my apparently worthless and unreasoned opinion.

Could you make that your signature?, it would save new members to this board a lot of time and effort.

 

[astevens76]

Got AAA

Going to Southampton

Nice one mate
Enjoy the Maths!

 

[SeagullRic]

Got my AS results a couple of hours ago, A's in Sociology and History, B in French and C in English lit (which I'm dropping) so all in all pretty happy. Might re-take french next summer to try and bump it up to an A

 

[Jimmy Grimble]

I'm 18, and I'm going to go against the grain here and say exams ARE getting easier.

Myself and a few others spent the vast majority of the summer watching and gambling on the World Cup. We knew this would hinder our revision, but were happy to do it as we knew we could re-take the exams in January.

From a personal point of view I virtually threw the towel in. I accepted I was going to under-perform. For one of my subjects - English Language - I did no revision and turned up forty-five minutes late to the exam! For Sociology I did no revision up until the night before the exam. For the other two - Psychology and Modern History - I did four days of revision, which translates to about 12 hours. That may sound a lot to some, but it really isn't. Not when you have to revise a years worth of learning.

I came out of the exams genuinely feeling as though I had done poorly. There were questions on things I hadn't managed to revise.

Somehow I've walked away with 4 B's (two were very close to being A's). Now I'm reasonably intelligent, but nothing special, so I'm completely fathomed at how I've managed to get 4 B's. There's no way I should have been able to get those grades after the lack of commitment I demonstrated. I honestly feel like I'm robbing the system.

I'll still be re-taking one, maybe two, of my exams to try and get an A. Needless to say I'm very confident I will get it if I actually bother revising properly!

What these results have done is suggest to me I can keep dossing my way through education, barely committing myself to attend lessons, spending 'revision time' gambling on football and I will still get decent grades

 

[Deleted User X18H]

I'm 18, and I'm going to go against the grain here and say exams ARE getting easier.

Myself and a few others spent the vast majority of the summer watching and gambling on the World Cup. We knew this would hinder our revision, but were happy to do it as we knew we could re-take the exams in January.

From a personal point of view I virtually threw the towel in. I accepted I was going to under-perform. For two of my subjects - English Language and Sociology - I did no revision up until the night before the exam (I turned up over half an hour late to one of them!). For the other two - Psychology and Modern History - I did four days of revision, which translates to about 12 hours. That may sound a lot to some, but it really isn't. Not when you have to revise a years worth of learning.

I came out of the exams genuinely feeling as though I had done poorly. There were questions on things I hadn't managed to revise.

Somehow I've walked away with 4 B's (two were very close to being A's). Now I'm reasonably intelligent, but nothing special, so I'm completely fathomed at how I've managed to get 4 B's. There's no way I should have been able to get those grades after the lack of commitment I demonstrated. I honestly feel like I'm robbing the system.

I'll still be re-taking one, maybe two, of my exams to try and get an A. Needless to say I'm very confident I will get it if I actually bother revising properly!

What these results have done is suggest to me I can keep dossing my way through education, barely committing myself to attend lessons, spending 'revision time' gambling on football and I will still get decent grades

Well done lad. Another point is that since the implementation of student loans as opposed to the grants system there have been more A Level Students attaining the grades required to gain a University place. More University places taken up more loans taken out. Even at minimal interest rates I am sure someone is making a buck. Maybe I am just an old cynic, but I don't remember photos of hundreds of celebrating students from my generation. In fact there was a helpline for those that didn't get the grades they needed. Don't hear much of that nowadays either.

But well done to all those who worked hard and obtained the grades they wanted.

 

[Wilko]

I'm 18, and I'm going to go against the grain here and say exams ARE getting easier.

Myself and a few others spent the vast majority of the summer watching and gambling on the World Cup. We knew this would hinder our revision, but were happy to do it as we knew we could re-take the exams in January.

From a personal point of view I virtually threw the towel in. I accepted I was going to under-perform. For two of my subjects - English Language and Sociology - I did no revision up until the night before the exam (I turned up over half an hour late to one of them!). For the other two - Psychology and Modern History - I did four days of revision, which translates to about 12 hours. That may sound a lot to some, but it really isn't. Not when you have to revise a years worth of learning.

I came out of the exams genuinely feeling as though I had done poorly. There were questions on things I hadn't managed to revise.

Somehow I've walked away with 4 B's (two were very close to being A's). Now I'm reasonably intelligent, but nothing special, so I'm completely fathomed at how I've managed to get 4 B's. There's no way I should have been able to get those grades after the lack of commitment I demonstrated. I honestly feel like I'm robbing the system.

I'll still be re-taking one, maybe two, of my exams to try and get an A. Needless to say I'm very confident I will get it if I actually bother revising properly!

What these results have done is suggest to me I can keep dossing my way through education, barely committing myself to attend lessons, spending 'revision time' gambling on football and I will still get decent grades

Take a look at what you have just typed out - Good use of language, punctuation, grammar and spelling is very good for the average 18 year old, your posts always seem very intelligent to me and your use of expression is mature too.

Many students can barely scrape a sentence together so it does not surprise me that you can wing it to a certain degree. I mark exam papers and believe me, a well structured sentence, expression and good grammar go a LONG way to influence the marker after some of the utter tripe you have to wade through.

 

[Deleted User X18H]

Take a look at what you have just typed out - Good use of language, punctuation, grammar and spelling is very good for the average 18 year old, your posts always seem very intelligent to me and your use of expression is mature too.

Many students can barely scrape a sentence together so it does not surprise me that you can wing it to a certain degree. I mark exam papers and believe me, a well structured sentence, expression and good grammar go a LONG way to influence the marker after some of the utter tripe you have to wade through.

You mark A levels?

 

[clarkey]

I took my A2s two years ago now and though I wouldnt say they were easy, you do see people getting 3 As etc who really shouldnt be classed in the upper bracket of their year group in terms of intelligence.

I did Latin A2 and for exam practice we used O Level papers from the 60s and 70s, and the latter were far harder than the actual exams we took. Read into that what you will.

 

[Gwylan]

I did Latin A2 and for exam practice we used O Level papers from the 60s and 70s, and the latter were far harder than the actual exams we took. Read into that what you will.

I passed my Latin O Level in 1973 and I thought it was tough. On the other hand, I've started reading Latin books recently after a 37 year break and I can still just about read them - I must have received a good grounding in the subject to able to do that

 

[Wilko]

You mark A levels?

Yes. Why?

 

[Deleted User X18H]

Yes. Why?

No reason.

 

[ryeseagull]

Fair enough. However I saw a 2008 History paper and to be honest it contained many of the questions I remembered doing at O'Level.

Thats not to say those who have achieved good reults shouldn't be congratulated and well done to them.

Don't forget they still had streaming in the 80's

I would set my undergraduates similar questions to those on an A level exam. I expect far more developed and reasoned responses, though.

The questions have little to do with the grading standard, of which you have no idea.

 

[Mendoza]

Many students can barely scrape a sentence together so it does not surprise me that you can wing it to a certain degree. I mark exam papers and believe me, a well structured sentence, expression and good grammar go a LONG way to influence the marker after some of the utter tripe you have to wade through.

I woz like OMG like how did they get like lotz ov wkd A levelz again like but cnt spk proper lee m8s + rite evn wurss innit bluds...
Izzit coz dey all haz big titz?

 

[Sam Ovett]

On holiday at the moment, meaning I will get my AS results when I get home Confident with geology and geography I think, but completely fudged my maths a-level. Congrats to everyone who got what they wanted!!