A-Levels

[rexclark]

My daughter got what she needed and is off to Liverpool to study Biochemistry. I am the proudest dad in the country right now

[llcoolphil]

Well done to your daughter...

[rubenz]

I felt this blog gave an interesting look at how the media reports A level results

My link

[llcoolphil]

I felt this blog gave an interesting look at how the media reports A level results

My link

[greenfairy43]

Thank you. Now have to get used to the idea that she's leaving home

[Alcatraz]

hmmm

Edited August 20, 2010 by Alcatraz

[Gre]

I got 479 in economics, which works out to be 80%, but isn't. Not only did that point cost me a third A with maths and history, people doing maths at Manchester with 3 A's got £1500 incentive to do maths in the first place.

I got a £50 book token instead for AAB.

[smog]

Parents and kids turning up now because they cant get through on the phone to find out about insurance confirmations. Just had a chat with someone who has driven down from Stirling

Lots of irate and hassled uni admin staff all about campus and we get to watch from afar - preparing to drink the union bar dry as we didnt sell all our beer at last weeks conference

Edited August 20, 2010 by smog

[lolbeck]

Congrats to everyone who got the grades they needed

I like this time of year when everyone's sorting out starting or going back to uni. It's so exciiiiiting

[ste4_20]

That sucks and is gutting - and I really hope they re-marked your papers looking for another mark to give you, but you have to draw the line somewhere. If you're letting 79.83% round up to 80%, where do you stop?

Edited August 20, 2010 by ste4_20

[llcoolphil]

Revel in the pride that you played no small part in getting her to this point. I know I was fit to burst when I helped my daughter off to Uni 2 years ago & to China a year ago.

[feral chile]

When 27% of entries (source) are getting an A or A*, how do we even know that he was in the top few % of people that we would want in such areas?

Yep, I'm being the grumpy bugger that brings up the 'exams are getting easier' line. They may not be getting easier, but when the % of A's (and now A*'s) has gone up every year for 28 years and is now almost triple what it was in the mid-80s, you have to be sceptical.

That said, well done all, hope you all got what you wanted Every year some tit comes along and tries to spoil the party.

edit; I got 3 A's & a B in sciencey subjects back in 2001, and in retrospect there was no way I would have been suited to studying law or medicine, or at one of the very top universities.

[llcoolphil]

how do they work out the grades? way back in the dark ages when I did my O/ Levels, they used to take the average percentage and that was a C. Then they used to work it all out from there. So lucky the average student in an average year. Do they still do that?

[rabid]

d'oh!

Edited August 20, 2010 by rabid

[greenfairy43]

Aye big up the massive that prove that the nuclear family isn't the only way to produce clever and well balanced kids!

[dakyras]

I agree, but if they're saying that 80% is an A, then consensus is that you round up from 79.5%, like in anything else. Similarly, 79.49% is a B.

It's made no difference to anything I've done since mind. Was wondering what an A* is in terms of UCAS points now if anyone knows?

[ampersand]

i see our kids at gcse level are getting even smarter again. i dunno how we coped 30 years ago without the all current academics that we have

[RABun]

i see our kids at gcse level are getting even smarter again. i dunno how we coped 30 years ago without the all current academics that we have

[oafc0000]

i see our kids at gcse level are getting even smarter again. i dunno how we coped 30 years ago without the all current academics that we have

[oafc0000]

I wouldnt know about that my lazy ass son overslept and has now missed the bus and is waiting for the next one to get to school to get his results. He is soo laid back and i'm chewing the furniture. grrrrrrrrrr

[saratink]

oh dear kids are getting smarter at gcses.. by the time i finish college its gona be them i'm gona be in competition with trying to get into university !! I better work my butt off this year to make up for the fact i don't have A levels :| !!

[jump]

I wouldnt know about that my lazy ass son overslept and has now missed the bus and is waiting for the next one to get to school to get his results. He is soo laid back and i'm chewing the furniture. grrrrrrrrrr

[Pogues Mcgogues]

We get them delivered to the house in Scotland.

[RABun]

We get them delivered to the house in Scotland.

[ampersand]

We get them delivered to the house in Scotland.