A Level Results Day

[Ted Dansons Wig]

Hats off and good luck to those getting their results today. Hope you get what you (or yours) need.

Daughter bag of nerves for days now.

Edited August 15, 2013 by Ted Dansons Wig

[5co77ie]

our got what she needed - though she doesn't need it now she's got an apprenticeship.

[LondonTom]

Sister was also picking up hers today, school fucked up and didn't send one of her grades to UCAS and she didn't quite get what she was expecting so she's still waiting to hear back from the Uni still.

Also, my parents won't be happy as they was paying for an maths tutor at the weekend for her and she got an E in one of the maths exams. Shame about the result for her overall but makes some of what I said to my mum about her buying education justified.

On another plus side, she did no better than me and I got into my first choice course so atm I have a good chance of becoming the golden child

Edited August 15, 2013 by LondonTom

[Ted Dansons Wig]

We sat in the car park this morning waiting for daughter to come back with the dreaded envelope and watching kids come out with various looks of horror, delight and resignation.

Really felt for every one of em. The last people in the world able to deal with that level of anticipation, stress and implication are teenagers.

[the wonderwhy]

Got my 3 B's (up from 3 C's last year) & start Journalism at Notts Trent in September, happy days.

[Ted Dansons Wig]

Got my 3 B's (up from 3 C's last year) & start Journalism at Notts Trent in September, happy days.

[Gucci Piggy]

Got my A in A-level maths and B's in AS biology, chemistry and physics. Not quite what I realistically needed for the course I'm applying for, but a bit of blagging with my teachers will hopefully get them to predict me the A-level results I need.

[Purple Monkey]

http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/news/society/plain-looking-students-exam-success-goes-undocumented-2013081578670

[feral chile]

http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/news/society/plain-looking-students-exam-success-goes-undocumented-2013081578670

[JC-Mo'Fucka]

feel bad for the kids forking out £9,000+ a year in fees alone, I don't think I could justify that on my course

[LondonTom]

http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/news/society/plain-looking-students-exam-success-goes-undocumented-2013081578670

[lost]

feel bad for the kids forking out £9,000+ a year in fees alone, I don't think I could justify that on my course

[Ted Dansons Wig]

feel bad for the kids forking out £9,000+ a year in fees alone, I don't think I could justify that on my course

[Gucci Piggy]

But you pay it back as a percentage of what you earn once you've left uni. So ending up with a better job doesn't really help in regards to this, especially as you have to be earning over a certain amount to have to pay back anything at all.

When my brother went to uni last year we worked out, based on an average doctor's wage, that the interest on his loan each year would be greater than the amount he pays back every year, so it'll never get paid off, it'll effectively just be an extra tax until he's 50 (I think that's when it gets wiped).

I'm planning on doing the same thing as him, so the situation will be exactly the same for me.

[lost]

But you pay it back as a percentage of what you earn once you've left uni. So ending up with a better job doesn't really help in regards to this, especially as you have to be earning over a certain amount to have to pay back anything at all.

When my brother went to uni last year we worked out, based on an average doctor's wage, that the interest on his loan each year would be greater than the amount he pays back every year, so it'll never get paid off, it'll effectively just be an extra tax until he's 50 (I think that's when it gets wiped).

I'm planning on doing the same thing as him, so the situation will be exactly the same for me.

[feral chile]

So its basically now a graduate tax... You pay 9% on everythng over £21k ? for the ret of your life.

[feral chile]

Finished paying mine off last year. Good riddance to it. Was a pain in the arse. Feel for the ones having to pay £9k

[JC-Mo'Fucka]

Err.. Or the parents who end up paying. Especially those with more than one in the system at once

[Gucci Piggy]

We worked out that no matter how much we took for the living expenses loan (I'm sure there were several options) we'd end up paying back the exact same amount, so took it all. Still wasn't comfortable for living on I wouldn't have thought.

[LondonTom]

I'll never end up paying mine back, but I don't feel guilty about it, as I think the system's a compromise between grants and loans, in practical terms.

[lost]

Nah its designed to protect those in power who had free tuition, strangely more rich people .

It would be better just to have a proper graduate tax that everyone pays, especially since those who benefited most paid almost fuck all in comparison to kids now who need a degree for basic jobs.

[feral chile]

Nah its designed to protect those in power who had free tuition, strangely more rich people .

It would be better just to have a proper graduate tax that everyone pays, especially since those who benefited most paid almost fuck all in comparison to kids now who need a degree for basic jobs.