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Anyone Else Pick Theres Up ?

I Got 2 A*'s, 4 A's, 2 B's, 4 C's, 3 D's, 2 E's

Failing Maths :( lol

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oooh well done nick :D:D:D:D:D

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Yeah...just got mine.

A in Urdu
C in Domestic Science

Failed the rest. No Uni for me, then.

well done Nickelson, you got some good grades there kid, you took 17 GCSE's? chuffin ell
for some reason i got the impression you where a lot older than 16

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Nah Im 16, Its My Maturity ;)

Erm Well 1 is a B-TEC Which Is The Equivelent of 4 A*s as i got the highest grade. So 13 Proper Exams.

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you did really well though, was watching the kids on the news this morning opening their exam results, i said to Reece 'that'll be you in 5 years time' he just gave me a funny look

i take it with those good results your off to college in September then?

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Aye Bacup And Rawtenstall Grammer School Sixth Form :D Start In 2 Weeks.

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ah BRGS excellent, so what you going to study?

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A-Levels , Economics,English Lit,Geography,Computing

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Congratulations.

I failed Maths O-level too.

I eventually re-sat it years later, and passing it was more thrilling than getting my degree.:D

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are c,s and d,s good , when i was at school a d was not so good ,
and well done nick,

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Computing is a nice subject but don't expect it to help if your going on to do something related to it at uni - the syallbus is way out dated and irrelevant.

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Also drop to 3 subjects as soon as you can - you'll have more time to work on the other 3 subjects and uni's only look at 3 results - the reason colleges have you do 4 is they get more funding.

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D's aren't good and obviously anything below a D gets worse and worse.

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2 A stars and 4 A's thats darn good though

Nickelson what do you wanna do when you leave college/uni?

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Got my O levels about 30 odd years ago.Crap grades(all 3 of them) but would still be the equivilent of a Phd these days.Then onto the treadmill that is life.You GCSE'rs don't know you're born.Best of luck anyway,just don't re-re design my town.

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That made me laugh. You need to look at the differences between opinion and fact before spouting off.

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Oops Got It Wrong I Got ;

4 A*'s, 2 A's, 3 B's, 4 C's, 2 D's, 2 E's

Not Too Sure About When I Leave Uni/College Yet.

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i know its a few years off yet but i hope you have something in mind so you can be aiming towards it :D

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Uni's will take into account all four if your aiming for the best uni's. Everyone knows that universities are struggling to pick out the best as it is without ignoring peoples results.

They only ignore the 4th if it is something like critical thinking/general studies etc, but even they can be taken into account if your three A levels just happen to miss the University's offer, so try hard in everything.

Also Nickelson, did school teach you to write sentences with every single word beginning with a capital letter? I don't really know how you can be bothered to do that!

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Nope :p, i just prefer to type like that.

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excellent i wont bore you with what i got at school
but well done
you should be proud !!

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Any particular reason? I presume you do it with the shift key? I tried it just to see what it was like and it just ached my hands and seemed to make everything take longer than it should!

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Congratulations Nick!

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my biggest little sis got 4 a's 3 b's and 3 c's and has been hrd to get hold of today!! grrr....... well done Leah (thats my sis lol) and well done everyone :D

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disagree, think its best to have a few options, then ya can go the way ya fancy at the end of it.:)good luck whatever kid;)

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ok ok uncle cashy is right AGAIN ;)

but you have to have at least 1 thing in mind surely? lol you cant just go to college and uni just for the sake of it....can you?

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Well done, you must be very pleased.

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no not go fer the sake of it, but many different fields to choose from in many cases, n when ya become aware more of what ya thought ya wanted, ya may think no, n choose a different path.;) says the guy who really ballsed some good opertunitys up lol

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WOAH that sounds scarily like my life :eek:

now stop being all philosophical Mr and bring uncle cashy back please ;)

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sorry flashy, always get a bit that way when ive bin to a mates funeral.but fear not, will do me disco tomoz n come back ignorant as sin.:D

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lol, daft sod ;)

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Not to good at English either:D:D:dancedog:

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Well not been on since my son got his but I am so proud of him...

He got
1 A
6 B's (4 of which were only a few marks of an A)
3 C's

Met all his entrance requirements to go to Clitheroe Grammar and is now set to do English combined, History, Sociology & economics at A level

Well done Ben from a very, very proud mum :alright:

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With those grades it doesn't look like Oxbridge UCL or Imperial are going to be the aim - no offence meant at all Nick and if that is your aim then go for it... and the others don't look at more than 3 as there are colleges which only allow students to take 3 A levels and it would discriminate against those.

Uni's will have the A* grade and the difficulty of the subjects to judge from.

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Say hello to Mr Ventress for me at burgers. He's the most eccentric English Lit teacher you will ever come across. Utter legend!

Well done and good luck.

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congratulations to all x

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i'm confused.........do uni's not look at how many points you have, which is determined by the grades you got?

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It tends to be the universities that are toward the bottom end of the league tables that only ask for points as the grades required are so low. For example I would've got into Liverpool Hope even if I hadn't taken my final exams because all I needed was 240 points which equates to about 3 E grades.

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then that begs the question, should people be getting into any uni,with such low marks? aint being funny, just asking.

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Well done Ben.:)

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In my eyes it's down to the government's focus on exam passes rather than good teaching. It follows from worthless GCSEs, to A-levels (or equivalents to A-levels :rolleyes:), to worthless degrees at obscure universities. All to make 'Education, Education, Education' look like a success.

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lol, i'll be doing my degree at burnley (eventually) its not exactly a top uni is it?

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I think you mean, 'rather than on good education'. Good teaching (knowing the syllabus and the exam structure inside out and teaching directly to that specification) is one of the main factors for the increasing success rates year on year.

Whether that is what education should be about is another matter entirely.

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Sorry you're right; I did mean that. :o

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Well i say congratulations!
Far better than i did and many people i knew back then.
My brother in law got 6 A's,3 B's,2 C's and a D.
Really proud of him!

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Congrats to Ben HR, glad he got what he needed for Clitheroe :D

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thanks to all for the congrats.... only downside to him going to clitheroe is that it is still uniform!!! Spent nearly £200!!! But at least it's sorted now :)

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Congrats to everyone on their results

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OK I apologise, the only university's policy on grades I know very well is Lancasters and they take into account all A levels if the offer of the main three is missed.

Bringing discrimination into it is a typical PC argument and one that is hypocritical in my view. All achievements should be considered, why should a student who has completed more than 3 A levels be undervalued?

GCSE's are looked at by Oxbridge but just because you haven't got straight A*'s and A's doesnt mean you wont be considered a place at them, I have friends studying at them who got A's B's and C's at school who went on to do well at A level and get a place.

From my experience of education pre-degree level is that they teach you nothing but how to pass exams rather than learning the subjects properly. I would rather stick pins in my eyes than go back to college.

Also cashy, I didn't meet the typical requirements for uni though I do have the number of points most uni's will accept, so I would have been denied a place at uni if it was as strict as you are suggesting might be a better system, and I've done really well this year. Point is, a lot of very capable people would miss out if it was tested like that.

I think everyone at uni knows someone who did get good A levels who is scraping their way through uni and doesnt really deserve their place at all, I know I certainly do and I find that much more disheartening than there being people on the course who didnt actually meet the entry requirements.

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Same here, has to be buisness ethos at BRGS.

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You'd be surprised what you can get away with. I wore a dress once.
Good day.