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On August 19 2011 00:25 Zurles wrote:Show nested quote +On August 18 2011 23:43 taldarimAltar wrote:On August 18 2011 23:31 Zurles wrote:On August 18 2011 23:25 lolsixtynine wrote:On August 18 2011 23:15 pStar wrote:
Really?
Wise up. Many people would have begged for those results.
I got CCCC this morning and im sitting dissapointed and your sitting on results like those? Perhaps the reason he is doing so well is that he isn't happy with mediocrity. Why would you want to settle for anything less than your best? getting a-level results isn't saying you cant live a mediocre life, anyone so focused on these results probably is living a mediocre life. Mediocre is relative... If the results are below your expectations or what you want, of course you'd be disappointed. I'm just saying if you don't want to live a mediocre life worrying about results probably isn't the number 1 thing you should be thinking about.
It's helpful though. Being able to excel at academia isn't the most important thing you could do, but it's a great challenge to your self-discipline and capacity to understand new concepts. If instead of doing well at exams, you are devoting yourself to something truly extraordinary, then fair play. Generally though, I've found few people are pursuing an extraordinary alternative - they're just making excuses for not facing a valuable test.
In answer to the op, when I took my A-levels the universities looked at your predicted grades and made an offer, so you should be able to do retakes and carry on as planned. Having said that, gap years are really great 
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How does transfering universities work in UK?
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TLADT24920 Posts
I think you should retake and go for a gap year. Save up the money, gain experience then go into the university you want 
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Retake and get into where you want. then you will have no regrets. If you retake and fail again go with other options, but at least you know that you wouldn't have made it in anyways.
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Don't know how relevant this is... but I took my A levels before A stars were invented.
Basically, I needed AAB to get into Leeds to do Maths. I was doing four A levels, and due to my general utter fucking laziness I came out with ABBC (Maths, Computing, Classics & Physics). Leeds accepted me anyway, I got the letter through the post the morning as I went to pick up my results. Probably a combination of 4 A2s instead of 3, and the fact that no one in their right minds wants to do Maths so places are abundant.
As for advice? I gather that you are at the end of your first year? Do the resits, you should be able to do them in January and it won't slow you down. Always worth resitting if you can heheh.
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For those who were asking I found them far harder than gcse. I got 5a* 5a 2b at gcse.
I think that aab might be achievable but I wonder if I should settle and look for abb unis to make sure I don't aim too high. I would aim to go to Nottingham/york/Exeter/sheffield which are aab-abb
The Job I would be aiming to go into is law however which i think would be hard to go straight into employment. So I think resisting and maybe missing a year will be the best option for me
Thanks for all the positive responses ^_^ have realised that I just have to give it my best and take the results. Hope you all got the results you were looking for <3
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So you're doing a Law degree? Definitely worth making sure you get the best grades you possibly can, that's a very popular degree!
It's still a case (after applying for five initially) of "firmly" accepting one offer, then accepting a second choice as an "insurance offer"?
If so then you've got the right idea, looking at slightly less demanding institutions. Put down a Russell group university as your firm choice and then somewhere else that requires slightly less as an insurance. I put the University of East Anglia down as mine, and I think I would've actually been quite happy there too Can't remember what they wanted, ABC or something.
Having said that, don't go too far down the scale! It's clear from your GCSEs that you're not polytechnic material 
EDIT: Although I clearly am, confusing your and you're!
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CA10829 Posts
i don't have anything useful to say since i'm not from the UK, but i must say that your system of college application/entrance exams is fascinating to me as an outsider lol
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retake. I have a few friends there who went through the same thing you are. They all seem pretty happy but they put a lot of work into making sure it didnt happen again. So be prepared to work harder than before!
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