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Eldest child (took a year out) got his first choice and very happy, middle child didn't get first choice and is a touch disappointed because of that, but happy with his second choice which have confirmed his place. He's now checking out Clearing to keep his options open.
Hope everyone else got what they wanted!
Hope everyone else got what they wanted!
There will be lots of scenes on BBC news of girls with long hair putting their hands over their mouths then jumping up and down with joy, only pausing to sweep their hair behind their ears.
On a more serious note, education is a competition, the idea is to have more of it/be better at it, than other people. If everybody does well it's pretty much the same as nobody doing well.
On a more serious note, education is a competition, the idea is to have more of it/be better at it, than other people. If everybody does well it's pretty much the same as nobody doing well.
My eldest lad re-sat a couple of A levels this year to try and get into his preferred Uni which needed AAB for the course he wanted, Bio-chemistry.
Didn't quite get the grade he need on Chemistry (again!) but ended up with ABC. His preferred uni have offered him a different course more aligned with his A level results so he's accepted it, Biological Sciences. Pleased for him as I think what the uni have suggested makes more sense than him trying to do a course heavily focussed on chemistry if he's struggling with it at A level.
Well done that lad!
Didn't quite get the grade he need on Chemistry (again!) but ended up with ABC. His preferred uni have offered him a different course more aligned with his A level results so he's accepted it, Biological Sciences. Pleased for him as I think what the uni have suggested makes more sense than him trying to do a course heavily focussed on chemistry if he's struggling with it at A level.
Well done that lad!
As someone who merely scraped through secondary school, having left after Os and CSEs in 1986, and went straight into full-time employment 1 week before I turned 16, I take my hat off to the youngsters today knuckling down to A levels and then Uni.
Aside from that, they're all tax dodging wasters, of course.
EDITED: dodgy spulleng
Aside from that, they're all tax dodging wasters, of course.
EDITED: dodgy spulleng
Edited by 5potTurbo on Thursday 13th August 13:38
Piersman2 said:
My eldest lad re-sat a couple of A levels this year to try and get into his preferred Uni which needed AAB for the course he wanted, Bio-chemistry.
Didn't quite get the grade he need on Chemistry (again!) but ended up with ABC. His preferred uni have offered him a different course more aligned with his A level results so he's accepted it, Biological Sciences. Pleased for him as I think what the uni have suggested makes more sense than him trying to do a course heavily focussed on chemistry if he's struggling with it at A level.
Well done that lad!
Yep, can turn out to be a great thing even. I didn't get my choice of automotive engineering because my maths grade wasn't quite there. They let me do Mech Eng though. Didn't quite get the grade he need on Chemistry (again!) but ended up with ABC. His preferred uni have offered him a different course more aligned with his A level results so he's accepted it, Biological Sciences. Pleased for him as I think what the uni have suggested makes more sense than him trying to do a course heavily focussed on chemistry if he's struggling with it at A level.
Well done that lad!
In the end, Its the course I should have applied for in the first place. Automotive, from guys who did it, sounded way too narrow in focus. Mech eng covered a lot of ground, all of it interesting. Once I got there as well my maths came right up! maths with a purpose suddenly becomes easy to understand. Pure maths taught in the abstract way we were at A-level made no sense to me at all!
Additionally, turns out Mech eng covered all the auto stuff I was interested in anyway and when I got onto my PhD, turns out most of the automotive research and testing was handled by Mech eng as well! Winner.
austinsmirk said:
on a serious note, how do gcse and a level results always seem to improve year on year.
For this to happen surely the nations yoof are getting more intelligent ? Now that can't be the case surely ?
Interesting too that there are more places than ever. My uni keeps putting the entry grades up to compensate. When I applied over 10 years ago now, they wanted BBC (the B's had to be physics and maths, but they let me in with a C because I had A's in physics and Electronics with scores above 90%). Same course now? something like A*A* A or something ridiculous!For this to happen surely the nations yoof are getting more intelligent ? Now that can't be the case surely ?
austinsmirk said:
on a serious note, how do gcse and a level results always seem to improve year on year.
For this to happen surely the nations yoof are getting more intelligent ? Now that can't be the case surely ?
The number of A/A*s at A level has fallen again this year - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-33886031For this to happen surely the nations yoof are getting more intelligent ? Now that can't be the case surely ?
Piersman2 said:
My eldest lad re-sat a couple of A levels this year to try and get into his preferred Uni which needed AAB for the course he wanted, Bio-chemistry.
Didn't quite get the grade he need on Chemistry (again!) but ended up with ABC. His preferred uni have offered him a different course more aligned with his A level results so he's accepted it, Biological Sciences. Pleased for him as I think what the uni have suggested makes more sense than him trying to do a course heavily focussed on chemistry if he's struggling with it at A level.
Well done that lad!
Did Biochemistry despite getting much worse results [D's and E's in the 3 sciences], and have to say that Chemistry as you know it basically aligns itself more with Physics once you hit university so he would be fine if his third grade was in Physics? - As an aside, he will probably be able to flip to a different life sciences degree after the first year anyway depending on his results and availability in the university.Didn't quite get the grade he need on Chemistry (again!) but ended up with ABC. His preferred uni have offered him a different course more aligned with his A level results so he's accepted it, Biological Sciences. Pleased for him as I think what the uni have suggested makes more sense than him trying to do a course heavily focussed on chemistry if he's struggling with it at A level.
Well done that lad!
Nothing against Biological Sciences, just its a much more popular degree in terms of numbers, so can cause issues down the line applying for things.
austinsmirk said:
on a serious note, how do gcse and a level results always seem to improve year on year.
For this to happen surely the nations yoof are getting more intelligent ? Now that can't be the case surely ?
It is happening and has been hapening at a rapid pace for at least a century. Great TED talk on the subject. For this to happen surely the nations yoof are getting more intelligent ? Now that can't be the case surely ?
James Flynn: Why our IQ levels are higher than our grandparents
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9vpqilhW9uI
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