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"A level Results"

Here are mine:

English Literature: B
History: B
Economics: B

Was supposed to get AAB to get into Sussex, but I smooth criminaled my way in ;P

I remember at GSCE geography, I was put in for the easier exam (was it called the foundation?) which meant the highest I could get would be a C. Since that was higher than my predicted grade I thought why bother arguing?

My friend was also put in for the foundation exam but thought he could do better so managed to convince the teacher to put him on the higher paper.

The foundation exam was INSULTINGLY easy, even someone like myself who missed around a quarter of all of my geography lessons breezed through it with time to spare, it was asking things I'd learned in my first few years! (back when I used to, y'know, attend lessons)

I of course got a C, and my friend who did the higher paper, which everyone said was actually pretty difficult? He got a C as well, only he had to work a heck of a lot harder for it.

No moral to this story, but maybe it shows how sometimes being lazy can pay off (I probably would've got a D if I'd done the real exam). And if that was almost 10 years ago, I dread to think how easy the exams are now!

Nice one on the results. I remember studying Jane Austen too... fun times...

Easy exams just compensate for the terrible teaching and lack of learning resources. Our high school was run by a businessman and they kept on firing decent teachers to replace them with accountants and whatnot. Then I had the lolzy experience of being told all the revision books for my exams were out of print.

Exams are just retarded in general, I spent 4 months studying Pride and Prejudice to be asked in an english exam whether laughing at someone else's misfortune is morally acceptable :|
I feel ashamed that people who didn't even finish the books were able to perform better in the exam than I was.

It was years ago, but I got two Cs, one in Drama the other in Sociology. Yes, I did the easy subjects and still only got Cs (I was doing English literature but I got kicked out), after that I did a national diploma in media production which was the equivalent of two Bs and a C at A level. If I'd resat the two A level exams I messed up (one for each subject) I could've dragged my grades up to Bs/As, but I was sick of my 6th form and wanted out. Kinda regret it now...

And with these marvellous grades? I ended up working for HMRC after filling in a form and managing to not drool during an interview which lasted around 30 seconds. Five years later and I'm still there, at the same grade (other than a 9 month stint when I was temporarily promoted).

Bah.

Anyway, if you want proof that the exams are getting easier, I got a B at GSCE English literature back in 2000. My ex, who can't spell, doesn't know anything about grammar and knows even less about sentence structure (I know this because I used to proof read her uni work, she would leave sentences literally half finished) but is three years younger than I am got an A at GCSE and at A level. And she can't even spell. Or string a sentence together.

(OK, so there are a few sentence fragments in this post, but this is the internet, not Oxford).

Wild Abra used teleport!

Don't, you'll drive him away.

negrep

But that's the way you like it b***h ;)

I'm not gonna give you anymore now Alfonse. You're rude

The good thing about starting uni now is that once you've graduated, the recession should be well over and you would be able to stroll into a job like people have done years ago.