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"AS/A levels - hanging yourself or basking in glory?"

Well,

I looked on the sites and no one seems to have posted a thread yet!

How did you do? Feel like killing yourself twice over? Or are you swimming in victory?

I am mixed.

My AS results were a little various you see. At sixth form I was stuffed and I couldnt take the subjects I really wanted to do - I did do eng lit/lang and Drama YAY :P but spanish and psychology I was kinda pushed into doing as ones I really wanted to do clashed with the others

Eng lil/lang -- B!!!

Theatre Studies -- B!! (TWO POINTS OFF AN A!!)

General Studies x 2 -- C and another C that was another TWO POINTS OFF A B!!

and here comes the bad bit

I was six marks off an E for spanish so i got U and I got a E in psycho :(

Doesnt matter I can catch up and do better but I was disheartened as I tried so very hard at spanish and everyone in my class flopped

How did you do? How you feel?
Congrats to those A level students getting the grades to go uni!

Every year my parents put money into a fund for me.

Basically a high interest fund that will give me lotsa money.

Forgive me, I'm quite stupid.

What's a trust fund?

I've got £700 in my account...

Plus I've got a trust fund set up for me which has about £5 in it so I shouldn't be too bad...

Well, if they can pay off the accomodation fees in one chunk (and the same goes for tuiton fees) you should be able to get a small discount. I wou;dn't go for the loan until you absoulutely need it because even though you don't pay back until well after graduation, the interest incurred will still mean you have to pay back much more than you borrowed.

I'm looking at about £55 per week for a en-suite, and £45 for a normal. I've asked for an en-suite, seeing as showering with a lot of other guys doesn't appeal.

Then there's food, tuition fees (insert textbook moaning about Labour), social life money, and I'm gonna have to cut back on DVDs, CDs, books and cinema going.

It sucks. I've read all the stories about students who get into hefty debt and all that, but I guess I didn't really take it in. Student loan will help some, but I'm preparing myself to ask the folks how much they'll pay. Damn.

No accomodation stuff for me yet. How much do you have to pay?

York sent me a load of accomodation stuff, and I've realised that I don't have enough money.

Excellent, I'm already screwed and I don't start for 6 weeks.

I love AQA. AQA give me good marks. Except in English Lang/Lit. At least their logo says what AQA stands for, unlike crappy OCR.

Blank wrote:
> I think mine's AQA actually. I had to do two pieces of coursework plus
> commentaries, no Shakespeare piece (that's A2 for me), there was an
> anthology of poetry and other bobs to do an exam on plus two diary
> novels: Diary of a Nobody and Diary of Adrian Mole.
>
> I worked out the percentages and my coursework actually came out
> marginally on top. Still a disappointing result though.
Oh right - i am not favourable of AQA (psychology exam board :( )
MIne seems quite different to your one then. Hmm I thought we all take the same course but - im wrong!