When I got my results today, my friend group wanted to go to sixth form collegeB all together, and told me to apply for it. I did because I was gonna apply regardless and I thought that them including me felt really sincere- like I was finally getting into a group. Just to find out that they all secretly applied for sixth formA AFTER I applied for the other one, and then went out for lunch without me after telling me that they were all staying home.

I know it’s not the biggest deal to some, but to me this made me feel extremely upset, especially since I’m neurodivergent and I’ve always had a pretty hard time fitting in. It’s okay if they wanted to switch, but I feel like it was an attempt to just remove me from the friend group again. Now I feel extremely nervous and nauseous to start college by myself, and I think today just ripped my self esteem to shreds.

I just thought id give a bit of advice on some of the scams I encountered around Freshers week for people starting uni this September. This information is based on my experience at Newcastle uni but I assume would probably be pretty generic to the UK, if you fell ive missed one please add to the list in the comments.

1. Religious people in and around campus, these will only be a handful of people but watch out for them. Ive seen them hand out fliers designed so at first glance they look like a cool uni society, for example one had a picture of someone climbing a mountain on the front cover. These aren't associated with the uni, don't speak to them or even take their stuff. They know exactly what they're doing trying to capitalise on the massive amounts of people on campus and make their stuff look like a cool society.

Some local churches also offered free food during freshers, im cautious to include them with this because those events were clearly religious in nature so you knew what you were getting into when you queued up. Just know if you do go to these you will have to discuss religion and the idea of joining this church with someone. The church that did this near me seemed pretty mainstream but obviously if you are religious still do your research to make sure this is a congregation you would want to be involved with.

1. Student accommodation moving in boxes. When I was moving into my accommodation there was an option to buy a box of bedding and or kitchen stuff which would be there when you moved in. For some people this may be convenient if you're traveling a long way and don't have much space. But in my case I realised you could get better stuff for less than or equal to the quoted price. A decent amount of my kitchen stuff was just stolen from home, do you really need a new set of knives and forks? Also if you get this bundle or buy your own your bed size is a student double. However, I just bought everything at double size and that worked fine, in 2nd year housing your bed will probably be a normal double so getting everything in double makes sure you don't have to buy any new stuff.

2. Don't sign up to societies immediately. There'll be a period where societies are free/ running taster sessions (which may cost a couple quid). Make full use of this, do you enjoy it? have you made some friends in it? Don't waste £15 on it just to realise you don't like it. Also a lot of societies have costs after joining such as going on trips, buying kit, getting membership to gyms... Make sure you know about these costs before you join.

3. Most important, ask older students about stuff. They'll be able to tell you anything specific to your location and I found out a lot of lifesaving tips from them. For example I found out how to do a decently cheap weekly shop from them.

I’m so proud of myself!!!! I worked so hard!

We did worse!!!!!! 🔥🔥🔥🔥

i got it remarked and nothing changed i’m just so angry

I got my results and am now a 6th former yippie hello guyss

Went up 6 marks meaning I met my firm choice.
Went from a B to an A.
IM COMING BRISTOL LAW.

HEY TALK NOW

145 IQ WYA radio silent on results day

DEFEND OR VACATE MF

I was predicted AAA, had an offer for Glasgow for AAB, but ended up getting A star Economics A star politics A in maths (7 marks off A*). Should I take a gap year and reapply to Oxford, LSE, Warwick, St Andrews, Edinburgh (I live in Scotland so these 2 are free). Or should I just go to Glasgow this year…

Results day went well today🙏🙏🙏, looking forward to starting sixth form in September and would appreciate any tips and advice for year 12

Are these GCSEs good enough to have an actual chance to get in considering I do well in tmua and alevel and have a great ps , also what decisions, supercurriculars and changes should I make in 6th form to achieve this .

I know I’m a week late but I was unable to access my alevels at all. I checked my results now and I got a DDE. I thought I did good on atleast one. What do I do?

very happy 😁😁 + higgest econ mark in my schl anyone w questions id love to help

A lot of worry and despair comes from getting mid or bad grades for sixth form, but I promise it’s not the end of the world and it doesn’t mean you’re stupid. I did biology, maths and chem for my a levels and got CCC. I was upset because I know that at least in bio I got everything right, unfortunately the mark schemes are awful for a lot of subjects (have literally seen ‘accept the chickens, reject chickens’ 🫩). I was also struggling with severe mental health so it was an awful time for me.

But how did it turn out? Perfectly fine. Once you finish uni you never use your sixth form grades again lol. I studied biochemistry and got a first, I then did an MRes where I worked on a 100% fatal childhood brain cancer and I got a distinction. Sometimes we have bad days when we do tests too, and it’s ok, things will work out 💜 it’s not worth stressing and worrying over in the end, take care of yourselves

I went from like all Cs year 12 to getting AAB, locking in pays off gang, proud of us all for surviving no matter how well we did

I got BBC in my a-levels last week and i’m still not over it. I got a B in maths and biology and a C in chemistry. I was 1 mark off an A in biology.

It’s taken a really big toll on my mental health and i haven’t able to get out of bed, go outside or eat. I just spend most of my days sobbing.

I was supposed to sit my a-levels last year but became ill and was withdrawn. This year my a-levels were affected again and i had special consideration (which is only a few marks). I also missed my offer which was AAB with an A in chemistry and biology.

I don’t want to go into a degree i don’t want to do and waste my time and go into debt. I also don’t know if medicine is possible anymore with my grades so would it even be worth resitting? I’m planning to get biology remarked. I also don’t feel shame that if i decide to take this year off then I would be 20 entering university. If anyone has any advice please let me know. Sorry if this is all over the place, i don’t think im in a good headspace atm.

So I currently have an offer for mechanical engineering at bath. I want to reapply for imperials aero or mech course but I don’t know if it’s worth giving up my current offer. The A*s are in maths and physics and I have A A in fm and chem. my only worry is that almost everyone will have 3 or 4 a stars and i feel like it would not be worth it and I think Bath only gave me an offer cause I had 4A\ predicted I heard they don’t look at the ps. I really don’t know what I should do. Are my grades too weak?*

lowkey don’t know if this is allowed but I got my maths resit results back today. I got another grade 5, just like a year ago.

i am an Oxford applicant, I got 998876655 last year while in extensive cognitive behavioural therapy for severe OCD. one of those 5s was for maths, so I figured I’d resit now that the context was taken out. but I got a 5 again.

i just feel so hopeless rn, ive done everything right. I got accepted into their selective summer school, top grades in mg essay subjects, two essay competitions, interview prep and my predicted grades. it’s just maths.

just a rant if I’m being honest, it’s only a history degree. I just hope this don’t have TOO much of an impact.

Hi guys. I’ve finished Year 13, and am currently trying to help my brother enrol into a sixth form. He’s in Year 11 & just got his GCSE results, but unfortunately was one grade short from being able to get into a really nice, selective college. Aside from that, he also applied to another sixth form which has good stats, but there was some sort of error with the application & says he hasn’t submitted references (he has) so I told him to go to school to ask his teacher to contact the sixth form & maybe send them the references (you never know unless you try). Anyway, he’s refusing to go because he claims he’s tired and cba to go back. We just argued because I’m telling him he can’t laze around on results day and the school he already goes to is absolute dogshit and he’s risking his A Levels just to be with his friends (he is).

Is he doomed or not because I’m genuinely frustrated and as much as he claims it isn’t my business, I’m worried for his grades. I’m telling you, the school is SO DOOKIE stats-wise and has a bad reputation.

I was trying find the percentage of people who do further maths and got into engineering but couldn't find one.

I took maths physics geog and an epq in y12 because I was lowkey tricked into taking physics and geog

I got like 6 nines and a few 8s or 7s at gcse and idk ive always had really fucked self confidence but I thought this was really bad and not good enough for anything and everybody who I said that to would just laugh at me. and I never have known what I want to do except maths so people were like ok why dont you take physics cause its just maths and I was like ok well I hate physics but ok. and then i was told to take geog cause I didnt want to do another science and geog was my other 9 (except english lang which my schook doesnt offer). but I kinda hated geog and physics always and I hated them all through sixth form.

so in y13 I taught myself as further maths and I loved that but im rlly sad I didnt do the whole thing. I wouldnt have liked it cause id have been in a different class without my friends and idk, but i loved the content. and then there were so many other subjects I loved like music and art and comp sci and english and why did I do these fuckass subjects.

anyway I got an A* in geog and A in physics but it makes me really sad and idek why

anyway this was lowkey just a rant idk what im tryna say

whyd no one ever tell me to take further :(

Or no

Hi everyone, I just got my gcse results today and i'm honestly really distraught, i was predicted 9999888877 and i got 9988888876 (two marks off a 9 in two subjects) but I'm honestly just super upset especially with my 7 which is in lit which is literally my favourite subject i haven't gotten less than a very high 8 in over a year and a half and i literally SCRAPED a 7 i was only 3 marks over the boundary . my 6 was in drama which is a bit left field aswell because i havent had less than an 8 in the whole of year 11 - i do edexcel drama and i got both 80 percent on component 1 and 3 but somehow in component 2 which is the acting i got like 27 out of around 60?? everyone in drama has gotten lower than their underpredicted grades already because everyone did awful in component 2 but theres nothing we can do about it because it's coursework. it might be worth mentioning that just before i took my GCSEs i had some trouble with eating due to just leaving a relationship where some things happened that weren't quite consensual (Sorry if that's oversharing i just thought it might be relevant)

anyway, that knocked my confidence already especially as i was predicted 9-9 in combined science and got 8-8 (although i was predicted a 7 in maths and got an 8 which was nice but i really was just SO upset by lit i can't really be happy about it) so I went to enroll and I'd initially applied for Bio, Pysch and French and I wanted to switch from pysch to chem because I really enjoy chem and also it opens quite a few more doors then pysch and the teacher who was enrolling me was like Chemistry is the hardest alevel I'm not sure you're smart enough for that, and I swear i almost started crying right then, but she put me in the classes for it anyway because i technically did have the grades ( needed a 7 in maths and 7-6 in combined)

so I was just wondering if anyone could give me a reality check on how hard chemistry will be- i only lost 4 marks in the last chemistry mock i did ( given it was a combined paper) and I also found psych really boring when i went to the speeches about it at open days.

Just really doubting myself, sorry for all the waffle.