[lilybett]

anyone else cacking themselves? mine come out tomorrow at high noon. i'm fucking scared. not in a "god the world would come off its axis if i got a 2:2"-way; in a "fuck i think i've failed and am gonna get kicked out"-way. fuck fuck fuck! all my friends got their results today and everyone got a 2:1 apart from some clever sod who got a 1st, so i can't sit and swap anxiety symptoms with any of them tonight. anyone else really bricking it?

[desdemona]

Mine come out in August and I am also quite stressed as they will determine uni I go to. I wish they'd come up sooner 'cause I really need to get accomodation sorted! Everyone seems certain except me

[lilybett]

Originally Posted by desdemona

Mine come out in August and I am also quite stressed as they will determine uni I go to. I wish they'd come up sooner 'cause I really need to get accomodation sorted! Everyone seems certain except me

(Irish equiv. of) A Levels? Please excuse my ignorance. I imagine it will be wildly unhelpful for me to say that almost everyone gets the grades they need? It's true, though, I swear down. Even the couple of people I knew who missed their grades ended up either at their first-choice uni anyway or somewhere else where they were fabulously happy. Where do you wanna go? It's the waiting that's the killer, ain't it? Cos there is nothing you can do but WAIT. Argh. What's killing me is that I revised like mad but was just so stressed and sleep-deprived that I totally lost it and couldn't think straight, even when stuff I knew inside-out came up. And also that this girl I know, who writes "aswell", "alot" and "looking forwards to..." got a 2:1!! Not bitter in the least!?!

[desdemona]

Originally Posted by lilybett

(Irish equiv. of) A Levels? Please excuse my ignorance. I imagine it will be wildly unhelpful for me to say that almost everyone gets the grades they need? It's true, though, I swear down. Even the couple of people I knew who missed their grades ended up either at their first-choice uni anyway or somewhere else where they were fabulously happy. Where do you wanna go? It's the waiting that's the killer, ain't it? Cos there is nothing you can do but WAIT. Argh. What's killing me is that I revised like mad but was just so stressed and sleep-deprived that I totally lost it and couldn't think straight, even when stuff I knew inside-out came up. And also that this girl I know, who writes "aswell", "alot" and "looking forwards to..." got a 2:1!! Not bitter in the least!?!

Ughhhh, I know exactly what you mean! Procrastinators of the world unite, innit. It is so shit how sleep deprivation and stress affects your performance. By the end of my English exam I was like “and then he said... and then he said”. Oh well, I guess that's what we get for leaving it 'til the last minute! But seriously, if you put in the work, it will pay off. Karma and all that.

Yeah, I’m doing the Irish equivalent of the A-levels. It works on a v formal point system unforch so it’s not so easy to get into your uni of choice. I wish! I’m in a toss-up between two universities atm. I want to study English at either UCD or Trinity. I would be happy out if I got into UCD, but I would go to Trinity if I got the grades. It’s the not knowing and thus not being able to organise anything that’s pissing me off

So where do you want to go / what do you want to study? At least you’ll be over all this anxiety this time tomorrow

[rocker_stalker]

not in my final year but I am crapping myself about my results because I know I have done really badly and will have re-sits.

[lilybett]

Originally Posted by rocker_stalker

not in my final year but I am crapping myself about my results because I know I have done really badly and will have re-sits.

same. but i had to take a year out cos i got ill, and was smooth enough to make an enemy of my department's senior tutor, who has warned me in menacing tones before that re-sits aren't an automatic right, and there's nowt she'd like more than to see me thrown out. and she is one of the board of examiners who are meeting tomorrow morning to look at my marks and decide whether i should be allowed to re-sit. ARGH. how do you know you've failed? what are you studying?

desdemona, the irish system sounds harsher than ours. in A Levels, there is no distinction between an A of 81% and one which is 99%. oh! english! i ask myself at least three times a day why i am studying politics instead of english. swoon central, great choice. my mate just graduated from TCD and loved every single second of it. and craig off hollyoaks is there?

[oasis]

i am so stressed. i've got my history of arts oral exam tomorrow. aaaaaa!!

[Model]

Yes, I am kind of anxious too. I wouldn't say stressed, yet, but I might be in 2 weeks when I get the results.

I already took it twice and can only take it 3 times in a 2 year period (I think..or is it 5 yrs.?). Anyway, I bombed the first test...I didnt study so it's my fault, but I am confident I did better this time around.

Good luck to all of you who are waiting for your results!

[CuntCake]

I'm done....

Final Exams:
English: 94
Math: 78
History: 96
Italian: 80 << possibly retaking
Chemistry: 73....I'm retaking this exam in January though....I was beyond upset. Then again it was the hardest NY state exam in 18 years.

AP Exams don't come in till July...can't wait for that. I know I did well.

[rocker_stalker]

Originally Posted by lilybett

same. but i had to take a year out cos i got ill, and was smooth enough to make an enemy of my department's senior tutor, who has warned me in menacing tones before that re-sits aren't an automatic right, and there's nowt she'd like more than to see me thrown out. and she is one of the board of examiners who are meeting tomorrow morning to look at my marks and decide whether i should be allowed to re-sit. ARGH. how do you know you've failed? what are you studying?

doing a sociology degree, I know I have failed some because I have not worked as hard as I should by any means. I put in for mitigating circumstances because 1. I was diagnosed with dyslexia in January but didn't get the funding through for support until halfway through my exams in may. I have no idea who my support tutor is and all year had hardly any notes ect available because my tutors are lazy I find it very difficult to keep up in lectures.
2. had bad money issues this year due to various circumstances and there were points when I couldn't afford the bus fare to go to uni.
3. had a break in just before my exams where two masked guys kicked the door in and tried to stab my friend with a screwdriver thankfully my other housemate stormed down the stairs and forcefully removed them.
hopefully it will all be ok but who knows.

[Sara_KidA]

ugh. I get mine next week (July 3rd) and so nervous. I know I worked very hard though...didn't go outside for a month (LITERALLY. I was behind my desk studying all the time).

i just don't want to have to redo any this summer because that'd ruin my vacation.

[Amity]

Mine come in August. I probably won't have enough to get into Leeds, but maybe I can through clearings... *crosses fingers*

[lilybett]

rocker_stalker, i had a crack at mitigating circumstances and mine are nowhere as good as yours! i am sure you will get through and then next year you hopefully won't have anything like that to contend with and can have a fairytale romance with university, culminating in a spendid graduation gown and all that. it really happens, my 2:1 friends/1st friend are/is are going apeshit/cooing over furry trims!

model, i like your attitude. people do resits, so what? the end of the world is not nigh!!?

Originally Posted by Amity

Mine come in August. I probably won't have enough to get into Leeds, but maybe I can through clearings... *crosses fingers*

you're coming to yorkshire! ey up lass bah ilkley moor etc

omg it is past midnight og my god the day is here omg!!

[Insomnia]

Man, my results were supposed to come out at lunchtime, so duly I trotted over there to look (this is Oxford, they post your results with your name and classification on a big board in the street), they weren't ready, so they told us to come back at 4pm. Cue lots of nervous waiting. Came back at 4pm, they were ready but the senior examiner of our subject hadn't signed off on them, so we managed to call him and get him to cycle down etc. Suffice to say results came out at about 5pm. Many hours of unpleasant nervousness.

Now I am waiting for results in August, but I only need an E, so I think I should make that.

[Amity]

I need BBB for Leeds. I think I can get ABD.

[lilybett]

all right, girls. i passed so you all have, too! threw up from nerves for the first time this morning. quite a milestone!

edit: thanks for all the lovely good luck reps. saint noel of edmonds believes in cosmos and all this good karma appears to have done something - thank oo! dicky dawkins, forgive me!!

[badbadllama]

woo! well done lilybett!

i still don't have my sodding results. everyone on my facebook (at other unis) seems to have theirs already, and we haven't even been TOLD when we're getting ours?! my friend seems to think it's mid-july but that's stupidly late for degree results isn't it?

i might ring them on monday just so i know when to expect them. ARGH!

[rocker_stalker]

Originally Posted by badbadllama

woo! well done lilybett!

i still don't have my sodding results. everyone on my facebook (at other unis) seems to have theirs already, and we haven't even been TOLD when we're getting ours?! my friend seems to think it's mid-july but that's stupidly late for degree results isn't it?

i might ring them on monday just so i know when to expect them. ARGH!

I'm in the same position, last year I didn't get mine until half way through July. My department are very lazy I think.