A Level Results

​How do you react when things don't go your way?

  This past year has been beyond stressful and exhausting in every sense of the word. While I've actually managed to somewhat switch off over the few months between my last A Level exam and results day, all of this stress and exhaustion began to pile back up in the weeks coming up to the big day; I'm not going to sugar coat it, things got worse before they got better.

  So, I got my results. I'm actually really pleased with them except for my English grade (which I'm getting remarked), but unfortunately, despite all of my hard work, I didn't get into my first choice university. If you've read my 'future plans' post, you'll know that I no longer wanted to go to my insurance uni so I had to go through the whole clearing process. I will write about the struggles after I got my results and how the whole clearing process went in a second post, however you'll know from my 'Life Update' that I have got a place to start at Cardiff University in September.

  My results were pretty odd in the sense that I've never done 'badly' in English Literature - I've never had below a B, been getting straight A's all year blah blah blah - yet managed to get a C, while I've struggled in Psychology for the past two years but I got my first ever B in the subject in my final exams. My hard work definitely paid off in Psychology, yet my success in English clearly wasn't reflected in my overall grade. I guess what I'm saying is, your grades do not define you nor your ability.
 
I was really knocked by my results initially (more on that in my second post) but looking back on it, I know that I am better than a few letters on a page and these exams were simply stepping stones to get me to my next step. I'm a strong believer in fate and things happening for a reason, and for some reason I was meant to get these results and push myself way out of my comfort zone afterwards. These few weeks have definitely challenged me but they've also been one big learning curve that I'm somewhat glad to have experienced.

  Anyway, thank you for reading this little ramble. I promise the second post will be more cohesive. How did you cope when you got your exam results? Let me know!
(PS a little update as this was meant to go up last week: my English grade was remarked and it went up!)

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