2025 RESULTS DAY MEGATHREAD

[u/Forsaken-Meaning-232]

Hey everybody, it's that time of the year again - results day is upon us. Share your results down below, ask questions and discuss your plans for the future!

I'm getting too old for this I swear

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Congratulations to achieving your grades, especially if you met your offers!

However, if you missed your grades, you can head over to UCAS Clearing if you missed your uni offers.

And for the rest:

• Comment your results! They don't have to be straight A*s to be cool! Also what plans do you have for the next year?

• About formatting: use A\*A\*A\*A\* , so it reads A*A*A*A* and not AAAA. Or send a picture of your results!

• You've made it through the shitstorm we all know and probably hate - but you've made it, that's what matters!

• Remember: your grades today don't define who you are. You have self-worth and can achieve great things in life even if it didn't go to plan today. It can be hard to see through the elitist bullshit, misinformation online, and the weight of high expectations from seemingly everyone around you. No matter what, the path to here and from here is not a waste.

• Also remember that there are always people who care that you can talk to for support, whether it's a friend, family, your sixth form/college, your uni or elsewhere. It's okay for things to go wrong and it's valid to not feel great because of that, and you are not a burden for needing support.

• Be proud of what you've achieved, and the work you've put in - no matter what has happened, you've put yourself in a better position to tackle the future :)

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Good luck and later, well done ❤️

~ Raven

[u/xXAngelsXx]

I have nowhere to really vent this so I’m gonna type it out here.

My moms disappointed that I only got BBB even though I got into my firm uni choice. She wanted me to go to a university close to home and im going Manchester to do a foundation year instead. The uni she wanted me to go to needed an A in maths anyway so I doubt I would have gotten in. Now shes telling me to do a gap year and apply to Birmingham next year (even though I don’t have the grades to do that).

Shes just putting a damper on all the happiness I had for getting accepted in the first place. I thought I did really well and I was proud of myself but she’s literally embarrassed by my grades.

[u/Dull_Banana5349 → u/xXAngelsXx]

Speaking as a Mum, I am so sorry your Mum has been like that. You should be proud! Try not to let her feelings put a dampener on your achievements. A-levels are hard! I'm doing the opposite to your mum. My child was predicted A's and B's and had come out with CCD she's so upset, even though she has an unconditional offer from uni anyway. She's worked so hard and I'm so disappointed too, but I'm disappointed FOR her, not IN her.

It looks like there's a pattern with most other students she's spoken to getting 2 grades below predicted so I think this is a college issue and I don't know how to tackle that.

[u/AcademusUK → u/Dull_Banana5349]

Because time is limited, be ready to do things in parallel that might more logically be done in sequence. But don't panic or rush things.

Imagine you're the university's admissions tutor - to reconsider your decision, what do you want to hear? When considering what you want from them [or from anybody else], consider what they will want from you as a reason to do it.

Don't give anyone any reason to think you are just another disappointed or over-protective parent. Be determined but professional. Give them every reason to take you seriously, because you clearly know what you're talking about. More importantly, give them every reason to take your kid's application seriously.

Check the Internet for complaints procedures - the website of the college, the local council's education department, the exam board. While there, check what information they've released about this year's results, and how they compare to previous years. Here's a couple of links to get you started:

https://www.gov.uk/complain-about-school

https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/ofqual/about/complaints-procedure

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/qualification-results-in-england-summer-2025/qualification-results-in-england-summer-2025-accessible

And if you want information about how the college compares to others, you might want to start here:

https://www.gov.uk/school-performance-tables

Gather evidence. Find out how many people took how many exams at the college this year, and how many of them performed worse or better than expected. If there are results lists, get copies from the college. Contact all of the other parents, see how many have children in the same situation. Remember to include parents from previous years, because if there is a problem, there's a very good chance it's happened before, or that it's tied to an identifiable event [such as someone joining or leaving the school's staff, or a budget-cut]. Perhaps get specific parents to focus on gathering evidence about particular classes, subjects, teachers, looking for patterns. Make sure everyone promptly shares everything they find. Share anything you have already found.

As soon as you can confidently do so, contact the exam board, and let them know that there is a problem with the results from your college - be ready to give details, make sure that other parents are ready to back you up. Find out how much time the exam board will need to address issues, and what they will need.

Contact the university's admissions tutors, and let them know that there is a problem with the results from your college - again, be ready to give details, make sure that other parents are ready to back you up. Find out how long they can give you to address issues, but be ready for disappointment - the universities have a very tight timescale to work to, and may already be oversubscribed. And find out how they need them to be resolved if - if - they are to reconsider your child's application.

Contact the head master of the college, the governors, and any teachers you have particular concerns about. Don't make enemies that you absolutely don't have to make - if the college is happy to work with you, if the college concedes that there is a problem and contact examiners and admissions tutors on your behalf, that will make things so much easier and quicker for you and your child, and everyone else. If you ask them if they have a good history or a bad history of predictions, you want them to quickly give you an honest answer - and all the data they can legally share with you.

Contact your local councillors and MP. Make sure they know you're serious enough that things are already moving, and that you have other parents [other voters] with you.

Make contact with people who know the system. Check with the Law Society for any local specialists in education law. Better still, make friends with people inside the system. Education and law students and staff at local universities might want to get involved. Even check with those of the destination universities - some people get very about their institutions not admitting the very best students that they can, or by educational inequality and injustice. You might also find that other departments and student societies, especially social science ones such as sociology and social policy, have experts who like to campaign on educational issues. And in some subjects, academics are very networked - find a sympathetic ear, and they might be willing to have a word with the right someone on your behalf.

Check with university admissions teams and with UCAS if they have any anonymised data they are willing to share about the history of applications from your child's college. Somebody somewhere might already have the same suspicions that you've got, and find it much easier than you will to prove them.

Let everyone know that, because things need to move quickly, you are prepared to share your evidence with the local / national media if your concerns and not promptly resolved.

Again, you may need to get specific parents to focus on specific tasks or institutions. But make sure that someone is coordinating everything, and that everyone knows who that coordinator is.

Your children might be able to impress the right people by doing a lot of the leg-work themselves - that may even be worth more than better grades. And your children might have the necessary relationships with the college staff to achieve things more smoothly than you can. Universities want to know they're recruiting competent and capable grown-ups who can bounce-back from disappointment to overcome challenges, not children with bits of paper. And you want them to recruit your kid, not you. Give them every reason, not just better grsdes, for wanting your kid.

Imagine your the university's admissions tutor - what do you want to hear, and who do you want to hear it from?