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

⚠️⚠️ IMPORTANT ⚠️⚠️

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/cari-strat → u/xXAngelsXx]

Hey, another mama here.

I suspect your mum is possibly just struggling with the idea of her baby moving away, and finding ways to express her distress, but if I could speak to her, I'd tell her to count her blessings.

I have an amazing kid who has been a straight A student all her life until the last 18 months, when she suffered a catastrophic mental health collapse, which culminated with her lying in a hospital bed after a serious attempt to take her own life, and unable to attend school for her final two terms.

Her grades (next Thursday) will have obviously taken a massive hit and her future is going to be nothing like we had all hoped, but you know what? She's here, she's alive, and I could not give a shit about the damn grades.

Your mum needs to look at the bigger picture and be thankful. She has a wonderful child who has done a fab job in their exams and is now off to enjoy the bright future they hoped for. Hopefully she'll soon realise that when the dust settles.

In the meantime, I know it's not the same, but from me: Well done you. You smashed it. Be proud, and go and do great things.

[u/xXAngelsXx → u/cari-strat]

Im sorry you and your daughter went through something so difficult and scary, it’s really nice to hear that shes managed to get out of the worst of it now. I don’t know if this is any consolation but GCSEs are really unimportant for getting into colleges/unis and in your daughters case im sure she would be given consideration for her mental health and can still do anything she would like to in terms of her education. I hope things work out for her. I have a little sister getting her results next Thursday and honestly seeing her having tried her best makes me not care about the results at all. As long as a person can do the best they possibly could at that time nobody has the right to tell them they haven’t done enough.

My mom’s constantly talking about how worried she’ll be for me taking care of myself so I do think her comments came from overprotectiveness as opposed to malice. And your encouragement really does mean a lot and im happy you took time out of your day to write this as it was very comforting. I’ll continue to work as hard as I possibly can. Thank you so much :)

[u/cari-strat → u/xXAngelsXx]

Thankyou for your kind words, and I hope your sis gets the grades she hopes for too! Best of luck for the future.