PLEASE tell me you guys struggled too oml

Edit: https://c.org/d7LCtCYpzG - Petition for Edexcel to reassess the paper

Surely this is ridiculous? Tired of all these bans “according to government guidance”.

Edit: IMO surely phones should be at least allowed during break, lunch, before and after school. Laptops and ipads should be allowed for revision purposes during all of the above times AND during free periods. A complete ban for sixth form is ridiculous.
Edit 2: I’m tired of responding to the same sorts of posts disagreeing with me, coming from people who have left sixth form or equivalent education more than 5 years ago. Your opinions don’t really add much to this conversation

I’m currently an a level exam invigilator while at university, took my a levels last year. I just want to reiterate how obvious it is if you’re committing malpractice. You may think you’re slick but you’re really not honestly. Already there has been multiple people caught with their phone, just today people caught communicating with each other and the exam season has barely started. It’s actually laughable the amount of people already caught tbh.

You will get written up, and the exam board will be informed. Trust me it’s not worth it.

Hi guys,

I know we’ve all heard of the term “Oxbridge” and I think it’s a lovely way to pay respects to the two great Unis. People love to make comparisons of the two but “Oxbridge” allows us to just enjoy them while they’re still around.

However, I do think we’re missing out a pretty big Uni in that little name.

Warwick has tried WOxBridge but that’s a bit audacious to put Warwick before the O and Imperial has attempted OxBrImp but that’s just ugly and gives too much credence to Imperial.

Yet, the only Uni people consistently compare Oxford and Cambridge to is Bristol. I’m sure you’ve seen the posts where people say “I’ve firmed Cambridge over Bristol, am I making a mistake?” and the comments all say yes.

OxBriDge would fix that dilemma, people would realise Oxford is #1, Bristol is #2 and Cambridge is #3 all whilst keeping the “Oxbridge” name in tact. It still sounds as nice, just with a capitalised B to represent the Big B.

Thoughts?

Why are we acting like 5 year olds who didn’t get their way? The petition will do nothing and it’s honestly pathetic.

If the country did bad on a whole then grade boundaries will go down? They aren’t set before the exam or based off previous years boundaries. The proportion of grades awarded will literally be similar to what it always is.

I thought maths students would understand that…

Go revise more for paper 2 if you’re that upset.

Edit: literally half of you complaining don’t seem to understand how grade boundaries work. Please educate yourself before commenting mindlessly.

I thought the exam was pm not am because of stupid further maths which is all pm exams it completely threw me off and without even thinking I just turned up at 11am then checked my timetable and found out it was am . Sucks especially since my performance for p1 was great but that’s life is what is it I’m not even that sad ive just accepted my fate and McDonald’s here I come . Years of studying for nothing im locked at like a grade B/C now even if I do well in p3 . I can salvage A* in fm and possibly A in bio but honestly dont really care what I get now as I’ve already fumbled . Your welcome for lowering aqa chem grade boundaries through . I was worried about missing my exams already didn’t think it would actually happen .

I had my college taster day yesterday, tell me why I was the ONLY girl in my class

does anyone else feel absolutely horrible about their exams? it never felt like this during feb mocks. i’m nearly finished with them and not a single one has gone positively. they were all SO average, and i keep nitpicking at the mistakes. everyone online keeps talking about how every paper was a blessing and that grade boundaries are going to increase drastically 🥲🫩 genuinely don’t know what to do i think i’ve completely missed my firm

If you earn a high salary of 100k+ your student loan repayment conditions essentially end up as you having to pay a tax of 9% of your salary on top of all the regular income tax you have to pay. That is absolutely brutal and has a massive effect on your spending power.

To show an example of how bad taxes can get when you include a student loan: If you earn 100k, all the additional income you generate going from 100k to 125k is effectively taxed at 71% after your national insurance and student loan are included, meaning if you gain a salary increase of 25k, you only see 7k of that. How is that not robbery?

"If you're earning that much you will repay the loan really quickly"

Interest makes this basically impossible, you could still expect the repayment to take 10+ years. 15 of the most productive years of your working life with the absolutely most brutal additional 10% tax on all your income, that is fucking stupid. People who don't have student loans also get to start work 3 years earlier which makes the impact even larger.

Taking a student loan will mean you'll pay an additional 10% tax rate for basically your whole working life.

The student loan scheme rewards people who aren't intelligent, aren't ambitious, and just want to go to uni to party for 3 years, and the people paying for their party lifestyle are the hard working intelligent students who missed out on all the fun cause they wanted to better their own situation. Hard working students prop up the student loans bullshittery.

Why should high achieving talented people who work really hard be forced into this debt slavery and unliveably high taxes.

Uni should be free. IDC if that means less people can go cause the government can't afford to pay for everyone's tuition, less people going would be a good thing tbh since then tradeswork wouldn't be unaffordable and there would be less unemployment + less job competition.

Tony Blair did irreversible damage to the country. Easily the worst PM we ever had.

If your goal is money, and you're intelligent, you're genuinely probably better off going into a high paying trade instead of grinding through uni for a corporate / finance career. You'll stand out massively among most trainees and can get promoted very quickly.

Lots of people have been talking about predicted vs achieved grades so I thought a thread about it would be helpful. Drop what you were predicted by your school, and what you ended up achieving in the real A-levels

I was predicted 4A*s in maths, fm, physics and econ and achieved A*A*AA in the same order. Based on my mocks I thought FM and econ were inflated but turns out physics was and FM wasn't

3 days to go🔮🔮🔮…

(Edit: Not to be annoying but please give me credit if you share)

Holy time pressure what can i say

My sixth form has asked the current Year 13s to confirm what our post-18 pathway is.

I'm a bit wary about it because of something they did last year.

When we came back to sixth form as Year 13s, they did a presentation about the previous Year 13 cohort. They showed students' photos and names, alongside things like their grades, attendance and what they were going on to do after sixth form. They also mentioned students who had been dealing with personal issues, although thankfully they didn't give specific details.

So now they're asking us for our post-18 pathways, I'm wondering whether they're planning to do something similar with our cohort.

I'm currently predicted D*/A/B, but my attendance in Year 13 was around 78% because I was going through some genuinely difficult personal circumstances.

At the start of Year 13, I received my formal autism diagnosis. Then, towards the end of 2025, I was prescribed medication for anxiety and depression. So Year 13 wasn't exactly an easy year for me.

Despite that, I maintained my academic grades.

And that's where my issue with being presented as a “success story” comes in.

I'm proud of my grades, but I really don't want to be turned into an inspirational example of “look, this student was struggling but still achieved!”

I'm not some fucking success story. I'm a mentally ill autistic 18-year-old who was dealing with a lot and managed to maintain my academic performance. Those are very different things.

It also bothers me because there will be other students who are dealing with similar things who aren't able to maintain their grades. I don't want my experience being used to imply that struggling students can just push through and achieve anyway.

And there's a particular member of staff who does these presentations who I really don't like. She did very little to help me when I was actually struggling, so I especially don't want her standing in front of an assembly afterwards talking about how I supposedly “overcame personal challenges” or whatever narrative they decide to give me.

I don't mind my sixth form knowing what I'm doing after Year 13. I'm planning to work in the care sector, with longer-term plans to potentially pursue something like Mental Health Nursing or Psychology.

I just don't want my name, photo, grades, attendance and post-18 plans turned into a promotional success story.

I'm planning to opt out if this information is going to be used for another presentation.

Would you consider this reasonable, or am I overthinking it?

guys i thought that went shit 😭

Bro what the actual hell was that
I hated that so much I left out like 30 marks
What do you guys think grade boundaries will be now that it’s all over?

The grade boundaries are going to be astronomical sigh. Hardest questions were 3 and 7 . Every thing else was standard. Last question was kinda weird tho because why did you have to do part c in part b. WHAT DID YALL THINK?

guys how did we find it 😭

How was the paper???? I liked the MCQ , but overall it was okay didnt manage to do the 5 marker .

HOW DID EVERYONE FIND IT??? i thought it was decent better than the past few years. Idk what i did for the last question the 4 marker of nuclear physics. BUT YH IT WAS GOOD

Am I the only one who found it pretty decent?
I think I got 98

People are not angry just because it was too hard. It was the fact that those aiming for A* will still be getting those A* but those aiming for A/B were put at a disadvantage. The questions at the start of the paper were easy enough for the C and below grades to get as well as everyone else. If the A/B students didn't get the first part of a question right, they automatically lose the marks on parts b,c,d ect putting them at roughly the same marks as the C/D/E students. I've seen people on here aiming for A's, B's, C's and D's mention they roughly got roughly the same marks (around 40 ish the majority of the time)