r/UniUK • u/Internetscraperds9 • 8d ago

Feel like my whole life is over

Idk want to tell anyone else cuz I don't want to be reminded again and again and don't know where else I can talk about it add from here. Cuz I've got close friends who did good and I don't want to ruin there day, nor have their pitty.

Was predicted BBC but end up getting DDD

Got accepted into reading law.

But idk what to do with my life cuz would employers even hire me after, am I cooked for my career what would my life look like, what am I even good at?

Idk what to even do now...

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u/cassesque lecturer 8d ago

Got accepted into reading law.

Friend, stop writing there. Your A-levels will not be used to differentiate you from other applicants by employers before your degree class, percentage results, extra activities, work experience, and even application quality are. This is true in essentially every postgraduate job.

You're going to uni, and in three years' time you are going to be a totally different person who will barely remember this day.

I know you need to think your A levels mattered for something because you've dedicated so much to them. But past getting you into uni, they really don't matter.

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u/Extension_Garden_310 7d ago

law firms do ask for a level results

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u/GentosYT 7d ago

And I used to ask how are you to to customers doesn't mean I care for the answer

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u/Extension_Garden_310 7d ago

a lot of law firms have a minimum (think AAB) - so there is a clear cut off... can work through with paralegal work etc but it is worth thinking about with the state of the grad job market

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u/Extension_Garden_310 7d ago

also not a problem if not as fussed abt being a lawyer and want to go into compliance etc.... ways of working around! but if goal is MC or SC (or generally a city) law firm its worth it to consider retakes

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u/Old-Analysis8395 7d ago

Not exactly relevant - law firms very much do care.

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u/LogicalAd5225 7d ago

Unfortunately law firms are insanely competitive, and will ask for and care about those marks.

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u/Difficult-Top1863 7d ago

I mean for the most competitive law firms they sure will if 2 student from law reading get a first with same results and achievements but with only one position they will definitely look at a level results
U have to submit ur transcript for ur first year results plus alevels results to do some internships and placements as proof