A Level results day

A Level Results Day: Embracing the Unknown

15 Aug 2024

I am an enthusiastic forward planner. Whether it is a spreadsheet, an app or a good old Filofax, lists and itineraries are what gives me a sense of safety and comfort. If I’ve researched thoroughly and made a plan, I can be sure that everything is going to be ok.

When Jesus sends out his...

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A Level Results Day: When Plans Change

15 Aug 2024

If you’d met me between the ages of five and fifteen, I’d have told you that I was going to be a doctor. I had researched universities, spoken to people, watched Casualty every week – there was no way my plan wasn’t going to work, until it….didn’t. When I spectacularly failed my physics GCSE...

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A Level Results Day: What Does Success Look Like?

14 Aug 2024

It’s nearly A Level results time, and if you’re not in the firing line this year, perhaps you remember very recently indeed the trepidation that can precede that day… If you’re already at uni, you might have had some of this year’s marks already or you might be waiting for the dreaded resits to...

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Rach's Reflection: From This Day

16 Aug 2018

Today is A Level results day. I want to think about what this means for a moment.  

I wonder, how today is for you?  

You may, like me, be reliving memories of getting those results and finding out if and where and what the future held.  

Or maybe it is today for you...

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Tips for Students on A Level Results Day

15 Aug 2016

I write this awaiting the results of my MA in Theology and Religious Studies and preparing for what comes next. So I can appreciate how hard results day can be! Perhaps you have worked flat out or think you haven’t worked as hard as you should have done. It’s easy to place so much pressure on...

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