A Level results day: When is it & what to do if you don’t make the grade

Results are usually available to pick up from your school or college from 8am on the day, or available to view online

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00:00Are you or is someone you know waiting on AS or A level results? Well the wait is nearly

00:07over. The 15th of August will see hordes of students finding out how they did in their

00:11exams and whether or not they're able to take the next step they had planned. Results are

00:15usually available to pick up from your school or college from 8am on the day or available

00:20to view online. Make sure to double check as it can vary depending on the institution.

00:25For those who didn't quite make the grade but still want to go to uni, all is not lost.

00:29UCAS University Clearing matches students with universities and courses where there's

00:33still space. Students can use this process if they don't get the grades they need for

00:38their conditional offer, don't have any offers they want to accept, decide to apply for uni

00:42after the end of June or get better grades than predicted. Clearing opens on the 5th

00:47of July and closes on the 21st of October. With so many waiting months now, with bated

00:52breath are exams the future of testing academic aptitude? Should they be scrapped as they

00:56don't suit everyone or are they a good measure of achievement? And do you think you would

01:00have done better or worse had exams been scrapped?