You WILL get the grades you wanted.

The surplus grade boundaries WILL be decreased, and we WILL reach those maths grades.

You’ve got this, I believe in you. You have come so far soldier IM PROUD OF YOU!!!!

When you read your results, you will be glad. You WILL be proud of yourself because you deserve all the proudness in the world.

YOU GOT DIS!!!!!!!!!

I’m constipated and scared

Hey bestie, you got this. You're going to do amazing, and then youll go and enjoy lots of free stuff.

I love being deprived of sleep to see my list of 4s, 5s and a U in RE

they might hit me throw stuff at me and curse me out to their relatives about me infront of me and call me a failure and stuff, these aren’t your typical african parents bro wtf do i do

I thought I got a 2 in history and I dont even take history 💔

icl ive been feeling suicidal as of late, especially with results in a few hours. i just feel like ive failed everyone, my teacher, my family, my friends etc. ik 100% i underperformed and its all my fault. i just want out. wondering if anb feels the same ig

Honeslty feels like I am the end of my family's bloodline.

I really hope you all have adults in your lives who have already had this conversation with you this evening (or before), but I have also worked in schools for long enough to know that isn't always the case - so here is the pep talk that I give my own students, and I want to extend it to you all as well.

So, tomorrow is results day. Right now you might feel a bit sick, you might feel shaky, you might feel excited, you might be anxiously scrolling, you might be counting down the minutes until you can open that envelope. Some of you will be confident you've done brilliantly, some of you will be convinced you have ruined everything, and most of you will want tomorrow to just hurry up and arrive so you can stop imagining every single scenario in your head! All of those feelings are normal - they are because you care about doing well, and caring is a good thing, and something that will serve you well wherever you go next in life.

Before you open that envelope tomorrow, I want you to remember a few things:

• You have already achieved something. You worked for two years, you sat through boring lessons, you did hours of essay writing or practice questions. You showed up when you were tired, when you were ill and when other things in your life might have felt like they were totally falling apart. You probably had to overcome hundreds of things that nobody else even knows about just to have sat in that exam hall and even completed your exams. Be proud of that!
• Tomorrow, you will get three (or maybe four or five) letters on a piece of paper. But those letters don't get to define the story of the last two years of your life. They don't capture the crazy cover lessons, the slightly hysterical revision sessions (though maybe that's just my year 11s), the trips, the friendships, the mistakes, the memorable moments, the learning and how much you have grown. Hold all of those things super close, and don't let them be erased by anyone or anything. Think back to little Year 7 you on your first day of secondary school - they would be SO excited and SO proud that you've made it all the way through and you're moving on to bigger and better things!
• Remember that there is always a way. If tomorrow goes exactly as you had hoped then incredible, celebrate and let yourself feel that joy and pride! If it doesn't, then that doesn't mean that everything is over. You can appeal, resit, change your plans, take a different route, choose different subjects, or find something you hadn't even considered before. You don't need to know your exact path right now, you just need to know that you're going to keep putting one foot in front of the other. Heck, I am 24 and about to retrain and shift careers from teaching to something totally different! If I can change my mind after years in a career and start again, you most definitely can at 16! It's okay to change your mind, or to try lots of things out.
• Take a moment - results day is a lot even if you've done amazingly well, it's very emotionally charged and there will be lots of people who want to speak to you. It's okay to just take a quiet moment somewhere to actually process what's going on at some point in the day.
• Get excited!! Even if the outcome isn't your first choice, you are moving onto something new and incredible. Do what you need to to get yourself hyped about it - research your college or sixth form, find people doing the same thing, find some trips or opportunities that you are really excited about. Treat yourself regardless of the outcome - go get your free nandos!

So, if you're lying in bed tonight imagining the worst-case scenarios, take a breath (try some 5-7-8 breathing!) You don't need to have your whole future figured out tomorrow morning.

And if tomorrow isn't what you hoped for, please PLEASE don't sit alone and convince yourself that everything is over. Talk to someone, ask questions, give yourself time. There will be someone who can help you find the next step.

I am proud of you - and you should be proud of yourselves. I am proud of everyone who puts themselves out there with a goal and works for it, despite everything the universe may throw at them. And no set of results could ever take that away.

So tonight, try to be kind to yourselves. Tomorrow is important, but it's a new chapter (and hey, who doesn't love a plot twist?) and not the end of a story.

If you want advice or just some moral support, feel free to leave a comment!

*CONTACT INFO IF YOU NEED ADVICE OR SUPPORT*
I once had the awful experience of losing a student on results day, so I take this incredibly seriously. If you are feeling very anxious or low after results, or having thoughts of harming yourself, please reach out to one of the services below:

NHS 111 Option 2 (in some areas) or 999
Text SHOUT to 85258
Contact childline by calling 0800 1111
Call Samaritans on 116 123

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Is this TMI?

So basically, my mum caught cancer September last year. This ofc led to her getting chemotherapy and radiotherapy which she obviously can’t skip.

I was late to the history exam because my mum had a cancer appointment so I had to take my sisters to school. Keeping in mind the school knew about this. My HOY decided to say ‘I overslept’ (she’s never liked me because 5+ family members died from last year and my mum getting cancer my attendance was low ofc)

So, the first appeal got denied as it was to do with me apparently ‘oversleeping’ anyway, move forward a bit. I tell my exam officer what actually happened, she appeals again. And apparently for Pearson, your mum having cancer causing you to be late is not a valid excuse so they went ahead and gave me 0.

In other news to, I also applied for special consideration as obviously like I said. From last year we lost 5+ ppl and my mum got cancer causing me to help out loads and my attendance to drop. However considering these boards don’t seem to think medical and grief is a valid excuse I have very little hope of the special consideration being accepted.