This year, on the 25th of August, I went to my school to collect my GCSE results. For the past year I had been waking up at 6am every morning to attend as many revision sessions, enrichments and classes I could in order to feel prepared and do well in my exams. For those of you not from the UK, or just do not know the concept of GCSEs, they are the exams you take when you are 16 years old, which determine what you will do with the last two years of your education. If you do well, you can go to a college, sixth form or apprenticeship of your choice- if you do not, your options are slightly more limited. (So no pressure!)
On the morning of results day, I was so nervous- literally, I had never been so nervous in my life! Although I knew I had worked my hardest and I couldn’t change what results that were printed on the paper in my envelope- it still didn’t help my nerves! After a dance party to my Spotify playlist while brushing my teeth (this always calms me down for some reason- I did it before every exam- think its something to do with using up all the nervous energy!) it was time to go to collect the results!
I arrived at school at 9:30am, which is the earliest I’ve been up all summer holidays and was given my envelope. I was shaking with nerves and slight excitement and peaked in the envelope as saw the following results;
- English Literature – A*
- English Language- A
- Maths- A
- Science Core- A
- Science Additional- A
- Religion- A*
- Geography- A
- Computing- A
- Business Studies- A
- Physical education- A
- Spanish- B
I have never been so proud of myself before, all the hard work, flashcards, crying and revision sessions paid off! There is nothing more rewarding than this- working your absolute hardest and receiving the reward you are happy with! For those of you who haven’t taken your GCSEs or other important exams yet- good luck and work as hard as you can as it means you can be proud of your results as you couldn’t have done any better! For those of you who got your results, I really hope you got the results you wanted- even if not, these grades don’t define you in any way, what you do with them and how you move forward shoes your work ethic and determination!
I hope you enjoyed reading my results- I know lots of you wanted to hear about it and what it felt like to go and collect them, it’s a very exciting and eventful day! I would love to hear all about your results if you got them on the 25th in the comments! Thank you for reading!
Tash x
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You have no idea how proud I am of you. You worked so hard and it payed off!! 🙂 Well done! xx
Thank you so much Elm! I remember all our comments in capitals of how stressed we were- but here we are! Well done with your results too- they are amazing!! What are you doing for the next two years? What subjects are you taking? xx
Yes, I remember those comments too! And thanks 🙂 I’m doing English Lit, French, History and Psychology – you?
I’m doing English Lit, Psychology, Geography and ICT. I’ve never done Psychology before, have you? I had to chose it instead of biology as it wouldn’t work in my timetable, but it looks really interesting!
I haven’t done it either! 🙂 My sister has and she said it’s really interesting.
Well done! So well deserved and along with studying hard you still managed to continue on with your blog! Great results :)!! So proud, congratulations xx
Thank you so much!! I love blogging so I still had to keep doing it- it just meant there was lots of writing before the exams haha! Thank you again! xx
A HUGE CONGATS Tash!!!!! You got amazing grades🎉🎉 You did so well! Can you do a post on how you juggled blogging and school work? I’m really going to need the tips for year 10 and 11 xx
THANK YOU!! Of course I will do a post! I’m doing A levels this year and have exams so I will still need to juggle blogging and school- so I’ll make sure I do a blog post like that soon! xx
Thank you so much! Good luck with A-Levels this year xx
Thank you! xx
Well Done!! Your results are so good!! xo
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Thank you so much! xo
Congratulations! You have an excellent set of results. You should be really proud of yourself. Happy Blogging! xx
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Thank you so much- it means a lot! xx
aagh, that’s amazing! I am so proud of you, you have done so well! xx
Thank you SO much!! xx
Amazing results! Well done x
Thank you! x
Omg Tash!! That’s amazing you’ve killed it. I’m so proud of you xxx!
Aw thank you so much!! xxx
You’re welcome xx!
Congratulations!!!!
Thank you!!
A huge congratulations, you did so well honey!! xx
Thank you so much lovely! xx
You’re most welcome xx
Oh my gosh! You did so well!! Congrats for doing so well! Your hard work definetly paid off!!
Thank you so much!!
Hard work really does pay off. Congrats!!!
Yes it definitely does! Thank you!!
No problem 🙂
Your hard work reflects in your result, congrats! 🙂
Thank you so much!
Tash you have done amazing and you do deserve it! Well done 🙂 xx
Thank you so much lovely! xx
Wow, that’s amazing! Congrats Tash, you should be very proud of yourself!
Thank you so much! x
Oh my god congratulations Tash! I’m so glad you passed your GCSEs, you deserve it! xx
Aw thank you so much! xx
Well done! What’s your next plan? Sixth form? I’ve just finished sixth form and am now moving onto University in a couple of weeks. Nerve-wrecking to say the least. You must have worked very hard. Well done!
Thank you! My next plan is to go to sixth form and study English Literature, Phycology, Geography and ICT. Congrats on finishing sixth form- what university are you going to? What are you planning to study? I’m sure you will do amazingly, good luck!
Thank you! I’m going to be living in Leicester! Studying English Language and Creative Writing. Not long now!
That sounds great! I would love to know how it goes as I love English and I’m taking it in sixth form- so I’m thinking about it for University! Good luck!
Well done!!
Thank you!!
You look so prettyy!!! congratulations love xoxo
Thank you so much gorgeous! xoxo
Hey! Congratulations!! YOur results are incredibly good! 🙂
Thank you!!
Well done on your amazing results!! xxx
Thank you so much Jess! xxx
You did incredible! All your hard work totally paid off! I hope you’re celebrating well! KatyTallulah xoxo
Thank you so much! Yes I’ve been celebrating with friends for the past couple of days and it’s been great! xoxo
Well done tash you done amazing! Reading blogposts and watching videos about everyones results is making me want to work on my work :)) all the best for your next years at school x
Thank you so much! Yes, I find that blog posts and videos motivate me too! x
Well done! That’s one heck of a lot of A’s and I’m incredibly happy for you!
Haha thank you so much! It’s better than I could have ever imagined!
That is absolutely incredible!! You have the right to be incredibly proud of yourself! What you’ve achieved is huge! Everyone seems to be getting A* – makes me wish I studied harder ahah! Got a C, B and A (sat a year early though). 🙂
Thank you so much! I am very lucky to be honest as I pick up and understand things very easily, but I did revise SO MUCH- my Dad said after my exams it was the first time he had properly seen me since I started revising in February haha! But congratulations on your results! I only took 1 subject a year early last year- I don’t think I could have done three! Good luck with all your future exams! x
I felt like I hadn’t seem family or friends in ages either when I was revising! Glad it’s all over for a little while now! Thank you so much! 🙂
Congratulations! You’ve worked so hard for these and you absolutely deserve them 🙂 x
Thank you so so much!! x
Well done!! I collected my science core results as well!! It was nerve-wracking 😳
Thank you so much!! I remember collecting in last year and I was SO nervous! This year I was even more nervous- but it felt even more rewarding! Hope you did well with your result! Good luck next year! x
Aw thank you so much x
Congrats, you did so well! You can tell you worked so hard for them and you definitely deserve the results that you got!
Much Love R x
Thank you so much! Yes, all that hard work paid off!! x
wow!! your results are amazing!! I’m currently doing my gcses (well when I go back in september) so this is really motivating to see
Thank you so much! I’m glad it’s motivated you, my advice would just work as hard as you can and if you have any coursework or anything like that- get that done by Easter or even February so you have all your time just to revise! Good luck! x
Well done Tash! Amazing results and good luck for the future 🙂
Thank you Georgie! You too!
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You should be so proud of what you achieved and you deserve it after all of your hard work 🙂
Thank you so much Georgie!
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Well done!! I am started mine this year, and I think I have taken subjects that are really hard- geography, history, psychology and business! So let’s see what will happen then x
Amy xx
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Thank you! Trust me, you will be okay! Just work as hard as you can and you will do amazingly! Good luck! xx
Hey! I just nominated you for the Liebster award xx
Thank you! xx
And well done on your GCSE results, you did absolutely amazing!
Thank you so much! x
Congrats!! they’re amazing results and you should be so proud!! I got my results thus year too and am really pleased too! Well done! X
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Thank you so much and congratulations with your results too- I’m so glad you’re happy with them! x
Congrats! You did amazing ! What exam board were you on? I’ve just finished my GCSEs too so I know how difficult they were haha.
Thank you! I was on different exam boards for different subjects so I was on AQA for science, Edexcel for Maths, OCR for business and Cambridge IGCSE for English so it’s all a bit confusing haha!
Oh right haha. I was on AQA for all of mine. You did really well. X
Thank you so much! X
You did amazing! well done xx
Thank you so much! xx