Teacher's crucial advice for anyone who didn't get A-level results they wanted
Students up and down the country will be heading back to school today to pick up their much-anticipated A-level results to find out if all that hard work paid off - or if they should have spent a little more time with their heads in a book.
If you find yourself opening the all-important envelope and learning that your grades aren't quite what you hoped they'd be, then it can be an incredibly upsetting and overwhelming experience.
But according to an ex-teacher, there's something that both you and your parents need to keep in mind about results day.
Mehreen Baig, a former teacher with over 10 years of experience, told The Mirror how it's crucial to remember that results day isn't actually the end. It's actually the beginning of what comes next.
Mehreen Baig shared her advice for results day (Mehreen Baig)She said: "It's so stressful and there is no way it's not going to be stressful because even your laziest students hope and pray that on results day they've done well. It's the moment when reality kicks in and regret kicks in and you think of all the things that you could have, should have, and would have done now. And it's where all the things that your teachers and your parents have been saying to you like 'put your phone away' you wish you had done it.
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"This is something I always tell my students and I think is so important to remember that results day is not the end it doesn't mark the end, it actually marks the beginning. You need to train your mind, you've already done the exams so over-stressing, getting nervous, and being sad, it's not going to get you anywhere because you've done the exams and you can't do anything to change it now. So parents and children have to go into results day with the mentality of where do I go from here? And that's whether it went well, or whether you wish you had done better. Either way, it's not the end."
She continued to explain: "If you've got all grade nines, great. You can celebrate that. But it's not over because you need to think about where do I go from here? How do I take the lessons that I've learned and the grades that I've got to now go on to the next phase of my life and make sure that I can repeat that success? And equally, if you haven't done well, fine. We can't do anything to change that now you should have been stressing a few months ago when it was your actual exams.
"Now it hasn't gone well. Where do I go from here? What key lessons can I take away from this? Where did I perhaps not do what I should have been doing? Or where could I have done better? What could I have changed that? And how do I not repeat those mistakes? So you've got to think of it with a growth mindset and you've got to think of it as not simply results day, but a learning curve, when you learn the most about yourself. You can really reflect on what you did well and what you could have improved on and then use that as a basis to forward plan."
If you find that your A-level results day hasn't quite gone to plan, then there will be a number of other options available to you. Many students will still be able to get a university place through the clearing system. But if this isn't for you, perhaps you can re-sit an exam, or even redo the entire year over. You might also consider taking a break from education and having a gap-year or embarking down a different path with an apprenticeship or internship.
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