Kent students speak out about A-level pressures on results day

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Now that students up and down the country are getting their A-Level results, Kent's latest batch tell us how they feel after their exams, Daisy Page reports.

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00:00I was relieved once I opened my results.

00:01I'm feeling happy that I got into university.

00:03Not too bad.

00:04Yeah, decent. I'm alright.

00:05This is the reaction of a few students who have received their results today.

00:09Family, friends and teachers have come together today

00:12at the Thomas Avon Lim School to celebrate each other's achievements.

00:16There are high emotions today as students are collecting their A-Level,

00:20T-Level and BTEC results across Kent and Medway,

00:23but is there too much pressure put on their final grades?

00:26Yes and no. It's the pressure of wanting to do well, I think,

00:29because you think going to university, if you do your apprenticeship,

00:33it's the pressure that you put on yourself,

00:34but the school, thankfully, were able to sort of relieve all of that.

00:38I found that I've put a lot of pressure on myself,

00:41because I'm a bit of a perfectionist,

00:43so I hold myself to quite a high standard.

00:46In terms of teachers, I think the most pressure you get

00:48is just what they believe you can achieve.

00:51Personally, I didn't feel too much pressure,

00:53but a lot of people I know felt a lot of pressure towards it during the exams.

00:59I didn't feel any pressure, really.

01:00I never felt the pressure, because I don't BTECs,

01:03and I knew what I'm good at, I'm good at.

01:05With 91% of secondary school teachers in England concerned

01:08that their students worry about their results deciding their future,

01:11should students be uneasy about their next steps?

01:15I think they all have such a high expectation of themselves,

01:18and that's actually a really lovely quality to have in general,

01:22but I was just having a conversation with a student.

01:25When you have high expectations,

01:26sometimes you're bound to be disappointed throughout your life,

01:31so it's difficult to take those little pits and then build again,

01:35but ultimately, all qualifications are stepping stones into the next stage of life,

01:41so they need to gain and get what they've learned,

01:45and then move forward, so try and see the positives.

01:49And while many smiles have been shared today

01:51as four in five students have got their university of choice,

01:54for some, they may not have received the grades they would have hoped for.

01:58Going to school, we are kind of taught,

02:00and we feel that our perfect vision of life

02:03is a lovely, positive trajectory into fabulousness and happiness.

02:10Actually, life is pretty complicated,

02:13so if they didn't get the grades today,

02:15I think everything happens for a reason.

02:17Get the things that you've learned from them,

02:18whether you feel that you didn't revise enough,

02:21or whether you think that actually you weren't enthusiastic,

02:25or things just didn't work out,

02:27or there was a particularly bad question on that particular paper,

02:30that doesn't define you as a person.

02:33Many now have the decision on what to do next,

02:36from going to university, looking for full-time employment,

02:38or taking the year out being a few options.

02:41There are many great possibilities for the class of 2024.

02:45Daisy Page for KMTV.

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